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HON. IRA PERLEY, 
CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



/ s > - 

HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 3 ^ 

• OF THE 

PERLEY FAMILY. 

Compiled by 

M. V. B. PERLEY-375. 



"This is the genealogy of them," " that the generations 
to come might know them."— Ezra 8:1; Ps., 78:6. 



SALEM, MASS. 
Published by the Compiler. 

1906. 



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' My thoughts are with the dead; with them 

I live in long-pass'd years; 
Their virtues love, their faults condemn. 

Partake their hopes and fears, 
And from their lessons seek and find 
Instruction with an humble mind." 

— Soulhev. 



LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
Two Conies Received 

SEP 5 1906 



Copynei i i Entry 



CLASS /6? XXc, No. 
COPY B. 



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COPYRIGHTED 

1906, 

By M. V. B. PERLEY, 

SALEM, M^SS. 



I think with those alive; with them 
I scan the retrospect of years; 

All right approve, all wrong condemn, 

And sympi^thize with hopes and fears,— 

And in th'e'iesjons seek and find 

Instructipn.'wJth an humble mind. 

— " Noilkcv." 



PREFACE. 

Genealogy is a science. To write it is the most exacting service 
to which a man may devote his pen, and the errors abounding in all 
the material he must use multiply his sorrows. To read the records 
correctly may require a relative search or a canvass of the circum- 
stances and probabilities. In view of those conditions a painstaking 
care has characterized all the labor upon this book. 

The work is attractive, awakening and encouraging as a biography. 
It may excel the average biography — the life of some gifted man that 
is read for entertainment and admiration without a hope, on the part of 
the reader, of ever attaining to such eminence. The hundred sketches 
or more in the book will fit the sphere and ability of our young people 
and inspire a practical ambition. They will teach how to be self-re- 
liant, to make the most of meager means, to garner a competency, to 
serve the public faithfully, to cultivate and grow a worthy character 
and make and enjoy a happy home. 

In the work of collecting material for this volume we have been 
assisted by Sidney Perley, Esq. -380, who read the early records of the 
county — town, parish, etc., — who conducted much of the early cor- 
respondence, and who has been advisorily helpful in the compilation. 
Most of the persons named below have read their local records and 
made a canvass of the local families : Miss F. Ellen Moody Dole-53, 
H. LeBaron Smith-59, Ezra Hyde-113, Carlos T. Clark-r27, Walter 
A. Davisl37, David H. Chandler-148, Mrs. J. Maria Greenwood-153, 
John Perley-222, Isaac Perley-226, Charles Perley-243, Geo. H. Bull- 
251, Miss Lizzie H. Perley-252, Geo. P. Perley-258, Miss Sarah R. 
Perley-262, Miss Hannah P. Perley-266, Mrs. Almira P. Knight-384, 
Mrs. C. H. Dyke-394, Henry F. Perley-422, Miss Abigail W. Perley- 
428, Isaac N. Perley-441, Mrs. Ira S. Anderson-451. 

We desire here to thank our several assistants for their patient 
labors and lively sympathy, the Publishing Committee for the influ- 
ence of their circular, and the hundreds of mothers and fathers for 
their words of cheer and the data of their families. We remember 
with cordial, thankful regard our cousins of the British Isles for their 
neighborly attention and courtesy in answering our numerous mis- 
sives. 

In the Plan of the book, each division is called a Family, and the 
heading of each family gives the number and name of that family; 
thus, "Family 20: Perley"; "Family 21: Morse." 

Following the heading is a line of " Lineal Descent," by which the 
number of the generation is easily determined. 

In composition, the maiden name is preceded by a hyphen ; thus, 
Mrs. Martha-Perley Conant. 



iv THE PERLBY FAMILY 

Cross references to families are made with hyphens and full-meas- 
ure figures ; thus, -24, which signify Family 24. 

Children are treated in paragraphs, and grandchildren are sepa- 
rated by semicolons, (;). 

Cross references to paragraphs in the same family are made with 
" superior " figures alone ; thus, *. 

Cross references to paragraphs in other families are made with 
" superior " figures and family numbers -.thus, -24*, which signify the 
4th paragraph of Family 24. 

NOTES. 

THE PORTRAITS of the volume are made from photographs, 
tintypes, oil-paintings and crayons, some of which were deeply yellowed 
with age, and wanted that " sharpness" so essential to artistic effect. 
The reproductions, nevertheless, are excellent, and many of them 
have been pronounced, by those interested in them, better than the 
photographs loaned. 

We are gratified to present herein an excellent likeness of Maj. 
Apperley. The striking facial resemblance of the two families, 
Apperley and Perley, is thought by some to argue an identity of 
names. Herein the reader is afforded an opportunity to study and 
judge for himself. 

ALLAN'S WILL. A part of our immigrant-ancestor Allan's 
will is here shown. It is in the handwriting of Robert Lord, Esq., 
one of the witnesses. It is a photographed copy. The length of 
these lines is about half the length of those of the will. 







PART OF ALLAN PERLEY'S WILL. 

PERLEY A PR/ENOMEN. We could easily fill a score of 
pages with the names we have met of persons whose praenomen was 
Perley ; thus : Rev. Perley B. Davis, Hyde Park ; Perley C. Jones, 
Amherst College ; W. Perley Hall, Esq., assistant attorney general 
of Massachusetts; Perley Death, Fitzwilliam, N. H. ; Gen. Perley 
Davis.^Montpelier, Vt. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



THE CHART. The old " Chart of Lineal Descent " has passed 
through several editions. The grain of history it contained and the 
plan of it have not been changed an iota. It is thought that Thomas 
Perley-33 made the first edition complete with three generations, and 
that Thomas Perley-GO made the second edition complete with five 
generations. The latter the writer's mother copied, perhaps while 
boarding in the family of Amos Perley-7Gl It was that five-genera- 
tion chart that inspired the writer to extend it, and then, step by step, 
to expand it to this volume. 



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VI 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



THE OLD CEMETERY. The plot of ground for "The Old 
Cemetery" in Linebrook Parish was given to " The Farms " by John 
Parley. See page 28. Perleys and their alliances occupy a large part 
of it. See " X " on the map on page vii. Our ancestor Allan was 
probably buried at town within a few rods of his first Ipswich home. 

"The Linebrook Cemetery" is located in Rowley, a few rods 
north of the first site of the Linebrook meeting-house. Rev. George 
Lesslie leased the ground to the Parish for that purpose for nine 
hundred and ninety-nine years. 




'THE OLD CEMETERY" IN LINEBROOK. 



ALLAN'S RESIDENCE LOCATED. The "Plan of Jacob 
Perley's Homestead" on page vii was made by Moses Dorman, Esq.- 
287, when Mr. Perley-94, preferring Topsfield Parish to Lmebrook 
Parish, was set off to the former, and occupied pew No. 100. 

The purpose of the plan here is to locate our mimigrant-ancestor 
Allan's home, from 1652 till his death in 1675. A on the plan locates 
the elm before the present house; B, the easternmost angle of ^the 
wall ; D, the site of Allan's house. The course A D is about S.:U)°E.; 
B C, S.15°E., 15 rods and 15 feet; C D S.62 1-4° W., 18 rods. 

We have seen Mr. Perley-369 in regard to the site, and this 
spring a tree will be set out at D, more definitely to mark the spot. 

Referring to the picture on page 538, the site of Allan's house 
may be found by going from the tree A through the gap at B, on 
over the hill, and a few feet over the wall beyond the hill. 

The X on the plan locates the old cemetery m Linebrook. See 
pages 28 and vii. 

THE CHARMED CIRCLE. During a period of one hundred 
years and more from 1635, not a Perley removed from the charmed 
circle of about five miles radius, in the middle of Essex County, 
Mass. After that, they began to separate — some went west and 
located in northern middle Massachusetts on land granted to soldiers 
for their services in the Indian Wars ; two families went into Ver- 
mont ; a few into New Hampshire ; Enoch Perley-61 and his company 
into Maine ; and a large and well organized colony of Perleys and 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



Vll 



Others went to the St. John river in Nova Scotia, now New 
Brunswick. 




?LA N OF 

Jacob P£rlbVs 
/HOMESTEAD, 

ni/. 



MAUGERVILLE FOUNDED. That territory had been in 
the eye of Essex County people from the building of Fort Frederick 
in 1758. The fort was at one time garrisoned by Essex County 
troops. In 1759 Capt. Moses Hazen was the commandant. [See 
Families 18 and 45.] The first to explore the lands with reference to 
a settlement was James Simonds, born in 1785 to Nathan of Haver- 
hill. He and his brother Richard (who died 20 Jan., 1765,) settled, 
after about two years' investigation, near Fort Frederick. [See 
Family 76.] 

In 1761 Israel Perley (twenty-one years old) and twelve men 
explored the territory along the river St. John from the confluence of 
the Oromocto, and reported to the governor at Boston, by whom they 
had been commissioned. 

That same year a considerable number of the officers and soldiers, 
mostly of Essex County, that had served in the Indian Wars, agreed 
to constitute a colony for a settlement upon the St. John, and sent 
one of their number, Capt. Francis Peabody, to Halifax, for an order 



viii THE PERLEY FAMILY 

of the survey and layout of a township, one mile square on the St. 
John. The order was obtained and early in 1762 — probably going 
in a vessel that sailed from Newburyport, 16 May — a party under 
Israel Perley as surveyor who employed James and Richard Simonds 
as chairmen, laid out the township afterwards called Maugerville. 
This embryo colony held a business meeting, Wednesday, 6 Oct., 
1762, at the inn of Daniel Ingalls in Andover. 

In 1763 the Maugerville township was permanently settled; the 
colony and their belongings were transported in four vessels; but 
they soon learned that Nova Scotia could not give a valid title to the 
lands, because the home government had set apart those lands for 
her disbanded forces. Accordingly a petition was sent to the provin- 
cial agent Joshua Mauger (pronounced ma-jer) then in London, who 
had lived in Nova Scotia and who took a lively interest in their 
prayer. After months of wearying anxiety, Mr. Mauger's advocacy 
prevailed, and the settlers were confirmed in their possessions. Out 
of respect and gratitude for his gratuitous services they named their 
town Maugerville. 

In 1767, by census, the colony consisted of seventy-seven men, 
forty-six women, seventy-two boys, sixty-six girls, a total of 261, of 
whom seventeen were new settlers and fourteen were babies. 

Not the least among those settlers were the Perleys and their 
alliances. The surnames of three-fourths of the grantees are in this 
history. 

The worship of God was instituted immediately upon the settle- 
ment of the town. Private houses served as churches until they 
were able to build a church and settle a pastor. 

This sketch answers the query — if the Perleys went into New 
Brunswick, to escape the direful effects of the Revolutionary War. 
They were there from ten to fifteen years before the strife began. 

In 1775 the Maugerville people very naturally sympathized with 
their parents and brothers and sisters in County Essex. The menac- 
ing attitude of the Indians helped their sympathy. At a public 
meeting resolutions were passed of the same tenor as those passed at 
their old homes. The names on the committee to draft resolutions 
were Barker, Perley, Nevers, Palmer, Pickard, Coy, Hartt, Kenny, 
Kemble, Ouinton. Within a year of pledging their lives and fortunes 
with their Massachusetts brethren, they were obliged to take the oath 
of allegiance to George III, for defence of Nova Scotia. "Sic vol- 
vere Parcas! " 

THE PERLEY FAMILY REUNION. This remarkably grati- 
fying occasion of 20 June, 1877, originated with the late George 
Augustus Perley of P'redericton, N. B. By circular dated in Dec, 
1876, he suggested a convention of the family in 1877, and the sug- 
gestion was endorsed by the following names : — Charles Perley, Ed- 
ward M. Perley, Joseph L. Perley, John K. Perley, Henry C. Perley, 
Hamilton ¥. Perley, George A. Perley, Charles H. Perley, Moses P. 
Perley, all of New York City ; Samuel Perley, James P. Perley, Frank 
L. Perley, all of Washington, D. C. ; S. Todd Perley, Erie, Pa.; 
Francis M. Perley, P^anklinville, N. Y.; and Daniel J. Perley of 
Oldtown, Me. 

Thus encouraged, a meeting of persons interested was held at the 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



IX 



house of Luther D. Perley, Georgetown, Mass., 19 May, 1877. 
Little's Grove and 20 June next were selected as the place and date 
of the convention. Hon. Charles Perley of West Boxford, Sherman 
Nelson, Esq., L. D. Perley, Dea. Haskell Perley, Maj. Solomon Nel- 
son, all of Georgetown; Capt. Fred. Perley of Danvers, J. P. Cleave- 
land, Sidney Perley, Esq., and George Perley, Esq., of East Boxford, 
were made the committee of arrangements. Charles Perley was 
chosen president of the day, Solomon Nelson, marshal, and Sherman 
Nelson, secretary. Accordingly Mr. Perley of Fredericton announced, 
1 (Sic) May, 1877, a grand reunion of the family and its alliances. 

The day of the convention was beautiful ; not a cloud obscured 
the horizon ; a refreshing breeze laden with the odors of the new-mown 
hay and of roses pervaded space, and everything was auspicious. The 
gathering numbered several hundred. They first stood for their pic- 
tures — a large one, and a stereoscopic one which is here shown. 
They were then led to Little's Grove, by the Groveland Cornet Band. 




THE FIRST FAMILY REUNION, 1877. 

The following officers of the day were chosen :— Joseph L. Per- 
ley of New York, president ; Dr. Daniel Perley of Lynn, George A. 
Perley of New Brunswick, Charles Perley of New York City, Haskell 
Perley of Georgetown, James Perley of Virginia, Wm. G. Perley of 
Ottawa, Frederick Perley of Danvers, Col. Henry C. Perley of New 
York City, Dr. Thomas F. Perley of Naples, Me., Charles Perley of 
West Boxford, vice-presidents. 

Secretary Nelson then read the following resolutions which were 
unanimously adopted: — 

"Whereas Almighty God, the Maker and Ruler of the universe, 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



has in his wise providence permitted us to assemble here this day in 
family reunion, to express our deep felt gratitude to the Giver of all 
Good for preserving, sustaining, and increasing us as a distinct family 
upon this contment of North America, to the extent of many hun- 
dreds of families scattered over at least 20 states of the Union besides 
four Provinces of the dominion of Canada ; 

" And whereas we the descendants of Allan Perley, now assembled 
m a happy family reunion, desire to express our deepest heartfelt 
gratitude to Almighty God for his preserving care over and kind 
dealing towards us as a family, and increasing our numbers to such a 
vast extent, and the bestowal of so many gifts of his bounty upon us, 
we feel led to exclaim like Jacob of old, ' With his staff our Father 
passed over the water, and now we have become numerous bands.' 
And whereas our fathers early acknowledged their dependence upon 
the Supreme Ruler of the universe, we their descendants do, therefore, 

" Resolve, first, that in the spirit and faith of our fathers we most 
humbly and sincerely acknowledge the guiding hand of the God of 
providence in directing their steps to this favored land. 

"2nd. Resolved that we acknowledge the same Supreme Power in 
the inspiration given our fathers by which they were enabled to help 
lay the foundations and rear the superstructure of this free Republic, 
and by which they have been the patrons of good government in all' 
countries wherever they have found a home. 

"3rd. Resolved that it is with the greatest satisfaction that we this 
day contemplate the history of the Perley family in this country, as 
seen in their efforts to cultivate the soil — to establish and maintain 
peaceful homes; in the cultivation of the domestic virtues; in their 
success in business as well as the honorable positions, worthily gained 
and honorably sustained in the learned professions— in Divinity, in 
Medicine and in the Law our family name bears favorable comparison 
with the good and great names of the nation. 

"4th. Resolved that it is with peculiar pleasure that we find the 
names of our ancestors among the lovers of liberty and the defenders 
of the rights of man, and identified with the various reforms that 
have blessed the age in which they lived. 

"5th. Resolved that the names of the daughters of the Pcrleys 
stand out no less conspicuous than those of their sons, and that the 
memory of their heroic deeds in the early times, and of their womanly 
virtues shall endure so long as charity has a name, or virtue a votary. 

"tith. Resolved that as the descendants of a worthy ancestry, we 
here and now pledge ourselves and our posterity to the unswerving 
faith of our fathers in the one God, the Creator and upholder of all 
things, and to the practice of those virtues and achievements that 
have made the Perley name an honor and a blessing throughout the 
land." 

Then rang the grove with grand "Old Hundred," in a hundred 
voices, and Rev. Wm. F. Perley of Province Ontario, Can., read 
Romans XII (from an old Bible published in 1760, and long preserved 
in the Perley family) and offered prayer. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



XI 



Daniel Perley, M.D., of Lynn, was the first speaker, followed by 
Maj. Ben: Perley Poore of Newbury, George A. Perley of Fredericton, 
Rev. Dr. Miner of Boston, Mr. Howard Perley of Lynn, Hon. Wm. 
G. Perley of Ottawa, Can. 

At this point a committee of five was appointed "to superintend 
and control the work of preparing a full genealogy of both men and 
women of the Perley family" : Haskell Perley, Luther D. Perley, 
Sherman Nelson, Isaac S. C. Perley, all of Georgetown, and Charles 
Perley of West Boxford. 

After a recitation by Miss Grace I. C. Perley-237', a graduate of 
Boston School of Oratory, with very pleasing presence, beautiful ex- 
pression and marked effect, the great family sat at dinner — about 
four hundred plates. 

After dinner speaking was resumed. Dr. Daniel J. Perley of 
Oldtown, Me., eighty-one years old, read without glasses and in a 
clear voice a brief manuscript history of Wales, Eng., the nativity of 
our immigrant-ancestor. Rev. Joseph P. Atkinson of Laconia, N. 
H., followed. 

At the close of the day, Mr. Atkinson offered prayer. Dr. Miner 
pronounced the benediction, and the band played "God save the 
Queen," in honor of her loyal subjects, and then "Hail Columbia" in 
honor of Yankee sovereignty. 

The oldest Perley on tlie ground was Joseph Burpee Perley of 
Ipswich. 

The second Perley Family Reunion, the Salem Gazette of 2 July, 
1878, said, came off on Thursday, at Lowe's Grove, Boxford. Dea. 
Haskell Perley was president of the day. Geo. A. Perley, Esq., of 
Fredericton, N. B., and Rev. L. C. Field of Haverhill, Mass., were 
the chief speakers. 

The third Perley Family Reunion was Wednesday, 8 Sept., 1880. 
They came from Newburyport, Haverhill, Bradford, Groveland, Box- 
ford, Boston, and from California and New Brunswick. They were 
led by the Haverhill Cornet Band to Little's Grove, Georgetown, 
where the festivities were held and they had dinner. Sidney Perley, 
Esq., read the necrology of the precedmg three years. The 
speakers were not reported. "The air was not very favorable to out- 
door enjoyment, especially in groves, and the gathering soon became 
aware of it." 

At that meeting a Perley Family Association was instituted with 
the following officers : Dea. Haskell Perley president, Sherman Nel- 
son vice president, T. A. Perley, L. D. Perley, I. S. C. Perley, Henry 
Perley and David E. Perley secretaries. 

THE VESSELS OF 1630. The following is a list of the vessels 
that came over to America in 1630. Those of Governor Winthrop's 
fleet are designated by stars. 



Xll 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



NAMES 

Lion 

Mary -John 

Arabella * 

Jewel * 

Ambrose * 

Talbot * 

May-Flower * 

Whale * 

Hopewell * 

Wm. and Francis * 

Tryal * 

Charles * 

Success * 

Gift 

Another 

Handmaid 

Another sent out by 



EMBARKED WHERE ARRIVED WHERE 

Feb. Bristol May Salem 

March 20 Plymouth June 19 Nantasket 
April 8 Yarmouth. 
" at the 

Isle of 
Wight 
S.Hampton 



May 



June 
Aug. 6 
a private merchant. 



12 Salem 
" 18 " 

July 2 

" 1 Charlestown 
((I (( 

" 8 ( Salem ) 
" 8 

" 5 Chalerstown 
" 5 Salem 
" o:( Salem) 
Aug. 20_Charlestown 

Oct. 29^Plymouth 



The May-Flower mentioned in this list brought over the Puritans, 
Mr. Higginson and his company, to Salem in 1()29, and the Pilgrims 
to Plymouth in 1(520. [Do you know if our Allan came over in the 
May-Flower.''] 

COATS OF ARMS. Ancient arms were only an emblazoned 
escutcheon or shield, and very plain. The crest and scroll, and the 
motto are a much later invention, and may change with the varying 
sentiments of the inheritors. There are at least three sources of 
arms — letters patent, college of heraldry, and assumption. Of the 
latter two, one is just as good as the other, and neither can be legally 
displayed without paying yearly a government tax of two guineas. 
Patent arms are in their nature the same as honorary parchments and 
medals with us — for bravery or extraordinary service. 

These explanations seem proper here : Per pale, or party per pale, 
signifies an equal division of the field or shield perpendicularly; 
chevron means rafters and signifies an angular division of the field; 
bend divides the field diagonally from the dexter point; fess divides 
the field horizontally; dots signify or, or gold; plain white, argent or 
silver; perpendicular lines, gules or red; horizontal lines, azure, or 
blue; horizontal and perpendicular lines crossing, sable, or black; 
crined, maned ; attired, horned; saltier, St. Andrew's Cross, the letter 
X; stalked, having small branch and leaves. 

THE ONLY ENGLISH TRACE. All we know of our immi- 
grant-ancestor in England is gleaned from "the old chart" on page 
V, and from "Hotten's Emigrants." 

Hotten reads: "2" Aprilis, 1635, these underwritten names [of 
Lawrence, Giddins, Peabody, Perley, Baker, et al.'\ are to be trans- 
ported to New England imbarqued in the Planter, Nic": Trarice M'. 
bound thither. The pties have Cirtificates from the minister of St. 
St. Albans in Hertfordshire & attstacon from the justices of the 
peace according to the Lord's Order." 

The Lord's Order required of all emigrants certificates from the 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



XIU 



ministers and justices, " Where they last dwelt.'' Those orders, it is 
said, were watched by the Star Chamber court. 

The Old Chart is a tradition: Allan's name upon it is spelled 
Allen, and the names of those that died young are wanting — notably 
the name of Allan's son Nathaniel, whose estate was settled in pro- 
bate and the Nathaniel who married Gov. Bradstreet's granddaugh- 
ter. It was complete in 1785; for F. A. Perley-117'^ of Woodbridge, 
Cal., wrote 3 Nov., 1878, "I have an old record of the Family by my 
grandfather in 1785, when he visited his relatives in the United 
States. It is in my grandfather's own handwriting. It gives an 
account of all living at that time as well as of the landing of the first 
of the name in America." It is thought Thomas Perley-38 began it 
and his son Thomas continued it. 

The historic element of the chart, then, was a tradition probably 
more than half a century old, when it was written. It is, neverthe- 
less, considered good history. The names upon it are remarkably 
correct, and the date "July 12, 1630," is right, if our Allan was a 
member of Gov. Winthrop's fleet of eleven vessels, that brought over 
the new — the Provincial Charter and the officers of the new — the 
Provincial government. Johnson's " Wonder-working Providence 
says "the 12th of July or thereabouts." 

These dates graciously harmonize with the Colonial records which 
mention "Parly meddowe" and "Parly brooke," on the Charlestown 
headline, names, 

That have come down through the vista 
Of the past 'tween things forgotten, 

and now designate the territory, though their origin is unknown in 
that vicinity at present. The harmony consists in Allan's occupying 
the territory between 1630 and 1634. 

Thus our immigrant-ancestor Allan was a native of Wales, came 
to this country in 1630, returned (as the chart suggests) in 1634, 
and "dwelt" in Hertfordshire in the early part of 1635. 

PRONUNCIATION AND SPELLING. Before us now are a 
principality (Wales) and a county (Hertford); but prior to a search, 
we note the important matter of pronunciation and its phonetic spell- 
ing. While Allan and his children were writing their name Perley — 

they must have themselves pronounced it Pearley, since registrars of 



xiv THE PERLEY FAMILY 

records and clerks spelled it from the sound — Pearlay, Pearley, 
Pearle, Fayerley, Pierley, Pairley, Parley, Parly, Perllys, Porley. 
From the prevalence of that spelling, Pearley, many of the family 
began before 1750 to spell the name that way, a pronunciation and 
spelling that obtained till about 1800. 

But this pronunciation of /Vr, which rhymes with pear, care, dare, 
is peculiarly Scotch. That people pronounce the name of their city 
Perth, as if it were spelled Pcarth ; and a young Scotchman of our 
acquaintance, born near Perth, used to pronounce our name Pearley. 
This argues for us a Scotch descent. 

We may, however, note the peculiar pronunciation of the English 
people. Hertford (from which, as pronounced, we have Hartford, Ct.) 
they pronounce Harford: Pershore, Parshire; Perlethrope, Paleihrop. 
So we get the name Clark from Clerk. Herein we find the leading 
spellings of our name in the records — Scotch, Pearley; English, 
Parley. Let us not be surprised if "Wales in England" shonld 
prove to be Walls or Wells, since the chart is a tradition and the 
spelling of Wales on it is from the sound. 

PERLPl Taking up now the search, we find the field broad and 
the task irksome. The register of "St. St. Albans" where Allan took 
his minister's certificate, has the marriage of Agnes Perle, 29 Aug., 
1598, some fourteen or fifteen years before our Allan was born. If 
Allan was a native of Wales and his relatives were there, why did he 
go in 16o4, into the vicinity of St. Albans. Who will wager a groat 
that Agnes Perle was not our Allan's aunt .-* Avyse Perle 20 Jan., 
1576, was married in London. There was the name Perle in county 
Kent; and in 17 Edward HI (1344) a Thomas Perle, in England. 

The arms of Perle, are "Sa., two broad arrows in Saltier ar., 
feathered or, points doicmvard; in chief a plate. 

Rev. Dr. Barber, F. S. A., the author, says that Perle for pearl is 
Danish ; perl or pirle, German ; pejiee, Dutch ; perlau, Flemish. He 
also says that Perlo is a land-owner in Domesday Book. 

PARLEY. Edward Parley was married 21 Feb., 16(38-9; the 
marriage of Joane Parley, daughter and heir of John Parle is recorded. 
There were places called Parley in Counties Rutland and Dorset. By 
the Bingham register,County Nottingham, Richard Parley was married 
in 1687, Daniel Parley in 1749, Daniel Parley in 1778, Ann Parley in 
1785. In 9 Edward 1, (1281) Agnes Parleys married Sir John de 
Clinton of Castleditch, Eastnor Parish, Ledbury, Herefordshire, 
Knight, whose grandson John de Clinton, 12 June, 1386, [epus con- 
cessit licentiam facere celebrari missas et alia divina oratorio suo 
infra manerium suum de Castleditch] was licensed to have preaching 
in his manor of Castleditch. Wanting a male heir the estate passed 
to Mary de Clinton, who in 1563 married Edward Higgins, who 
quartered her arms — Parleis — on his. In the same parish — Eastnor 
— 28 Sept., 1617, Ann, the daughter of Thomas and Elinor Pareley 
was baptised. 

Here we have, all in the parish of Eastnor, the marriage of Par- 
leys, 1281; the quartering of her arms 1563; the baptism of Pareley 
1617, fifty-four years later. That these persons belonged to the same 
family appears beyond a reasonable doubt. 



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The arms of Parleys and Parleis are ''Per pale or and az. for 
Parleis and Parted per pale indented or and az. for Parleys or Parlys. 



PARLEIS ARMS PARLEYS ARMS 

Agnes is presumed an heiress from the quartering of her arms;' 
her family name with such status must have had a "local habitation 
and a name" before 1200 ; the absence of charge on her arms denotes 
a high antiquity; the final ^ of the names may be the remains of son 
or sen, originally used to show the name a patronymic, but dropped 
in later years, because no longer needed, as Williamson became Wil- 
liams, and Robinson, Robins. 

Eastnor is about fifty miles from the province line of Wales; the 
section is celebrated for the excellence of its farm products — fruits, 
cider and perry; and there and through middle Wales a dialect of 
the Scotch language was spoken — just the place in which to look 
for our Allan, an accomplished "husbandman." 

The Celtic tongue, parent of the Scotch, gives pari, a pearl, and 
ey, an island or shore. Parl-ey would be a man who dwelt on pearl 
island or shore — a pearl-fisher. Pearls have been fished there for 
centuries. The river Conway, North Wales, is believed to have fur- 
nished one that now enriches the crown of King Edward VII, having 
been presented, by Sir Richard Wynn, to the Queen of Charles II. 

During the tenth and eleventh centuries the Norman French was 
forced by law upon the Celts and pari become perle, which word is 
now obsolete. So we have found Perley in Wales and a county next 
to Hertford ; but we are "so near and yet so far." 

PURLEY. A dozen generations of Purley in County Leicester 
may be traced from Hugh and as many from John. Robert Purley, 
L^n, owned land in Utterly; Leonard was married in 10.80; P'rancis, 
1658, held mortgage on the manor of Ingoldmells; a will, 1687, men- 
tions "my nephew Thomas Purley, Sen''.; a will in County Lincoln 
Wm. Purle; Wm. Purle of Boreham married 1569. 

Purley Hall is in Sulham parish, four miles north of Reading, 
Berks. Purley Hall, near Croyden, Surry, was the seat of Wm. 
Home Tooke, who wrote "Diversions of Purley," a treatise on etymolo- 
gy. Purley in County Essex is a parish, in which is Howe Green, 
forty-four miles from London. Purley manor there the king granted 
in 1243. and spelled the name Purlee, a Dutch termination, if not 
origin. In 1435, John de Purley owned a good part of the manor. 

Jn the Episcopal Service Book is a tune called Purleigh. There 
was the name Porley sometime in County Essex. The name is also 



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spelled Purlai, Purle, Purly, Purleigh, Purleyn, and Purlegh. There 
are several entries in Domesday Book under 
Purley. 

Morants who wrote circum 1550, thought the 
name might be derived from the Saxon words : 
per, a pear, and /ej', a pasture, but inclined to the 
F"rench Purlieu, the ancient border of a forest. 
The arms are ^' Chequy ar. aud sa.'' 

PEARLE. There were Pearls in Normandy, 
John and Trustin Perill or Perol, in 1198 . P^gedius 
PURLEY ARMS. and Richard Pcrlcs, 1272. The Pearl arms, "Gu. 
chev. or, faces and stars ar." are seventh on the Kyneston shield. The 
arms of the Herefordshire Pearls, are " Gu. on a chev. betw. three leop- 
ards' faces or, as many mullets sa. Crest : ( Eng. ) m hand a thistle pp> ." 
The Pearl arms of Hertfordshire (where St. Albans is) are " Sa. on 
a chev. betw. three leopards heads or. as many 
null lets." 

Mary Pearl e married in London, 1651 ; Mrs. 
Martha Pearle, spinster, abt. 16, daughter of 
Thomas married, in London, 1637. 

Pearl is a varient of purl, a kind of 16th cen- 
tury lace. That derivation of the name would 
make the early Pearles lace-makers. Another 
author says Pearl may be a nickname or a 
patronymic, and in medieval P^nglish perle was 
a precious gem. 

This name is frequently found in the records 
of P2ssex County, Mass., alongside of Perley, 
and they are often taken interchangeably, the 
spelling being quite generally phonetic: Pearle 
Pearley, Parley, Parle. Perleys and Pearls have lived in Ipswich and 
Boxford since 1665, but we have not found even the least relationship. 

APPERLEY. Early in our investigation we met in a historical- 
genealogical magazine the name, "Ap-Perley" and immediately 
adopted it in our search. We have never met it in that form since. 
Authors on names always spell it with a small/: Apperley. 

Of fifty-two inquiries, in Wales, asking each person, if he knew or 
had known or had ever heard of the names Perley or Apperley, how- 
ever spelled, forty-five were answered. The registrar of twenty-four 
parishes in Flintshire replied in the negative, and added gratuitously: 
"The names Perley and Apperley are certainly not Welsh." All the 
answers were in the negative, and several of the officers had been on 
the force from twenty to thirty-five years, and one could recollect for 
sixty years. 

The correspondence that followed the above information furnished 
extracts from letters of Moses H. Perley-257 and Miss Elizabeth 
Apperley, the lady (page 414) who made the pen-and-ink sketch of 
her family arms and presented it to Mr. Perley. 

Miss Apperley wrote, 1879: " I have been under the impression, 
that our family came from Wales, but the prefix Ap to the name and 
the knowledge that our arms are to be seen in old churches in Den- 




TKARL ARMS, 
HKRKFORl). 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY ^^^^ 

bighshire seem the only reason on which to base the supposition. 

"In a book pubHshed in 1600, a supposition I have long enter- 
tained is corroborated, that the pine-apple bears allusion to the pine- 
tree. This gives greater signification to our motto. Our arms are 
quartered on the Throgmorton arms as belonging to the name Pine. 

" The strong likeness which exists between the Apperleys and 
the Perleys proves us unmistakably to have come from the same 
race. 

"In accordance with the Puritan usage of the age in which the 
F'lintshire Apperleys emigrated, the prefix Ap was dropped and there 
were difficulties in the way of its being resumed. 

"Mr. Perley [Moses H.-257] would have liked to make ancestral 
researches in Flintshire during his stay here, but his time was not at 
his own disposal."— He was there on government business. 

Mr. Perley wrote Miss Apperley in April, 1847: "* * * At Lord 
Rancliffe's I learned that the Flintshire Apperleys from whom I 
claim descent went out of Shropshire [England] into Flintshire 
[Wales] about three hundred years ago." 

Now noting carefully the above extracts, we are persuaded that 
they are not the fruit of research. She writes Apperley and Perley 
the same on the "supposition" that ap is Welsh, and that her arms 
are in Denbigh churches. The former the Flintshire registrar con- 
fronts. Dr. Barber's book reads Apperley a local English name, and 
Mr. Bardsley supports him, and Lord Rancliffe corroborates him. 
Regarding the latter, Mr. Wynne, an Apperley alliance, "knew of no 
Apperley arms in Denbigh churches." The arms there, if any, may 
have belonged to Pine: " Gu. a chev. erni. betw. three pine-apples or" 
A. D. 129(5; or the arms of Sir Wm. Pepperrell: '' Ar a chev. gu. 
betw. three pine-apples vert. ' ' 

The pine-apple of 1296 and of Heraldry is not the West Indian 
pine-apple. That, not known even to Columbus two centuries later, 
was not known in England till after our ancestor left there. The pine- 
apple of the above arms is very probably the fruit of the Scotch pine 
(pinus sylvestris, ) a large tree of the Scotch Highlands, the only in- 
digenous pine in the British Isles. It is used for lumber and cabinet 
making, and has a European fame for its deals. How significant the 
motto: "Ye shall know them by their fruits." — Math., 7 : 16,20. 

The arms, then, bear the pine cone as we moderns call it, as 
Miss Apperley supposed, and as Mrs. Apperley, our correspondent, 
aflfirms in this marginal sketch made by her. 
It is described: — "Appuley, or Appurley: Ar. 
a chev. betw. three pine apples gu." The arms 
of John de Apperleghe, 1 Edw. III. (1327,) are 
given: ^^ Ar. a chev. gu. betw. three pine-apples 
vert, stalked or." 

We cannot adopt the idea that our ancestor 
dropped any part of his name for catise, and that 
there were obstacles in the way of his resuming 
it. He was, in 1630, a man just entering upon ^^^^^^^^ arms 
his majority ; he was tor those times educated ; 
and he had the trade of a husbandman. His learning and character 
placed him among the elite of his time — the makers of society and 




xviii THE PERLEY FAMILY 

the state. He came to this country with Gov. Winthrop and the 
Governor's Council, and located within their precinct. He was under 
the eye of the administrators of the law all the while, and there was 
no Puritan element that he need fear. He never changed his name 
for cause. See farther on. 

This is a very ancient family. Dr. Barber says, that Appeuile was 
an under tenant at the time of the Survey. The name resembles the 
Latin name Appuleius, whose French form is Apulee. Compare 
those with Appuley above. John de Apperleghe lived in 1327. 

The family of our correspondent has been traced to William of 
Foy, county Hereford. He married in 1G22, and dying in 1649, left 
sons John and Anthony, et al. Anthony's son Thomas Apperley, 
Esq., of Plas-gronow, Wales, was a justice of the peace and deputy- 
lieutenant, and had, by his wife Anne Wynne, Charles James Apper- 
ley, Esq., born in Plas-gronow, 1777, and died in London 19 May, 
1843. That "country gentleman" was educated at Rugby and in 
youth held a cornetcy in the Light Horse. He was well known by 
his nom-de-plume "Nimrod," as a sporting writer of great ability, 
considerable knowledge of the horse and fox-hound, and great fluency, 
spirit and graphic power of pen. By his wife Elizabeth Wynne, he 
had Wm. Wynne Apperley, Esq., of Morben, who was father of Maj. 
Newton Wynne Apperley, whose portrait adorns the opposite page. 

This learned gentleman is "a veteran among private secretaries 
and of a handsome and distinguished presence. He was born 29 
July, 184(5, in Australia, where his father was Remont Agent to the 
Hon. East India Company. When he was seven years old, the family 
returned to Wales. He was educated at Dr. Huntingford's school. 
Hammersmith, and at Rev. F. P'aithfull's military school near Epsom. 
He was gazetted 13 Aug., 18t>8, a cornet in the Montgomery Yeo- 
manry Cavalry, and after twenty years retired with the rank of major. 
He went to the North Country, upon the death of his father, in 1870, 
and engaged with the Marquis of Londonderry, becoming his private 
secretary in 1879. He is a magistrate and visiting justice for his 
county, and last year his Majesty the King honored him with a mem- 
bership in the Victorian Order. It is almost needless to add that he 
is an excellent man of business." 

He married, in 1880, Miss Mary Hutchinson, only daughter of A. 
W. Hutchinson of Hollingside. She is a lady of culture and refine- 
ment, and a writer of repute. Major and Mrs. Apperley have taken 
an earnest interest in our letters, have written patient replies to our 
manifold queries, and furnished much real assistance, — all in a mani- 
festly neighborly spirit to aid us, and they merit our esteem. 

Perley may have been Apperley. ( 1 ) Both are found in Ledbury 
and its surrounding country — a territorial unity at least. (2) Our 
Allan may have been an Apperley at twenty-one, when embarking 
for himself and thinking his name Welsh and the syllable^/ {soii of) 
a prefix, he would simplify it and bear only the essential, realizing, 
that if he were a Perley, he must be the son of a Perley. We 
cannot see how otherwise he would change his name. (3) Lower 
reads, that "many of the well-to-do families of Wales dropped the 
Ap during the 14th and 15th centuries." The Apperleys were 
among the well-to-do people, and our Allan may have been an Apper- 




NEWTON W. APPERLEY, ESQ, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



XIX 



ley, in that way, one or two generations removed. (-1) You will 
probably observe a facial contour that is strikingly common to both 
families, as Miss Apperley suggests. (5) It is a significant fact, 
that more than two hundred letters in Scotland, the Orkneys, the 
Hebrides, Wales, and England have failed to find the name Allan and 
the form Pcrley, except in the name Apperley. (6) And though 
Mr. Perley writes above of the relation as a "claim," and Miss Ap- 
perley as a "supposition," they may have had at hand some very sug- 
gestive records, which followed up would have revealed an identity. 
We've reached the usual goal, the absence of fact. 

PERLEY. After all we may be able to go alone. The Saxon 
per is pear and ley is pasture or field ; and per-ley is pear-field or 
orchard. The writer takes kindly to that origin, remembering the 
numerous pear trees on the ancestral farm of Allan-1 and how often, 
in his boyhood, he regaled his palate with the delicious fruit. 

But writers on names class Perley with Percy, Perkins, Persons, 
Pearson and Pierson (which latter spelling betrays its origin,) and 
derive the name from the Norman-French pierre, rock (or Peter, 
Math., 16:18) and lay, field, thus: Pierrelay. Here now are the 
phonetic spelling of the name and the arms: — 1 Perely, or Pirly — 





" Per pale, ar. and or, a lion passant sa." 2 Pyrley, or Vyr\y—'* Per 
pale, ar. a7id or, a lion rarnpant sa." 3 Pyreley — ''Per pale, ar. and 
gu., a lio7i passant connterchangey 4 Pearley — ''Per pale, ar. and 
gii., a lion passant or.'' 

Thomas Clarke whose farm adjoined the farm of Allan-1 in 
Woburn, had a son born about 1645, and called him Perley Clarke, 
but spelled the name Pierley Clarke. 

[It was remarked that a Perley was a Pope. Well, no wonder ! 
he is equal to any emergency, or exaltation. The family name of 
Pope Anacletus III (1130-1138,) one of the double election, was 



XX THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Pierreloni, Peter of Peter of Lyon. That man, the only Jew that 
ever became a Pope, had been a monk at Chmy and a cardinal and 
papal legate in P'rance. His father's name was Peter of Lyon, a city 
fifty miles south of Cluny ; and since ley in English and lyon in 
French (like ley in the name Leyden) signify much the same kind of 
ground, Pierreloni becomes Norman-French for Perley. But, alas! 
our name came out of Normandy with William the Conqueror, in 
1066, just sixty-four years before Pierreloni became Pope — such an 
elusive thing is honor.] 

Our name, then, is Norman-PVench, and Monsieur Pierrelay was a 
feoffee of Normandy, the duchy of the Duke, William the Conqueror, 
where William de Percy was a powerful tenant-in-chief, who assisted 
the Duke in the Conquest, and appears in Domesday Book as tenant 
in capitc in many counties. The herald Glover derives the family 
from Manifred de Percy, a Danish chief who settled in Normandy, 
then Neustria, before the cession of that province to Rollo, who died 
A. D. 917 ; and corroborative perhaps are the arms of Pursey {''Per 
pah\ ar. aiidgu., a Hon rampant coiintcrchange'\-) 
and also the quartering of the ancient arms( "Or, 
a lion rampant az.'') of the Duke of Brabant, on 
the elaborate arms of William de Percy. In 
harmony with the above a writer on names 
"hazards the guess," that the lions on the Pyre- 
ley, Perely, Pyrley, Pearley arms are Percy 
lions; and he might have guessed further that 
they are the Brabant lion. 
.. ....^...v- .„„o Now following P'erguson who goes to the 

i'UKSKV ARMS. -i ii i iitt-i 

root of the matter, we are led to the old High 
German Bar (man) [which it is difficult sometimes to separate from 
the Saxon Bar (bear, sacred to the god Thor)] "the diminutives of 
which are, in l^Vench, l^arrell, Berly, Parly, Perrelle, and in English 
Berrill, Burley, Pearl, Perley." 

Thus ends the reading of the several lessons. We will not at- 
tempt to determine the preponderance of a probability. It is too fine 
and fruitless a task. In all our correspondence we have not found 
the names Allen, Allan, or Perley, except the last word of the last 
lesson. 

THE PUBLISHING COMMITTEE. We hoped to present 
the portraits of all the Publishing Committee. We are four-fifths 
gratified and one-fifth sorry. Their circular of commendation, which 
has done efficient work widespread in the Republic and the Do- 
minion, is here appended; it tells its own history and exhibits a cor- 
dial, helpful interest in the work: — "At a convention of the Perley 
P^amily held in Georgetown, June 20, 1877, Haskell Perley, Luther 
D. Perley, I. S. C. Perley, Sherman Nelson of Georgetown and 
Charles Perley of Boxford, were appointed a committee to consider 
the matter of preparing a family history. Since then Messrs. 
Haskell Perley and Luther D. Perley have passed away and nothing 
has been done in relation to the matter. 

"It is felt that a history should be published. Mr. M. V. B. Perley 




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SHERMAN NELSON, ESQ. 



DEA. HASKELL PERLEY. 




LUTHER D. PERLEY. ISAAC S. C. PERLEY 

THE PUBLISHING COMMITTEE. 



xxii HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 

has recently called our attention to a great amount of valuable 
material suitable for such a history. 

" We are pleased with his effort, and hope that those interested will 
render him all possible assistance ; that he may be able to publish a 
history that will be of value to every member of the family. 







GEOROKTOWN, MASS., SUMMKU IWIT." 

ARMS PROPOSED. To those who have written us about some 
standard, ensign, ( Num. 2 :'i, )or style of arms by which to individualize 
our family ( a purpose we fully indorse, ) we may say, that, while we are 
ready to subscribe with the majority, the Apperley Arms of 1827 are 
suggestive of Ar. a chcv. gu.^ betw. three pine-applcs or, stalked vert, 
"with ^^ i6jo" for difference. The motto: "By their fruits, etc.," is 
excellent for those arms and a good standard to measure by. The 
crest here is supposed to be a pine-apple, but it may be selected, or 
devised according to taste. 

Those arms are attractive in their sentiment, bespeaking through 
the majestic pine, a solidity of character, a helpful life, an enduring 
fame. 

We may add that the above description completed and emblazoned 
would make very pretty arms. Put the crest the walking gold lion of 
Pearley on a silver and red wreath ; the shield silver with red rafters, 
gold apples (cones) and green leaves; and the motto as above. To 
the casual observer those arms would resemble the very ancient arms 
of Appleton, Apperley, Pine, Pepperill and others, differing chiefly 
in the arrangement of the metals and colors. In this, however, we 
defer, for our arms, to the possible discovery of the origin of the 
name Perley. 



On the following blank pages may be written the data of a 
FAMILY HISTORY. 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 
HISTORY AND GENEALOGY. 



FAMILY 1: PERLEY. 



ALLAN PERLEY, the emigrant ancestor ut the Perley Family 
in America, was born in Wales, England, in the first quarter of the 
year 1608, and died in Ipswich, Massachusetts, 28 Dec, U)75. He 
married, in the year 16;-] 5, Susanna Bokesen, or Bokenson, who died 
in Ipswich, 11 Feb., 1692, after a widowhood of sixteen years. 

Mr. Perley came to this country, at the age of twenty-two years, 
in the fleet with Governor Winthrop, and located in " Charlestowne 
Village," on land which is now included in the city of Woburn and 
called "Button-end," near a tract of meadow, marked in the cut A A 
A, whichhas been known for two and a half 
centuries as "Parly meddowe," through which 
meanders a brook spanned by a plank bridge, 
marked B, six and a half feet wide, and known 
as "Parly brook." The name is found in pro- 
bate records, and in the colonial records, 2:75, 
as it is spelled above; and it is pronounced by 
the citizens of Woburn today as it is here spelled. 
Why he relinquished his settlement is a mat- 
ter of conjecture. The rigors of his first winter were extreme; the 
sufferings of the settlers were intense. "The weather," reads 
Lendrum's History of the American Revolution, "held tolerable un- 
til the 24th December, but the cold then came on with violence. Such 
a Christmas eve they had never seen before. From that tmie to 
the 10th -of February their chief care was to keep themselves 
warm, and as comfortable in other respects as their scant provisions 
vvc uld permit. They were so short of provisions that many were 
obliged to live upon clams, mussels, and other shell-fish, with 
ground-nuts and acorns, instead of bread. One that came to the 




2 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Governor'shouse to complain of his sufferings, was prevented, be- 
ing informed that even there the last batch was in the oven. The 
poorer sort were much exposed, lying in tents and miserable hovels, 
and many died of scurvy and other distempers." Such an experi- 
ence would dishearten the most resolute; in fact, "some of the Board 
of Assistants," according to Bancroft's History of the United 
States, "men who had been trusted as the inseparable companions 
of the common misery or common success, disheartened by the 
scenes of woe, sailed for England." Many others also went home 
for the same cause. 

The statement in Lambert's History of the New Haven Colony, 
that in 1684 "the colonies at Watertown, Dorchester and Newtown 
[Cambridge] had become so crowded by the accessions of new 
planters, that many left," affords another suggestion. He may have 
sold his grant and improvements, all his local rights and interests, 
feeling assured of finding another location as good or better. The 
great attraction to Boston and vicinity was the learned, wealthy, 
and noble Governor Winthrop, but our ancestor seems to have 
found more attraction in the younger Winthrop at Ipswich. How- 
ever it may have been with our ancestor — whatever his reason or 
motive for leaving, he remained long enough to stamp his name 
indelibly upon the territory and to record the unquestioned fact of 
his possession. According to the manuscript chart of the family, 
"From thence he moved to Ipswich in 1(584." By the town records, 
he was in Ipswich in Hi^f). 

But before identifying himself with Ipswich history, he visited 
England; for he was there "2" Aprilis, lt)85," according to a record 
in the Augmentation oflfice, London, and set sail that month for 
New England. He located in Ipswich, on High street, a short dis-. 
tance from Governor Bradstreet and the Waldo family. The place 
was and is the second houselot northwest of the High-street cem- 
etery, and it is remarkable that it has the same shape and area now 
that it had then — two and a half centuries ago. Alexander Knight's 
homestead was on the northwest, George Smith's on the south- 
east, "a drift way" on the northeast, and High street on the south- 
west. At present the new part of the cemetery is on the northeast. 
It was a picturesque spot. Located on the western slope of 
Town hill and agreeably elevated from the street, it commanded a 
fine view of the v'erdant slopes of Turkey and Timber hills and the 
ridge-range of houses along Scott's lane, the present Washington 
street. The deep frontage of his lot afforded ample opportunity 
to arrange a spacious avenue from the street to his dwelling, with 
flowering plants and shrubbery on either side, after the fashion of 
the average gentleman of the old country. Whatever he did in the 
matter, his selection of grounds of such possible improvements, at- 
test his good taste and judgment, educated, no doubt, by the ex- 
periences of his early life. There he brought his young wife and be- 
gan the business of life anew; there most of his children were born; 
thence have radiated the family name and influence. 

He resided there about seventeen years, selling, 8 Sept., Ib52, 
for £,'11^ his "dwelling house and homestead" to Walter Roper, car- 
penter, of Topsfield. Mr. Roper. 15 July, IHHO, devised his "house. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY. 3 

rtSch m^f^^r^^X Snto Ui pans, '"th,.„u.b the 




BUTTON-END AND HOWTO GET THERE. 
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4 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

chimney from top to bottom," and 3 Feb., 1737, sold the north- 
western half to John Browne, 4th, of Ipswich, and 16 June, 1741, 
the southeastern half to Nathaniel Lord, Jr., of Ipswich, hatter. Mr. 
Browne, 18 Jan., 1776, devised his part to his widow, who, as Lydia 
Thornton, 23 June, 1796, sold the premises to the same Nathaniel 
Lord, Jr., as above, who then owned the whole original estate. Mr. 
Lord, 8 Aug., 1796, devised it to his sons Abraham and Isaac. 
Abraham died intestate and childless, and in the division of his es- 
tate, 9 Oct., 1811, his interest in this property was settled upon his 
brother Isaac, who then owned the whole. Isaac, 17 May, 1825, de- 
vised it to his son Levi, who, 4 June, 1869, left it to his son George 
Edward Lord-llO'*', who now owns it and resides there. 

/Alexander Knight's //omest£/^d. 



rn 



\ Allan Parley's Homestead, 



N ^f £ ^iiJ+ — J775 JToTZ 

QsoRce Smith's H omestzad. 

On the opposite page is shown the estate as it was in November, 
1903. The proud little white rooster, back near the big elm, shows 
the elevation at that point above the street. There was an old well, 
now filled, about half way of the fence between the western corner 
of the house and the street; and it was probably Allan, "our father 
which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, 
and his cattle." The house stands about a rod from the street; the 
northwestern part is probably a century or more old; the south- 
eastern was built in 1847, when the whole structure was moved for- 
ward probably its width, in order to be on a line with the house next 
to it. The elms, front and rear, are fine American specimens, old 
and symmetrical, and afford a gracious shade from summer heat. 

Mr. Perley was a large land-holder, and besides possessions in 
Essex, Rowley and Boxford, he had in Ipswich, in 1635, land at 
Heartbreak hill; in 1640, 1 :3 mo., a road from Rowley to Salem 
was laid out "over the falls at Mile river and by marked trees over 
Mr. Appleton's meadowe, called Parlye mead owe"; he was a com- 
moner in 1641; he owned a houselot on Mill street in 1642, the 
street being now called Washington, and the lot being traversed by 
Mt. Pleasant street ; he had a planting lot on Town hill in 1645; 
"att a meeting of the seven men the 3th (5) 1651" there was "grant- 
ed to Alen Perlye (in exchange for Thirty acres more or less at 
Chebacco lyeing on the west syde of his meddowe) the sume of 
forty-five acres of upland* lyeing beyond Mr. Winthropes farme 
Joyneing up to some of the ppriatyes thereabouts"; he was granted 

•This land was then sometimes called, or was contiguous to, the "Norton Keserve," 
land set apart for Rev. John Norton's brother, who declined to occupy it. The territory was 
early known— before 1693— as "The Ipswich Farms", or "The Farms", a designation that ob 
tained till the incorporation of Linebrook Parish. -State Archives, 11.3: 45-6 and 55. 



6 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

10 acres by the town in 1660; he owned one and a half shares in 
Plum Island in 1664, and, at some time, five acres of upland and 
marsh called Reedy marsh. In 1670, he had liberty of the town to 
cut timber for a "barne." 

He was admitted to the privileges of freemen, 18 May, 1642; was 
a grand juror 25 Sept., 1660, and at various times was witness to 
legal documents, and served on important committees; he was upon 
the coroner's jury in the case of his neighbor, Alexander Knight's 
child Nathaniel, who, while alone, was so burned that he died in a 
few hours. He was excused from training in U)56 and again in 
1664. A court record reads: 1()()9, Sept. 28, Tobiah Colman vs. 
Allen Perley, for taking up and detaining his horse. Verdict for pi. 
50s, no costs — a case probably wherein the law regarding field- 
drivers was not rigidly followed. In November, 1()()2, there was 
Allen Perley vs. Henry Batchelder, "for not giving him lawful as- 
surance* of land" located near a pond, and Batchelder lost. 

Mr. Perley was a man of considerable importance, and was held 
in good esteem. The location of his home, as referred to above, and 
his clear-penned signature to his will, though he was then nearly 
seventy years of age, witness a gentle birth, experience and charac- 
ter. The presence of pewter upon his table was a mark of more than 
ordinary social rank, and the probate inventory of his estate shows 
his business connections to have been with the honored and best 
citizens. Coming to America with the Puritans in 1680, he must 
have been a cordial sympathizer with them in their persecutions and 
their faith, although it was not till late in life that he was received 
into full church-fellowship. He and his wife joined the church 12 
Aug., 1674. 

Mrs. Perley's history is quite unknown to us. Marriageable 
maidens of gentle social rank were titled Mrs., and Mrs. Susanna 
Bokesen was doubtless one of that class. We have diligently 
sought the name Bokesen, in books and by correspondence with 
Old and New England, without satisfactory results. We have, how- 
ever, met the name Boksen, which is, no doubt, the same as hers. 
The name is of Danish origin, and .she was probably descended from 
those Danes who early in English history crossed the North Sea, 
and settled along the east coast of England. 

Doubtless Mr. Perley had a home prepared on the grant of 1651 
beyond Mr. Wmthrop's farm, when he sold his town estate to Mr. 
Roper. The site of the later residence is still pointed out in Ips- 
wich, south of the residence of Charles M. Perley-369. There they 
lived and labored and loved for a quarter of a century; there they 
saw their children grow up about them respected and useful citi- 
zens; there they were honored; there they practised sobriety and 
earned their wealth ; and when the sun of their life glowed in the 
western horizon, 

"Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 
About blm, and lies down to pleasant dreaius," 



* We understand this land was conveyed wthout deed, certain persons being called in to 
witness the description, price, bargain sale and delivery. By these persons Mr. Perley 
proved the contract. Doubtless many sales of land were earlv thus made. Perhaps in this 
manner he conveyed his Woburn property; for we searched the records in vain for some 
reference to its transfer. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY. 7 

they rested in the hope of a blessed immortality. The place of 
their interment is probably near their first home. 

HIS WILL. 

In the name of God, Amen ! I, Allen Perley, of Ipswich, in the 
County of Essex, in New England, being by the good blessing of 
God in good health and enjoying my understanding and memory, 
yet sensible of my mortal and changeable condition here, and de- 
sirous to set my house in order, do therefore make my last will and 
testament : 

First. I commit my soul into the hands of Jesus Christ, my 
blessed Savior and Redeemer; my body to be decently buried in 
what place the Lord shall allot for me to depart this life, in assured 
hope of a joyful resurrection at the last day. 

And for my outward estate that God has graciously given me I 
thus dispose: My three elder sons, viz: John Perlye, Thomas Perley 
and Samuel Perlye, taking their liberty at the age of twenty-one to 
leave me at, yet I have given unto them three parts of the land be- 
yond Bachelours brook (each of them a part which they are pos- 
sessed of and do enjoy) excepting the great meadow, which I do re- 
serve. And all that part of land which was Nathaniel's, my son who 
is departed this life, which I do give and bequeath unto my two 
daughters Sarah and Martha Perley. 

And my house and the use of my land and the great meadow I 
give and bequeath unto my son Timothy, when he shall attain to 
the age of twenty-tliree years, provided still my beloved wife Su- 
sanna shall have one room to her own use during her natural life. 

Item. I give unto my beloved wife all my cattle and movable 
goods and one-third part of the land bequeathed to my son Timothy 
during her natural life for her comfortable maintenance. 

And after her decease my will is, the house and land be unto my 
son Timothy, and the cattle and movable goods be equally divided 
among all my children then living. 

And my will and mind is, that if my said wife shall marry, that 
then the land and room in the house be unto my son Timothy and 
he to pay unto his mother seaven pounds a year during her life. 

And I do make my beloved wife sole executrix of this my last 
will. 

My will further is, that my son Timothy at the age of 23 years 
shall have the use of part of the stock to the value of thirty pounds 
during the life of my wife and then to be returned to be divided as 
is above expressed. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 23 
of June Anno Domini, 1670. 

Signed and sealed and Published ^, 

as his last will in presence of us: ^fi^^<>^4n 'YjitMiy [L.S.J 

Robert Lord. T ^ 

Mary Lord. 

CODICIL. 

The 16th day of November, 1671, I, Allen Perley, as an explana- 
tion of that clause in my will within mentioned, concerning my wife, 



g THE PERLEY FAMILY 

having given unto her my cattle and movables during her natural 
life, besides the thirds of land a room in the house and in case of her 
marriage to leave the room in the house and land and to have seven 
pounds a year paid her by my son Timothy but nothing spoken 
about the cattle and movable goods, — my will is that she return also 
the cattle and movables to be divided among my children, as is ex- 
pressed in said will. 

Witness my hand the day and year above written. 

Signed and Sealed and Pub- 
lished in presence of us: ALLAN PERLEY. [L.S.] 
Robert Lord. 
Mary Lord. 

Februar)- the od, 1(375. 

Before our Honored Majesurates, Mr. Samuel Symond, Dep. 
Gov. and Major-Gen. Denison, the Gierke being present, this will 
and addition was proved to be the last will and testament of Allen 
Perley, by the oaths of Robert Lord, Senior, and Mary Lord. 

As Attest, Robert Lord, Clerk. 

The signature above was photographed from his will, which is in 
the Essex County Court Files, Vol. '24 : 121, and the Registry of 
Deeds, Vol. 4; and in the latter Registry and the Probate, is 

THK INVEXTORV 

of the estate of Allan Perley, deceased, the 28th of December last 
past taken and appraised by us whose names are underwritten, the 
19th of January, 1675. 

In primis. The house, barn and orchard with the homestead, 
great meadow and meadow about home with some little upland be- 
longing to the meadow, . . . . " 
The half part of that land as was Nathaniel Parley's 
The meadow that was Nathaniel's 

2 Oxen, . _ _ _ . 

3 Cows, - - - ' - 

2 Cows, ..... 
1 Heifer, . . . . . 
1 Calf, ..... 

1 Horse, Mare and Colt, 
20 Sheep, ..... 

9 Swine, ...... 

His wearing clothes, .... 

3 Beds with what do belong to them, 

2 pairs Sheets, .... 
1 Table-cloth, Napkins, .... 

4 Pillow-cases, .... 

6 Trays, ...... 

Pewter, . _ . . . 

20 pounds Butter, .... 

Cheese, ..... 

20 pounds Cotton Wool, 

20 " Sheep's Wool, 

12 " Woolen Yam, 

Linen Yarn, ..... 



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HISTORY AND GENEALOGY. 



3 Guns, - - - - . . 

5 bushels Wheat, - - . . . 

4 " Rye, - . . . . 

18 " Indian Corn, - - . . 

Beef, ------- 

2 Iron pots and a mortar, - . . . 

Brass, .--... 

Pans, dishes and spoons and some small things, 
Pail, Half-bushel, Half-peck, 
A churn, a barrel, a meat-tub and some old tubs and a 

barrel, ..... 

•2 Trammels, P'rying-pan, Pot-hooks and a gridiron, 

P'ire-pan and Tongs, .... 

o axes and a hoe, .... 

An old Cart, Tumbrel, Wheels, Plow, Yoke and irons, 

belonging to them, .... 

An Auger, a Chisel, 2 pair Fork-tines, 

A Rope, ...... 

A pair of Bellows, - - - - 

Chairs and Cushion, ..... 

A Table, Cotton wheel and form, 

A smoothing Iron, ..... 

Sieves, ...... 

A Bible and a Psalm book, - - 

Sacks, ...... 

Hay and Flax, ..... 

A Chest, .---.. 

Cards, .....-- 

5 Bushels of Barley, 

A Boar, ...... 

Total [according to the record] 

John Kimball, 
Nehemiah Abbott. 



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DEBTS OF THE DECEASED. 



Mr. Winthrop, 
To the Constable, 
" Dea. Goodhue, 
" Capt. Currier, 
Mr. Cobbett, 
Thos. Perley, 
Job French, 
Dea. Knowlton, 
James Howe, senior, 



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Nathaniel "^ 



1 Perley children: — John-2, Samuel-3, Thomas-4, 
Sarah-5, Timothy-6, Martha-7. 

2 NathanieP was born in Ipswich, 1643; he died in Ipswich, 29 
April, 1668, at the age of twenty-four years. He was frugal and 



10 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

industrious, as is evidenced by the inventory of his estate : he was a 
man of much promise. 

THE INVENTOKY 

of the estate of Nathaniel Perley, deceased the 29th of April, 1668, 
as it was prized by Isaac Foster and Nehemiah Abbott, the 26 of 
May next following : 

A frame almost fitted for raising, 

2 Cows, ------ 

A Bull and a steer, - - - . 

2 Steers, ------ 

Corn, ------ 

A Saddle, ------ 

A Pike and Interest in a Gun, 

Tools, - - - - - - - 

Chest and Clothes, - - - . 

Upland and Meadow, 60 acres. 

Six acres and half an acre of Meadow, 

Two acres and half an acre of Meadow more, 

Boards and Logs, ----- 

Plow and Tackling, . - . . 

In debts due the above named Deceased, - 



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DEBTS OF THE DECEASED. 

There is due from the estate: 
The Deceased being in debt forty-two shilling, [sic] 
To the Physician for his coming to him, at about 
For Funeral Expenses, - - . . 

There is due to Francis VVainwright, as appears upon his 
book, ----- 



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FAMILY 2: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT- AI.LAN-1. 



JOHN PERLP:Y was born in Ipswich in 1636, and died in 
Boxford 15 Dec, 1729, at the age of ninety-three years. He mar- 
ried about 1661 Mary Howlett, who was born in 1642, to Thomas 
Howlett of Ipswich, and died p 

21 Oct., 1718, at the age of J (J ^/ ..^ AJ%L^J^^ 

seventy-six years. " /^^/^.'^ /^^^'^'^^ 

This is a signature on a pe- /^ / / / <:^^ 

tition to the General Court' ^ — "'^^ L-/ 

1696, State Archives 70: 285, of the officers of the Essex Middle 
Regiment and Salisbury Company. He, then, was an officer of the 
regiment. They wanted paid watchers for marauding Indians 
along the Merrimack river, while the farmers did their harvesting. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY n 

Those men, in pairs, were to cover certain portions of the river, and 
immediately upon discovering a predatory band were to give an 
alarm to every near-by village and farm. Thus the harvesters would 
have comparative security. 

Little is known of Mr. Perley till he settled in Boxford, in 1683. 
He was of Topsfield in 1057, the year he became of age, and in 
1658; of Ipswich in 1668 and 1669, and was living in Rowley "be- 
yond Bachelours brook," according to his father's will, in 1670, 
and was said to have been of Newbury in 1677. "John Pearly, Box- 
ford," was made freeman "22 March, 1689-90," and "John Pearly, 
Boxford, October, 1690," which is probably the completion of the 
preceding record. That he married as above stated, is determined 
from the birth of his first child. It is supposed that he built the 
house that stood over the cellar now visible in the pasture belong- 
ing to Benj. S. Barnes, Esq., and near the "great meadow," and in 
which his great-grandson Nathaniel is said to have been born. Pre- 
vious to 1683, he owned a considerable part of "the great meadows." 
He sold two acres of them, 19 P^eb., 1684, to Daniel Wood, of Box- 
ford, for ^"3 5s. in silver, "called ye great meadow in sd. Rowley 
bounds, which lyes upon the southwest side of James Dickinson's 
meadow, it being twenty rods long and sixteen rods broad, the 
southwest end joyning on or bounded by the upland." The deed is 
signed by John and Mary Perley. He sold, 26 Sept., 1684, to John 
Hovey, St., of Topsfield, four acres of meadow, lying in the 
"great meadows," and bounded as follows: "Ye North End cutting 
upon a brook & on ye P^ast side Samuel Pearlyes Line and cutting 
Southward upon ye upland, both ends of an equal breadth, to the ex- 
tent and quantity of four acres with a straight line on the west side." 
He sold to Daniel Wood of Boxford, 7 Jan., 1683, for a yoke of oxen, 
"a parcel of upland, lying in Boxford bounded on the Northwest 
by Daniel Woods, on the Northwest corner by young black oak 
tree, wh'h is the corner bounds between John Perley, Daniel Wood 
& Thomas Hazen; thence on a straight line Southeast to a stake 
and stones ; thence Southwest to the Andover road, so bounded by 
the Andover road to the said Daniel Woods land, above mentioned, 
being ten acres more or less." In 1687, he was taxed for two heads 
or polls, and the items in the assessors' inventory of his property 
were: 1 house, 12 a. land, 2 pr. oxen, 2 horses, 5 cows, 2 young 
cattle, 7 sheep, 5 swine. 

Mr. Perley was a carpenter and housewright by trade. The First 
Church meeting-house in Boxford was built largely under his su- 
pervision, he being on most of the committees relating to it; and he 
exercised his skill and labor in its construction. He was on a com- 
mittee to consult about building the first corn-mill in Bradford, 
which was located on Johnson's creek. He was chosen on a com- 
mittee to lay out "necessary" roads, in Boxford, in 1686, the year 
following the town's incorporation. He was chosen, 19 Aug., 1687, 
and also the year following, a "commissioner" to aid the selectmen 
in assessing the taxes. Himself, his brother Thomas and Thomas 
Andrew were a committee to consult with the town of Rowley, 
sornetime during the winter of 1689-90, about the bounds between 
the two towns ; and he and others were a committee to perambulate 



12 THE PERLEY FAMILV" 

the line, the next April. He was a representative to the General 
Court, for the quarterly sessions, beginning 12 Feb., 1()90, and :> 
Feb., 1691. He was selectman in 1(391, l()9o and 1700, and at other 
times filled other offices of important trust. He was one of the 
committee who received the deed of the town from the Indians in 
1701-2. He was chosen ensign in the militia in UiS9. 

He is the first of our name born on American soil, — which has 
been spoken of as an honor, an indigenous honor over all the family 
for all time. His birth, however, was an honor, if, as the poet sang : 

Our birth is nothing but our cleath begun: 

for his death sealed a life, honorable and honored. He and his wife 
were members of the Topsfield church, and his family attended that 
service, till their dismission, 4 Oct., 1702, to form a church and 
society in their own town. His name is seldom mentioned in the 
town records after his seventieth year. It is not found in the tax- 
list after 1721. He was then near eighty-five years of age; his 
wife had died three years before. He divided real estate to his 
grandson John Perley, of Boxford, and his son Jeremiah Perley, who 
had buildings, etc., on Christmas — a Christmas gift — 1728; and 
since no settlement of his estate is found recorded, it is probable 
that he divided all his property among his children, and gave him- 
self into their care, freed from anxiety and toil. The next year he 
slept with his kindred. You may read, in the Harmony Cemetery, 
in East Boxford, the following inscriptions: 

HERE LYES BURIED HERE LYES BURIED 

THE BODY OF Mr the BODY OF Mrs 

lOHN PERLEY WHo MaRY PERLEY the 

DIED DEcEmBERyelS WIFe OF Mr lOHn 

1729 & IN the PERLEY WHO DIED 

94 YEaR OF HIS AGE. ' OctoBER Ye 21 1718 

AGED 70 YEARS. 

Mr. Perley's "commission," above referred to, and trade show 
him to have been a man of good natural and educational ability; his 
numerous offices show him a man of sound judgment and large ex- 
perience; his manifest interest in church and religious affairs shows 
a man of correct habits; his towns people entrusted him with their 
most important concerns, and bestowed upon him their most distin- 
guished honors; he was a stable pillar in support of good govern- 
ment and good society; and no record* whose only argument is a 
name that is variously spelled, can convince a candid mind that Mr. 
Perley ever betrayed a trust or tarnished the lustre of our fair fame. 

1 Perley children: Sarah-, Samuel', John', Thomas-S, 

* There are court records reading that "John Pearle" for suspiciously taking up Thos. 
Poore's mare was put under a bond of £40, "for his good l)ehavior," 20 March, 1061. In 1662 he 
had another case with Poore, about a colt, involving falsehood and theft. In 1663, upon 
petition, the court finding of corporal punishment was changed to a fine of £S, which doubt- 
less was mostly costs, since the case was in court by several adjournments. 

The contentions may have grown out of pasturing cattle and horses in common and recog- 
nizing them at the endof the season by a private mark, which oftentimes became obliterated; 
and that .John may have been our John, attempting to hold what he considered his own. But 
how unlike our John, the school master, commissioner of taxes, town-father and foremost 
citizen. "John Pearle" may have been a waif, of whom there were then hundreds that had 
escaped their deserts across the water, taking here anybody's name but their own. The court 
records have a John Perley who was 28 years old In 1666. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 13 

NathanieP, Mary'', Martha', Alice'' Isaac-9, Jeremiah-10. 

2 Sarah' was born in 1664, and died in Boxford, uniViarried, 28 
March, 1743, aged 78 years. Samuel' was born about 1664, and 
died 24 Oct., 1746, in Rowley. That his life compassed eighty-two 
years, is all we know of him. This record suggests that these 
children may have been twins. 

3 John' was born about 1665. He was probably living in 1729, 
having "uncle Nathaniel dead." We know nothing of his history. 
His father in 1689 was called "John Perley, senior." Mary' and 
Martha' born in Boxford, 16 — -, and died, the former 6 March, 169-, 
the latter 27 Jan., 170-, may have been his daughters, if he had a 
wife Mary to whom to refer the record: "daughter of John and 
Mary." 

There was a John Perley, of Newbury, 1677, April 2, and 1680, 
Dec. 23; and 1678, Sept. 19, a committee was chosen "to view John 
Perley pposition [to teach school] and bring report to the Towne." 
There was a John Perley in Rowley Village (Boxford) 1683, Jan. 7; 
in Rowley, 1684, Feb. 19, Mch. 31, Sept. 26; in Boxford, 1685, Sept. 
4; 1690, May 7; 1691, Mch. 25; 1698, Feb. 4; and 3 Nov., 1686, "Mr. 
John Perley" agreed with the town of Beverly, "for a schoole-master 
from thence unto one whole year," at a salary of twenty pounds "in 
pay," or ten pounds in money for the year. He taught ten months, 
and was, upon his request, granted release, "provided said Pearly 
doo abate proportionally his stipend or wages." From this record 
and the "commission" and character of his father, it seems to us 
that John, senior, was a school master in his younger years and that 
the son followed the profession through life. 

4 Nathaniel' died probably in the winter of 1727-8. Perley 
Derby says "in Boxford, Feb., 1738;" but the deed of Samson and 
"Allis" How'^ argues for the earlier date. His wife Lydia became 
a member of the Boxford P'irst Church in 1705. He was taxed in 
Boxford in 1727, was selectman in 1705, fence-viewer in 1704, wit- 
ness to the Indian deed of Topsfield in 1701, was one of the com- 
mittee to perambulate the boundary between Boxford and Rowley in 
1717, and lived in Boxford near "ye great meadowe." 

We find the following receipt with papers filed in settlement of 
Governor Bradstreet's estate. Col. Dudley Bradstreet, his son, was 
the executor, but died before concluding the trust. It is clear that 
Nathaniel Perley married the Governor's granddaughter, but we 
can find no answers for other questions involved : 

"Andover, Nov. 25, 1706. 
" Received of Capt. Benjamin Stevens, of Andover, administra- 
tor of the estate of Colo. Dudley Bradstreet, Esq., deed, six pounds 
money, in full of a legacy given to my wife Anne Perly, alias Brad- 
street, by her grandfather Simon Bradstreet, Esq., as appears by 
his last will. Nathaniel Perley." 

5 Alice' married in Boxford, 8 June, 1710, Samson Howe, son of 
Abraham and Sarah-Peabody Howe-20, of Linebrook Parish, Ips- 
wich, where he was born 13 Nov., 1682. He lived, almost from his 
birth, with his grandfather, Lt. Francis Peabody, of Topsfield, who 
devised to him land lying in Topsfield. Mr. Howe, in 1718, received 



14 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

upon the death of his father a share of the paternal estate. In July, 
1728, he and his wife "AUis," at Killingly, Ct., deeded to Thom- 
as Perley all their right and interest in property that had been his 
brother Nathaniel's, of Boxford, deceased, and described in a deed 
from "our honored father John Perley." Mrs. Howe joined the 
First church in Boxford in 1706, and died 19 July, 174(), in her iHith 
year. See Families-9 and 10. Mr. How was known as captain and 
held a commission from the crown of England. He died in Killing-= 
ly, Ct'., H Sept., 1786, and was the first man buried under arms in 
that town. 

[Rev. Perley Howe graduated at Harvard, 1781; settled as the 
first minister of Dudley, Mass., 1785; was dismissed 1748; afterwards 
preached at Killingly, Ct.; died 10 March, 1758, in his 48d year. 
He married daughter of Capt. Joseph Cady, and had issue: Samson, 
Isaac, Cady, Perley and Joseph, who graduated at Yale, 1765; re- 
ceived A. M. there and Harvard; was tutor at Yale; died 1775. 
Williamstown, Mass., was settled by young men from Connecticut 
and in the list of names (1749-1770) is Lieut. Sampson How. 
These three Samsons may be father and grandson. The Boston 
Globe, Dec. 9, 1890, said "Enoch Howe, of Williamstown, Vt., was 
born there 19 May, 1792, and has, therefore, seen his 9Sth birthday. 
His father Howe came from Williamstown, Mass., and was a sur- 
veyor of the township of Williamstown, Yt., and bought large tracts 
of land there of Gov. Tichenor." It had a good picture of him, too.] 



FAMILY 3: PERLEY. 

LINKAI. DKSCKXT-ALLAN 1. 

SAMUP:L PERLP:Y was born in Ipswich about 1640, and 
married, 15 July, 1(564, Ruth Trumble, who was born 28 April, 1645, 
to John and Ellen Trumble of Rowley. John, it is said, freeman 
1640, emigrated from Cumberland or Lancashire, Eng. A son of 
his removed to Suffield, Conn., and began there the illustrious line of 
Trumbulls in that state. The New England Trumbulls have reason 
to believe themselves the Turnbulls of Scotland. The King's was 
life in danger from a mad bull, when an obscure youth took the bull 
by his horns and saved the King's life. The King thereupon be- 
stowed upon the youth an estate and an armor— 8 bulls heads, with a 
motto:" Fortuna favet audaci."i 

This is his signature to a 
deposition, in 1664, Count)- 
court files, 10: 41. 

Mr. Perley settled in Essex, it is thought, and located about a 
mile and a half from the village on the Hamilton road, near a pond 
which was afterwards called "Parley pond," but now "Parley 
meadow." As early as 1693, perhaps some years previous, he lo- 
cated in the extreme western part of Ipswich and built the house 
wherein his grandson. Rev. Samuel Perley, was born, on the knoll 






HISTORY AND GENEALOGY I5 

just east of Howe's brook. He was a farmer and cultivated good 
soil. He was admitted to the privileges of freemen without oath 19 
May, 1669, and took oath of allegiance, at Ipswich, 168H. He was a 
member in the Topsfield church in full communion in 16<S4. In 
1700 the seat number three in the Ipswich church was assigned to 
him. In 1707 he attended church in Topsfield, whose records show 
that " Samuel Perley, Sen'r, had liberty to make a fire in our watch- 
house on Sabath Dayes at noontime so long as the town see 
cause." 

1 Perley children: Sarah-ll, Samuel-12, John-IH, Hannah'-, 
Ruth-14, Hephzibah-15. 

*2 The date of Hannah's' birth is H June, 1671. She was the 
Hannah Perley mentioned in the aflfidavits of Samuel and Ruth Per- 
ley in the case of the Province vs. Elizabeth Howe-4 for witchcraft. 
She was subject to fits. The affliction began in 16S2. She died be- 
fore 1692 — probably about 16S5. 



FAMILY 4: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT- ALLAN-1. 



THOMAS PERLP:Y was born in Ipswich in 1641, and died in 
Boxford 24 Sept., 1709, aged sixty-eight years. He married 8 July, 
1667, Lydia Peabody, who was born in 1644* and died 30 April, 1715. 
She was a daughter of Lt. Francis and Mary-Foster Peabody, of 
Topsfield. Mary was a daughter of Reginald Foster, or Forster, 
whose family is honorably mentioned in "Lay of the Last Min.strel," 
and in "Marmion." Her father came over from St. St. (great St.) 
Albans, in P2ngland, in the same vessel and at the same time, 2' Ap- 
rilis, 1685, that Allan Perley did. Lydia was a member of the church 
at Rowley, and by a letter of dismission was admitted to the Boxford 
church 21 Feb., 1702-3. By her father's ,0 

will she received five pounds besides'^'^4^Q-^,y^t\C 'f^v/^.u 
what she had already had. ^ 

This is his signature in 1704. 

Mr. Perley .settled in Rowley. In 1676, Dec. 12, Richard Dole 
of Newbury, for £lh sold him 175 acres, "one half of that parcel of 
land which he bought of Mr. Anthony Crosbie, lying in Rowley." 
The Sth of January, 1(577, he and his wife confirmed to her brother 
William Peabody, then of Topsfield, later of Boxford, for ^32, land 
lying on the south side of the Andover road in Boxford. Before his 
removal to Boxford with his brother John, in 1684, he deeded, 31 
March of that year, for ^20, eighteen acres of upland lying in 
Boxford, which they bought of Zaccheus Gould. In 1687, he was 
assessed on the following property, besides three "heads" or polls: 
1 house, 25 a. land, 4 oxen, 2 horses, 10 cows, 7 young cattle, 22 
sheep, 8 swine. This year he paid the largest tax of any in the 

« So .1. Proctor I'erley's chart, by Perley DerV>y. EHq., genealogist, of Salem, but Peabody 
(renealogy reads " lf>,')4."" 



16 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



town except his brother-in-law, John Peabody, who paid four pence 
more. 

His residence was on the site of the residence of the late Isaac 
Hale, marked of late years by the umbrageous elm pictured in fam- 
ily-70, and earlier by its proximity to the apple tree and stone bound 
which then marked the bound between Ipswich, Topsfield and Box- 
ford, but now, by a change in the line, the salient angle of Topsfield. 

He was one of the most prominent and influential citizens of the 
town, and in an enlarged sense was one of "the fathers of the town." 
He was made freeman '23 May, l(>77. He and John Peabody were 
chosen, 3 June, 1689, representative to the General Court, "teell 
government shall be seated,* only they bee to sarve but one at a 
time." They were again chosen 11 March, 16S9-90, but Peabody 
"sarved" both times. They served together at the quarterly session 
beginning s June, 1()92. He was chosen a representative 31 Oct., 
1693, and 8 May, 1700, he and John Peabody were chosen, only one 
to serve at a time. He was again chosen for 1702. He was a select- 
man, 1690, 1694, 1699, 1701, 1704, 1709; a constable 1688; a grand 
juror 1695; trial juror 1692,1698, 1707; moderator of town meetings 
1693, 1701,1704, 1706, 1707 and 1709; he was made quarter master 
of the Boxford militia company about 1688, and lieutenant in 1691. 
He served in the committees on settling the boundar)- between 
Topsfield and Boxford, on erecting the 
first church, on organizing the first re- 
ligious society, on assigning pews and 
building galleries. In January, 1701, 
he was one of the committee to re- 
ceive the deedt of the town of Box- 
ford from the Indians, Samuel and 
Joseph English and John Umpee, ,i 
grandsons of the old Sagamore Mas- "- 
connomet. Ihcy all assembled at his 
house to make the transfer and seal it. 
His name is found on numerous com- 
mittees, all of peculiar importance. 
He was extensively interested in pro- 
moting iron-smeltmg, which was be- 
gun in the town in 16()9. He sold to Mr. John Ruck of Salem, one- 
sixteenth of the works, 7: 10, 1671, for ;^()0 sterling. He was one 
of those who comjjoscd the jury that condemned P^lizabeth Howe-6 
of Linebrook Parish, et al., of witchcraft, and who afterwards 
signed a recantation. He was deacon in the Fir.st Church till his 
death. His will is dated 9 May, 1704, and, without the usual 
verbiage, says : " I bequeath my soul to God and my body to a decent 
interment in the earth." He devised to his son Thomas all his land 
not already disposed of by deed to his son Jacob, and to his beloved 
wife Lydia all the personal estate during her life-time, and after her 




* This has reference to the downfall of the tyrannical Andros and the resuin|itioii of tin- 
former regime. 

t It ni.iy gratify the curiosity of some to learn the consideration of the deed, so character- 
istic of the dusky denizens of Xew England : "£« 4s and on pound in vittels and drink to 
Samuel and Joseph English and two shillings and sixpence to ,Tohn I'mpee and Kum and 
vittels Enouf."— Perlers History of Boxford. p 135. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



17 



death in equal portions to his two sons Jacob and Thomas, requiring 
his "son Thomas to furnish his mother a horse to ride upon and a 
suitable person to ride before her as often as she wishes to go 
abroad" — which manner of riding is illustrated on the opposite page. 
He mentions in his will his daughter Mary Hazen and granddaugh- 
ter Alice Cummings. 

1 Perley children: Thomas-16, Jacob-17, Lydia'-, Mary'^, Heph- 
zibah^ Sarah-18. 

2 Lydia^ was born 21 April, 1672, and died in Boxford 31 Aug., 
168-. Mary^ married a Hazen. Hephzibah^ was born 20 Feb., 16 — , 
in Boxford, where she died 2 March, 1695 or 8. 



FAMILY 5: WATSON. 

LINEAL DESCENT--ALLAN-1. 



SARAH PERLEY was born in Topsfield in 1648-9, and died 
before 15 Feb., 1694-5; she married 15 Jan., 1670-1, (Newbury town 
records read, 6 Dec, 1670), William Watson of Ipswich, who died 
27 June, 1710. 

They lived in Ipswich till 1686, when they removed to Boxford. 
He was a selectman in 1687, a surveyor of highways 1691, and a 
constable in 1698, when he was so infirm he could not collect the 
taxes, a duty which in those days devolved upon that ofificer. His 
health failed gradually till his death. An inventory of his property 
in 1687 exhibited : 1 house, 12 acres land, 2 pr. oxen, 1 horse, 5 
cows, 10 sheep, 7 swine, 6 young cattle. His tax for that year, 
seventh in the list beginning with the largest, was 8s 9d, and in- 
cluded two heads, which could hardly be, unless he had a servant. 
The Boxford records furnish the births of two children. 

[Mr. Watson married 15 Feb., 1694-5, for his second wife, his 
son-in-law's mother, Mrs. Mary-Hutchinson Hale, daughter of Rich- 
tj>. ard and Alice-Bosworth ^ g^c , of North Muskham, Notts Co., Eng- 
land, where .she was baptised 28 Dec, 1630, and widow of Thomas 
Hale, son of Thomas Hale, a glover, the immigrant ancestor of the 
Hales. She and her son Joseph settled in Boxford in 1692, having 
removed from Newbury after the death of her husband. She died 
8 Dec, 1715. The long-continued friendship existing between 
these families is more fully shown below.] 

1 Watson children : Mary^ and Sarah, who was born 2 Nov., 
1672. 

2 Mary^ was born about 1671, in Ipswich, and died 1 Feb., 1707- 
8. She married 15 Dec, 1693, Joseph Hale-18, who afterwards be- 
came her step-brother, and who was born in Newbury, 20 Feb., 
1670-1 and died 13 Feb., 1761, wanting only seven days of complet- 
ing his ninetieth year. 

Mary's marriage is a novelty: Mr. Watson, 26 April, 1692, cove- 
nanted with Mary to give her half his property, if she would marry 
Joseph Hale; Joseph's mother covenanted with him to give him half 
her property if he would marry Mary Watson. Probably both cove- 



Xg THE PERLEY FAMILY 

nants were made — certainly Mr. Watson's was — about the time 
Mrs. Hale and her son removed to Boxford; perhaps just prior, and 
their removal was designed to bring the children more into one 
another's society, in the hope of hastening their marital accord. 
However it was, after a courtship of more than a year their mar- 
riage was consummated. Mr. Hale had a second wife, the widow 
Joanna Dodge of Ip.swich, published 19 Sept., 1708. 

The land where the third district school house now (1897) 
stands was early in his possession, and he probably settled near 
there. He owned considerable land and was prominent in civil life, 
serving as selectman, representative to the General Court, etc. He 
was successively ensign, lieutenant and captain in the militia, and 
in the early town records is called " Clerk of the band." Watson- 
Hale issue: Joseph', Jacob, Mary, Ambrose^ Moses\ Sarah, Abner^ 
Dodge-Hale issue: Hephzibah, Lydia-38, Margaret, Thomas', John", 
Hannah, Benjamin, Mary. 

8 Joseph'- was four times married, had six children, was deacon 
in the First Church, Boxford, and probably built and lived in the 
old " Hale house" partially shown on the left in family-70. He 
held several town offices. Dr. Joseph Hale of Miller's Corners, 
N. Y., is a descendant of this family. 

4 Ambrose'- was twice married and had eight children. Hon. 
Eugene Hale and Clarence Hale, graduates of Bowdoin, the former 
a United States senator, and Frederic Hale, a graduate of Water- 
ville, are descendants of this family. 

5 Moses'- was born Christmas, 1701, was a graduate of Harvard, 
ordained and installed, 20 Oct., 17B1, over the church that had just 
been gathered at Chester, N. H., and dismissed on account of in- 
sanity, 4 June, 1735. His wife was Abigail Wainwright; he died 
in 1760. 

6 Abner- was twice married, and had ten children. Hon. Arte- 
mas Hale of Bridgewater, Mass., who was a member of Congress, 
and died almost 99 years old, 3 Aug., 1882, and William Hale, E.sq., 
a leading lawyer in Detroit, Mich., and later in San Francisco, Cal., 
descended from this family. 

7 Thomas'- was born 8 Jan., 1714-15, and married — published- 21 
Dec, 1740 — Mary Kimball of Bradford, and lived in Boxford. 
Hale issue: William^, Thomas, born 1743-4; Mary, born 1745-6. 

8 John'- was born 12 July, 1717, and married 11 April, 1738, 
Priscilla Peabody. He built the "Low" mansion, late the residence 
of General Solomon Low, located near the depot in Ea.st Boxford, 
and in 1874 destroyed by fire. Hale issue: Lydia, born 1741; 
Hannah-63; John, born 1745; Henry, born 1747; Mehitable, born 
1755; Eliphalet, born 1763. Mrs. Hale .survived her husband, and 
married 16 June, 1774, Thomas Hammond of Swanzy, N. H. 

9 William' was born 9 Nov., 1741, and married — published 30 
Oct., 1770 — Anna Porter of Topsfield, who after his death, in 1785, 
married Wm. Perley-77. Mr. Hale was a physician in his native 
town; he built the "Sayward house" and lived there. Hale issue: 
Elizabeth, born 1772; Dorothy-180. 



FAMILY 6: PERLEY 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALL A.N-1. 

TIMOTHY PERLEY was born in Ipswich about 165o and 
died 25 Jan., 1718 (Savage says 1719), aged sixty-five years. He 

married about 1680 Deborah — •, who died probably in the 

first half of 1785. Property was taxed to her in 1784; it was taxed 
to another in 1785; and her administration of her husband's estate 
was succeeded in 1736. Her last sickness continued about six 
months. Her funeral expense was ^14 15s 6d. 

We have been unable to find Timothy Perley's signature, and 
we append this signature of ^ 

his widow as she 'signed the C\ (0 D <^C ^ C^'1^ 

bond preliminary to settling CJ^G\^ ^ Ci t!^ / 

her husband's estate in 1728. / 

It shows clearly how they spelled the first syllable of their surname . 

Mr. Perley inherited his father's homestead and made it his 
home. He owned land, "very mean meadow and swamp," in Box- 
ford, which continued in the family name for several generations. 
His farm had an extensive area and has come down to us as one of 
the best, showing that the early husbandman as well as those who 
have. followed must have been assiduous and earnest in their calling. 
It has been known for its excellent fruits, particularly for several 
varieties of apples. There were numerous aged pear trees on this 
farm, a few of which, in the writer's day, bore delicious fruits. 

Town offices are seldom bestowed upon persons who live re- 
mote from the center, however worthy and efficient they may be. 
Thus our subject, being removed six miles from official trust, we 
find exercising only such duty as the law may impose upon every 
discreet and judicious townsman. He was surveyor of highways 
and doubtless attended to other civil duties. He took the oath of 
allegiance in 1678. He had some experience in the merciless witch- 
craft delusion. He and his wife were witnesses in the case of their 
neighbor, James How's wife, Elizabeth-4, who was accused of witch- 
ery. He and his wife were admitted to the Topsfield church 24 
June, 1705, and she was baptised the same day. They were mem- 
bers of the society from their marriage and contributed to defray its 
expenses. 

In 1709, ten years before his death, he confirmed to his son 
Stephen, for love and affection and to encourage him in his life 
work, half of his buildings and land, which was vaiued at ^886. 
After that, in 1718, he purchased of the town of Ipswich land valued 
at ;^22. 

In the inventory of his estate, made for probate by Abraham 
Howe, Jacob Peabody and Caleb Foster, are mentioned one ox, two 
cows, two young cattle and one swine. The estate was appraised at 
^354. His widow was his administratrix till her death. Thomas 



20 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

Parley was appointed to succeed her 26 July, 1736. His minister's 
rate was, in the year 1689, 4 shillings, when his brother Samuel's 
was 5 shillings 4 pence, a rating that showed, at that time, the rel- 
ative value of their estates. 

1 Perley children : Patience'-, Stephen-19, Allen-, Josephs 

2 We have no knowledge of these except the dates of their 
births— Patience\ 28 March, 1682; Allen\ 1 March, 1687-8. 

3 Joseph^ was born 3 June, 1695, and died 15 Nov., 1758, aged 
sixty-three years. He probably built, and lived in, the eastern part 
of the dwelling house now owned by Charles M. Perley-369, the re- 
maining portion being of more recent construction. Towards the 
close of his life his intellect became clouded, and in 1738, several 
years after his father's death, he was declared, in a legal sense, non 
compos mentis, and his cousin Jeremiah Perley-10 was appointed 
his guardian. 



FAMILY 7: C0KP:R. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN! . 



MARTHA PERLEY was born in Ip.swich "about 20" April, 
1657, and married 31 May, 1678, Benjamin Coker of Newbury, who 
was born there 30 June, 1650, to Robert and Catherine, and died 24 
March, 1705. His will was proved the 20th of the following April. 
The place of his nativity became his home. His father was a 
yeoman, born 1606, went to Newbury with the first settlers, and died 
in 1680. His mother died two years previous. 

1 Coker children: Benjamin', Hannah-19, Mose.s", Sarah-, Mary"^, 
Mercy", John'"^, Judith'-. • 

2 Benjamin^ was born 14 Sept., 1680; Moses', 4 Aug., 1685-6; 
Sarahs 13 April, 1688; Mary\ 18 Sept., 1691; Mercy', 22 Oct., 1693; 
John\ 9 June, 1697, and died before 1705; Judith', 1 June, 1701. 



SECOND GENERATION. 

FAMILY 8: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT -ALLAN! , ,IOHN-2. 

THOMAS PERLEY was born in 1669 and died 24 Oct., 1740, 
aged seventy-one years. His first marriage was in Topsfield, 14 
Jan., 1695-6 with Mrs. Abigail-Towne Peabody, who was born there 6 
Aug., 1664, a daughter to Edmund Towne, died in Boxford 14 Feb., 
1712, and became 24 Nov., 1689, the widow of Jacob Peabody, who 
was born 28 July, 1664, a son to Lt. Francis and Mary-Foster Pea- 
body4, married 12 Jan., 1686, and had issue: Keziah and Mercy, 
twins, born in 1687, and Jacob, born in 1689. His second marriage 
was in 1713, with Mrs. Hannah-Goodhue Cogswell, who was daugh- 
ter of Dea, (Capt.) William Goodhue, son of William, of Chebacco, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



21 



who was an Andros resistant,* and who died in 1712. She had sis- 
ters, Margaret Giddings and Bethiah Marshall, and brothers, Na- 
thaniel, Joseph, John and Rev. Francis, who graduated at Harvard 
College in 1699, settled in Jamaica, R. I., 1705, and died in 1707. 
She was widow of Lt. John Cogswell of Essex, who was born 12 
May, 16(J5, a son to WiUiam and Susanna, died in 1710, and had 
issue, 1694 to 1710: William, Susanna, Francis, John, Hannah, Eliza- 
beth, Margaret-20, Nathaniel, Bethiah and Joseph. She became a 
member of the First Church, Boxford, in 1729, died Christmas day, 
1742, aged seventy years, and was buried in Harmony Cemetery, 
East Boxford, by the side of her late hus- ^ 
band. Thomas and Abigail were mem- f^T^ /yl / 

bers of the Topsfield church. Mr. Perley VA*-^'''^ ^J d'r^SV 
wrote like this 1 Aug., 1728. C/ 

Mr. Perley resided in Topsfield, where he owned some real 
estate, till 1710, when he removed to Boxford, and undoubtedly 
lived with his father, who was then about 80 years of age, making 
the parental home his own till his death. He was a prominent and 
efficient man. In Topsfield he was a surveyor of highways in 1700, 
a fence viewer in 1703, a selectman in 1703 and 1705, besides hold- 
ing other offices at other times. In Boxford he was moderator of 
town meetings in 1717, 1720, 1722, 1734 and 
1735, a surveyor of highways in 1719 and 1735, 
a selectman in 1717, 1723 and 1730, a constable 
in 1731, a surveyor of hemp and flax in 1736 and 
1737 and a representative to General Court in 
1727. He drew and carried on Nathaniel Cogs- 
well's right in the settlement of Pennacook 
(now Concord, N. H.) 1725-7. Himself, his 
cousin Thomas Perley, and Joseph Hale, were 
the trustees of the "^50,000 loan" of the town in 1732. In the 
militia he was a sergeant at the age of thirty and a lieutenant 
in 1712. He was a farmer and owned considerable property. 
His exhibit on an old valuation list, the date of which has been torn 
off, is as follows: 1 house, 2 acres orcharding, 13 1-2 acres mowing, 
21 acres pasturing, 7 1-2 acres tillage. The probate inventoried his 
estate at ;^725. His son Amos was his executor, and was given all 
his father's buildings and land in Boxford. Dr. Wood, a skillful 
practitioner of Boxford, attended him in his last sickness. His 
inscription reads: 

HERE LIES BURIED 

the BOdy oF 

LIEU' THOMAS 

PERLEY WHO 

DIED OCtOb^ 24*1^ 

1740 And In the 

72nd, YEAR OF 

HIS AGE 




* Seven Ipswich men — a colonial councilor and six selectmen — were fined and inprisoned 
for resisting the tax of the tyrannical Andros, in 1687.— Perley's Ipswich History in J. W. 
Lewis & Co.'s History of Essex County, Mass., (1888), page 628 of vol.1. The Ipswich town 
seal, pictured above, is In commemoration of this fact. 



22 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

1 Parley children : The first wife's— five — were born in Topsfield, 
the second wife's, in Boxford: John-, Amos-20, Lois^ Asa'-, Abi- 
gail-21, Mary-22, Sarah-28, Jeremiah^ 

2 John^ was born 13 Feb., 1696-7 ; died in Topsfield 23 June, 1700. 
Asa^ was born 9 May, 1704, and died in Topsfield 17 April, 1706. 

3 Lois^ was born 23 April, 1702, and married 24 Aug., 1727, 
Thomas Pike of Newbury, who had a second wife Abigail who sur- 
vived him. In his will, which was made 7 Oct., 1761, and proved 
March, 1762, he is styled "gentleman." His sons, Perley and 
Thomas, were his executors. He bequeathed his "carpenter's 
tools" to his son Moses. Pike issue : Abigail, Sarah, Lois, Hannah, 
Moses, Perley, Thomas. Of these children, Abigail married a 
Chase; Sarah, a Downes. The rest were living in 1761, and the 
third and fourth were not married. 

4 Jeremiah^ was born 30 June, 1719, and died in Boxford 28 
Nov., 1737, aged eighteen years. His tombstone in Harmony Cem- 
etery has the following inscription : 

HERE LYES BURIED 

the BODY of 

lERMIaH PERLEY y« 

Son oP" LUtP^nEnt 

tHOMaS PERLEY 

WHO DIED novMBE*- 

y« 28, 1737, in 

v« 19 YEaR oF HIS AGE 



FAMILY 9: PERLEY. 

LIXEAX, DESCENT—ALLAJN-l, JOHN-2. 

ISAAC PERLEY was married about 1704, settled in Boxford 
and died 22 Nov., 1711. His wife's name was Frances; she was 
baptised in the Plrst Church 3 March, 1705-6; she died 17 June, 
1710, fifteen days after child-birth. They became members of that 
church in 1706. He was a fence viewer in 1705; a surveyor of high- 
ways in 1709; a tithing man in 1710. They bid adieu to a promis- 
ing future and journeyed to the spirit land in the summer of life, 
leaving three little ones to the tutelage of friends. 

He made his will 20 Nov., 1711. In it he says, "first of all I 
give and recommend my soul into the hands of god that gave it, and 
my body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian 
burial Nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall 
receive the same again by the mighty power of god." * * * * ' 
"I give to my brother Jeremiah Perley my son John to Do for 
him as his own. I give to my sister Sarah Perley my dafters 
Elizabeth And Allis to Do for them as her own." He nominated 
his brother Jeremiah his "sole executor of all and singular my 
lands, messuages and tenements and estate whatsoever to call in 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 23 

all debts and to pay all debts whatsoever and secure the Remain- 
der for my children. So I recommend the Care of all to him 
trusting in the Lord." 

The will was never proved, the witnesses, Samson and Alice 
How-2^ being in Killingly, Ct. His brother Jeremiah-10 was, 31 
Dec, 1712, appointed administrator of his estate, which was inven- 
toried at jC'207 '2s, which included credits to the amount of j£92 
lis. 

1 Perley children: Elizabeth-24; John, born 10 Sept., 1707; 
and Alice-25. 



FAMILY 10: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOHN-2. 

JEREMIAH PERLEY was born in 1677 and died in June, 
1758. He married three times, but died without issue. His first 
marriage was 16 April, 1702, with Ruth P^oster, who was daughter 
of Abraham and Lydia-Burbank P'oster of Ipswich, and who died 
23 Aug., 1709. His second marriage took place 20 Dec, 1710, 
with Alice Hazen, who was daughter of Thomas and Mary-How- 
lett Hazen of Boxford, born 10 June, 1686, and died there 17 
Oct., 17-40, aged fifty-four years. The following is the inscription 
upon her tombstone in Harmony Cemetery, East Boxford, where 
probably her husband was buried: 

HERE LIES BURI 
ED THE BoDY 

MRS ALICE 

THE WIFE of 

CAP* lEREMIAH 

PERLEY WHO 

DIED octoBER 

17*^ 1740 IN 
y« 55*^ yEAR 
oF HER AGE 

He married, third, in Newbury, 10 Nov., 1741, by Rev. Wm. 
Johnson, Mrs. Sarah Hale, who was born in 1693, a daughter of 
Henry Poor. Her first husband was John Spofford, born in George- 
town, 12 June, 1678, to John and Sarah-Wheeler Spofford, and died 
4 Oct., 1735. Her second husband was Ezekiel Hale, married 31 
Oct., 1736, born in Newbury 13 May, 1689, to Thomas and Sarah- 
Northend Hale, and died 15 April, 1740. Mr. Hale's first wife was 
Ruth P3mery, and among her descendants are the names Rev. 
Christopher Sargent Hale, Brown University, 1820, and Hon. 
Ezekiel James M. Hale— Dartmouth College, 1835— late of Haver- 
hill. 

Mr. Perley covenanted with the church at Topsfield, at the age 
of twenty years, 2 June, 1697, at the time of Rev. Mr. Capen's set- 
tlement. He became a resident of Boxford, and owned a part of the 



24 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

plain, called in the time of the Rebellion "Camp Stanton," besides 
land in other parts of the town. In 1714 he had an orchard near 
the residence of the late Wm. E. Killam, probably "Clough's Cor- 
ner." We do not know where his house was located. By an old 
valuation list, much worn, its date being torn off, he was taxed for 2 
heads or polls, 1 house, 2 acres orcharding, 17 acres mowing, 50 
acres pasturing and 11 acres tillage. He was a constable in 1719, a 
moderator of town meetings in 1738 and 1739, a fence viewer in 
1706, a field driver in 1703 and 1716, a surveyor of highways in 1705, 
1710, 1711, 1736 and 1740, a tithing man in 1737, a trial juror in 
1708 and 1723, a selectman in 1714, 1722 and 1733, and a treasurer 
in 1733 and 1735. The town "voted to Jeremiah Perley 17s 6d for 
getting the body of laws 21 Jan., 1711-2." He excelled in the mil- 
itary, was a brave and efficient officer. He began with corporal in 
1716, attained to sergeant in 1720, was commissioned lieutenant in 
1729, and accepted the captaincy in the spring of 1733-4. 

In the winter of 1724-5, he and his cousin Jacob-17 joined in the 
famous expeditions of Capt. John Lovewell against the Indians. 
At this period the Indians were a source of great annoyance, anxie- 
ty, and at times of fearful mortality to the frontier settlers along the 
Merrimack river in Massachusetts, and the people were very much 
dissatisfied with the manner of prosecuting the Indian War. Ac- 
cordingly, the heroic Capt. Lovewell and his brave associates memo- 
rialized the Legislature, presenting "that if said Company may be 
allowed five shilHngs per day in case they kil anney Indians and 
possess their scalps, they will employ in Indian Hunting one whole 
year, and if they do not within that time kill any, they are content 
to be allowed nothing for their time and trouble." The Legislature 
immediately granted their petition, only changing the compensation 
to a bounty of ;!^100 for every scalp taken during the time. Three 
expeditions were made. In the dead of winter, upon snow-shoes 
over deep drifts and frozen bogs, they penetrated the dense forests 
around and in Conway and Fryburg, and did brave and bloody 
work for their lives and their homes. The story is in history. 
Among the various conflicts with the Indians of New England, 
none created a greater or more lasting sensation than Capt. Love- 
well's, none took so strong a hold upon the feelings of the people, 
none became a more gratifying theme to the soldier, a more thrill- 
ing tale for the fireside, and none was more valorous nor more 
thoroughly embalmed in song. The Legislature in 1733 paid these 
volunteers, at their own request, in wild land in Massachusetts and 
New Hampshire. The former is now Petersham, the latter Pem- 
broke. 

Capt. Perley "being sick" made his will 8 Oct., 1756; it was 
proved 26 June, 1758; the witnesses were Martha Butman, Moses 
Stickney and Thomas Perley; the executors were Daniel Black 
and Paul Pritchard. He made the following bequest: "I give to 
Sarah Black the wife of Daniel Black all my household goods that 
I had in my house at the decease of my second wife Alice ( excepting 
a square table and two boxes) that are not already disposed of." 
He made bequests, among various others, to Hannah-Perley Pritch- 
ard-44, wife of Paul, and to Abigail-Perley Spofford45, wife of 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 25 

William, and gave to the Boxford First Church £ 13 6s 8d. 

His family Bible, printed in London in 1716 by John Baskett, 
and bequeathed with the household goods to Mr. Black, had these 
records: "My sister Alice How died 19 July, 1746, in her 66th year. 
My wife Sarah died 9 June, 1746, in her 56th year. Capt. Jeremiah 
Perley died 16 June, 1758, betw. 8 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon. 
But a few hours before the same he walked abroad and sat and 
talked with some people at 
work." 

This is his signature to a re- 
ceipt 29 Nov., 1732. 



/U/r^^^yiic^ 'O^Xi^tj 



FAMILY 11: ANDREW. 

LINEAL, DESCENT- ALLAN! , SAMUEL-3. 

SARAH PERLEY was born 7 June, 1665, and died 15 Jan., 
16934. She married in Topsfield 1 Feb., 1681, Joseph Andrew, 
who was born in Boxford 18 Sept., 1657, to Robert and Grace An- 
drew, and died about 1732. 

They resided in Boxford till near 1705, when he moved perma- 
nently to Salem. He was a man well adapted to exercise the vari- 
ous civil trusts of a town, and his record is well worthy of the ances- 
tor, as he was, of the eminent and beloved governor of Massachu- 
setts, John Albion Andrew. While he lived in Boxford he was a 
member of the church society in Topsfield. He was a selectman in 
1689, 1697, 1700 and 1704; a constable in 1692; a surveyor of high- 
ways in 1687; an assessor in 1694; and fence viewer in 1695. He 
was freeman in 1732. 

[Mr. Anbrew married 13 March, 1796, for his second wife, Mary 
Dickinson of Rowley, who was born there 14 Nov., 1675, a daugh- 
ter to James and Rebecca Dickinson, and died 25 Feb., 1 — , proba- 
bly 1700, and had issue born in Boxford: Lydia, 3 Sept. ,1697; Mary, 
19 April, 1699. He married, third, widow Abigail Walker, daughter 
of John Trafton, and had issue: Nathaniel and Jonathan, the former 
being the great-grandfather of John A. Andrew, the twenty-first 
governor of Massachusetts.] 

1 Andrew children: Sarah^ Joseph^, J ohn^ and Hephzibah^ 

2 Sarah^ was born 20 Aug., 1683; ancl 20 Nov., 1701, became the 
second wife of Joseph Swett of Hampton, N. H., who was son of 
Capt. Benjamin Swett, the warrior of Blackrock, and Esther, daugh- 
ter of Peter Weare of the same place, and who died in 1721. They 
lived "in that part of ancient Hampton, which is now (1852) Hamp- 
ton Falls, on the road from Newburyport to Portsmouth." He was 
an influential man in his town: a selectman in 1693, 1698, 1712, 
1713 and 1717, when he is called captain. He was representative to 
the Provincial Assembly in 1693, 1698 and 1708, and probably at 
other times. Swett issue: Lydia, born 22 March, 1703-4; Hannah, 
born 3 May, 1708; and Benjamin^ 

[Mr. Swett's first wife was Hannah. The Hampton town rec- 



26 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

ords furnish the following births : Hannah, 18 Sept., 1682; Marga- 
ret, 21 July, 1690; Abigail, 29 May, 1698.] 

3 Joseph^ was born 18 March, 1686. He was taxed in Boxford in 
1718, and that assessment is the last of his found upon the books. 
The First Church records furnish the following baptisms : Anna, 7 
Nov., 1714; Ruth, Oct., 1715; Joseph, Oct., 1717. 

4 John^ was born 18 Sept., 16S8, and married 9 July. 1713, his 
cousin. Patience Andrew, who was born in Boxford 29 March 1689- 
90, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Andrew. He lived in Box- 
ford, a respected and worthy citizen. Issue: Hannah, born 28 
April, 1715, and published 20 June, .1786, to Moses Foster of Arun- 
del; Thomas'; Mary, born 25 March, 1720, and married 17 June, 
1744, to Elisha Cummings of Topsfield; Nathaniel born 24 April, 
1722; Mary born 26 April, 1725; Abigail born 29 Nov., 1727. 

5 Hephzibah' was born 1 July, 1691, and 31 Jan., 1712, married 
Abraham How of Ipswich, who was born 27 June, 1686, and died 
13 April, 1758. They had seven children, of whom Ruth, born in 
1722, married Samuel Perley-80. See Registry of deeds, 29 : 47. 

6 Benjamin- was born 2 May, 1710, and married 20 July, 1732, 
widow Elizabeth Jenniss and daughter of Bonus Norton of Ipswich 
and Hampton. Swett issue : Elizabeth, who married Dea. David 
Batchelder of Hampton Falls; Moses, who married a Rogers, lived 
in Hampton, and died about 1764; Sarah, who married, 1st, Dr. 
Levi Dearborn of North Hampton, and 2d, Hon. Phillips White of 
South Hampton, and who was noted for her personal beauty, to 
which were added good sense and practical piety; Nathan, born 17 
Nov., 1712; Moses, born 12 Dec, 171«. 

7 Thomas^ was born 4 Sept., 1717, and married 24 June, 1739, 
Margaret Bradstreet of Topsfield. They lived in Boxford, and had 
issue: David, born 1740; Jonathan, born 174-; Elizabeth, born 
1746; Mary, born 1749. 



FAMILY 12: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-l, SAMUEL-3. 

SAMUEL PERLEY was born in Essex, 28 May, 1667, and 
died in Rowley, 29 Jan., 1724-5. He married 28 March, 1694, Abi- 
gail Cummings, daughter of Deacon Isaac and Mary-Andrew Cum- 
mings of Topsfield, who in his will, dated 27 April, 1712, and proved 
19 June, 1721, bequeathed her ^^60 as her portion. She died 22 
Jan., 1725-6. Her father was Robert Andrew-11. 

He settled in Rowley, before his marriage, on land given to him 
by his father and confirmed by deed 24 June, 1714, and now belong- 
ing to the farm of his descendant David Eri Perley-221, which has 
continued in the Perley name during the lapse of years. He lived 
so remote from the center of the town, that he held no town offices 
except those that fall to discreet men, such as field driver and sur- 
veyor of highways. He was chosen field driver S March, 1708-9. 
His whereabouts on "20 March" probably 1708, were questi,oned in 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 27 

court, when John "merifield," who was his apprentice, Abigail "pear- 
ly" and Elizabeth "perkins" testified that he was about home all 
day, and a part of the day plowing. He was married by Rev. Joseph 
Capen, of the Topsfield church, which his family attended and in 
which his children were baptised, though born in Rowley. 

1 Perley children: Abigail", Susannah-26, Abigail", Uavid-27, 
Patience-28. 

2 The first AbigaiP was born 8 Aug., 1695, and died young. 
The second AbigaiP was born 6 July, 1700, and married 18 or 21 
Nov., 1719, Aaron Jewett of Ipswich, where he was born to Jeremiah 
and Elizabeth, 18 June, 1699, and where he lived, and died 19 June, 
1732. His wife survived him and married, secondly, 1() Feb., 1734-5, 
John Todd of Rowley, where the family probably immediately re- 
moved. Jewett children : James, baptised 30 April, 1721; Moses, 
baptised 7 April, 1722, married Abigail Bradstreet 13 May, 1741; 
Rebecca, baptised 1 March, 1723. 



FAMILY 18: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-;}. 

JOHN PERLEY was born in Essex, 28 Sept., 1669, and died 
in Ipswich, 2 May, 1725. He married in Rowley, 13 July, 1698, 
Jane Dresser. He resided with his parents in West Ipswich, and 
14 Jan., 1714, his father deeded to him "the house I now live in," 
the barn and half of all his lands. Francis Young, bricklayer, his 
wife Rebecca, John Chapman, son of said Rebecca, and his wife Eliz- 
abeth, all of Ipswich, 14 Nov., 1702, conveyed to him for ^S:, three 
acres of marsh lying in Ipswich. — Deeds Registry, 15 : 223. He 
and his family attended church at Topsfield, where he was admitted 
to full communion 27 June, 1703, and where his children were bap- 
tised. He gave the plot of ground for the old -cemetery in Line- 
brook, and was the first buried there. Only two days before his 
death he made his will, which was > ^ 
proved 30 May, the signature to which /f/"^^^!^ ly^rtT' /0^/ioQ 
is here reproduced. His widow and f\^ i- f ' f''^'^'T ' ^^^ 
son Jonathan were executors. His real u ^ 

estate was valued at p^l350 and his personal at about ^250. His 
pewter, an early mark of gentility, was valued at 77 shillings. His 
tombstones are well preserved, and are reproduced on the next page. 

1 Perley children: Hannah^ John'-^, Martha^ Jane-, Jonathan-29, 
Israel'-, Samuel-30, Ruth'-. 

2 John^ was baptised 15 March, 1701-2, and probably died be- 
fore 1725, since he is not mentioned in his father's will. Jane\ born 
1 March, 1706-7, became demented, and on complaint of her rela- 
tives, the Judge of Probate ordered the selectmen of Ipswich to 
take charge of her, 20 June, 1755. John Smith of Ipswich was ap- 
pointed her guardian 23 Feb., 1756; her estate was valued at ^^50 
18s. 1 l-4d. IsraeP was baptised 4 Feb., 1711, and probably died 
before 1725, since he is not mentioned in his father's will. Ruth' 



28 



THE PERLBY FAMILY 






was baptised 20 Nov., 1715. Upon her father's death her mother 
was appointed her guardian 28 July, 1725. She died in Ipswich, a 
"singlewoman" 8 Sept., 1730. 

3 Hannah' was born 1 Sept., 1699. She married 28 Dec, 1719, 
Ebenezer Kimball of Bradford, where he was born 8 July, 1697. 




HERE LYES BURIED 
the BODY Of Mr 
lOHN PABvLEy ^ 

WHO DtED MAV y 2. 

XEAR OF H»S AGE 



tFYOU WIU LOOK ItMAy/rPER 
HE WAS tKe FOMt BURUD HEAR] 





HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 29 

He died in 1751 ; she, 26 Nov., 1731. Kimball issue: Jonathan, 
born in Boxford, 11 May., 1721, married - May, 1745, Sarah Barker, 
no children reported; Hannah, born 14 April, 1728, married 18 
Nov., 1740, Samuel Hunt, and had issue, Samuel, Samuel, Hannah, 
Jonathan, Perley, Ebenezer, David, Martha; Ebenezer, born 24 
Nov., 1724, married Tamar Hunt, and had issue: Martha, Tamar, 
Lydia, Timothy; Martha, born 14 Oct., 1726, no children reported. 

4 Martha^ was born 24 Aug., 1704, and married Nathaniel 
Boardman, Jr., of Topsfield, 1 April, 1786. Her husband was son of 
Nathaniel and Abigail-Rolfe Boardman, who was born 9 April, 1711. 
He died in Topsfield 26 Aug., 1786, and she married, second, while 
of Ipswich, John Chapman, Jr., 1 March, 1788-9. 



FAMILY 14: TYLER. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-S. 

RUTH PERLEY was born in Essex 4 June, 1675, and died in 
Boxford 10 May, 1788. She was married in Topsfield, by Rev. Jo- 
seph Capen, 8 Jan., 1698-4, to Moses Tyler of Boxford, who was 
born there 16 Feb., 1667, and died 11 Oct., 1782, son of Moses and 
Prudence-Blake Tyler. They resided in Boxford, where he was a 
fence viewer in 1695, a surveyor of highways in 1696, and a select- 
man in 1712 and 1728. They rest in the West Boxford Cemetery. 

1 Tyler children : A daughter", Lydia'^, Mary'-, Mehitable'^ 

2 The daughter^ was born 1696; Lydia^ was baptised in the First 
Church, 17 Jan., 1702-8, and married 24 Aug., 1724, Jonathan Por- 
ter of Wenham; Mary^ was baptised 80 Oct., 1709, and 1 Oct., 
1728, married Caleb Cogswell of Ipswich, who was the eldest child 
of Adam and Abigail Cogswell. He had four brothers and three 
sisters, and was the only one of them to survive the death of their 
father in 1748. Mention is made in Essex Institute Collection, 6: 
188, of a Caleb Cogswell who was at the siege of Louisburg, 15 and 
16 July, 1745. The Cogswell Genealogy (E. O. Jameson) names 
three children : Adam, born 20 April, 1733; Jeremiah; and Benja- 
min, bprn 4 Jan., 1748(.?). 

3 MehitableS 10 Aug., 1712, was baptised in, and 1 Nov., 1741, 
became a member of, the first Church, Boxford, where she lived, 
and died 30 Dec, 1742, at the age of thirty-one years. She mar- 
ried—published 18 Aug., 1728 — Isaac Dodge of Wenham, who 
joined the Boxford church, 7 Nov., 1747, by letter from the church 
at Wenham. Their negro servant, Sarah, became their sister in 
Christ, in the church with them, 8 May, 1 747. Dodge issue : Mehit- 
able, born 10 June, 1732; Nancy, born 18 Dec, 1736; Moses Tyler, 
born 29 June, 1739; Ruth, born 8 May, 1742. 

[Mr. Dodge married, 12 April, 1744, for his second wife, Abigail, 
cousin to his first wife, and daughter of John and Anna-Messenger 
Tyler of Boxford, where she was born 2 Aug., 1715, and was admit- 
ted to Second Church 6 Sept., 1741. Issue: Nabby, born 20 



30 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

March, 1744-5; Isaac, born 15 April, 1746; Prudence, born 19 Feb., 
1747-8. They had removed 15 Oct., 1749, to Sutton, Mass., when 
and where they transferred their church fellowship.] 



FAMILY 15: DORMAN. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-S. 

HEPHZIBAH PERLEY was born in Essex, 28 Sept., 1679, 
and died in West Boxford, where .she had lived, and was buried 4 
Feb., 1715, ten days after the birth of her child. She married 81 
May, 1709, Jabez Dorman, who was born in Topsfield, to Dea. 
Thomas and Judith-Wood Dorman, 9 Nov., 1678. Dorman child : 
Jabez, born 25 Jan., 1715-6, and died 25 March, 1716. 

[Mr. Dorman, by his wife, "Abial" (Abigail.''), married 16 Aug., 
1716, had issue: Jabez, born 9 July, 1717. In the spring of 171s 
they removed from town.] 



FAMILY 16: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALL.^^M, THOMAS-4. 

THOMAS PERLEY was born in Ea.st Boxford, where now 
stands the residence of Isaac Hale4, 27 Sept., 1668 — Rowley rec- 
ords read 1670 — and died there lo Nov., 1745, at the age of seventy- 
seven years. He married, first, Sarah O.sgood of Andover, who 
was born 4 Nov., 1675, and died in Boxford 2:^ Sept., 1724. She 
was daughter of Capt. John and Mary-Clement Osgood. Her 
mother, when living in Salem, was accused of witchcraft, and plead- 
ing guilty saved her life; .she joined the Boxford church with her 
husband 21 Feb., 1702-:^); and was mother of all his children. He 
married, second, in Boxford, 15 May, 1727, Mrs. Elizabeth-Porter 
Putman of Dan vers, who died in Oct., 1746. She was widow of Jo- 
seph Putnam'^ and mother of Gen. Israel Putnam"*. Her will, made 
4 April, 1746, is a good specimen of the orthodoxy of that period: 
" The last Will and Testament of Elizabeth Perley of Boxford ; and 
this is to be taken only for my Last Will and Testament, and None 
Other; and first, Being penitent and sorry, from the Bottom of my 
heart, for my Sins past Most Humbly Desiring forgiveness for the 
same, I give and commit my Soul unto Almighty God my Saviour 
and Redeemer; In whome and By the merritts of Jesus Christ; I 
trust and believe assuredly to be Saved ; and to have Full Remission 
and forgiveness of my Sins : and at the General Day of Resurrec- 
tion, my Body, shall Rise Again with Joy Thro the merritts of 
Christ's death and passion, Possess and Inheritt the Kingdom of 
Heaven Prepared. for. his Elect and Chosen and my Body I Committ 




HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 31 

to the Dust," etc. Her will was proved 27 Oct., 174H. The execu- 
tor was her son-in-law, Capt. John Leach. 

Mr. Perley inherited his father's homestead and made it his 
home. He was a farmer, cultivated broad fields of productive soil 
and owned a wide range of pasturing for his large stock of cattle ; 
yet he found time for public civic services, numerous and onerous. 
For twelve' years he was town clerk, from 1712 to 1723 inclusive. 
His chirography is legible and neat, and exhibits the development of 
the present style of writing out of 
the style of the previous century. ^..^-'T^y^ 
He was surveyor of highways '\^/^ j/lcW^^ 
1723; was chosen juror 17 Sept., f^lH' 

1732; moderator of the town meetings in 1725, 1727 and 1729; "a 
selectman in Hi97, 1699, 1701, 1704, 1707, 1709, 1714, 1720 and 1727; 
and a representative (Wm. Foster colleague) in 1703, 1709, 1718 
and 1719. In 1/12 he was chosen school master of the town, a 
calling of eminence in those days, which probably commended him 
to his numerous elections. The schools were then kept about a 
month in each of some half-dozen places. He was member of the 
Boxford church from 21 Feb., 1702-3. 

The Selectmen's records of Boxford have the following quaint 
agreement: "An agrement made this twanty forth day of march 
1720-21 betwen y*" subscribers y*" selectmen of boxford on y" one 
part and thomas perley of said towne on y*" other part witneseth 
that y*" said perley doth oblige himsalf to keepe Schoole in said 
towne for y*" yeere insewing and the Selactmen are obliged to pay 
said pearley fiftene pounds for his years sarvice but if y^ sd perlay 
be not Imployed y^ whole yeare in that sarvice than he is to keep 
an acount of what time he expands in said sarvice and what damige 
he sustains thare by and sd selectmen are obliged to satesfy him in 
Reasone not exseding fiften pounds and if no schoolers apere or 
come to be taught thane he said perley will Reaquire no pay — 

"Thomas pearley on y*" on part 

Joseph byxbe "| Selactmen 

Thomas cumings y on y** other 
Nathan pabody j part" 

He was also a military man and a fine officer. He was ensign 
for several years, and was commissioned lieutenant 17 Jan., 1717, by 
"William Tailor, Esq., Lt. Gov. and commander-in-chief in and over 
His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 
in America." This document is well preserved by the children of 
one of his granddaughters, Mrs. William N. Cleaveland of East Box- 
ford. He was promoted to the captaincy, probably upon the death 
of Capt. John Peabody, who commanded the company and died in 
1720. The company belonged to Col. John Appleton's regiment. 
His will is dated 21 Sept., 1745, and was witnessed by his cousin 
Jeremiah Perley, John Wood and John Hovey. He is called yeo- 
man; he gives his son Allen "if he come home again," his undivided 
half of 500 acres of land in Western (Weston) and Brookfield, 
which he bought in common with Capt. Stephen Peabody, and his 



32 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

homestead to his son Asa, who moved the old house and built anew 
on the site. His will was proved at Ipswich 25 Nov., 1745. His 
sons Thomas and Asa were his executors. His real estate was 
valued at ;!^500, and his personal at ;j^l50. 

1 Perley children: Lydia'^, Mary-31, Hephzibah-82, Moses", 
Sarahs Thomas-33, Mehitable", Rebecca-B4, Allen'-, Asa-35, Mar- 
garet". 

2 Lydia' was born 21 June, lH9<i, is not mentioned in her father's 
will and probably died young. Moses' was born 11 Dec, 1701, and 
died 9 Nov., 17—, (1702 ?). Mehitable' was born 26 June, 1708, and 
died 14 Oct., 1723, aged fifteen years. Allen' was born 14 April, 
1714, and the quotation above from his father's will is all we know 
of him. He probably ran away from home. Margaret' was born 23 
Nov., 1719. 

3 Joseph Putman-IH married in 1690, and died in 1724 or 5. He 
lived in Salem Village, now Danvers, and the house now occupied 
by Susan Putnam-34, a lineal descendant of both of these families, 
.stands on its original site, on the Turnpike, near the State Asylum 
for the Insane. His issue: Elizabeth; Rachel; Anna; William, 
who had issue, Elizabeth and Sarah; Eunice-B3 ; Huldah-39; 
David-34; Mehitable, who married Dr. Richard Dexter of Topsfield; 
Sarah, who married a Brown; and Israeli These intermarriages 
show the great mutual esteem and affection of the two families. 

4 Gen. Israel Putnam^ was born 7 Jan., 171S, and died 17 May., 
1790. He lost his father when about seven years old, and at 
the age of nine years removed with the family to Boxford. There 
he came under the legal guardianship of his father Perley, was in- 
structed in the old school-master's family school, and shared in the 
common paternal family care and blessing. At the age of twenty, 
he married a Miss Pope of his native village, and removed to Pom- 
fret, Ct. He was bred a farmer. At the age of thirty-six, he en- 
listed, in the French and Indian war, under Sir William Johnson, 
who was to act against Crown Point. When about forty-four, he 
served in the West Indies. 

"The conquest of Havana and other important points in Cuba, 
by the English in 1762, was a striking feat of arms, which, strange 
as it may sound, owed its success to a timely reinforcement of 2,300 
men under Gen. Lyman and Lt. Col. Israel Putnam, from the colo- 
nies of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey." But we need not 
comment upon his brilliant career, his daring exploits, or his de- 
voted patriotism. His character is well depicted by the inscription 
upon his tomb: " He dared to lead where any dared to follow." 

5 Sarah' was born 2 Oct., 1703, and married (published 14 May, 
1725,) Dean Robinson who was son of Dean, and died 12 May, 1779, 
aged seventy-seven 3'^ears. They lived in Andover, the part now 
North Andover. Robinson children baptised in Second Church, Box- 
ford; Mehitable, born 29 Aug., 1726; married Jonathan Kimball of 
Boxford, by John Gushing, 25 July, 1745. Jonathan was born to 
Ebenezer and Hannah, in Boxford 11 May, 1721, and died there 12 
Aug., 1746. They had only one child, Hephzibah, who was born 22 
June, 1746, in Boxford, and married 27 June, 1771, by Rev. Hezekiah 
Smith of Haverhill, a Baptist clergyman who was widely known in 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



33 



his time. — Sarah, born 19 March, 1728-9; married Oliver Peabody, 
9 Nov., 175'i, in Andover. — Anna, born 28 Aug., 1734; died in And- 
over 26 Nov., 1736. — A daughter born 14 Jan., 1736-7. — Lydia, 
born 30 Dec, 1739. — Mary, born 11 Sept., 1743; married Joseph 
Frye, Jr., 12 Feb., 1765, in Andover. — Susannah, born 18 Feb., 
1745-6; married 7 Jan., 1772, Nehemiah Porter of Boxford, where he 
was born to Samuel and Sarali, 5 Dec, 1749. ^ ^ 

These are the signatures of Sarah and ^^^^oz ^L^rt^i /cjtj*'^ 
her husband to the paper which quit- 
claimed all their rights to the property of xa ^ 
their aunt, Mary-Osgood Aslebee of ^n rflM ^ 
Salem, 2 April, 1745. O^^^^ ^^WiTlJffTl 



FAMILY 17: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— A LLAN-1. THOMAS-4. 

jACOB PP2RLEY was born in Rowley about 167U, and died in 
Bradford in April, 1751, at the age of eighty years. He married, 
first, 6 Dec, 1696, Lydia Peabody, who was born 9 March, 1673, and 
died about 1707 or 8. She was daughter of Capt. John, one of the 
most prominent of the early settlers in the town, and Hannah-An- 
drew Peabody, both of Boxford. She and her husband were admit- 
ted, 25 April, 1703, to the church that had been organized there the 
year before. He married, second, 9 May, 1709, Lydia Peabody, 
cousin to his first wife and daughter of Joseph and Bethiah-Bridges 
Peabody of Boxford, where she was born 4 Veh., 1683, died 30 April, 
1 732, and was interred in Harmony Cemetery, where upon a slate 
slab is this inscription : 

HERE LYES BURIED 

y^ BODY OF 

LEDYA PEARLEY 

y« WIFE OF m^ 

lAcOB PEARLEY 

WHO DIED APREL 

y« 30*^^ 1732 

& in y'' 59*^^ 

YEAR OF HER AGE 

His third wife, (pubhshed 24 June, 1733), was Mrs. Mehitable 
Brown, widow of Ebenezer Brown of Rowley, who was published 
with her, 24 March, 1721-2, she being then the widow of John 
Hovey, who married her 25 May, 1702, when she was Mehitable 
Safford. He died 17 Aug., 1720. She died in Bradford, intes- 
tate, and "her son," Samuel Hovey of Rowley, was her administra- 
tor, appointed 23 March, 1754. In Rowley she had a wood lot and 
other land, and her estate was valued at ^111 2s. 8d. 

Mr. Perley removed to Boxford with his father's family, wherein 
he remained till 1696, or perchance a while longer. He owned the 



34 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

estate on the north side of Baldpate pond in Boxford, in after years 
owned and occupied by Mr. Augustus M. Perley-204. He built a 
dwelhng a few rods north of the present barn, and Hved there. 
The house was taken down about 1817, and the present residence 
was built. A peculiarity of the old house was the construction of 
its chimney upon the outside, with an oven opening outward, from 
which on baking-days, or rather the nights following, it is said, 
the contents were sometimes purloined, so that occasionally the 
family must attend the church without the usual inspiration of a 
baked-bean and suet-pudding breakfast. 

He lived there till 178(), when he removed to Bradford, where he 
built a house. Meanwhile he retained an interest in his old resi- 
dence in Boxford. He also owned an extensive tract of land west of 
Baldpate pond, and an interest in the Hazzeltine meadows in the 
northern part of the town. A road was laid, 25 Nov., 1702, from his 
house by Thomas Hazen's house, etc. In 1710 he sold five acres 
of land to the town for the minister's use. The town 14 March, 
1710, passed the following vote: "The Town have voted and given 
liberty to Ensien Thomas hazen, Jacob perley and david wood to 
seat up a Saw mill upon the parsioneg fearm, whear they shall see 
meet and to have a Convenient yard Rouem with a way to the mill 
and to have all the towens wright and Interest in s'' Conven- 
ient sies for thorty years after this tiem without ennv lawful moles- 
tation from the towen the s'' hazzen Pearly and david wood alowing 
for the damieg that may bee don by Reason of s'^ Saw mill as 
Rasionel men shal Tudg." After a few years the mill came into the 
possession of Dr. Wood, one of the proprietors. It was located on 
the "old Dresser road," in the East Parish, on the site of the mill 
whose ruins are still observable near the residence of the late John 
O. Batchelder's family. 

He had a long and varied experience in town affairs; was select- 
man in 170S, 1712, 1729 and 1782; a constable in 1705; a surveyor 
of high ways in 170(5; a juror in 1708 and 1711 ; a moderator of 
town meetings in 1729 and 1781 ; served on various committees and 
was town treasurer from 1718 to 1720. and in 1781 and 1782. He 
commenced his official military career as sergeant in 1705, was pro- 
moted to cornet in 1717, and to lieutenant in 1724, wherein he 
served till his feeble health forbade further duty. With his cousin 
Jeremiah-10 — which see — he served his people faithfully, efficiently 
and bravely in the famous expeditions of Capt. Lovewell against 
the Indians. 

He joined the church when his first wife died, as above. His 
will is dated IS Feb., 1750-1, and says he was in health. The pro- 
bate of his will was taken 29 April, 1751, which argues a short sick- 
ness, if indeed he had any. In it he is called housewright, and he 
bequeathed to his wife Mehitable "all the household goods shee 
Brought and whatever else shee brought with her Into my estate at 
our marriage"; also the use of half his house in Bradford, or "if she 
chouse Instead of it, she shall have all my Interest in the house I 
formerly Dwelt in at Boxford." He also devised land in Boxford to 
his sons. Daniel Black, Paul Pritchard and Solomon Wood wit- 
nessed his will and were all present when it was proved. The pro- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 35 



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bate value of his estate was ^654 7s. 3d. The inventory valued 
"Half ye old house & half ye barn in Boxford jQi^ 13s. 4d."; "the 
house and six acres of land in Bradford ^133 ()s. Sd.," and "about 
six acres of pasture land in Brad- 
ford ;^20." His son Francis was 
his executor. This was the style 
of Mr. Perley's autograph in .1716. 

1 Perley children, all born in Boxford : Lydia-3t), Jacob-37, Na- 
than-38, Francis-39, Moses-40, Isaac^ Hannah^ 

2 Since we have no knowledge of Isaac' beyond the date of his 
birth, 14 Feb., 1711-2, and have no birth-date of Moses' it has been 
suggested that "Isaac" should be dropped. It is more probable the 
error consists in omission than in commission, and there is plenty of 
time between Francis' in 1706 and Hannah' in 1716 for our record 
to stand as above. The engraved tombstone is good evidence, and 
places Moses' birth in or near 1709 ; but Mr. Perley's second marriage 
was 9 May, 1709, and a birth in his family that year is highly improb- 
able. But if his first wife's death, of which we can find no record, 
was puerperal, and came in the last quarter of 1708, the stone is 
vindicated. Isaac probably died young, and Moses' birth was not 
recorded because his mother's death was not. 

3 Hannah' was born 2S Oct., 1716. She joined the First Church 
in Boxford 6 Oct., 1736; and married 6 Dec, 1736, Stephen Kimball 
of Bradford, where they were married and probably settled. 



FAMILY 18: HAZEN, HALE. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4. 

SARAH PERLEY was born in 1683 or 4, and died without 
issue in Bradford, now Groveland, 17 June, 1769, at eighty-five 
years, and was buried in Harmony Cemetery, East Boxford, where 
her tombstone is well preserved. She connected with the church 
in Topsfield, 20 June, 1697. She married, first, Edward Hazen, who 
"was born in Rowley, to Edward and Jane-Pickard Hazen, 17 July, 
1688, resided in Bradford, and died in Newbury 19 April, 1723. 
She married, second, 30 Dec, 1723, Samuel Hale, who was born 
in Newbury 6 June, 1674, and died 13 Dec, 1745. He was son of 
Thomas and Mary-Hutchinson Hale, and brother to cousin Mary 
Watson's-5.' husband ; settled in Bradford, now Groveland, in 1699, 
where it is still known as "Hale's Corner." He possessed a hand- 
some estate, was a leading man in his town, and a farmer of superi- 
or order, especially distinguished as a fruit-grower. [Mr. Hale's 
first marriage was in Rowley, 3 Nov., 1698, with Martha Palmer, 
daughter of Samuel and Mary-Pearson Palmer of Rowley, born 24 
April, 1677, died in Bradford 14 June, 1723, and was mother of all 
his children: Samuel, b. 23 Oct., 1699; m., first, Hannah Hovey; 
second, Sarah Hazeltine; d. 24 May, 1770. Jonathan, b. 9 Jan., 
1701-2; m. Susannah Tuttle. Mary, b. 27 May, 1705; m. Geo. 
Carleton. Martha, b. 15 June, 1709; m. Moses Jewett. Jane, b. 1 



36 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Aug., 1711; m. Philip Tenney. David, b. 30 Sept., 1714; m. Sarah 
Bond; d. 1776. Among the descendants of Samuel Hale are Jona- 
than Harriman Hale, a bishop in the Mormon church; Hon. Moses 
Hale of Rochester, N. H. ; Dr. John Hale of Hollis, N. H.; and 
Abigail, daughter of his son Jonathan, and wife of Col. William 
Prescott, of glorious memory, at Bunker Hill.] 



FAMILY 19: PERLEY. 

LINKAL DKSCKXT-ALI.AN-1, TI.-M()THV-6. 

STP2PHP!N PERLEY was born on the immigrant-ancestral 
estate in Ipswich, 1.5 June, 16S4, and died there 4 Sept., 172.5. He 
married 11 March, 1715, (published 19 Feb., 1715), his cousin 
Hannah Coker-7, who was born 10 March, 1682-8, and was living in 
1727, but probably died the year following. Mr. Perley's home had 
been the home of his father and grandfather, our first American an- 
cestor. He was a husbandman, and was diligent in the retired pur- 
suit of his lordly occupation. So far removed from the public busi- 
ness of the town, he seldom, if ever, participated in its official duties. 
Besides his ample homestead, he occupied land in Boxford, that had 
been his father's. 

We were not able to find 
in the 
of 

signature of 

ing a legal document, 2() 
Dec, 1716, shows clearly how they spelled their name — Perlcy. 

His family with most of the neighboring families attended 
Sabbath service at Topsfield. He and his wife were members of 
the Topsfield church, having subscribed to the covenant 24 Aug., 
1723. He died intestate, but no probate inventory of his estate was 
made till 27 Vth., 172S-9. His mother aid his cousin, Thomas 
Perley, were appointed administrators 5 Nov., 172H. 

A TltlK INVKXTOKV 



the records the signature /I / / ,7/ /? i 

Stephen Perley, but the ul^,y}y%^AiA W^^QA^ *] 
nature of his wife witness- ' f^*- f l 1/ i/ilA [j ^^^ j 



of all and Singular the goods and Estate of Stephen Pearley late of 

Ips\vich in the County of Essex deceased as it is apprized by us the 

Subscribers on the 27 Day of February Anno Domini 172S-9 

Imprimis To Bills of Credit . . - - 

To W^omans Apparel ----- 

To Handkerchiefs Neck Cloaths & Aprons & Caps 

To other wearing Linen & Stocks & Shoes 

To three Blankets for a Child _ - - - 

To one feather Bed & under Bed & Bolster 

To another feather Bed and Quilt 

To another feather Bed & under Bed & 4 Pillows - 

To 2 old Bedsteads 4 Bed Cords & Cloothes Line 

To three Coverlids & Blankets & Cradle Pillow 

To 1 1 Pair of Sheets & 6 Pillow biers 



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To Table Linen - - - . . 

To 37 lb. of wool & 6 Pound of woolen Yarn 
To 22 lb. of Pull Tow & 25 Pound of Tow Yarn - 
To 12 Pound of Coverlid Yarn & 2 Pound 1-4 worsted 
Yarn - - - - . 

To 14 Pounds of Flaxteer & Plax in the Stock 
To two Suits of Curtains - - . . 

To several Bags of P'eathers - - . . 

To 2 Moofs ----._ 

To one Case of drawers & one Chest & Trunk - 

To 2 Tables & 14 Black Chairs & 4 old Chairs 

To one warming Pan & Kittle & Skillet & Skimmer - 

To 2 Iron Pot Hooks & frying Pan & Slice & Tongs 

To 9 Pewter Platters & 6 Pewter Plates & other Pewter 

To three Yards Lustring - . . . 

To Swine ------ 

To one ox & four Cows - - - . 

To 2 Oxen, 2 Steers, 8 Heifers - - - - 

To 5 Young Cattle & four Calves 

To one Mare & Colt . . - . . 

To Twenty Sheep ----- 

To Hay in the Barn - - - . . 

To one Spade 2 old Hoes 2 Shod Shovels 

To 3 Yoaks & Irons & Small Timber Chain 

To Horse Tackling to draw with - . . 

To three Iron Forks Span Shackle & Pin 

To Part of an Iron Bar & 2 axis & a hatchet 

To an Iron to draw Nails, one Beetle Ring, 2 Wedges - 

To one old Plow & Irons & old Tumbril 

To a Cart & Irons & Wheels belonging to it & Cart Rope 

To one Iron dung fork & old Saddle Irons 

To Carpenters Tools Si one flesh P'ork 

To Handirons, Trammel, Tongs and Slice 

To Earthen Ware, 4 Trays, 3 old Meal Tubs 

To one linen Wheel and one Woolen Wheel 

To one Gun & Lock & Stock of an old Musquet - 

To sheep Shears 4 old Scythes & Tackling & Gimbolet 

To one Pillion & Pillion Cloth - . - . 

To upper Leather for Shoes - - - - 

To 7 meal Sacks 2 Wallets & Corn Sieves - - 

To 2 Bottles & Piggen one Pail & Iron Bails & Tubs 
To 13 Barrels of Cyder & Barrels 
To Indian Corn ------ 

To Barley 17 Bushels & Oats 8 Bushels 

To 5 Bushels Rye . - - . . 

To Books ------ 

To two Thirds of the dwelling House 
To the greatest Part of the Barn 

To one half of the whostead & half the Orchard on the 
south Side of the Way & the Orchard on the 
north side of the way . . - - 

To one half of an old Common Right in Bush-hill Eight 



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38 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

To 9 acres of Marsh in Ipswich Hundreds - 70 00 

Debts due to the Estate - - - - - 2 01 



874 14 9 
Debts due from the estate - - - - 26 06 1 

Thomas Pearley f Caleb Foster ^ g^^j-n the 

^ , , ^ , < Abraham How y 

Deborah Pearley |^ j^cob Peabody J Judge Probate 

Ipswich, March 5*^ 1728-9 

Then the abovesaid Thomas Pearley and Deborah Pearley 
admin'^ made oath to the truth of this inventory. 

Before John Appleton, J. Prob*® 

1 Perley children : Deborah-41; Allen-42; Sarah-48, Jeremiah 
Perley was appointed guardian of Allen and Sarah, 26 July, 1786, 
when they were over fourteen years of age. 



THIRD GENERATION. 



FAMILY 20: PERLEY. 

LINEAL, DESC ENT— ALLAN-1, JOHN -2, THOMAS-8. 

AMOS PERLEY was born in Topsfield, 3 May, 1699. He died 
probably near the close of March, 1748. He married 1 March, 
1721-2, Margaret Cogswell-8. She lived a widow eleven years after 
Mr. Perley's death, and U Oct., 1759, married Lt. Mark How of 
Ipswich. He was son of Abraham and Sarah-Peabody How, and 
was born 28 March, 1695, in Ipswich. [Mr. How's first wife was 
Hephzibah Perkins of Topsfield, with whom he was published, in 
Ipswich, 6 Oct., 1722. Hephzibah died 80 Jan., 1759, having been 
the mother of twelve children, of whom eight died of throat-distem- 
per between the 5th and 28th of November, 1786, and of whom, 
Nathaniel, born 16 Sept., 1789, married Hannah Emerson, daughter 
of Rev. John Emerson* of Topsfield, and was the father of Aaron 
Howe, who married Eliza Perley-198. Deacon Mark Howe died 17 
Feb., 1770.] 

Mr. Perley removed to Boxford with his father's family, when 
about ten years of age. At marriage, he chose his home where his 
father's and grandfather's had been, on a knoll at the right of the 
lane leading to "ye Great Meadowe." He was a prominent citizen 
of the town and the parish. He was a selectman 1746, a constable 
1738, a juror in 1737, an overseer of the poor 1746, a surveyor of 

» Mr. Emerson was grandson of Joseph of Mendon, and brother of Joseph of Maiden. He 
married Elizabeth Pratt of Maiden, his brother officiating. He had 16 children, but only one, 
Thomas-40, remained in Topsfield. His death closed a forty-five years' pastorate, 11 July, 1774, 
when he was about 68 years old. His widow died 1 April, 1790, when about 82. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



39 



highways 1737 and 1745. For 1752 and for several years following, 
he was clerk of the First Parish. He joined the First Church 1 
Jan., 1727; he bought pew No. 11, 17 Sept., 1745; his "servant 
Jane" was baptised 7 April, 1745. 

He was sick when he made his will ^ . 

14 Jan., 1747-8, and lived thereafter but p> jTyY) /s^ TioJt-^ i>jt 
a short time. His will, proved" at Ips- KiyUl^Tl ^&^ '^^f 
wich 11 April, 1748, by Jeremiah, Da- '^ 

vid and Thomas Perley, conveyed to his 

wife Margaret all his household furniture, and required his son Amos 
to find her a horse to ride upon ; devised to Amos five acres of land, 
bought of Benjamin Rogers, and all the rest of his real estate to 
his three sons Amos, Nathaniel, and Enoch, who died, however, be- 
fore the division, the account of which covers seven pages of the 
probate records. His widow was appointed guardian of the minor 
children. 

In the inventory of his estate, silver spoons — a prelude of mod- 
ern social distinction — are mentioned, and two negroes : " Old nigro 
^80; young negro ^15," which explains "servant Jane" above. 
His buildings and land were valued at ;z^'2900, and the probate ac- 
count mentions 2 coffins, 2 graves and sundry small things for the 
funerals of Enoch and Sarah £,\ 7s. 8d." 

-' 1 Perley children: Stephen-, Amos-, Abigail-, Hannah44, 
Abigail-45, Nathaniel4(j, Enoch'-, Eunice-47, Sarah'-. 

2 Stephen' was baptised, in the First Church, Boxford, the third 
Sabbath — 21st — of May, 1727 ; was assessed a poll-tax there in 1741; 
is not mentioned in his father's will. Amos' was born 18 May, 1727, 
and died before 19 Nov., 1750. Abigail' was baptised 7 Dec, 1729, 
and died young. Enoch^ was born 26 May, 1787, and Sarah', 21 
Oct., 1741, and both died in 1748. 



FAMILY 21 : MORSE. 

LINEAL DESCENT- ALL AX-1, JOHN-2, THOMAS-S. 

ABIGAIL PERLEY was born 26 April, 1708, and 12 Dec, 
1728, became the fourth wife of Samuel Morse of West Newbury, 
who was born 7 Dec, 1688, to Deacon Benjamin and Ruth-Sawyer 
Morse. By trade he was a weaver. He was a member of West 
Newbury First Church — originally the First Church of Newbury. 
[By his first wife, Elizabeth March, whom he married 23 Feb., 1712- 
3 and who died 20 April, 1723, he had: Elizabeth, born 2 April, 

1714; , bapt. 1 March, 1715-6; Samuel, born 5 Nov., 1717, 

who married Mary , settled, practiced medicine, and died, in 

Mendon; John, born 14 Dec, 1719, who married Mary Woodbury, 
resided in Newbury; Marcy, born 9 March, 1721; Sarah, born 23 
Jan., 1722-3. His second wife was Hannah Ordway, whom he mar- 
ried in 1724. By his third wife, Bethiah Dalton, whom he married 



40 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

at Andover 24 Sept., 1725, and who died 13 June, 1726, he had 
Mary, who was born 14 May, 1726.] 

1 Morse children: AbigaiP, Jeremiah-, Hannah", Ann-. 

2 Abigail' was born 10 March, 1738-4; Sarah', 20 Nov., 1738; 
Jeremiah^, 8 Oct., 1741, and marrying a Sarah, had a daughter Sa- 
rah baptised in 1770; Ann', 13 May, 1747. 



FAMILY 22: BATCH ELDER. 

LINEAL, DESCENT— ALLAN-1, .lOHN--', THOMAS-8. 

MARY PERLEY was born 7 June, 1714. The church rec- 
ords read: "May, 1714." She joined the church Dec, 1737, married 
31 Jan., 1737-8, Joseph Batchelder, who was born in Wenham, 17 
Sept., 1713, to David and Susanna of Wenham, settled in Grafton, 
Mass., about 1740, and died 21 June, 1773, aged fifty-nine years. 
He married Sarah Tilton, his second wife, in East Sudbury, 8 
Sept., 1780; he died, respected and beloved, in 1797. The Massa- 
chusetts Spy says: "His death is sincerely lamented." 

1 Batchelder children : Mary-, Perley ', Susannah-, Sarah-, Jo- 
seph-, Jeremiah", Susannah". 

2 Mary' was born 10 Aug., 1743; Susannah', 7 Jan., 1747, and 
died 1 Feb., 1747; Sarah', 1 Aug., 1748; Joseph', 8 Jan., 1749, and 
died 21 Oct., 1751; Jeremiah', 31 Aug., 1751; and Susannah', 15' 
Dec, 1753. 

3 Perley^ was born 7 Sept., 1745, and died 7 Feb., 1812. His 
wife's name was Mary, who died 19 Aug., 1828. They lived in 
Grafton, and had these children: Joseph, born 9 Oct., 1772, and 
died 17 July, 1776; Moses and Aaron, born 1 April, 1774, the former 
died 13 April, 1774; Susannah, born 24 Jan., 1775, and died 22 July, 
1776; Molly, born and died 26 April, 1777; Perley^; Sally, born 
Aug., 1780; and John'. 

4 Perley'' was born 10 March, 1778, and his wife Lois had 
Mary A., born 1805; Julia S., 1807; Charles H., 1809; Harriet B., 
1810, died 1838; Joseph P., 1812; Martha A., 1814, died 1840; 
Samuel S., 1816; William A., 1819; Benjamin W., 1824. 

5 John^ was born 13 Sept., 1783, married Sally , lived in 

Grafton, died in Millbury 9 Oct., 1843, "and had issue: Sarah S., 
born 1809; Hannah R., 1811, died 1835; John A., 1814, died 1815; 
John A., 1816, died 1821; Joseph M., 1820, died 1822; Mary E., 
1820, died 1822. 



FAMILY 23: PUTNAM. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOHN-2, THOMAS-8. 

SARAH PERLEY was born 12 May, 1716, and married 2 
Dec, 1736, Jonathan Putnam of Danvers, who was born there 13 
July, 1715, to Jonathan and Elizabeth Putnam. 

1 Putnam children: Jeremiah", Sarah'^, Jonathan'-, Hannah'^, Eliz- 
abeth", Lydia-, Nathan^, Levi'-, PerleyS Aaron-. 

2 Jeremiah^ born 31 Oct., 1737; Sarah^ 2 March, 1738-9; 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



41 



Jonathan\ 80 Dec, 1740; Hannah^ 10 Dec, 1742; Elizabeth^ 11 
Jan., 1745; Lydia', 15 July, 1747; Levi\ 1 Aug., 1751; Aaron', « 
Sept., 1756. 

3 Nathan' was born 8 Sept., 1749, and died 10 April, 1828, aged 
seventy-three years. He married and had issue: Perley'\ 

4 Perley' was born 17 March, 1754, and is said to have been 
the first killed in the battle of Lexington 19 April, 1775. Xhus the 
Perley Family poured its first libation to Liberty. His name is on 
the Peabody, Mass., monument.* 




LEXINC+TOX MONUMKNT IN PEABODY, MASS. 

5 Perley'^ was born 16 Sept., 1778. He married and resided in 
Salem, where he was for many years street commissioner. He 
was called Colonel Putnam. He enjoyed many civic honors, and 
was in many ways a valuable citizen. He lived to a great age. Is- 
sue: Perley Z. M. P., and Mary Ann, who was born 1805 and died 
1871. 



FAMILY 24: STARR. 

LINEAL DESCENT—ALLAN-l, JOHN-2, ISAAC-9. 

ELIZABETH PERLEY was born in Essex 10 Oct., 1705, and 
died 4 March, 1742, near the birth of her eighth child. She married 
in 1780 Comfort Starr, who was born 9 Aug., I(i96, to Deacon Com- 
fort and Mary-Stone Starr, founders of the Dedham branch of that 
family, and died in Kilhngly, Ct., 13 Feb., 1775. He was living in 
Dedham in 1720. In 1723 he bought 1000 acres of land in the 
North Parish of Killingly, afterwards selling a part, but reserving 
what still later became his homestead, a little west of Brandy hill, 



* This monument of hewn sienite is '11 feet high and T feet square at its base. It was com- 
pleted in 1837, at an expense somewhat exeeeding $1(I00. The inscriptions are— Obverse: 
"Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775. Samuel Cook, aged 33 years; Benj. Daland, 25; George 
Southwick, 25; .lotham Webb, 22; Henry Jacobs, 22; Ebenr. Goldthwait, 22; Perley Putnam, 
21; Citizens of Dauvers, fell on that day. 

" 'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.' " 

Reverse : "Erected by Citizens of Danvers, on the 60th Anniversary, 1835." 



42 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

now in the town of Thompson. Quotations from the church records 
say that "Comfort Starr and others worked on the new meeting- 
house; that Jan. 28, 1730, was kept a day of fasting and prayer to 
humble ourselves before God for our past trespasses and to implore 
the devine on us and all our concerns — more especially on the 
solemn transactions that are before us" — the formation of a church. 
Mr. Starr was a signer to the covenant. He was a prominent man 
in town and church. In sealed instruments he is styled "husband- 
man." A fine, curious desk, which belonged to him, and perhaps to 
his grandfather, and many of his deeds are still extant. Mrs. Sarah 
Knapp of Killingly became his second wife 8 Nov., 1768. 

1 Starr children: Comfort"-, Isaac, Elizabeth, Isaac, Frances, 
Joseph, Sally, Ebenezer". See Starr History. 

2 Comfort^ was born in Thompson, Ct., 10 Aug., 1731, and died 
in Guilford, Vt., 30 Nov., 1812, at the great age of eighty-one years. 
He married in or about 1754 Judith Cooper of Thompson, who was 
admitted to the church there 26 June, 1768, and had her children 
baptised there, except the youngest. She died 15 Sept., 1815. His 
farm in Thompson he sold, intending to remove and purchase 
another elsewhere, but his Continental money received in payment 
for his farm so depreciated on his hands that it was almost worth- 
less. Nothing daunted, however, he planned and executed an ad- 
venture into Vermont, where in 1773 he commanded a company that 
marched into Westminster, to disperse an English court there in 
session. April 17, 1777, he bought, for ;^330, a tract of land in 
Guilford, Windham County, and settled there in 1780, thus becom- 
ing the founder of the V^ermont branch of the Starr family. He 
was a captain in the militia. Parley Starr, "the veteran banker" of 
Brattleboro, is a descendant of that branch. Comfort's children : 
Parley, Sarah, Abigail, Comfort, Judith, Mary, Timothy, Martha^ 
Ephraim. 

3 Ebenezer' was born 24, baptised 28, Feb., 1741-2, in Thomp- 
son, Ct. He was a Quaker, a farmer, a tavern keeper, near the 
State line, on the main road from Thompson to Douglass, Mass.; he 
weighed 325 lbs., and was accidentally struck in the abdomen by a 
neighbor, 13 Oct., 1804, death resulting almost instantly. He 
married, first, 21 Dec, 1767, Sarah Porter of Killingly, and, second, 
18 F^eb., 1773, Mary Stevens, who was daughter of RolDert and 
Mary, and died 8 Oct., 1823, aged seventy-two years, five months, 
twenty days. Ebenezer had ten children, one of whom became a 
widow with two daughters. The widow was interviewed by a wid- 
ower with two sons, and ultimately the three men married the three 
women. 

4 Martha" was born 28 May, baptised 11 Aug., 1776, and died 9 
Oct., 1839. She married 3 Dec, 1795, Asahel Ballou, who was born 
to Benjamin, of Richmond, N. H., 18 Jan., 1771, and died 20 March, 
1851, a farmer, at West Halifax, Vt. She was the mother of nine 
children — twins twice, of which one died young — three farmers, two 
lawyers, and three Universalist ministers, one of whom was Rev. 
Hosea Ballou, D. D., the celebrated clergyman, "the founder of Uni- 
versalism in this country," and the first president of Tufts College. 
He was born 18 Oct., 1796, and died in Medford, 27 May, 1861. 



FAMILY 25: FOSTER, ROGERS. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOHN-'2, ISAAC-9. 

ALICE PERLEY was born 2 June, 1710, and died about 1749. 
Her uncle Jeremiah Perley was appointed her guardian 29 Dec, 
1729-80. She married, hrst, 14 July, 1781, Thomas Foster, who was 
born in Boxford to Samuel and Mary-Macoon Foster, 22 — Foster 
Genealogy, 28 — May, 170S, and died probably in 1788, since she 
married, second, 11 Oct., 1784, Benjamin Rogers, who was baptised 
24 Oct., 1714, and died 28 March, 1761. His parents were Rev. 
John and Susannah-Marston Rogers, who was the second minister 
of Boxford, and lineal descendant of the Smithfield martyr. The 
parsonage, built in 1702 for the first minister. Rev. Thomas 
Symmes, and occupied from 1708, by Benjamin's father, became 
Benjamin's home. It stood on the site of the present Holyoke barn. 

1 Foster and Rogers children: John'-, Perley-, Sarah", SamueP, 
Eunice'-, Lucy-, John-, Benjamin'-, Alice-. 

2 John^ was baptised in July, 1732, and a soldier in the Revolu- 
tion; Perley' was born 11 Aug., 1785; Sarah^ was born 29 Nov., 
1786; SamueP was born 11 July, 1788; Eunice' was born 26 Sept., 
1739; Lucy' was baptised 1 March, 1741; John' was baptised 11 
April, 1742; Benjamin' was baptised 5 Aug., 1744; Alice' was bap- 
tised 22 Nov., 1747. — The First Church records, Boxford: Lucy 
Rogers, an adult, baptised 19 Oct., 1766. 

[Mr. Rogers married again 26 March, 1751, Lois Perve, and had 
issue: Asa, baptised 28 July, 1754, and Lydia baptised 2 Oct., 1757. 
His widow Lois married 11 Dec, 1761, Ephraim Houghton.] 



FAMILY 26: STICKNEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT- ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-S, SAMUEL-12. 

SUSANNAH PERLEY was born 19 Nov., 1697, and died 12 
July, 1778. She married 15 Nov., 1715, Samuel Stickney, who was 
born to John and Hannah-Brocklebank Stickney of Rowley, 26 
March, 1790, and died 8 Nov., 1760. He settled in Rowley, was a 
weaver by trade and probably was employed in the Pearson fulling 
mill and clothier's works, in Byfield Parish. 

1 Stickney children : Samuel'-, Sarah"-^, Lydia^ Moses'', William'', 
Elizabeth'-, Daniel'^ Elizabeth'-, and twins'", David and Jonathan. — 
See Stickney Genealogy. 

2 Samuel' was born 25 July, 1716; died in 1776; was a farmer, 
served in the F"rench War from 1748 to 1759, in Canada and at 
Lake George; never married. Sarah' was born 81 March, 1719; 
married James Dickinson, 5 March, 1740. Lydia' was born 27 May, 
1721; married Thomas Smith 3 April, 1750. Elizabeth^ was born 



44 



THE PERLBY FAMILY 



He mar- 



22 March and died 28 April, 1729. Elizabeth' was born 4 April, 
1733; married John Stickney 9 March, 1751. The twins' were 
born 25 Sept., 1736. 

3 Moses' was born 8 Sept., 1723, and died 5 Nov., 1797. He 
married — published.? — 25 June, 1757, Sarah Graves, who died 3 Oct., 
1823, aged ninety-three years. His home was in Rowley; occupa- 
tion, cordwainer; and was town treasurer in 1773. Issue: Josiah 
and Hannah. 

4 William' was born 27 Aug., 172(3, and died in 1808. 
ried 13 Feb., 1743, Mary Sawyer, daughter 
of Benjamin, of Newbury. He lived in Row- 
ley, Byfield Parish, and was known as Cap- 
tain. He was father of nine children, one of 
whom, Lucy, born 25 March, 1750, married 
6 Feb., 177t), Moses Tenney of Rowley, 
whose son Moses, born 1777, was, by wife 
Hannah Whitaker, father of Hon. Moses 
Tenney of Georgetown, who was born 18 
June, 1808, married Mary Ann Northend of 
Newbury, (5 April, 1830, became State sen- 
ator, and for many years the State treasurer 
of Massachusetts, and died at the great age 
of ninety-four years, six months and twenty 
days, 7 Jan., 1903. 

5 Daniel' was born 5 April, 1730. He 
married 11 March, 1755, Sarah Gould, who 
died 18 March, 1813, aged seventy-six years, 
ary pensioner. They lived in Byfield, and in Hopkinton, N. H., 
from 1767 till they removed to Enfield, where they died. Issue: 
Eight children, of whom is William Wier Stickney of Exeter, a 
graduate of Dartmouth College, a lawyer in Concord and Exeter, a 
General Court Representative four years, a United States District 
Attorney four years, and Rockingham County Judge of Probate from 
June, 1857. 




HON. MOSKS TKNNKY. 



He was a Revolution- 



FAMILY 27: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALL AN-1, SAMUEL-3, SAMUEL-12. 

DAVID PERLEY was born in Rowley 25 Oct., 1702, was bap- 
tised at Topsfield 11 July, 1714, and died 1 Sept., 1787, aged eighty- 
four years. He married, first, 18 June, 1729, Elizabeth Jewett, who 
was born to John and Elizabeth-Raynor Jewett of Rowley, in 1708, 
and died 4 May, 1768.* He married, second, 22 Sept., 1768, 
Lummus of Ipswich, who survived him and died childless in 
1803. She lived as provided for by the will of her husband, 
will, which is signed with "her mark", is dated 14 May, 1801, 
bequeathed property to Lydia, wife of Isaac Burpee, and to 
wife of Jonathan P'oster, whom she ordained sole executor. 



Sarah 

May, 

Her 

She 

Lucy, 
The 



* Perley Derby says he married Elizabeth, daughter of Maximilian and Sarah Jewett, born 
3 March,1701-2. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



45 



instrument, witnessed by Francis Pingrey, Aaron Howe and Jacob 
Perley, was proved 7 June, I8O0, and is recorded in Essex Registry, 
70:244. 

Mr. Perley lived where his father had, a few rods west of the 
present residence of David Eri Perley-221, and cultivated the paren- 
tal estate. He was some seven miles from the official center of the 
town, and so was not burdened with official trust, yet he was a man 
.honest, discreet, and able for all its requirements. He was tithing 
man, 1787 and 1750; surveyor of highways, 1757; was sergeant in 
Capt. Thurston's company before 1749, and bore the title long after- 
wards. He was one of the original signers to the covenant at the 
formation of the Linebrook church, 15 Nov., 1749. He was chosen 
a Ruling Elder in the church, 175G, but declined to 'serve, believing 
the office to exist only in the pastor. 

His will was dated 12 June, 1779, and provided for his widow year- 
ly, so long as she shall remain single, the east end of his house, eight 
cords of good wood, sawed and split for the fire, two barrels of cider, 
and as many apples as she wants to use, "if the orchard shall pro- 
duce so much," one gallon of rum, six quarts of molasses, six lbs. of 
sugar, six lbs. of tallow, one gallon of lamp oil, six lbs. of good 
sheep's wool and six lbs. of good flax. Besides other devises his 
grandson Samuel Perley had land bought of Nathaniel Brocklebank, 
eight acres lying west of his barn, and about six and a half acres 
elsewhere. His son John had the homestead, and was the executor. 
— Probate registry, 591 : 115. The will was proved 1 Oct., 1787; 
his estate was appraised by Jeremiah Searl, F"rancis Pingry and 
Daniel Dresser, 1(> Oct., 17S7, at ^542 18s. The inventory men- 
tions two oxen, four cows, four young cattle, two spring calves, 
one horse, fourteen sheep, two young steers, one swine, and a pew 
in the Linebrook church. 

1 Perley children: P21izabeth'-, Elizabeth'-, John'-, John-4S, Abi- 
gail-49, Sarah'-, Mary-50, Ruth-51. 

2 P:iizabeth', born 25 May, 1780, died 11 Jan., 1781-2. The 
second P^lizabeth', born 18 Oct., 1782, died 24 Jan., 1736-7, probably 
of a disease of the throat which prevailed among children at that 
time with awful fatality-20, and of which probably John^, born 25 
Nov., 1785, died 29 Jan., 1786-7. SarahS born 27 May, 1742, died 
in Rowley, 2S Jan., 1749-50. [Mr. Derby says there was another 
Elizabeth born 6 July, 1781, and died H Jan., 1782-3, aged 18 mos.] 



FAMILY 28: HARRIMAN. 

LINE.\L DESCENT-ALLAN-1, SAMnEL-a, SAMUEL-lL'. 

PATIENCE PERLEY was born 20 March, 1704-5, and died 20 
May, 1777, having lived seventy-two years, and nearly twenty-five 
of them a widow. She married 17 April, 1735, Jeremiah Harriman, 
who was born to Jonathan and Margaret-Wood Harriman of Row- 
ley, 22 Sept., 1709, and died 80 Jan., 1753, though the Rowley rec- 
ords say his age was forty at death. Rowley was his home. His 



46 THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

will is dated 3 Aug., 1749, was proved 29 March, 1758, witnessed by 
Thomas Wood, Stephen Bennett and Samuel Harriman, named his 
wife executrix and is signed by "his mark": +. His property val- 
uation was ;^8l 6s. lOd. 

1 Harriman children: Lucy-, Jonathan-', Jeremiah'^ William'-, a 
son'-. 

'1 Lucy' was born in 17:)() and died 2.5 Feb., 1755, aged eighteen 
and one-half years. Jonathan' was baptised 27 Nov., 1787. Wil- 
liam' was baptised 9 Jan., 1742-8. A son was born 21, and died 29, 
Sept., 1745. 

8 Jeremiah' was born 25, and baptised 27, July, 174U. He 
married, first, 1 Aug., 17^9, ;\nna Poor, who was born to Daniel 
and Edna Poor, 7 Feb., 174()-7, and died about 17SS, the mother of 
six children, born in Rowley. His second wife, published 5 P"eb., 
1792, was Miss Sarah Dole of Rowley. His home was in Rowley, 
till about 1790, when he removed to Boxford, where, a coincidence 
very uncommon, he and his wife died on the same day, 25 F"eb., 
1824. Lssue: Lucy, born 25 May, 1770, and died in Boxford, un- 
married, 14 June, 1881. Polly, born Is Jan., 1778. Betty, born 
1776, died in Rowley 9 July, 177s. Jeremiah^ Daniel'. Anne 
Poor, born 9 l^'eb., 17S7. Betse)% born in Boxford 2 Feb., 1798, 

4 Jeremiah' was born 81 March, 17S0, married — published 25 
May, lSl(j — Betsey Johnson of Andover, and had issue: David 
Poor, born in Boxford, 1S17. 

5 Daniel' was born 29 Jan., 17S8. He married Jane Dole of Me- 
thuen, 17 Oct., 171H. They lived in Boxford on the farm lately 
occupied by his son, and died there of dropsy, 14 June, 1S68, aged 
eighty years. He was a farmer, and at the same time for several 
years an undertaker. Issue: Daniel Francis, born 1S22. 



FAMH^Y 29: PERLEY. 

LINKAL OKSfEXT— ALLAX-1. SAAmEL-:^. .lOHN-l.i. 

JONATHAN PERLEY was born 29 Jan., 1710-11. and died 
9 March, 1755. His first wife, published 2 Dec, 1782, was Mercy 
Robbins, daughter of George and Margaret-Wood Robbins of Ips- 
wich, baptised 81 Nov., 1718. She dying, he married, second, — pub- 
lished 11 May, 1749 — Mary Dwinnell, who was born 28 F'eb., 1724-5, 
in Topsfield, to Joseph and Prudence Dwinnell, who were later of 
Ipswich. He dying, she married, 7 Dec, 175(5, John Grant, born to 
Benjamin and Anne-Perkins Grant of Ipswich, where John was 
baptised 28 Feb., 1723-4. The Grant house stood on land of Na- 
thaniel Day, Jr., on the south side of a swamp that separated his 
home from Perley's, and about equi-distant from the present Tops- 
field road skirting the east end of Baker's, Pritchard's, Great, or as 
now, Hood's Pond. Day sold the premises, 28 Jan., 1779, "except- 
ing a small dwelling house standing thereon occupied by John 
Grant, which he is to have liberty to remove." Later it stood on 
what has since been known as "Grant's Hill," on the west side of 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



47 



the same road nearer the pond and a few rods from Perley's, and its 
site is now occupied by a yellow oak tree about three feet in circum- 
ference. The three cellars are clearly visible. 

A child of John Grant died 10 Feb., 1758. Mrs. Grant's sad 
death occurred on "Sunday, 18 May, 1758." John Perley-92 gave 
the writer the following tradition of the fatality, which occurred 
about ten years before he was born. Mrs. Grant was poverty-stricken 
and pressed with hunger: she went a-fishing on the Lord's day for 
food. She used an old row-boat that was kept for fishing, one end 
of which was packed with sods to keep the water out, and by some 
ill management of the boat, she was drowned. The people, how- 
ever, regarded it as a judgment of God upon her for her desecra- 
tion of the day. May 13, 1758, however, was Saturday: Be it 
remembered, moreover, that Sunday, at that period, began at sun- 
set Saturday. 

Mr. Perley's church society was in Topsfield. He died intestate, 
and administration was granted his widow Mary, 5 May, 1755. The 
amount of the inventory was £&2 lis. lOd.; his dwelling house was 
valued at ;^15. James Dwinnell was appointed guardian of his 
children, both by his second wife, 20 May, 1758. 

1 Perley children : Elizabeth", Mary'-. 

2 Elizabeth' was baptised 14 June, 1752, and Mary' was born 17 
Sept., 1754, and — published 8 Dec, 1774 — married John Dunham of 
Gloucester. 



FAMILY 80: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DKSC KNT— ALLAN! , SAMUEL-S, .JOHN-13. 

SAMUEL PERLEY was born in Linebrook Parish, Ipswich, 
1 1 March, 1712-8, died there, in the prime of life, 10 April, 1753. 
He was a lad of twelve years when his father died, and 28 July, 1725, 
his mother was appointed his guardian. He married — published 10 
Jan., 1740-1 — Ruth How, who was born to Abraham and Hephzibah- 
Andrew How-11', of his native parish, 19 April, 1722. He was ad- 
mitted to the Linebrook church 28 June, 1754. His dwelling, built 
by his grandfather, stood on the knoll, where the cellar is still visi- 
ble, just east of Howe brook, in Linebrook. ( See next page. 

Mr. Perley, "being very sick," 
made his will three days before 
\is death. It was proved 14 May, 
1 758; his "dearly beloved wife'" 
was named executrix; and it was witnessed by Jonathan Perley 
Grace Dunnels, and Mark How. He bequeathed to each of his 
daughters, Ruth and Martha, ;^40. 

The inventory made by John Abbott, Jonathan Perley and 
Thomas Perley, values his buildings and land lying in Ipswich — 240 
acres — at ^770, and enumerates among other things "too numerous 
to mention," seventeen sheep, eleven lambs, one mare, two yoke of 



— — ^ ^ ^ _.^ _ , 



48 THE PERLEY FAMILY" 

oxen, two cows and calves, five cows, two heifers, three yearhngs, 
four hogs, three pigs, and one colt, and amounts to ^^1378. 

1 Perley children: Samuel-5'2, John-oH, Nathaniel-54, Ruth-55, 
Abraham'-, Martha''. 

2 Abraham' was born 24 Dec, 1749. He was a physician in New 
Gloucester, Me., where 20 Aug., 1775, he made his will and devised 
to Samuel Perley, Jr., of Seabrook, all his property, some of which 
was land in New Gloucester which he bought of Deacon Daniel Mer- 




THK OLD CKLLAH ON THK SIIK (M' SAMl IXS IIOMK. 

rill. Rev. Samuel Perley was executor, and Jacob (ireen and Samuel 
Perley were witnesses to the will, which was proved 29 May, 177(5. 
He died of consumption, j^robably at his brother's, in Seabrook. 

8 Martha' was born 80 Jan., M^rl, married Samuel Porter of 
Ipswich, when she was living in Rowley, 27 Nov., 1770, and had 
Sallie, born 1771 ; Betsey, born in Chester, N. H., and died 10 July, 
1749; Samuel, who died young; Nehemiah, born in Bradford, 18 
Sept., 1775, and died 27 Aug., 1858; Polly, born in Chester, 1784, 
and died 8 April, 18(i7; Hannah, born about 1787, and died 18f)7; 
John, born in Chester, 12 Feb., 1784, and died 1872. 



FAMILY 81: BAKER. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN! . TH().\IAS-4. THOMAS-IH. 

MARY PERLEY was born IH May, l(i97, and died 2(i March, 
1738." She married — published l(i Nov., 1717 — John Baker of Ip.s- 
wich, who was born « Jan., lt)90. The Boston News-Letter of 8 
Aug., 1784, thus records his death : "Ipswich, Aug. 1, — This day 
died John leaker, Esq., in the 44th year of his age: He was one of 
His Maj^ Justices of the Peace for the County of Essex: His de- 
scent was Honorable, a son of Capt. Thomas Baker of Topsfield, by 
a daughter of the late hon. Samuel Symonds, Esq., Dept. Gov. of 
Mass. He left a widow with four small children and a considerable 
estate for their support." His estate was valued at ^3900. The 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 49 

following inscription is well preserved in Ipswich High street cem- 
etery : 

HER LIES THE 

BoDY oE MR« MARY 

BAKER RELICT oE 

JOHN BAKER ESO'' 

DECS^ MARCH Y^"^ 

26, 1788 AGED 

40 YEARS TEN 

MONTHS & TEN 

DAYS. 

HERE LYETH THE BODY 

oF lOHN BAKER Esq^" 

WHO DIED Aug. y« 

1 1734 AGED 44 

YEARS 

1 Baker children: John'-, Mary'', Samuel-, Anna', Thomas-, 
Thomas'-. 

2 John' was baptised 5 Feb., 1720; Samuel', 4 Sept., 1720; 
Anna', 10 Nov., 172S, and died 17 May, 1729, aged S months; 
Thomas', 5 July, 1780, and died \X Jan., 1780-1 ; Thomas', 10 Dec, 
1782. 

8 Mary' was baptised 6 Dec., 1724, married — published 25 Nov., 
1748 — John Boardman, 3d, son of John and Abigail, baptised, (5 
May, 1722, and had Mary^ 

4 Mary'^ was baptised 17 Feb., 1744, married 28 March or 11 June, 
1705, Col. Robert Dodge, born in Beverl}-, 20 Sept., 1748, and died 
in Hamilton 15 June, 1828. Mrs. Dodge died 18 or 21 Feb., 1824. 
They had Perley, who died of lock-jaw, at the age of fourteen years 
29 May, 1799, and Allen, who married Mary Burroughs, daughter of 
Thomas, and had Mary Perley'. 

5 Mary Perley* was born in Georgetown, D. C, 18 (Newbury- 
port record reads 4 ) Sept., 1799, married 29 Nov., 1819, Benjamin 
Poore, who was born 28 Sept., 1797, to Dr. Daniel Noyes and Lydia- 
Noyes Poore of West Newbury. His home was the "Indian Hill 
Farm." He was lost at sea 28 July, 1858. She died at "Indian 
Hill," 20 or 28 Aug., 1801, aged sixty-two. Issue: Benjamin Per- 
ley*', Mary Louise, Pollen Judith, W^alter Scott, who was born 1 1 
Aug., 1835, and died in San Francisco, Cal., 25 Dec, 1870. 

[Indian hill is reputed to be the scene of the last Indian raid on 
the white people in Massachusetts, a stone house, still standing 
when the writer last visited the place, having been the haven of 
refuge of the people during the attack.] 

Ben: Perley', as he always wrote it, was born 2 Nov., 1820, 
and married 12 June, 1849, his cousin, Virginia Dodge, born 10 Jan., 
1820, to Francis and Mary-Thompson Dodge. Their country home 
was the "Indian-Hill P^arm," devised to him by his grandparents 
and grandaunts. She died in Washington, D. C., 10 March, 1894. 
He was a journalist and a litterateur; he died in Washington, 29 
May, 1887; both are buried in West Newbury. Issue: Emily, and 



50 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Alice, who married Frederic E. Mosely, Secretary of the Inter- 
State Commerce Commission, Washington. 

The Ben: Perley Poore house at West Newbury, pictured below, 
is presented through the courtesy of the Boston Globe. 




FAMILY 8-2: REDINGTON. 

LINKAL DESCEXT-ALLAX-l, THOMAS-l, THO.MAS-lli. 

HEPHZIBAH PER LEY was born 14 Aug., 1()91». She mar- 
ried S Nov., I7'i8, Thomas Redington, who was born 1 April, 1(194, 
to Thomas and May-Kimball Redington of Boxford. He lived in 
the paternal mansion, which is now Hotel Redington. She was ad- 
mitted to the First Church .'} May, 1725; he, 7 Jan., 17'27-S. He was 
chosen deacon 12 Dec, 1784, and exercised the office till i7.'>9, when 
Rev. Eliezer Holyoke succeeded to the pastorate, vacated in an un- 
pleasant manner by Rev. John Rogers. We do not know the date 
of the death of either. (777' f/f -x -7f— 

Here are the signatures of Heph- ^-'^ -^^.X^ t-vx.^/6^ 

zibah and her husband Thomas when %^{^t^aA {^'^ i^f^^2,y^ 
they quit-claimed their interest in the / ^/^ 

property of their aunt, Mary-Osgood Aslebee of Salem, 2 April, 1745. 

1 Redington children: Mary', Sarah'*, Thomas'-, Abraham'''', Benja- 
min'-, Isaac'-', Elijah'-, Thomas'-, Hephzibah'-, 

2 Thomas^ was born 27 May, 1727, and died young. Benjamin' 
was born 29 Aug., 1780; Isaac', 8 June, 1782; Thomas', 8 May, 
1736; Hephzibah^ 8 Nov., 1787. Elijah^ was baptised 8 Nov., 1787. 

8 Mary' was born 16 Aug., 1724. She married 24 June, 1746, 
Benjamin Goodridge of Boxford. She joined the First Church, 6 
March, 1774; he, 8 April following. Goodridge issue: Benjamin, 
born 9 July, 1746, lived in East Boxford and had by wife Hannah, 
Elizabeth and Alpheus,who were baptised 8 Dec, 177(5; Allen, born 
13 Jan., 1748-9; Levi, born 15 Feb., 1750, married 28 Nov., 1773, 
Mary Hale, born 22 May, 1754, to Joseph and Sarah-Jackson Hale 
of Boxford, had son Levi, baptised in First Church, 25 Dec, 1774, 
and lived in Boxford till about 1792, then in Westminster, Vt. ; 
Asahel, born 19 June, 1758; Hephzibah, born 4 July, 1755, married 
21 Oct., 1779, Timothy Perkins, Jr., of Middleton. Hannah, bap-, 
tised 31 March, 1765. 

4 Sarah^ was born 18 Oct., 1725. She married Capt. Jonathan 
Wood, son of Dr. David and Mary Wood of Boxford, baptised in the 
P'irst Church 11 Dec, 1748. He joined the same church 8 June, 
1766; his wife 6 Sept., 1767. Wood issue: David, born 18 Nov., 
1748 — Jonathan — Eliphalet, baptised 9 June, 1754 — Sarah, born 27 
Aug., 1757 — P2noch-4()^ — Abner, born 12 Dec, 1761 — Mary, born 29 
Sept., 1764, married 9 Dec, 1787, Parker Spofford — Lucy, born 80 
May, 17(>6. 

5 Abraham^ was born 10 P^eb., 1728, and died in 1805. He mar- 
ried, 9 Aug., 1757, Sarah Kimball, born to Aaron and Sarah-Wood 
Kimball of Boxford, 8 Dec, 1736. She joined the First Church 13 
Dec, 1761; he, 24 Jan., 1762. Redington children were the first 
settlers of Vassalboro and Waterville, Me., to which latter place 
they removed in 1771. Redington issue, born in Boxford: Thomas, 



52 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

born oO Oct., 175!^, died in Waterville, 1840 — Sarah, born 9 March, 
1760 — Asa, born 22 Dec, 1761 — Aaron, born 6 April, 1765, died in 
the Revolution — Samuel' — Cloe, born 11 I\Iay, 1767 — Hephzibah, 
born 19 Dec, 1769. 

6 Jonathan^ was born 14 Sept., 1751, and died 8 Jan., 1797, aged 
forty-five years. He married, first, published 7 Nov., 1778, Sarah 
Spofford of Rowley; second, published 13 Dec, 1786, Abigail Hale 
of Brookfield. They covenanted with the First Church o July, 
1791, where he became deacon. His widow's second husband was 
Deacon Parker Spofford of Boxford. Issue: William Hale, born 
1789 — Abigail, born 1790 — Sarah Redington, born 1792 — David and 
Jonathan (twins) born 1794 — Enoch, born 1797. 

7 Samuel'' was born (> April, 1765. He was for many years an 
efificient member of the Massachusetts and Maine Legislatures. He 
died in Hampden, Me. His son was Adjutant-General of the State 
and mayor of Augusta. His nephew, Judge Asa Redington, was 
law reporter for the State. 



FAMH.Y :58: PERLEY. 

LlNliAL 1>1:S(1:NT-ALLAX-1, T1I()MAS-4, TilO.MAS-lt;. 

THOMAS PP:RLEY was born in East Boxford, at the late 
residence of Isaac Hale4, 22 Feb., 1704-5, and died 28 Sept., 1795, 
at the age of ninety years. He married, in Boxford, 20 Sept., 1781, 
Eunice Putnam-16'*, his step-sister, daughter of Joseph and Eliza- 
beth-Porter Putnam of Danvers, and sister to Gen. Israel Put- 
nam-1 6'', of Revolutionary fame. She was born 18 April, 1710, and 
died 2 I'^eb., 1787, at the age of sevent3^-six years. Both rest in the 
Harmony Cemetery in ICast Boxford. 

At the age of sixteen, Mr. Perley and his cousin l^'rancis i'crley 
joined with a number of young men in petitioning the town for the 
right to build and occupy a pew in the church. This petition was 
granted at once. Most of these, we know not but all, matured in 
steady manhood and were men of integrity and lovers of virtue. 
Thus as Milton wrote: 

"The .childhood shows tlie man 
As morning shows the day." 

In 1745, by virtue of his father's will, he inherited that extensive 
tract of arable, wood and pasture land in l{!ast Boxford now known 
as the Cleaveland farm. ()n this land he built his dwelling house. 
This, in 1818, was removed a few rods to the northwest, to allow 
upon its site the present Cleaveland mansion, and is now standing, 
in green old age, small and antiquated in style but of considerable 
historic interest. In this house may now be seen the buffet of 
ye olden time, which the modern sideboard has superseded, and in 
which used to be arranged in tasteful order the immaculate -pewter 
or the china table-ware, while the circular projection of one shelf 
displayed a wine-set, serviceable when the parson called or other 
important guest. Here Gen. Putnam-16^ used to visit his sister; 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



53 



here is the best room where the General sat to chat and the cham- 
ber where he sought repose. Mr. Perley's youngest son Aaron in- 
herited the estate, and it has since been in the family. 

Ostentation found no home in Mr. Perley's character; the glitter 
of military parade was no temptation to him, nor the honor of 
military station. He was a man of acknowledged integrity and 
solid virtue, so we find him retained in active public life and 
engaged in official trust, requiring men of wide experience, known 
discretion, real ability, sound judgment and clear-cut decision, 
even after man's allotted time of three score years and ten. 
His whole life was a life of public service ; he knew the duties of 
every town ollficer by heart, and served on almost numberless com- 
mittees. He was chosen March 
16, 1764, one of a committee of 
five to divide the town into dis- 
tricts for schools; the next year 
he was one of a larger committee ^i_ 
for the same purpose. He was ^^^^r 
one of the ablest patriots of the 
town prior to and during the Rev- •^c^ , 
olution. At a town meeting, 21 ^(v!^^ 
Jan., 1773, called "to take under 
consideration the many unconsti- 
tutional innovations and infringe- 
ments made and making on our 
rights and privileges which we 
think calls aloud on us publicly 
to assert our violated rights," etc., 
Mr. Perley was chosen one of a 
committee of five for the purpose. 
In November, 1776, the town 
chose him one of a committee of 
seven for paying the soldiers, etc. 
The same year he was one of Box- 
ford's "committee of safety and 
correspondence" to act in con- 
junction with similar committees 
throughout the province. At the 
town meeting where were passed 
and recorded resolutions as patri- 
otic- and incisive as in any section 
of the country, Mr. Perley presided ; and at the age of seventy-six, ripe 
with the fruit of experience, he was chosen the delegate of the town 
to the convention of delegates from the cities and towns through- 
out the province to consider the adoption of the Constitution of the 
United States of America. This was the last office to which he 
was called, and the crowning service of his public life. 

We must not forget, however, to record his lesser services : 
was moderator of town meetings in 1755, 1759 to 1761, 1763, 
1766, 1768, 1770, 1772 and 1773; was fence viewer in 1738; 
reeve in 1739; constable in 1744; tithing man in 1763; warden m 
1765; surveyor of highways in 1742, 1743, 1746 and 1756; select- 




THE BUFFET. 



He 
1765, 
hog- 



54 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



man and assessor in 1747,^1754, 1757, 1760, 1761 and 17(56; town 
clerk from 1752 to 1757, inclusive; and town treasurer from 1742 to 
1751, inclusive; and, with all this burden of public trust, he found 
time for his extensive agricultural duties. 

His family worshiped with the First Church, to which he and his 
wife were admitted members 80 July, 17oS, a blessed union of quite 
half a century. • 

Mr. Perley quit-claimed his rights to ^/^crmef^ 
the property of his aunt, Mary-Osgood 
Aslebee of Salem, 2 April, 1745, his signature being here reproduced. 

He made his will 24 Aug., 17<'<9; it names his son Aaron as 
executor, is witnessed by William Dennis, Daniel Noyes and John 
O. Noyes, and was proved ;5 Nov., 1795. It devises to his son 
Aaron the homestead, provides for his daughter Rebecca, be- 
queathes to his son Oliver eighty Spanish milled dollars; to the 
children of his daughter Huldah a quarter part of the household fur- 
niture, and other things to be equally divided ; and to Aaron — Al- 
len .'' — son of his son Oliver, a sum of money, if he shall live with his 
Uncle Aaron Perley during his minority. 

1 Perley children : Huldah-5G, Rebecca-, Israel-57, Mary-5S, Oli- 
ver-59, Thomas-«)0, Knoch-tU, Aaron-02. 

2 Rebecca' was born 12 Jan., l7:)o-4, and lived in her father's 
family till his death. He bequeathed her the use of the west lower 
room and the garret over it, the privilege to bake and wash in the 
back room, to use the fourth part of the cellar, to keep a pig, to use 
the well and yard, so long as .she should remain unmarried. He 
gave her two cows and six sheep, she and his executor to choose 
them alternately, hers to be the first choice, and also a quarter part 
of the household furniture and provisions. Thus she lived with her 
brother Aaron, attained the age of seventy-nine years, dying un- 
married 22 Aug., IS1:5. Her will was proved 7 December following. 



FAIVHLY :54: PUTNAM. 

LINKAL DKSCKNT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-lti. 

RP:BECCA PP:RLP:Y was born 29 Oct., 1710, and died in 
1790. She married U Feb., 1728-9, Hon. Symond Epes, Esq., in 
Ipswich, officiating, David Putnam-K)-", her step-brother, who died 
in 1769. They succeeded to his father's estate in Dan vers. 

The 2«» of April, 1745, Rebecca and ^_^.^ 

her husband David quit-claimed all (^Z^tos^^ \Pi c^^'^^ 
their rights to the property of their 

aunt, Mary-Osgood Aslebee of Salem, X^fait fi^CfriM. 
their signatures being as here shown. -A/* '^ *- 

1 Putnam children: William', Lucy^ Allen', Mehitable'', Joseph'", 
Israel", Eunice**, David", Jessed 

2 Allen' was born in 1782 and died in 1789; David' was born in 
1746 and died in 176(J. 

8 William' was born in 1729. He married, in 1752, PHizabeth 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 55 

Putnam of Sterling, his home, where he died in 1807. Issue: Re- 
becca, born 22 April, 1753 — Andrew, born 2 April, 1755 — William, 
born 15 March, 1757 — Elizabeth, born 25 March, 1764. 

4 Lucy^ was born in 1731; She married Maj. Ezra Putnam of 
Middleton. They removed to Marietta, O., in 1790. She was liv- 
ing in 1809. Issue, seven: David, Nehemiah, Ezra and John, both 
killed by Indians in 1791 or 2, in Ohio; and these of Middleton, 
Mrs. Small, Mrs. F'uller, and Mrs. Hatchelder. 

5 Mehitable^ married Edward Sparhawk, a graduate of Harvard 
College, in the class of 1753. They lived in Lynnfield — no issue. 

6 Joseph^ was born in 1739, and died in 1818. His first wife, 
married 1770, was Ruth Plint of Middleton; his second wife, wid- 
ow of Deacon Daniel Putnam of Dan vers. Issue: David, who died 
young — Ruth, who married Daniel Nourse and lived in Danvers — 
David, who died young — Parmelia, who married an Upton and 
removed to Bradford, N. H. — Jesse, who married Elizabeth Merriam 
of Middleton, now living (March, 1880, )in her ninety-fifth year. 

7 IsraeP was born in 1742, and died in 1825. He married in 
1771, Sarah Epes, who died in 1784; he married in 1785, Emma- 
Goodale Prime, who was widow of Ezra Prime and died in 1831. 
He lived where his father had lived. Issue: Allen, born 1772, died 
1793-Daniel, born 1774, died 1854, had child, Susan, now living ( 1880) 
where Gen. Putnam was born — Israel, born 1770, died 1795 — Sally, 
born 1779, died 1811— Betsey, born 1782, died 18U2. 

8 Eunice^ was born 29 March, 1751, and died 20 Nov., 1840, at 
the great age of ninety-five years, seven months and twenty-seven 
days. She married in Middleton, in Sept., 1771, Nathaniel Rich- 
ardson, born to Joshua and Eunice-Jennison Richardson, 20 March, 
1742, and was killed by an accident while moving a building, 25 
Jan., 1796, aged fifty-three years. He lived in Salem and was a 
merchant and a tanner. Issue: Nathaniel, Joshua, Jesse, Eunice, 
Israel, William Putnam^", and Betsey. 

9 Jesse^ was born in 1754 and died in 1839. He married in 
1770 Susanna Thatcher of Boston, who died in 1839. They lived in 
Boston and their only child, Catharine, was born in 1777, and died 
in Peterboro, N. H., in 1802. 

10 William Putnam^ was born 5 May, 1785, and died 5 Dec, 
1826. He married 6 Aug., 1807, Deborah Lang, born to Edward 
and Rachel- Ward Lang, and died 4 March, 1845. He was a sea 
captain and afterwards a merchant. Issue: Ellen Octavia, Sarah 
Lang, Augustus Ilsley, William Putnam (M. D.), Edward Symmes 
Lang, Eliza Anne, Charles PVederic, Caroline Sovina, and Nathan- 
iel Putnam. 



FAMILY 35: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16. 

ASA PERLEY was born in East Boxford upon the farm of the 
late Isaac Hale-4, 10 Oct., 1716, and died 10 April, 1806. He mar- 
ried, first, 1 Jan., 1737-8, Susannah Low, born to Samuel, in Essex, 



56 THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

1 Jan., 1719, and died in Boxford, 15 Jan., 1762. He married, sec- 
ond, 12 Aug., 17H2, Apphia Porter, widow of John, of Danvers, 
born 15 July, UKi, and died 2S Dec, 17SU. He married, third, wid- 
ow Ruth-Heard Kimball of Boxford, ,S Dec., — published 10 Nov. — 
17S1. She was born 10 March, 1722, and died 24 April, 1806, sur- 
viving her husband but fourteen days. Her will is dated 15 April, 
1S06, was proved 6 May following, and witnessed by John Hood, 
Sarah Wood, and Thomas Perley. She made bequests to Mehitable, 
wife of Joseph Carleton ; to Ruth, wife of Daniel Davis; to Hannah 
Porter, widow, daughter of "my brother James Heard"; to Eu- 
nice-69', daughter of Henry Perley; to Parmelia-6S', daughter of 
Daniel Perley; to Henry Perley-69 and wife Mehitable; to Henry's 
son Samuel-142; to Maj. Asa's son Samuel; and she gave to Mary, 
widow of Timothy Kimball, her gold neck-lace, silver spoons, etc. 
Her son-in-law was named executor. Mr. Perley by devise pos- 
sessed his father's homestead and half of his real estate, which was 
extensive. His home had been his father's; he erected the present 
dwelling house, and his sons brought from the woods and set out in 
front of it., about 1761, a small elm which they could carry easily 
and which has become the second, perhaps the first, in size in the 
county, has given celebrity to the estate, and afforded a green and 
grateful shade to the laborer and traveler from summer's heat. 

He was little in public life till his oldest sons were able to carry 
on the farm. His civil service began with surveyor of highways in 
his own district, and he performed the duty in 1747, 1761 and 1766. 
He was field driver in 1751 ; constable in 1754; hogreeve in 1757. 
As a man of commanding address, he was moderator of town meet- 
ings in 17()5, 1766, 176S, 1771, 177;}, 1774, 1777, 1786 and 1788; was 
.selectman in 1758, 1764, 1767, 1769, 1771, 1774, 1777, 1778 and 1782 
— ten full years; and served on many committees of importance: a 
committee in 1770, to draft a paper for the signatures of his towns- 
men pledging themselves neither to purchase nor use tea or lingli.sh 
goods; in 1776 a committee of safety and also a committee on the 
payment of soldiers; in 1779 a committee to fix the prices of mer- 
chandise, produce, labor, etc.; in 1782 again a committee of corre- 
spondence and safety. In 1771, 1772, 1780 and 17''*>1, he represented 
the town in the General Court. In 1775, a year that "tried men's 
souls" he was a member of the Provincial Congress, and the assem- 
bly, June 1, 1775, "ordered that Dea. Fisher, Mr. Spaulding, Mr. 
Stickney, Mr. Partridge and Major Perley be a committee to consid- 
er the proposal of the reverend clergy, now in convention, to serve 
in rotation as chaplains in the army." 

His grandson Dr. Daniel-145 has the original of the following, 
which in this connection, though without mscription, explains itself: 

"Sir, Having received certain Intelligence of the Sailing of a 
Number of Troops to re-inforce The Army under General Gage, 
having "murdred sundry inhabitants", this with the industrious 
Preparations making in Boston for a speedy March into the Coun- 
try impresses us with the absolute Necessity of convening the 
Provincial Congress at Concord as soon as may be agreeable to a 
\^ote of Congress at their last Session. — You are therefore re- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 57 

quested immediately to repair to Concord, as the closest Delibera- 
tion & the collected Wisdom of the People, at this alarming- Crisis 
are indispensably necessary for the Salvation of the Country. 
Concord April '20, 1775 Rich'^ Devens order 

The above is printed, except from the words " to " and the dates 
and signature at the bottom. 

He was prominent in the military; was commissioned a lieuten- 
ant of the company in his parish in 1757, was promoted to the cap- 
taincy in 1768, and was made major of his regiment near the close 
of 1774. He manifested a hearty co-operation in the struggle for in- 
dependence, in which seven of his sons served. 

His family worshiped in the First Church, where his wife Susan- 
nah became a member in November, 1740, and he 23 March, 1760, 
and where his children were baptised, save the last Allen, whose bap- 
tism is recorded in Second Church records. He resided some three 
miles from church, and the illustration in family 4 shows the eques- 
trian mode of making "a Sabbath-day's journey" in those primitive 
times. 

When Samuel Porter, a loyalist, left Salem for England in 1775, 
he left his papers with Mr. Blaney of Salem, among which was a 
bond for ;^20 19s., signed by Asa Perley. Major Perley paid ^10 
on the bond, 19 May, 1785. 

Dr. John Merriam of Topsfield attended him in his last sickness. 
His will is dated 28 April, 1792, was witnessed by Aaron Perley, 
Joseph Hale, Jr., and Thomas Perley, Jr., and proved 6 May, 1806. 
His son Samuel was sole executor, but he dying, Thomas Perley, 
Esq., was appointed administrator of both the estates. His second 
wife's daughters, Elizabeth and Anna, had what property she 
brought with her at marriage. 

Mr. Perley was another of those who quit-claimed all their rights 
to the property of their aunt, Mary-Osgood /o ^ ^ 

Aslebfee of Salem, his signature being as yr^"^ (Jl-^y\.*-€^ 
here shown. ' ^ 

1 Perley children: Dudley-(>8, Asa-64, Eliphalet", Susannah-65, 
Allen-, Eliphalet-6(J, Allen-67, Daniel-68, Henry-69, Samuel-70, 
Solomon-71. 

2 Dr. Daniel Perley-145 said that eight of tlie children grew to 
manhood, and that seven served in the Revolutionary War. — Eli- 
phalet^ was born 27 Aug., 1742, and AUen^ 11 May, 1746; both died 
in infancy. 



FAMILY 36: AYERS. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLA^M, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17. 

LYDIA PERLEY was born 5 Oct., 1697. She married in 
Boxford 17 Jan., 1720, Peter Ayers, born 1 Oct., 1696, to Lt. 
Samuel and Elizabeth-Tuttle Ayers of Haverhill, where Peter was 
for many years a deacon. He married, second, in Haverhill 22 Jan., 



58 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

1750-1, Elizabeth Carleton. Mrs. (?) L. A. B. Hunter of Norfolk, 
Va., is (1903) a descendant of this Lydia. 

1 Ayers children : Jacob", Peter'-, Richard'^ Perley^ John'', Jo- 
seph-, Lydia'-. 

2 Jacob^ was born 20 Oct., 1721; Peter', 9 Oct., 1724; Joseph', 
9 Sept., 17:50; Lydia', 26 Dec, 1737. 

8 Richard' was born 28 Jan., 1726-7. He married 1-1 June, 1753, 
Martha Mitchell of Haverhill, who died 26 Sept., 1767. Their chil- 
dren, born in Haverhill: Abiah, 9 Jan., 1754, died 15 June, 1762; Pe- 
ter, 5 April, 1756; James, 5 Feb., 1760; Richard, 28 April, 1762; 
Abiah, 2 Feb., 1764; James, 1 Feb., 1766; Jonathan, 20 Sept., 1767. 

4 Perley' was born 80 Sept., 1732, and died April, 1781. He 
married, first, in Hav^erhill, 13 Nov., 17 — , Sarah Mitchell. He mar- 
ried, second, Lois Stevens of Haverhill, 26 Dec, 1776. Haverhill 
was his home ; tanning, his trade. The probate inventory of his 
estate aggregated ;^1000. He owned land in Haverhill, Methuen 
and Salem, N. PL His will is dated 27 March, 1781, was proved 7*"^ 
of the following month and specifies: — "Things brought by his first 
wife, things made in the house since she came ; things brought by 
his second wife, things made in the house since she came." His 
widow married Isaac Howe, who soon after commenced the manu- 
facture of hats at Ayers Village, near Scotland hill. Their nine 
children with the year-dates of their births are as follows : Joseph, 
1758, who inherited the homestead; Phineas, 1761; John, 1765; 
Hannah, 1768; Hezekiah, 1770; Perley; William; Lydia; Sarah. 

5 John' was born 27 P'eb., 1732, and died 8 Jan., 1786-7, during 
the prevalence of a terrible "pestilential distemper" of which, Rev. 
John Brown, minister then in the place, wrote, "over 200 children 
under ten years of age died, in Haverhill alone, between Jan. 1, 
173(), and Dec. 31, 1787." 



FAMILY 87: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCEXT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOJJ-17. 

JACOB PERLEY was born in Boxford 19 Sept., 1700, and 
died in Nov., 1750. He married 28 May, 1729, Rev, John Rogers 
ofBciating, Sarah Mofse, born - March, 1708, to Benjamin and Su- 
sannah Morse of Newbury. Her mother died the 8'' day of that 
month, but Sarah's death is unknown to us. She was living in 
1763. 

The house in which he lived he built about 1780, some half-mile 
east of Stevens' pond. East Boxford. It was known during its last 
days as the "Joe Killam house." It remained in the family till 
1768, when his son Benjamin bought out the other heirs and after- 
wards resided there. 

Jacob Perley, Jr., and his wife Sarah, of Boxford, sold to John 
Symonds of Boxford land in the new township, called Camp lot — 69 
acres, 25 Jan., 1788-4. — Registry, 8: 368. He also sold to John Ben- 
nett of Lancaster, for ;^30, half of his interest in the township 
granted to Jeremiah Perley and others, 4 May, 1738. — Registry, 10: 
427. [His cousin-uncle, Jeremiah Perley-10 of Boxford, gentleman, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 59 

disposed of his interest in township No. 11, for volunteers under 
Capt. John Lovewell and Capt. John White, 10 June, 1736, for ^90 
in bills of credit, to Thomas Frink of Rutland, county Worcester. 
—Registry, 7 : 898.] 

Mr. Perley died intestate ; his widow Sarah was appointed ad- 
ministratrix, o Dec, 1750, and later guardian of John, Sarah, Jacob 
and Benjamin, four of their children. His inventory mentions 
money and notes, carpenter's tools, five swine, ten sheep, fowls, a 
horse, yoke of oxen, three cows, four heifers, buildings, and land in 
Boxford, Rowley and Newbury, and aggregated ^574. One item is 
"Due the widow for mourning ^4 13s. 4d." 

1 Perley children, born in Boxford: Isaac-7'2, Jacob-73, Benja- 
min-74, Sarah'-, John-75. 

2 Sarah^ was born 17 March, 1737-8, and married in Boxford, 28 
Nov., 17.58, Jacob Wyman of Bradford. 



FAMILY 38: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOK-17. 

NATHAN PERLEY was born in Boxford, 17 Nov., 1703, and 
died late in the fall of 1738. He married 20 or 30 March, 1732-3, 
Lydia Hale, born 23 March, 1711, to Joseph and widow Joanna- 
Dodge Hale of Boxford. She became the second wife — published (5 
'April, 1740 — of Deacon Jonathan Tenney of Boxford. Deacon 
Tenney was born in Bradford, 8 Dec, 1703, to Elder Samuel and 
Sarah-Boynton Tenney. Joseph's first wife was Mary Watson-5-, 
daughter of Sarah Perley. Deacon Tenney' s second wife, Lydia, 
had seven children, and died 6 June, 1803. 

Mr. Perley was probably an itinerant tailor, according to the cus- 
tom of his day; for Dr. David Wood has the following item of credit 
in his account with Nathan's father: "January: 1730-31, to a spell of 
Nathan to cut wescuts 12''." . He was taxed in Boxford from 1729 
to 1738 inclusive. 

He was attended in his last sickness by Dr. Wood; he died in- 
testate; the inventory of his estate, dated 7 March, 1738-9, mentions 
60 acres of land, buildings, 2 steers, 4 cows, 3 heifers, 3 yearling 
heifers, 1 colt, 8 swine, etc. His widow administered upon the es- 
tate, which was valued at ^^1040. Two items of his debts were 
"To Edward Kitchen for funeral ;^26 3s. 6d.", and to "Bringing up 
a young child three and one-half years ;^35." 

1 Perley children : John", Lydia'-, Nathan-76. 

2 John^ was born 17 Nov., 17:5.4, and died 24 Sept., 1736; Lydia^ 
was born 20 Aug. and died I Oct., 1736. These deaths were prob- 
ably the fatality of John-36^ 



FAMILY 39: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17. 

FRANCIS PERLEY was born 28 Jan., 1705-6; he died 5 
March, 1765. He was married to Huldah Putnam-16'*, by Rev. 
John Rogers of Boxford, 8 Nov., 1734. She wa§ born 29 Nov., 



60 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

171(3. She was married, secondly, 2 June, 1774, by Rev. Elizur Hol- 
yoke of Boxford, to Timothy Fletcher, Jr., of Westford, where 
her daughter Huldah had married and settled. 

Mr. Perley, in his sixteenth year, his cousin Thomas-8o, and 
several other young men, were privileged to build a pew in the meet- 
ing house for their own use. Men! at the age of sixteen! He after- 
wards owned land near his birthplace and built a dwelling upon it, 
the site of which is now occupied by Mr. David DeWitt C. Mighill's 
residence, built in 1817. Before 1728 he built a tanner)^, the first in 
town ; he did an extensive business, for that time, employing several 
hands. In 1768, three years after his death, it was the only tannery 
there. He was also a large land holder, and cultivated an extensive 
area. 

He was prominent in civic offices; and beginning with hogreeve 
in 1738, he held them all, with honor to himself and satisfaction to 
others. He was hogreeve in 1788, 1739, 1742, 1743, 1746, 1751, 
1754 and 1757; a surveyor of highways in 1744, 1749, 1753, 1758 
and 17(53; a constable in 1747; a fence viewer in 1751; a warden in 
1764; a selectman in 1759 and 1760; and was town treasurer for 
eight years from 1753 to 1761 inclusive, except 1760. He took con- 
siderable interest in the militia, although he never held any other 
office than captain, to which he was chosen in 1754. 

He was a man of ability, integrity and judgment and was held in 
good esteem. He and his wife were admitted to church fellowship 
10 Oct., 1736. 

Mr. Perley, being "weak and infirm of body," 20 Oct., 1760, 
made his will; it was proved 18 March, 1765; his son William was 
executor, and Jonathan Wood, Nathan Wood and Solomon Wood 
were witnesses ; he bequeaths to his son William the time of his ap- 
prentice, Jonathan Peabody. The inventory of his estate (Probate 
Registry, 43: 43,) covers six foolscap pages; it amounts to ^2141; 
values his land and buildings at ^1609; mentions 1 black horse, 2 
horses, 1 fat ox, 2 oxen, 2 pairs of steers, 9 cows — four with calves, 
10 young cattle, 14 sheep, 7 lambs, 1 sow and pigs, 7 oxen, and 5 
swine "more", 3 hives of bees, cider-mill and press, 20 cords of 
bark, a stone to grind bark, 905 lbs. of sole leather at Ip. per lb., 
upper leather and tanning other men's leather, tanning twenty 
hides not in vats ^5, more leather in the vats ^25, etc., appraised 
2 April, 1765. He rests in East Boxford cemetery: 

HERE LIES BURIED 
THE BODY OF CAP^ 
FRANCIS PEARLEY 

WHO DEPARTED 

THIS LIFE MARCH 

5 1765 IN 

THE 60"^ YEAR 

OF HIS AGE 

1 Perley children: William-77, Mehitable-46, Huldah-78, Fran- 
cis-79, Amos-SO, Jacob-81. 



FAMILY 40 : PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT -ALLAX-1, THOMAS-4, ,IA('()B-17. 

MOSES PERLEY-17- was baptised in Bradford church, 12 
June, 1709. He married 7 P'eb., 17o9-40 Hannah Frye, daughter of 
Nathan and Sarah-Bridges Fryc of Andover. She was first cousin 
to Col. Peter Frye, and to Maj.-Gen. Joseph Frye, and second 
cousin to Love, Lady AdmiraU Sir John Knight, of the British 
Navy, who died at her villa, near London, Eng., in 1889. Hannah 
was only seventeen years of age at the date of her marriage ; she 
was seventy years of age when she died, 1 Nov., 1798, a survivor of 
her husband by only nine days. 

Mr. Perley inherited the homestead and made it his home — the 
southern slope of old Baldpate, the deep soil around the lake 
and a commanding view of its placid waters. He gave his whole at- 
tention to farming and seems to have cared little for military or 
town affairs. He was hogreeve in 1752, 175(5, 1774 and 1776; and 
was on a committee to arrange the school districts of the town in 
1765. In 1778 he built and fenced the road from the town line, by 
his house, to the brook at the northeast. April, 1741, he united 
with the First Church. 

His will is dated 15 Nov., 178S; was witnessed by Aaron Wood, 
William Perley and Daniel Gould, neighbors; proved 5 Nov., 1793; 
its executors were his sons Nathan and Eliphalet, to whom he de- 
vised all his real estate, and who shortly after his death erected two 
dwellings and razed the old , one. His inventory, amounting to 
X 1-^74 19s., was made 8 Jan., 1794, by Thomas Perley, Jr., Jona- 
than Wood, and David Mighill, and mentions; 1 chaise, 2 three- 
year-old steers, 2 oxen, S cows, 2 two-year-old steers, 16 sheep and 
lambs, 8 swine, "Bible and other books 24s.", 1 "time-piece", 2 look- 
ing-glasses, 22 barrels cider, "loom, several wheels, etc." He and 
his wife sleep in Harmony Cemetery, where one stone is broken 
down and the other has the following inscription: 

Memento mori 

In Memory of 

M'- MOSES PERLEY 

who departed this life 

Oct^' ye 28'i AD 1793 

yEtat. 84 

1 Perley children: Lydia-48, Moses'-, Hannah-82, Stephen-83, 
Jeremiah'^ Nathan-84, Peter'-, Sarah'-, Sarah-85, Betsey-^, Moody-86, 
Phebe-87, P:iiphalet\ 

2 Moses' was born 24 Jan., 1742-8. His name appears on the 
Thomas Perley chart of three generations, but without children. 
His niece, Mrs. Abigail Perkins of Georgetown, said: "Moses died 
unmarried in the Revolution." — Peter' was born 5 June, 1754, and 



62 THE PERLEY i< AMIL^ 

died a young man. — Sarah' was born 7 July, 1756, and died in infan- 
cy. — Betsey' was born 6 March, 1758, and died unmarried 16 Jan., 
1822. 

3 Jeremiah' was born 14 Dec, 1749. He married 14 July, 1778, 
Eunice Foster, daughter of Stephen, of Andover. He assisted in 
raising a barn for Thomas Emerson, son of John-20 of Topsfield, :{ 
June, 1784, and a part of the frame giving way he fell to the 
ground, and his head striking a stone he received a fracture of the 
skull, of which he died in a few hours.* His widow was appointed 
his administratrix 5 July, 1784. His remains repose in Harmony 
Cemetery, Boxford : 

In Memory of 

M^' Jeremiah 

Pearley Who 

Died June the 

4th "1784 in 

the 85th Year 

of his Age 

[Mrs. Perley married, secondly, Rev. Daniel Gould, son of 
Daniel and Lucy-Tarbox Gould, 25 Dec, 1788. He was born in 
Topsfield 8 Dec, 175o, and married, first, 24 Dec, 1782, Mary, who 
was born o July, 1751, to George Booth of Hillsboro, and died 1 
Oct., 1785. His only child: Molly, born 28 Sept., 1785, and died 
4 Dec, 1785. He resided in Wolfboro, N. H., and Bethel and Rum- 
ford, Me. He died about 1842.] 

4 Eliphalet', born in Boxford 17 Nov., 1705, died in Georgetown 
17 March, 1846. He built, in 1817, the residence in later years 
owned and occupied by Augustus M. Perley-204, and lived there. 
He was noted for his love of labor — good, healthy, manual labor. 
Many a night in the moon's soft radiance, during the busy haying 
season, his sweeping scythe, through the dewy grass, rang sweet ac- 
cents upon his ears and beguiled the time till the "wee sma" hours 
of morning. He was surveyor of highways in 1808, 1809 and 1821 ; 
field driver and one of the school board, 1814. He never married. 
The Georgetown records read that he died of consumption. Con- 
sumption at eighty! Yes, of time ! He rests in Harmony Cemetery 
in Boxford. 



FAMILY 41: LAMBERT. 

LINEAL DKSCKNT— ALLAN-I, TL\K)THV-6, STEF'HLX-l-.t. 

DEBORAH PERLEY was born in Ipswich, 18 Feb., 1715-6. 
She married — published 16 Nov., 1750 — Nathan Lambert, who was 
born, 11 Feb., 1715-6, the seventh child of Thomas (born S April, 
1678) and Sarah-Pickard (born 20 Jan., 1682-3) Lambert, married in 
Watertown, 19 Dec, 1699. The line of descent is Francis, Thomas, 
Thomas, Nathan. Deborah died 25 Jan., 1754. Nathan married, 



* Salem (iazette: The barn was «0 by 30 feet. A plate was framed with studs and braces 
and when nearly in place slipped and fell to the ground. There were about thirty men on 
that part of the frame; several were seriously injured, but no other fatally. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 63 

second, Mercy Gage, daughter of William and Mercy-Barker Gage, 
8 July, 1756, and had issue. He died in March, 1795. Mercy, born 
14 Feb., 17'22, died 28 Nov., 1799, aged seventy-six years. Their 
home was Rowley. 

1 Lambert child : Nathan-. 

2 Nathan' was born 4 Jan., 1758. He married — published 5 
Nov., 1774 — Abigail Prime of Rowley, where she died 4 Jan., 1814, 
aged sixty-two years. Rowley was their home. Issue: John'^ 

:> John'- was born 29 March, 1779. He married 20 Dec, 1S04, 
Sarah Hradstreet of Ipswich. They lived in Rowley. Issue: Abi- 
gail Prime, born 1805; Maria, born 1806; John-174-; Harriet and 
Emily, (twins), born 1812; Hannah Bradstreet, born 1815; George 
Nathan-103-. 



FAMILY 42: PERLEY. 

LINKAI. UKSCKNT— ALLAX-1, TIM()THY-(), STEPHEX-lI). 

ALLEN PERLEY was born on the immigrant-ancestral es- 
tate, "Ipswich P'arms," Friday, 9 May, 1718. In his fortieth year, 
10 Nov., 1757, he married Martha P"'owler-52, who was then 19 years 
old, having been born Wednesday, 1 Nov., 1738, to John and 
Mercy-How Prowler, of the same place. 

Miss Prowler was descended from early and honorable families 
and persons distinguished in many departments of active life. Her 
earliest American ancestor of the name, Philip Prowler, born in 
England in 1590, emigrated to Ipswich, in New England, in the 
"Mary and John" in 1634. Richard Jacob, her father's mother's 
lineal ancestor, came to Ipswich in the same vessel with Mr. Prow- 
ler. Mr. Jacob's wife was Martha Appleton, a daughter of Samuel 
Appleton, who was born in Suffolk County, England, in Waldring- 
field, in 1586. He came to Ipswich, in New England, in 1635. Mr. 
Appleton was descended through seven generations from John 
Appleton of Great Waldringfield, who died in 1436. Miss Apple- 
ton was also descended from the Everards of Suffolkshire, England. 
Miss Fowler was also descended, through her father, from Sir Wil- 
liam Herrick of Leicester, England, who was born in 1557, and 
who resided in his native place, and also in London and Beaumont 
Park. He removed to London in 1574, to reside with his brother 
Nicholas, then an eminent banker in Cheapside, and attached him- 
self to the court. He was a man of great abilities and address; re- 
markably handsome ; and was high in the confidence of Queen P^liz- 
abeth, as well as of King James. In 1605, he received the honor of 
knighthood. He was descended from Sir William Eyrick, a resi- 
dent of Stratton, Leicestershire, England, who was commissioned to 
attend the Prince of Wales on his expedition into Gascony in 1355. 
This Sir William was a great-grandson of Henry P'yrick, of whom 
Dean Swift says, that "there is a tradition, well founded, that this 
Henry was descended from Erick, the P'orester, a great command- 
er who raised an army to oppose the invasion of William the Con- 
querer, by whom he was vanquished; but afterwards employed to 



H4 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

command that Prince's forces, and in his old age retired to his 
home in Leicestershire, where his family hath resided ever since." 
Miss Fowler was also descended from Joan May, sister of Sir Hum- 
phrey May, Chancellor of the Dnchy of Lancaster, children of 
Richard May, Esq., of London; and also from John Bond, Esq., of 
Ward End, Warwickshire, England, as well as of Hugh Laskin, an 
early emigrant to Salem, from England. She was also descended 
from Richard Kimball, who emigrated from England to Ipswich in 
the "Elizabeth" in l(3o4, and from Ursula Scott, his wife. 

Through her mother, Miss How, she was lineally descended 
from Robert How of Broad Oak, Hatfield, Essexshire, England, 
whose son James emigrated to Ipswich, in New P2ngland, in l(i3o. 
She was also descended from John Dane of Berkhampstead and 
Bishop's Stortford, County Herts, England; from John Paybod}^, 
born in 15S6 or 15S7, who is said to have descended from Queen 
Boadicea; and from Reginald Foster, who was descended from an 
ancient family in the west of P^ngland, connected with those in the 
north of P^ngland, who were distinguished for their exploits against 
the Scots, mentioned in the "Lay of the Last Minstrel," and in 
"Marmion." 

Mr. Perley lived upon the parental estate, till about the time of 
his marriage, when he became owner of the house, hitherto his 
brother-in-law, Samuel Perley's. The house was built by the first 
Samuel-8, was located on a site near the residence of the late Silas 
l'erley-19o, was, in 176", removed across the brook there, and sold, 
in 17S4, to Capt. Abraham How, who occupied it, till he was suc- 
ceeded by his son Abel Howe, who reared there a large and inter- 
esting family of children, and with the land adjoining was sold, 24 
Feb., 1870, for $250, to M. V. B. Perley-875, who razed it and 
opened the land to other land contiguous. 

He returned to his early home, upon the sale to Capt. How, 
and became a farmer of means and importance. He, as did his' 
father and grandfather, attended church at Topsfield and thus was 
much more identified with the Topsfield than with the Ipswich his- 
tory, being from the former center two miles, and six from the 
latter. As it was then, has been and will be, distance from civic 
ofifices precludes civic honors and trusts. 

He was a member of Capt. Abraham How's company, that 
marched toward the scene of conflict, on that truly historic day at 
Concord and Lexington, proceeding twelve miles and drawing pay 
for a day's service. 

Probably Mr. Perley was never a member of a church, but after 
the Parish church was organized ( 1746) he owned a pew; his wife be- 
came a member 17 P^eb., 1765, and all their children were baptised. 
He was made guardian of his sister Hov- 
ey's children-43, 22 March, 1765, and his ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ 



autograph, here shown, was attached to y^w- v^ ,__^ 

his bond as guardian. CL^''^ '^^ 

He made his will o April, 1S04; witnesses: James Smith, Tim- 
othy Morse, Jr., and Timothy Morse, and executors: Lt. John Fow- 
ler and his son Jacob Perley. It was proved 5 Nov., 1804. The 
probate value of his estate was $4375, personal $390, real $3985. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY f;5 

His widow had the improvement of the east end of the house, 
the west half of the barn, half of the homestead and half of the salt 
marsh, during her life; and also half of his live stock, and all his pro- 
visions in the house or growing in the field, all his furniture and 
money he had at his decease. 

His son Allen had an adjoining farm that was bought of Joseph 
Fisk. 

His grandsons, Allen's sons, had half the live stock. 

His son John had all his lands in Boxford, about twenty acres in 
Ipswich, on which John afterwards lived; his sons John and Jacob 
had all his salt marsh, lying in Ipswich, after their mother's use; 
his son Stephen had $1 paid by Jacob; his daughter Deborah 
had $150 paid by John; his daughter Hannah had $150 paid 
by John; his daughter Sarah, had, after her mother's death, the in- 
come of a third of his real estate, called the Home lot, except cut- 
ting or selling wood more than enough for one fire, till she married, 
when Jacob was to give her S200 in lieu of it. She had, also, while 
unmarried, the use of the lower rooms in the east end of his house 
and the chamber over the back room, and a third of the barn. 

His sons, John and Jacob, had his pew, and his wife and daugh- 
ter Sarah had privileges to sit in it; his sons had his clothing; his 
son Jacob had the remainder, personal and real, which included the 
farm on which he lived — Allan-1's later home. 

In Memory of 

MR ALLEN PERLEY, 

who died 

Oct 14, 180-1; 

Aged 86. 

My children all, come view my grave: 

Prepare to follow me. 
And if your peace be ma<le wth dot] 

Then happy you shall be. 

In Memory of 

MRS MARTHA PERLEY, 

Relict of 

Mr 'Allen Perley, 

Obt. Sep*^ 3, 1S19; 

y^t. 81. 

When (iod is nigh, my faith is strong 

In .Jesus I have put my trust ; 
15e glad, my heart: rejoice, iny tongue: 

My dying Hesh shall rest in hope. 

1 Perley children : Martha-88, Deborah-89, Allen-9<», Hannah-!t1, 
John-92, Stephen-9o, Sarah'-, Jacob-94. 

2 Sarah' was born F"riday, 11 Dec, 1772. She never married. 
She lived with her widowed mother till the latter's death; then con- 
tinued to occupy the same tenement, till late in life .she transferred 
all her property interests to Deacon William Foster Conant-202, and 
went to live in his family, where she died. A Salem paper has the 
following: 

At Ipswich, Nov. 19,1858, Miss Sarah Perley, S5 yrs. U mos. s 
days. She was the survivor of a family of eight children, whose 



m THE PERLEY FAMILY 

united ages amounted to 63(3 years, the average of which is about 
80 years. The first and last three died on Friday and were buried 
on the Sabbath. All of them spent their lives in connection with 
agricultural pursuits. There were four sons and four daughters, 
and all, excepting one son, spent their days in Essex County, Mass. 
Her tomb in Linebrook Cemetery records : 

SARAH PERLEY, 

died 

Nov. 19, 1858, 

JEt. 8(5 yrs. 

lYepare to meet thy God 



FAMILY 43: HOVEY. 

LINEAL I>f;sCENT-ALLAX-l, TIMOTHY-6, STEPHEX-19. 

SARAH PERLEY was born 7 Jan., 1719-20, and married 23 
Dec, 1740, Aaron Hovey, who was born to Ivory and Anne, 14 
Sept., 1718, in Toi)sfield, where his home was and where he died 4 
May, 1759. His gravestone inscription reads: 

M'- AARON HOVEY 

WHO DECEASED 

MAY THE 4"' 

AD 1759 & 

IN THE 

4Pt YEAR 

OF HIS AGE. 

1 Hovey children : Stephen, Moses, Sarah, Dorcas, Huldah, 
Thomas, Ivory. Their uncle, Allen Perley-42, became their guard- 
ian, 22 March, 17(J5. See "Hovey Family" in Essex County His- 
torical and Genealogical Register, page 134. 



FOURTH GENER.^TION. 



FAMILY 44: PRITCHARD. 

LINEAL OESCENT -ALLAN-], .TOHN-2, THOMAS-!^ AMOS-UO. 

HANNAH PERLEY was born 8 Jan., 1730-1, and died in 1810, 
aged about eighty years. She married 1 Feb., 1748-9, Paul Pritchard, 
who was born in 1721 and died in 1787, aged sixty-six years. He was 
a housewright by trade, and built about 1 749, and occupied, the 
present dwelling of the late B. S. Barnes, P2sq., Boxford, where all 
his children were born but the youngest. He was a member of the 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



H7 



First Church from 7 May, 17(59, till 14 Sept., 1777, when he was 
dismissed and recommended to the church in New Ipswich, N. 
H., whither he and his family removed *29 July, 1778. He sold his 
property in Boxford, one hundred and thirteen acres of land and 
buildings thereon, to Amos Perley-20 for X0(i8, who in 17)-!7, having 
removed to Winthrop, Me., sold it to Thomas Putnam of Newbury. 

In New Ipswich, he lived on the Jeffts farm near Mason Village. 
He was a very influential citizen ; he was a prominent member of 
the committee of safety and correspondence, at the breaking out of 
the Revolution; he was on committees to instruct delegates and 
representatives, to average claims for military service, to examine the 
Bill of Rights, etc.; he contributed liberally of his means to prose- 




THE PRITCHARD HOUSE IX BOXFORl>. 

cute the war and had two sons in active service; he was represent- 
ative to the General Court in 1779, and during the last three years 
of his life he was a selectman. 

Mrs. Pritchard was admitted to the P^irst Church 29 Nov., 17()1. 
and with her husband recommended to the church in New Ipswich, 
14 Sept., 1777. She was a woman of uncommon energy of body 
and mind, and could accomplish the ordinary labors of three per- 
sons. She made mid-wifery a study and acquired a considerable 
practice in her native town. Besides, she acquired considerable 
fame in the treatment of scrofula, salt rheum and liver complaints. At 
New Ipswich, she had an extensive practice in that and adjoining- 
towns. She was always ready to answer calls, and allowed no 
weather to deter or detain her, and when the roads were blocked 
with snow and the weather so tedious that others would quail at the 
undertaking, she, though corpulent, would bind her snow-shoes to 
her feet and breast the storm or the cold over hill and dale. She 
practiced till very far advanced in life, to the no small annoyance of 
the accredited physicians. Her great-granddaughter. Miss Hannah 
Mead of Littleton, Mass., writes :—" Mrs. Pritchard offered my 
mother all her recipes if she would take them ; but being behind the 
scenes in their preparation, she declined what might have been of 
great value." A mirror once belonging to Mrs. Pritchard is now 
the property of her great -great-granddaughter, a young child of 



()8 THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

Thomas Sherwin, Esq., Boston. Her sons were .somewhat remark- 
able, as large, athletic men, of sound constitution, and capable of 
great physical labor. 

1 Pritchard children : Sarah'-, Amos'', Jeremiah^ Perley", Wil- 
liam'', Sarah'-, Hannah", John', Benjamin'*, Stephen". 

2 Sarah^ was born in 1750 and died in 1755; Berley^ was born IJl 
June, 1757, and died at the age of eighteen; Sarah' was born 17 
April, 1762, and married Nehemiah Stratton. 

3 Amos' was born 25 Aug., 1752, and married Anna Andrews, 
daughter of Joshua and Hannah-Wood Andrews of Boxford, where 
she was born 13 March, 1746-7. They lived in New Ipswich on a 
farm originally the northern portion of the parental estate. He wa.s 
a carpenter and housewright. He died 23 Nov., 1782, aged thirty- 
one. His wife survived him sixteen years, dying in I79<s, aged fifty 
one. Issue: Anna'"; Perley, born 177S, graduated at Dartmouth Col 
lege, 1 799, studied medicine, married a Mrs. Stone of Billerica, prac 
ticed in Baltimore, Md., and supposed to have been lost on a voyage tc 
the West Indies; Hannah"; Sally, born 1781, married N. G. Dureii 
Gould; Amos, born 17<S3, married Jane Dustin, lived in West 
Brookfield, where he died about IS45. 

4 Jeremiah' was born 24 Sept., 1754. He enlisted in Capt. 
Towne's company, and was at the battle of Bunker Hill. He was 
afterwards a lieutenant in the regular army, was in the battle of Hub 
bardston, all those leading to the surrender of Burgoyne, and also the 
battle of White Plains, where he received a wound, on account ot 
which he received an officer's pension during life. 

He married Elizabeth Smith of Hollis and resided there a few 
years; then he returned to New Ipswich, where he built a tanner} 
and conducted the business for many years. He was a man of fine 
appearance, dignified and refined in manners, brave and resolute, 
and of great energy and enterprise. He had a common school edu- 
cation and served his town, for many years, as clerk, selectman, rep- 
resentative, etc., up to 1S02. He was the first commander of a 
troop of cavalr}' of that vicinity. 

He died in 1S13 ; his widow survived him many years, residing 
the while with her son George. Issue: Jeremiah, born 1787, prom- 
inent citizen, lived in New Ipswich, Concord, N. H., Boston, and 
about 1850 in New Ipswich again, married Nancy Barr and had 
Sarah T^lizabeth (died 1S42), George, Mary Ann, Jeremiah (Ameri- 
can consul many years at Porto Rico), Henry, Charles C, William 
W., Martha Jane, Emily; Moses, born 1789, trader in Concord, Mass., 
and many years sheriff; George, a merchant in Boston, and died of 
consumption about 1835. 

5 William' was born 19 Sept., 1759, married Deidamia Cum- 
ming.s, daughter of Eleazer. He served in the Continental Army as 
a three-years man. He was in the militia, a captain of troop. He 
was instantly killed by being thrown from his chaise, 1835. He 
was highly respected. His widow survived till 1840, when, at the 
age of sixty-nine she was found dead in her room and her room on 
fire. Apparently her clothing had taken fire when she was disrob- 
ing to retire. Issue: William, born 1792, married Eliza Buttrick; 
Asa, born 1793, married Caroline Barr; Barnard, born 1795, died 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY . 69 

1846; Deidamia, born 1797, married William Johnson, and died 
1849; Charles C, born 1799 and died 1800; Charles, born 1802, died 
I84(i; Francis Perley, born 1808 and died 1807; Caroline, born 1805 
and died 1806; Adeline, born 1807; Sarah, born 1809. 

() Hannah' was born 8 March, 17<)4, and married 28 Nov., 1780, 
David Shervvin, son of Jonathan and Mary-Crombie .Sherwin of 
the first settlers of Rindge, N. H. David was born in Boxford l:') 
March, 1701. He lived first in Rindge, where his parents then lived; 
in 1790 he removed to Jaffrey; about 1797 to Westmoreland; in 
1802 to New Ipswich; and afterwards to Temple, where his wife 
died 1 Oct., 1800, aged forty-two. Issue : Sally, born 20 Nov., 1787, 
in Rindge, married Abraham Mead, and died in Littleton; Rebecca, 
born 10 Nov., 1789, in Rindge; Mary, born 2.5 Aug., 1791, in Jaffrey; 
Hannah, born 21 May, 1795, in Jaffrey; Thomas'-; Betsey, born 10 
April, ISOI, in Westmoreland; Anna, born 5 Nov., 1808, in New 
Ipswich, lived with her brother Thomas, and died unmarried in 
1870. One of her nieces writes: "She was a most lovely woman, 
and the affection with which she was regarded by her nephews and 
nieces a parent might covet." 

7 John' was born 25 March, 1700, married Louise Wilkins, 
daughter of Josiah; was a man of large stature and great strength. 
He died in 1848; his widow, 1850. Issue: Frances P(erley), born 
1807 and died 1850. 

8 Benjamin' was baptised in Boxford First Church, 1 Oct., 1709, 
and 1791 married Patty Sherwin of Townsend. He was a carpen- 
ter; he removed to Bedford, N. H. He built cotton mills in New 
Ipswich and Boscawen, N. H. Issue: Alanson (drowned at Mason 
Village), Bernice, Cyrene, Dexter. 

9 Stephen' was born in New Ipswich, 1772, married Polly Start, 
daughter of William, and died in 1802. His widow married a Plowe 
and removed to Camden, Me. Issue: William Start, who lived in 
Bangor, and Mary. 

10 Anna'^ was born in 1770, and married Silas Cragin of New 
Ipswich. He lived Successively in New Ipswich, Billerica, Har- 
vard and New Ipswich, where he spent the last twenty years of his 
life. He was of Scotch ancestry and by trade a saddler. He died in 
1849, aged seventy-four years; she, in 1888, aged sixty-two. Issue: 
Lorenzo S., who had a son, a graduate of Harvard College, 1849, 
and a lawyer in Boston; Anna^^ Sophronia, P^lvira, Elizabeth, who 
died in 1850, and Rebecca. 

11 Hannah'^ was born in 1770, married Reuben Holden and had 
Ira Samuel, Amos Prichard, Edward Hosmer, Eliza Ann, Reuben 
Andrews. 

12 Thomas" was born 20 March, 1799, in Westmoreland, N. H., 
was forty years a teacher of the English High School in Boston, 
and left three sons who reside in Boston : Henry, in the custom 
house, unmarried; Thomas, city collector, who married Isabel 
Edwards of Keene, N. H., daughter of Judge Thomas Edwards, 
and has four children; Edward, a coal merchant, unmarried. 

13 Anna^'^ was born in 1808, died in 1848, and married Stedman 
Houghton, born in 1799. whose daughter Susan M., born 1838, mar- 
ried, 18 Sept., 1800, Addison Howard Foster, born in Wilton, N. H., 



70 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

in ISBS, graduated at Dartmouth College, lS(3o, and is a leading 
physician in Chicago. See Essex County Historical and Genea- 
logical Register, 1894, page s:}. 



FAMILY 45: SPOFFORD, HAZEN. 

I.IXEAL DESCEXT— ALLAN-1, .)()HN-A THOMASJ< AMOS-20. 

ABIGAIL PERLEY was born 2S Dec, 1782, and 1 Nov., 1750, 
married William Spofford, born about 1728 to Capt. John and 
Dorcas-Hopkinson Spofford on the original Spofford homestead, on 
"Spofford's Hill," Georgetown. His family lived in Georgetown, 
and attended the P'irst Church, Boxford, where his wife recognized 
the covenant 27 May, 1759. He was a soldier in the French and 
Indian War, served under Capt. Humphrey Hobbs of Souhegan in 
the defence of the eastern frontiers from 'Al May to 15 Sept., 1754, 
and fought in the campaign of 1759, when he died or was killed. 

Mrs. Spofford, widowed at the age of twenty-seven years, mar- 
ried It) Nov., 17B1, Jacob Hazen son of Israel and Hannah-Chaplin 
Hazen of Rowley, and removing to Boxford, located permanently in 
the East Parish in the "Hazen lot," a pasture near "Ye Great 
Meddowe," now (1880) owned by Mr. Henry K. Kennett, where 
the cellar, houseless for almost a century, is still recognizable. The 
family probably removed to Bridgton, Me. 

1 Spofford children: Abigail'-, Israel-, Sarah-, Olive'^; Hazen 
children: Jacobs Hannah^\ William-, Hephzibah'-, Enoch'^, Phebe'', 
Josiah-101. 

2 The first three were baptised in the First Church, Boxford, 27 
May, 1759. Abigail's' first husband was Rufus Wheeler, her 
second belonged in Maine. A daughter of hers married a Chase 
and lived on Letter B, Me. These were born in Boxford : William', 
2() May, 176G; Hephzibah\ 2 April, 17(58, married and died soon 

after; P^noch', 9 March, 1770, who married Patty , and had a 

son Enoch Perley, born 1797, et al. 

8 Olive' was baptised in the P'irst Church, Boxford, 10 June, 
1759, and married, first, a Jewett of Bridgton, Me. She married, 
second, Jacob Stevens of Sweden, Me., and had issue: Perley, born 8 
May, 1782, and died 11 March, 1785, in Bridgton; Aaron and Asa, 
born 16 Jan., 1784; Phebe, born 17 Jan., 1786, and died unmarried; 
Abigail, born 8 April, 1788, married Calvin Powers, and lived in 
Sweden; Jacob, born 13 May, 1790; Perley, born 18 May, 1792; 
Olive, born 28 Aug., 1794, married Abram Maxwell, and lived in 
Carthage, Me.; Farnum, and Israel Perley. 

4 Jacob' was born in Boxford 22 Oct., 1762, married 4 Dec, 
1798, Hannah Wood, born to Nathan and Elizabeth-Wood Wood in 
Boxford, 2 Feb., 1766. She died 22 May, 1840; he 18 Aug., 1848. 
Their home was Bridgton, where he had removed prior to his mar- 
riage. Issue: Nathan W., a prominent lawyer in Andover, Mass., 
hale and hearty at the age of eighty, born 9 July, 1800, married 21 
Oct., 1880, Mary Pingree of Salem, who was born in Georgetown 
12 March, 1801, and died in Andover 28 March, 1880; Adeline, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



71 



born 3 Nov., 1802, married William Potter, and died 18 March, 1840; 
Polenie, born 19 Dec., 1804, and died in infancy; Betsey W., born 
24 Aug., 1800, married Nathaniel Potter, and died 11 Oct., 1884; 
Jacob, born 80 April, 1810. 

5 Hannah^ was born in Bo.xford 8 July, 1764. She married 15 
Nov., 1791, Thomas Dresser, born on the "Old Dresser place," in 
the East Parish, Boxford, to John and Jane-Harriman Dresser, 7 
Aug., 17(j2. He was a blacksmith and his shop stood near the 
present residence of Samuel Clark. They removed to Andover, 
Me., about 1800. She was a witch. Many were the stories of her 
uncanny doings. Her weird acts on one occasion, while a servant 
girl in her teens in a family on Spofford's Hill, Georgetown, have 
been poetized by Mr Henry Henderson, who with poetic license de- 
picts her fate, but those who knew well her story knew nothing of 
her after her removal to Maine. 



•\bout a century since — accounts are vague— 
In seventeen eighty-one or eiglity-two 
(It matters little since the tale is truo) 
A wild commotion was created here 
By the first symptom of the witchcraft plagiic. 
One Hannah Hazen, whom leiwrt speaks well. 
Was weaving as the shades of evening fell, 
When strange, mysterious noises caught tlio 
ear. 
And fear seieed all, and rumor filled the air. 
In flocked the neighbors all agape to see 
The fair sweet worker of iniquity, 
}>ut stood aghast with supersUtlous stare 
As thump, tliump, thump came from (he 

walls ahout, 
.\s if some prisoned fiend would beat his dark 
way out. 

Wheel, chairs and tal)les shrunk from toucli 
and look; 
Even the old meal chest edged and edged 

away. 
Though weighted with the gossips of the day; 
Like chattering teeth the latches rattled 
wild. 
And where she trod the house ashiveriug shook. 
The clergy were called in to exorcise 
So foul a spirit in so fair a guise; 
But uo rebuke availed, severe or mild, 
And consternation sat on every face! 
Wlien from abroad the goodman now returned. 
With wrath indignant from his house he 
spurned 
All who had seen or sought its deep disgrace. 
Not doubting they believed, but yet too wise 
To give full credence to their doubtful ears 
and eyes. 

This prompt, decisive, energetic act of one 
Who thought delusion better silent die 
Than lead to the surviving Infamy 
That gives old Salem her imenvied fame 
For deeds of violence In wild frenzy done. 
Was through the love, not blind fanatic zeal, 
He felt for truth, and felt that all should 
feel. 
And saved the old town the ever-duriug 
sbame 



Of having punished for no fault or crime 
One he would shield, but whom the righteous 

few 
Who wagged their tongues and kneiv no( w(ia( 

to do. 
Would in the darkness of that troubled time 
Have dragged to martyrdom, had he joined 

the cry 
Of the unrea.soning crowd who Trutli would 

crucify. 



When driven out like Ilagar in her grief, 
The chairs resumed their places prim and 

stiff, 
The tables ceased to tilt — all seemed as if 
No masquerading e'er had set them out 
To revel in their master's absence brief. 
So quiet reigned once more, and all went well. 
Till to the flames the house a victim fell. 
As 'twere the scene of this unseemly rout 
Should from the mind of all l)e swept away. 
But mothers whispered to their babes the 

tale,— 
Tradition caught it up,— till like a sail 
Lost in tlie purple deeps of dying day 
This little glimmer from the long-ago 
Flashes uix)n the verge ere all is sunk below. 



Ho«' fearful o'er the broken wall I stepped 
Where the poor crazy wanderer was found, 
Dead! her head between the bowlders bound; 
"A witch," some said, "who died a witch's 
death!" 
And few her ijreseuce missed or memory weia. 
So far aloof we stand and cry, "unclean!" 
As If the only plague-spots were those seen, 
That children shrink and whisper under 
breath 
A name that might have shone as bright and 
fair 
As any that our reverent homage claims 
Among the brilliant galaxy of names 
That fix our eyes as God's peculiar cai-e. 
But for the crushing of some grievous weight 
That loft the troublous world so dark and 
desolate. 



6 Phebe^ was born in Boxford 8 Dec, 1772, married 25 Feb., 
1794, Israel Kimball, and had issue: Israel, born 20 Jan., 1792. 



7-2 THE PERLEY tAMILT 

lived in Bethel, Me., and died 12 Oct., 1865; Hannah, born 11 May, 
1790, married Aaron Littlefield, and lived in Kridgton ; Hephzibah, 
born {') Jan., 1798, married h^benezer Eames, lived m Bethel, and 
died 29 March, 1879; Jacob Hazen, born 8 April, 18U0, lives in 
Waukesha, Wis.; Phebe, born 21 Feb., 1804, married, first, Ezra T. 
Russell, second, Winslow Heywood, and li\ed in Bethel; Richard, 
born 20 Jan., 180(), lived in Bridgton, and died in Feb., 1878; Jed- 
ediah Tapley, born 1:") Aug., 1809, and lived in Bethel; Ira Crocker, 
born 29 Jan., 181(), lived in Bethel, and died 3 Feb., l8()(). 



FAMILY 40: PERLEY. 

LINKAI, DKSCKNT— ALLAX-1, JOHX-J, THOMAS-!*, A.MOS-LM). 

NATHANIEL PERLEY was born in Boxford 1:5 Feb., 1784-5, 
and died, Wednesday, 18 July, 1810. His first wife was Mehitable 
Perley-89', who was born 20 Nov., 1737; married, in Boxford, 30 
or 81 Oct., 1753, and became the mother of all his children. His 
second wife was Lydia Ayers of Haverhill, married lO Sept., 1770. 
They all rest in Harmony Cemetery. A slate tablet thus records 
Mehitable's memory: 

ERECTED 
In Memory of Mr*" 
Mehitabel the wife 

of M'' Nathaniel 

Perley who Died 
February the 19th 

1770 in the 39^'^ 

year of her Age. 

About the time of his marriage he built his house in Boxford, 
where Mrs. A. N. Harrington's now is. The house was burnt in 
the spring of 1882. His home farm contained more than a hundred 
acres. In 1775 he bought of a Jewett family a farm adjoining his, 
and soon after he owned the farm now the property of Joseph H. 
Janes. He gave to his son Nathaniel the buildings and land, in 
Hanover, N. H., "which were set off" to satisfy an execution against 
Jabez Bingham. 

He was a cooper by trade, and familiarly known as "Cooper Nat." 
His commodious shop stood at the corner of the Andover and Row- 
ley roads, near his dwelling. After him it became a tenement 
house. 

Land speculation was then attractive as now if not so extensive. 
Mr. Perley bought, 11 April, 1709, of John Berry, yeoman, and Eliza- 
beth Berry, widow, both of Ipswich, for ;!^5S 13s. 4d., several lots of 
land in Winchendon, that were drawn originally for the rights of 
Nathaniel Lord, Jonathan Jewett, Nathaniel Caldwell, Thomas 
Lufkin and Joseph Goodhue. — Registry, 01 : 344. He sold to Jona- 
than Smith, Paxton, yeoman, land in Winchendon, 24 Oct., 1771, for 
^20. — Registry, 07: 418; to Samuel Denny of Leicester, gentleman, 



History and genealogy 73 

two lots in Winchendon, 17 Jan., 1772, for ^44. — Registry, 67: 180; 
and to Jonathan Stimpson of Winchendon, two lots in same town, 17 
Jan., 177o, for ^20; and to Joseph Stimpson of Winchendon, "home 
lot" so called, for ^'21, 17 Jan., 1778, 8 lots. — Registry, 77: 214. 

The inventory of his estate, made by Thomas Perley, Parker 
Spofford-32^ and Solomon Low, valued the home farm, fifty-eight 
acres, at $2242 ; a tract of meadow, pasture and woodland at the 
"old place," about eighty acres, at $1440; "a bible, 7r)c.," and his en- 
tire estate at $5885.99. 

He was very active at the time of the Revolution. He served 
on the town's committee of safety, in procuring soldiers and in ob- 
taining money to pay them. He was experienced in all the town 
offices. In 17t)9 he was a selectman and overseer, and in 1800 a 
member of the school board, and a tax collector in 1806. He was 
three years a constable, a field driver one, warden one, a tithing man 
two, a hogreeve six, a surveyor of highways ten, a fence viewer four, 
a moderator of town meetings one, a surveyor of lumber six. 

In old age he dressed in the fashion of his youth and he wore a 
small red cap. One day, to tease his little grandson then only 
three years old, he offered to put him into his pocket. The wrin- 
kled face, the bent form and the ancient garb so impressed the 
pliant mind of the boy, that the circumstance was vividly in his 
memory at the age of seventy-five years. 

He and his wife Mehitable joined the First Church, Boxford, 14 
March, 1762, when two children were baptised and where the others 
were afterwards. 

1 Perley children: Amos-95, Jesse-96, Nathaniel-97, Francis'-, 
Mehitable^ 01ive^ Lois-98, IsraeP, Artemas Ward-99. 

2 Francis^ was born 15 April, 1765. John Chapman, Jr., and 
himself went a-fishing on Hood's Pond, 28 May, 1798, when Francis 
in casting anchor, about twenty rods from the western shore, cap- 
sized the boat, to which John clung for rescue, but Francis, trusting 
to his skill in swimming, was drowned. Major Asa, in his seventy- 
sixth year, heard the outcries and went to the shore. He swam to 
the boat, but the anchor held too strongly. He swam to the shore, 
and with others who had arrived converted a barn-door into a raft 
and John was rescued. Francis was in the water two hours. The 
Salem Gazette reads : "He was a man of strict integrity, had the 
universal esteem of his acquaintances, whose united testimony of his 
worth will sufficiently embalm his memory." He was not married. 

The improvised raft was doubtless obtained at the home ( see map 
on next page) "within a hundred feet of the western end of the pond, 
and known since 1712 as the Hood estate, which is now the resi- 
dence of S. D. Hood, Esq. 

8 Mehitable' was born 9 April, 1767, and died 28 Oct., 1887. 
She was married 27 June, 1798, to Capt. Ancill Stickney, who was 
born 8 June, 1762, to Jedediah and Peggy-Tyler Stickney of Boxford, 
and died 27 March, 1835. Their home was in East Boxford and 
the house was recently standing on its original site in the woods in 
front of Capt. Samuel Kimball's. Capt. Stickney was a prominent 
townsman ; he held the office of treasurer for many years. His 
widow bequeathed, by her will, dated 19 Sept., 1885, and proved in 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 75 

Nov., 1.S37, her personal estate that remained, to aid in building a 
meeting" house. The First Church edifice was erected soon after. 

4 Olive^ was born 1(5 April, 1769. She married 16 April, 1794, 
Enoch Wood, who was born 21 Oct., 1759, in Boxford, to Jonathan 
and Sarah-Redington Wood-82'*. They removed to Hallowell, Me., 
and settled there. Israel^ was born 4 Dec, 1778, and died unmar- 
ried. 



FAMILY 47: NOURSE. 

LINKAL DESCENT -ALLAN-1, .JOHN-2, THOMAS-9, AMOS-20. 

EUNICE PERLEY was born in Boxford 24 May, 1739, and 
died in Georgetown 19 June, 1822. She married Daniel Nourse, 9 
Aug., 1759. Their home was Boxford till 1790, when they removed 
to "The Village," Ipswich. They were admitted to the First 
Church, Boxford, 4 Oct., 1772. He was ensign in the militia for 
many years. 

1 Nourse children: Betty", Eunice^ twins'-, son'-, Lucy-, DanieP, 
Sally'^ Hannah^, Huldah^ John"^, Fanny\ 

2 Betty' was born 21 March, 1760, and "lived to the age of 21." 
Twins^ born 1764, and son\ 1766, died young. John\ born 20 
April, 1776, died about the time of his majority from an accident 
with a scythe. Lucy' was born 24 Feb., 1768, and married Josiah 
Fletcher of Chelmsford, 7 March, 1792. 

o Eunice' was born 21 Dec, 1762, married 13 Nov., 1792, Jona- 
than Pearson, Jr., and removed to Newburyport. Sally' was born 1 
April, 1772, and 2 Oct., 1792, became the second wife of Stephen 
Pearson of "The Village," who died 8 Aug., 1831, aged seventy 
years. By his first wife Ruthy Jewett, married 29 Sept., 1787, he 
had Betsey Little, born 3 May, 1788, and Sally, who died 7 Sept., 
1830. Issue: Ruthy Jewett, born 7 Dec, 1793; Stephen, 28 June, 
1796; Amasa, 20 Sept., 1798; John Nourse, 12 Jan., 1801; Sophia, 
28 Jan., 1803; Mark, 24 July, 1807. 

4 Daniel' was born 1 July, 1770, and died 21 Sept., 1840. He 
married 17 Aug., 1801, Hannah Jewett of Rowley, and occupied the 
parental home. He was a major in the militia. Issue: Harriet^ 
Hervey", Daniel Perley^ Luther^ Fanny'", Warren", Julia Ann, who 
was born 11 Feb., 1806, and died unmarried 15 Nov., 1855. 

5 Hannah' and Huldah' were twins, born 21 March, 1 774. The 
former married 31 May, 1795, Aaron Jewett, Jr., of Ipswich; the 
latter 8 Feb., 1801, Jeremiah Jewett of Ipswich. Fanny' was born 
22 Nov., 1778, and 25 Feb., 3 806, married David Payson of Rowley. 

6 Harriet^ was born 22 Dec, 1801, and died 22 June, 1832. She 
married 7 March, 1822, John Potter of Ipswich. They resided at 
"The City" in Topsfield. Their well is said to be on the boundary 
line between the two towns, and he often asked thirsty travelers, if 
they would have Ipswich or Topsfield water. John and his son 
Albert E. were drowned in Ipswich Hundreds, 30 Aug., 1850, aged 



76 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

respectively fifty-two and eight years. John Hervey Potter of Tops- 
field, housewright, who has been selectman, overseer, assessor, 
member of the school board, and representative to the State Legisla- 
ture, was Harriet's son. 

[Mr. Potter's second wife was Mehitable Wilds. Nathaniel Pot- 
ter, a teamster, born Oct., 1S85, in Topsfield, and died 4 Aug., 
1882, in Plaistow, N. H., married Mary, daughter of Mr. Mack, a 
blacksmith, probably in Kingston, N. H., was her son, whose chil- 
dren are Albert Edward, born 15 April, 1864, married and lives at 
Wenham Depot; Harriet Hale, born 20 April, 18(57, married and 
lives at Georgetown; Nathaniel, born 17 Oct., 18fcl8, lives at George- 
town, unmarried; Addie, born 28 Oct., 1872, married and lives in Tops- 
field; Charles Hurst, born 81 July, 1875, was for four years in the 
State militia, in which he reached the position of sergeant, and 
served one year in Cuba in the Spanish War as a corporal, married 
15 July, 1908, Miss P'lorence Elmina Bryant of Ipswich, daughter of 
Dennis and Susan-Armstrong Bryant of Peabody, is a carpenter 
and lives in Ipswich; Alice, who was born 17 Jan., 1870, in Ipswich, 
married 27 March, 1888, at Rowley, John Harrison Tenney, a 
farmer, music composer and publisher, and a deacon in the Line- 
brook church, born 22 Nov., 1840, to John, a farmer, and Sally 
Lummus-Chapman Tenney, and has these children born in Rowley: 
Miriam, 22 April, 1890; PIsther Louise, 11 May, 1894; Harrison 
Edmund, 25 June, 1901. 

Mehitable's daughter, Mary Jane, died 14 Oct., 1851, aged four 
years and five months. They buried, also, two infant daughters.] 

7 Hervey* was born 20 July, 1804, and spent his life upon the 
parental homestead. He never married. He exclaimed near the 
end of his life, "I never have called a physician for myself." He 
died, Saturday morning, 12 Aug., 1899. "His physical activity con- 
tinued for four score years, his mental faculties until a recent peri- 
od. He developed and maintained a very considerable strength of 
character, was straightforward, owed no man anything, and was 
content with his farm. He was long a member of the Baptist 
church in Rowley, which he remembered while living with a por- 
tion of his frugal estate. In his extreme age he was faithfully cared 
for by his nephew, John W. Nourse"." 

"Within certain lines, his activities were constant, his faculties 
and judgment good. He was wanting in that general and pervasive 
sympathy that draws a man into public life. His reading was most- 
ly of one book — the Bible ; he took little interest in politics or in 
the thousand and one alien things that occupy our minds for a 
brief space, only to give place the next day to a new set of events. 
His memory has kept in a narrow channel a surprising number of 
circumstances, — especially of dates relating to matters within the 
circle of his attention, and seemed sometimes like a revelation of 
new possibilities in human nature. Such politics as he had he took 
'straight,' refusing once to vote for his own nephew, who was es- 
pecially dear to him, because he would 'not vote for a Democrat.' 

" Mr. Nourse was a man whom his acquaintances were always glad 
to meet. All his long life has been spent in the quiet of the little vil- 
lage, the peace and strength of whose overshadowing hills seem to 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 77 

have entered into his own personaHty. 'The old guard dies; it never 
surrenders.' He has dropped the perishable things of life at the end 
of his earthly pilgrimage, and kept its substance in a renewed spirit, 
and in a good name that is better than riches." 

-S Daniel P.' was born 14 Nov., 1807, and died 31 July, 1884. He 
married, 8 Feb., 1882, Sarah South wick, daughter of William of 
Dan vers, or (as now) Peabody. She was born 28 March, 1818, and 
died 21 Dec, 1890. Their home was Ipswich, and his trade was 
housewright. Issue: Daniel t^lliott, born 2(5 Nov., 1834, died 20 
Jan., 1904, married 4 Sept., 18,52, Margaret Berry of Salem, lived in 
Lynn, and has had children, John Elliott, born 81 July and died 9 
Aug., 1853; Eva, born 18, and died 28, March, 1856; 'and Arthur 
Brooks, born 11 March, lS57, and married Annie Peoples, 1 Jan., 
1885, having children, Elliott Perley, born 4 Oct., 1855, and died 21 
Sept., 188(), and Plossie Ra)% born 17 Jan., 1889; vSusan Elizabeth, 
born 17 July, 1888, and died 22 Dec, 1840; John Hervey, born 12 
Dec, 1841, had wife Annie Andrews, and died 27 Dec, 1872, leav- 
ing no issue; George Warren, born 26 Aug., and died 11 Sept., 
1844; Sarah Sophia, born 2 Oct., 1S45, now and many years chief 
clerk in the dry goods store of Walter E. Lord-llO'-'^; Susan Sanger, 
born 14 Dec, 1S47, and died 28 Sept., 1848; Francis Perley, born 9 
June, 1S50, died 16 Oct., 1876, married 24 July, 1871, Lottie Delano 
of Swampscott, and had Perley and Hervey, who both died young, and 
Mabelle, born 6 Sept., 1875, a graduate of the Ipswich High School, 
at the age of sixteen ; Albert Brooks, born 6 Dec, and died 26 
Aug., 1852. 

9 Luther"' was born 5 Nov., 1 809, and died, in Ipswich, 26 Nov., 
1897. He married 8 Dec, 1885, Elizabeth Todd of Rowley, who 
was born 1 April, 1810, to Benjamin and Abigail, and died 28 
March, 1880. He was a farmer, and we believe a "49-er" in Cali- 
fornia. Issue: Caroline Elizabeth, born 11 May, 1889, and married 
21 May, 18S0, David Pickard, Jr., who was born 2 Oct., 1840, to 
David and Maria-Knapp Pickard, and died 5 March, 1892, leaving 
issue: Hallett Dole, born 12 Nov., 1880; and Luther Calvin (and a 
male twin that did not survive the hour ) born 81 May, 1848, mar- 
ried Mary Ann Newmarch, June, 18t)S, resides in Newburyport, 
having children born: Fred Gardner, 14 Dec, 1868; Ethlyn, 22 
March, 1874; Cora, 24 Feb., 1878; PT'ank, 30 March, 1881; Barker 
Burnham, 2 Jan., 1888; Chester, 12 Aug., 1887. He is a meat cut- 
ter by trade, but has been variously employed. 

10 P'anny* was born 1 March, I8l8, and died 8 Oct., 1886. She 
married 11 May, 1S81, Daniel Boynton of Rowley, who was born to 
Eben and Jane-Todd Boynton, 80 May, 1805. He was a farmer and 
general merchant in farm products, and lived in "The Village," 
where he died 8 April, 1891, at the age of eighty-five years, ten 
months, four days. Issue: Daniel Perley, born 12 July, 1882, and 
died 4 Aug... 1 850 ; Charles, born 2 Aug., 1884; Warren'-; Harriet 
F"rances, born 14 July, 1838, and married 25 Feb., 1867, Daniel 
Merrill, Jr., of Rowley; Hannah Nourse, born 26 Nov., 1840, mar- 
ried 18 March, 1868, Daniel Smith Appleton, born to Benjamin 
Dexter and Harriet-Bishop Appleton, 27 May, 1840, and had issue: 
Harriet Elizabeth", born 15 March, 1864; Fannie Etta, born 30 



78 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Sept., 1865; Benjamin Dexter, born 30 Sept., 1870,— these in Row- 
ley; Charles Warren, born 20 Aug., 1878; Augusta Newell, born 12 
Aug., 1880; Hepsie, born 16 April, and died in Dec, 1884, — these in 
Ipswich. 

11 Warren"* was born 23 Jan., 1816, and died 27 April, 1896. 
He married 3 Dec, 1843, Mary Ann Scott, born, Saturday, 21 Nov., 
1818, to Nathaniel-88-. She died of pneumonia, Monday, 9 April, 
1900. The local journal in a notice of her said: "In disposition 
amiable, in character irreproachable, in life quiet, Christ-like and 
consistent, it may truthfully be said of her, 'Blessed are the pure 
in heart.' She was a woman of most attractive personal appearance, 
which was made still more beautiful by the graces of mind and 
heart with which she was endowed. In her girlhood days she 
united with the Methodist church, for which she always retained a 
deep love." Issue: John Warren, born 12 July, 1846, graduated at 
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Ct., 1878, and settled, as civil 
engineer and farmer, upon the ancestral estate in "The Village." 
He was efficient in establishing the water system of the town, and 
has been many years a valuable member of the school board. He 
married 11 Feb., 18S5, Mary Foster Wade, who was born 12 Feb., 
1846, to F"rancis H. and Eliza A. -Grant Wade of Ipswich, and died 
2 Nov., 1895. Miss Wade was a school teacher many years, schol- 
arly in her tastes, "a very attractive spirit," and esteemed for her 
sterling worth. She taught nineteen years in Montreal, Canada, 
mostly in "Saybrook Hall," opposite the Windsor Hotel. The 
building was subsequently purchased by the Young Women's 
Christian Association, and remodeled for their use. Many of the 
former pupils were interested in the project, and at their suggestion 
one of the halls was called "The Mary Wade Hall" and furnished 
with memorials of her. Her only child was a son, born and died 29 
Oct., 1885. He married, second. Miss Harriet Elizabeth Appleton"' 
31 Aug., 1901. They have two children, Mary Appleton, born 1 
July, 1902, and Frances, born 26 Feb., 1904. 

12 Warren^" was born 17 July, 1836. He married 12 June, 
1859, Elizabeth Baker Lord of Ipswich, and had Boynton issue: 
Lizzie M., born 1 Oct., I860, and died aged 4 months; W. Howard, 
born 9 Sept., 1862, and died 19 Dec, 1^76; Martha L., died 14 
Aug., 1866, aged one year. Mr. Boynton in 1898 represented his 
native district in the Lesrislature. 



FAMILY 48: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT- ALLAX-l, SAMUEL-3, SAAirKI.-l'.', DAA"It)-J7. 

JOHN PERLEY was born in Rowley, 7 or 1 April, 1737. 
He married 21 Sept., 1767, Lydia Perley-40' of Boxford, who was 
mother of all his children. She was born 13 May, 1741, and died of 
scarlet fever and throat distemper 10 Aug., 1804. His second wife, 
published 25 Oct., 1805, was widow Phebe Cheny of Rowley. She 
died, about five years after the marriage, of lethargy, or apoplexy, 
5 June, 1811. His third and last wife was Hannah40\ a sister of 



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HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 79 

his first wife, and widow of Daniel Clark-82 of Georgetown, whom 
he married 22 Nov., 1814, in Rowley. Mr. Perley died in Rowley, 
Saturday, 30 Nov., 1822, at the age of eighty-five years. He and 
his first wife Lydia owned the covenant of the Linebrook church, and 
had their daughter Lydia baptised there, 18 Dec, 1768. There the 
rest of their children were baptised. 

Mr. Perley was a member of the Linebrook Company of militia 
and Minute Men, and, under command of Capt. Abraham How, 
marched to the battle of Lexington, on the ever memorable morn- 
ing of the 19th of April, 1775. He marched eighty miles and was 
from home two days. 

Mr. Perley lived centrally from the present villages of Boxford, 
Georgetown and Rowley, and was too remote to participate much in 
town affairs. Like his lineal ancestry, he cared little for public 
office. He gave his efforts to the cultivation of his extensive farm, 
and by a happy life and frugality accumulated a property valued, in 
1781, at ;^822. His home was his parental home and made his by 
his father's will. There all his children were born. 

SACRED 

To the memory of 

JOHN PERLEY 

Died Nov. 30, 1822, 

Mt. 85. 

A tender husband, a father dear, 
A much lamented friend lies here: 
When Christ returns to call him forth, 
The rising day will show his worth. 

Sacred 

To the memory of 

LYDIA Wife of 

JOHN PERLEY 

Died Aug. 10, 1804 

yEt. 62. 

Behold and see, as you pass by, 
As you are now so once was I; 
As I am now so you must be, 
Prepare for death, and follow me. 

1 Perley children: Lydia'-, Samuel-100, Lucy-lOl, David-102, 
Moses-103, John-104. 

2 Lydia' was born 29 Sept., 1768. She married 22 Nov., 1791, 
Thomas Dickinson of Rowley. She died 12 Aug., 1803. A child 
Perley lived in Hill, N. H. 



FAMILY 49: TENNEY. 

LIXEAL DESCKNT— AI.LAN-1, SAMUEL-3, SAMUEL-1'2, l)AVID-27. 

ABIGAIL PERLEY was born 13 May, 1739, in Rowley, where 
she died 13 Dec, 1813. She married 30 March, 1762, Richard Ten- 
ney, born to William and Mehitable-Pearson Tenney of Rowley, 20 



80 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Oct., 1736, and died 28 Jan., 1802. He served on a committee "to 
hire one lieutenant and nine privates, on as reasonable terms as 
they can & to giv^e advance pay if best." . 

1 Tenney children: Sarah'-, Elizabeth-, David'', Richard'', Wil- 
liam'-, Perley-, Amos Jewettl 

2 Sarah^ was born 10 Jan., 1768, and died 24 Oct., 1888; Eliza- 
beths 20 June, 1764, and died 25 Oct., 1848; William^ 12 Jan., 
1771, and was an M. D. in Loudon, N. H.; Perley', 14 June, 1773, 
married 8 Jan., 1802, Maria Ingalls, was merchant in Newburyport, 
and had Susanna, Sarah Perley and A. Maria. 

8 David' was born 28 Eeb., 1776, and died 9 April, 1826. His 
first wife was Abigail Spofford, born 24 Jan., 1760, in Georgetown, 
to Col. Daniel and Judith-P"ollansbee Spofford. His second wife 
was Judith, married 7 March, 1798, lived in Rowley, and died 11 
July, 1831, and had born Sarah, 5 April, ll>^~ \ David Barnard''; 
Moody, 8 (and died 2S) March, 1794; David, 8 Oct., J 795; Nabby, 
15 Jan., 1797; Parmelia, 18 March, 1798; Richard, 1 March, 1802,- 
who by his second wife, Hannah Casy (sister of his first wife, So- 
phronia) married, 8 Oct., 1827, had ten children, of whom Sarah P^liz- 
abeth, the' eldest, born 6 Jan., 1829, married, 25 Oct., 1847, Luther 
Dame of Newburyport, a real estate agent, born in Kittery, Me., .8 
March, 1826,, four, of whose children died young, leaving Percy Litch- 
field, bank teller, born 18 Dec, 18,59, Wm. Pinkney, born 20 Jan., 
1864, and Jessie Green, teacher of violin, born 1 P^eb., 1870; Daniel 
Spofford, 25 Sept., 1805. 

4 Richard' was born 9 Sept., 176S, and 6 Dec, 1790, married 
Ruth Ingalls, and had three children: Daniel Ingalls, born 2 May, 
1800, who, upon the deat;h of his brother William, became sole man- 
ager of the jewelry store of that day in New York City, who was of 
the "Astor House P^amily," of which Daniel Webster was a mem- 
ber, who made frequent gifts to his native town — one "a fine bronze 
statue of W'ashington," and 'who died 28 Nov., 1881; William, born 

22 Feb., 1806; and PHizabeth, who married a Hanford and died in 
1872, leaving a bequest of $5000 to the Society for Aiding Aged 1^'e- 
males in Newburyport. 

5- Amos Jewett" was born 27 May, 1777, and died 1 Aug., 1840. 
His first wife was Lucy Spofford, who was born 29 April, 1780, and 
died 2 May, 1883. His second wife Apphia, was sister to Dr. Jere- 
miah Spofford of Groveland, who died 12 Feb., 1879, aged sixty- 
two years. He was extensively engaged in shoe manufacture in 
Georgetown, in which his son and grandson, George J. and Milton G., 
are his successors. He was an exemplary citizen. A beautiful fam- 
ily monument marks his tomb. Issue: Charles Spofford"; George 
Jewett"; Milton, born 7 P^eb., 1807, and died 1 Jan., 1814; Richard"; 
Lucy Harriet, born 1 May, 1812; Harriet Braman, born 7 Nov., 
1821, and died 22 Jan., 1888. 

6 David Barnard'^ was born 14 July, 1791 ; his wife's name was 
Hannah; their home was Salem. Issue: Orlando Barnard'"; live- 
line Matilda, born 1819; Putnam P^arnham, born 1821 ; Rosman Lit- 
tle, born 1828; David Barnard, born 1^26, city clerk, Haverhill. 

7 Charles Spofford'^ was born 25 Oct., 1802. He married, first, 

23 Oct., 1828, Elizabeth Nelson^ who was born to Stephen M. and 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 81 

Apphia-Lambert Nelson, 11 May, 1<S0U, and died 10 Jan., 1848. He 
married his second wife, Sarah C., in 1848. They Hved in George- 
town. He was for some years a railroad superintendent. Issue, three 
by first wife: WilHam Milton, born 1883, died 1850; Elizabeth N., 
born 1841 ; Apphia N., born 1848, and Amos Jewett, born 1850. 

8 George Jewett" was born 28 Aug., 1805. He married 21 Dec, 
1836, Susan Nelson, born to Lt. Jonathan and Hannah-March Nel- 
son, 20 March, IS 14. His home is in Georgetown, where he and his 
son Milton G. are extensively engaged in the manufacture of shoes, 
employing over a hundred workmen in their factory and a large 

number outside. Issue: Milton Grenville, born 18:}7; , born 

and died 1888; Lucy Spofford, born 1839. 

il Richard' was born 23 Feb., 18 10. He married 20 Dec, 1887, 
Mary S. Nelson, (sister to Elizabeth') born in Georgetown, 25 
April, 1818. Issue: Mary S., born in 1846. The Boston Journal of 
Dec. 11, 1884, said: "Richard Tenney, aged seventy-four years, died 
at his home in Georgetown, Mass., Tuesday night, after a long and 
painful illness. Mr. Tenney has always lived in Georgetown, was 
very prominent in religious matters and for many years was libra- 
rian of Peabody Public Library. Mr. Tenney leaves a widow and 
one daughter, Mrs. A. S. Stiger of Brooklyn, N. Y. Two brothers, 
Charles S. and George J. Tenney, and one sister, Mrs. Lucy H. 
Dole, also survive him." 

10 Orlando" was born in 1816. He was a trial justice in George- 
town for many years. He was a just judge, a man of wide experi- 
ence in business and remembered for his sterling citizen qualifica- 
tions. 



FAMILY 50: CHAPMAN. 

LINEAL DESCKXT-AI.LAN-l, SAMUEL-S, SAiMUEI.-VJ, nAVID-JI. 

MARY PF:RLEY was born 2 March, 1745-6, and died 2 Jan., 
lS2L She married 28 July, 1766, Joseph Chapman, baptised for 
Daniel and Mercy-Jewett Chapman of Ipswich, 6 March, 1742, and 
died 24 March, 1826, aged eighty-six years. He was a farmer and 
shoemaker of Rowley. 

1 Chapman children: Ruth'-, Elizabeth", Marv". Sarah'*, Mary^, 
Xabby-. 

2 Ruth' was born 20 April, 1767, and died in Rowley unmarried 
31 July, 1709; Elizabeth', in 1768, and died in Rowley unmarried, 
Dec, J 822; Mary', 2 Aug., 1772, and died 19 Sept., 1779; Nabby', 
13 July, 1788, and died 13 April, 1808. 

8 Sarah' was born 21 March, 1774, and died 22 May, 1804. She 
married, 21 March, 1800, Capt. Daniel Conant, born to William and 
Mary-Perkins Conant of Ipswich, 11 Jan., 1775, and died 11 May, 
1850. His second wife, married 26 March, 1811, was widow Lucy- 
Perley Hazen-101, his first wife's cousin, and he became, by that 
step, the step-father of four children. His home was in Ipswich. 
Issue: Joseph Chapman'; Sally*^. 

4 Mary' was born 18 May, 1777, and died, probably of internal 
cancer, 1 Nov., 1858. She married Isaiah Smith, born l8 Feb., 



82 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

1775, to James and Jemima-Foster Smith, of the "tavern" that stood 
opposite "the great barn" of David T. Perley-371, and died of con- 
sumption of the blood, 24 April, 184(3. His home was in Ipswich, 
till 1801, when he removed to North Bridgton, Me., where he was 
a farmer. Issue: Ruth, born 16 Aug., 1799, and died in Bridgton, 
unmarried, 1 Sept., 1880; Joseph Chapman, born 20 Aug., 1801, and 
died in Bridgton, 2 Nov., 1824; Anson, born and died in Aug., 1803; 
Ansel, born 3 Sept., 1804, married in March, 1830, Sally Peabody, 
born 17 Aug., 1805, to William and Sally-Stevens Peabody of 
Bridgton, their home till 12 May, 1845, when they removed to Port- 
land, Wis., where he became a farmer, and died of bilious fever, 27 
Aug., 1845, without issue, and his widow married a Brown; Perley 
Dennison"; Abigail, born 23 March, 1810, and died in Bridgton, un- 
married, 31 Jan., 1867; Apphia, born 7 Aug., 1812, married 22 Dec, 
1836, Caleb Swan, a farmer, born 1 Aug., 1803, to Joseph F. and 
Jane-Osgood Swan of Fryeburg, Me., and died of paralysis of the 
brain, 10 Nov., 1867, without issue, having lived in Fryeburg till the 
spring of 1848, when they removed to Waterford, Me.; Hcnry^ 
Sarah, born 23 July, l^Ki, and died unmarried, in Bridgton, 10 July, 
1868; Elkanah,'born 22 March, I81S, and died 17 July, IS 19. 

5 Joseph C." was born 19 May, 1802, and "suicided" 24 March, 
1834. His wife was Abigail Lamson and they had Sarah, who died 
in 1834, Lucy, who died in 1848, and Joseph Chapman. 

6 Sally'' was born 7 May, 1804, and died 5 Jan., 1872. She mar- 
ried 25 Dec, 1827, Abraham Lummus of Ipswich, born 30 July, 
1801. Their home was Ipswich and their children: Elizabeth, born 
in 1828, and died in 1864; Abraham, born in 1829; William, born in 
1S33; Sarah, born in 1835, and died in 1854; Charles, born in 1838, 
and died in 1S42; Margaret, born in 1840; and Mary Abbie, born 
in 1849. 

7 Perley Dennison^ was born 1 May, 1806, and married, in Dan- 
ville, Me., 26 Dec, 1833, Louise Burgess, born 5 April, 1812, to 
Joshua and Elizabeth-Sutton Burgess of Romulus, N. Y. She died 
in Auburn, Me., 29 June, 1870, of injuries received in a carriage 
accident. He was a farmer and land surveyor in North Bridgton, 
where he died of typhoid fever, 1(5 Nov., 1846. Issue: Isaiah Per- 
ley, born 13 Feb., 1S3(), graduated at Bowdoin College, 1S5S, Ban- 
gor Theological Seminary, 1861, occupied Congregational pulpits in 
Berlin, Mass., Raymond and Dover, N. H., and Chatham, Mass.; 
Henry Sutton Burgess, born 12 July, 1838, graduated at Bowdoin 
College, 1861, a physician, Bowdoinham, Me.; Andrew Robinson 
Giddings, born 2 May, 1841, graduated at Bowdoin College, 1863, 
a physician at North Whitefield, Me. ; Joshua Vincent, born 9 
Sept., 1845, graduated at Bowdoin College, 1867, a physician, Mel- 
rose. 

8 Henry* was born 2 June, is 14, was a farmer in North Bridg- 
ton, Me., where he died of rheumatism and consumption of the 
blood, 4 F'eb., 1880. He married 18 April, 1848, Alvina Gibbs, born 
to Jene and Nancy-Dodge Gibbs of Bridgton, 12 July, 1823. Issue: 
George Edwin, born in 1849, and died in 1873; Ansil Irving, born 
in 1852, and died in 1854; Lewis Swan, born in 1855, and died in 
1858; Annie Mary, born in 1858; Emma Jane, born in 1861. 



FAMILY 51: FOSTER. 

LINEAL DESCENT - ALLAN! , SAMUEL-3, SAMUEr,-l->, UAVID-L'T. 

RUTH PERLEY was born 2 Sept., 1747, and 8 Sept., 17H7, 
ti married Philemon F"oster, born to Jonathan and Jemima-Cummings 
F^oster, in Ip.swich, 1 1 June, 1737. He was a farmer, and many 
: years a deacon in the Linebrook church. Their tombstone reads: 

■' In memory of 

j Dea. PHILEMON FOSTER, 

i who died 

; May 10, 1818; 

" aged 82. 

and RUTH his wife 
ji who died 

j April 10. 1834; 

I aged 87. 

j Ifeatler, be ye also ready. 

I 1 Foster children : Dudley-, Sarah", Philemon-, Ruth'-, Dorcas", 
] Philemon^ Ruth\ P:iizabeth". 

2 Dudley' was born 13 March, 17t>8, and died 20 July, 1775; Sa- 
I rah' was born 30 July, 1770, but is not remembered by the older 
( generation now living, and probably died young; Philemon' was 
' born 24 July, 1773, and died 14 July, 1776; Ruth' was born 26 July, 
* 1775, and died young. Dudley's death and Ruth's birth occurred 
I on the same day(.'') Should not the record "Dorcas Foster died 30 
j Aug., 1791", read "Dudley" Foster, etc..-' 

I 3 Dorcas' was born 27 June, 1776, and 2 July, 1800, married 
Daniel Ellsworth of Rowley, a farmer and shoemaker in Linebrook 
Parish, and son of Eunice-Tenney and Jonathan Ellsworth, a tan- 
ner. He died 22 Dec, 1849, aged eighty-three years; she 19 Jan., 
1866, aged eighty-nine years, seven months. P211sworth issue: 
Hiram"; Jeremiah*; Elbridge-'; Daniel'"; Dorcas, who was born 13 
Dec, 1817, and died of consumption, 16 Aug., 1836. 

4 Philemon' was born 5 Feb., 1779, and died 26 Nov., 1845. His 
wife, published 19 Jan., 1800, was Nabby Hobbs, a native of Tops- 
field, who died of cancer, 22 Sept., 1857, aged seventy-eight years. 
He was a farmer in Linebrook Parish, Ipswich. Foster issue: Abi- 
gail (or Nabby)"; Philemon Cummings'-; Sarah^''; David'''; Lucy 
Hobbs'*; Lydia Burpee'"; Gorham Parsons'"; Almira Parsons, born s 
Jan., 1S21, and now living in Ipswich; and Cyrus'l 

5 Ruth' was born 30 Aug., 1781. Her husband, published 13 
Nov., 1801, was William Conant, Jr., Esq., who was familiarly called 
"Squire Bill'"'. They settled in Linebrook Parish, where he was a 
farmer, justice of the peace, drawer of legal papers, many years 
selectman, assessor and overseer, a substantial, practical citizen, a 



84 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

pillar in society and town. His wife was a woman of practical 
piety. She was at one time the only member of the local church. 
Between 1816 and 1824, she wrote many religious letters to her 
neighbors and others, and in 1831 published a sixty-page pamphlet 
of them. She was a good letter-writer; her diction was attractive, 
and her sentiments, though partaking of the old orthodoxy, were 
tenderly importunate. Her father, son and son-in-law were dea- 
cons. Thus their tomb : 

WILLIAM CONANT ESO. 
DIED 

Nov. 19, 1858 
/Et 86 yrs. 4 m's. 

RUTH, 

his wife died 

April la, 1859, 

/Et 77 yrs. 6 m's. 

"Blessed are the deail wlui die in the Lrird." 

Conant issue: William F'oster-^O'i ; Gilbert'"; Daniel^'; Elizabeth, 
born 14 May, 1809, and died 19 Feb., 1810; Cyrus, baptised 14 
April, 1811, and died 5 July, I8l9, aged eight years, four months; 
Elizabeth, baptised 15 Feb., 1815, and died 10 Feb., 1817, aged two 
years, twenty days ; Harriet Atwood-'; Eleanor Emerson'"^*; Abigail 
Tenney, born 7 June, 1825, and died 8 Jan., 1844. 

6 F!lizabeth' was born 26 March, 1784 or 5, and died, read the 
town records, 2 Oct., 1844, aged fifty-nine years, six months, six 
days. Her husband, published 9 April, 1808, was William Conant, 
o'^ born in 178;'), to Moses, a farmer, and Mary-Wildes Conant of 
Ipswich, and died 4 July, 185L He was familiar)}' called "Little 
Bill", to distinguish him from "Squire Bill"''. He was a farmer and 
cultivated parental acres, in Ipswich — Linebrook. Conant issue: 
Calvin, born 21 Feb., 1809, and died 28 July, 184:}, aged thirty-four 
years; Ruth'''; Elizabeth"-"; Lois, who died 22 Oct., l8:-}4, aged fif- 
teen years; Eunice Cummings'". 

7 Hiram'' was born 22 Oct., 1801, and died in Ipswich, 17 Oct., 
1859. He married in Hamilton, Mass., 19 Oct., 1884, Lois Bean, 
born in Waterboro, Me., 19 Dec, 1805, to Micajah and Eunice-Pike 
Bean. Her father was born at Brentwood, N. H., 10 May, 1776, 
and became a farmer; her mother, at Waterboro, 15 May, 1779, and 
died at Tuftonboro, N. H., 5 Aug., 1863. Mrs. Ellsworth died in 
Linebrook, without children, 31 Dec, 1886; Mr. Ellsworth was a 
farmer — an excellent man, neighbor and citizen. 

8 Jeremiah'' was born 16 May, 1803, and died 28 Oct., 1886. He 
was a shoemaker and a farmer. He married 14 Oct., 1828, in Ips- 
wich (published 13 Sept.,) Olive P'oster Chapman, born 12 Dec, 
l'^06, to Joseph and Mary-Lummus Chapman of Linebrook, and died 
in Rowley 17 Sept., 1861. His second wife, married 1 Jan., 1863, 
was his first wife's sister, Mrs. Abigail-Chapman Weed, born 16 
Nov., 1808, and died 3 Jan., 1894, in Georgetown, without issue. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY H5 

Mr. Ellsworth was a tall, muscular man, of strictest probity, an 
exemplary citizen. 

9 Elbridge* was born 20 Sept., \^0b. He married 16 Oct., 
(publi-shed 22 Sept.,) 1S32, Mary C. Brown, and had one child Mrs. 
Joshua Appleton, who died 14 June, 1902, aged sixty-eight years, ten 
months, in Hamilton. Says Deacon Tenney-47": "He was admitted 
to the Linebrook church, 1S8], a man of unusual intellectual powers 
of great force of character, of great energy and determination, ac- 
tive and aggressive, eloquent in exhortation, fervent in prayer, a life 
fully consecrated, and became a leader. In a few years he removed 
to Hamilton, where he died in l-'^73. He was a man of large ph)- 
sique, and with his immense unshaven beard would have been a mag- 
nificent model for a painting of one of the old Jewish patriarchs." 

10 Daniel'^ was born 13 Jan., IHO'^. He was a farmer in Line- 
brook for many years. He often served the parish in official sta- 
tion; himself. Deacon Potter" and Mr. Perley-375 were a committee 
to agree with Rev. Alvah M. Richardson as pastor of the church. 
He was a plea.sant man to meet in conversation, a kind neighbor, a 
substantial citizen and a Christian gentleman. He sold his farm 
and removed to Boston, where he was in the shoe business and 
where he died 11 March, 1S83. He married. Rev. Moses Welch 
officiating, 11 May, 1S43, in Linebrook, Elizabeth Cynthia Andrews, 
born in Linebrook 23 July, 1824, to Eunice-Kneeland and Joseph 
Andrews, a farmer. She died 15 Oct., 1883, in Boston. Each of the 
family was a member of the local church, and one of its stable pil- 
lars. Mrs. Ellsworth was a teacher before marriage. Their only 
child, Edna Elizabeth, was born 18 Nov., 1844, in Linebrook. She 
married, in same place, 17 Nov., 1869, Orrin Gayton Mooar, who 
was born 3 Oct., 1846, to Mary Ann-Conant (sister to Elias C.'"') 
and John Mooar, a shoemaker. He was educated at Dummer 
Academy, and was a successful merchant in shoes and general foot- 
wear in Boston, and was prominent in church and business circles. 
He died 21 Oct., 1889. Mooar issue: Roy Ellsworth, born 22 Dec, 
1870, graduated at Boston University, College of Liberal Arts, 1895, 
and taught in high schools and academies; Mary Gertrude, born 14 
May, 1873. 

11 Abigail (or Nabby) was born 6 Nov., 1802, and died in Box- 
ford 13 July, 1881. She married 2 Sept., 1828, Albert Brown, who 
was born in West Newbury, 6 July, 1803, to John, a comb-maker, 
and Sarah-Noyes Brown, died in Lynn, 23 Jan., 1892, and was 
buried in Boxford. Mr. Brown was a shoemaker, and lived most of 
his life in Linebrook. Mr. Brown's father John was some time 
Turnpike toll-gatherer in Linebrook. Brown issue : Lavinia Fos- 
ter, born 8 Jan., 1829, and married Andrews; Eliza Cleaveland, 
born 19 Oct., 1831, and married Jayncs; Ruth Emily-194; Sophia 
Dodge, born 22 Jan., 1835, and married, first, 8 May, 1856, John E. 
Ellsworth, son of Simon and Hannah, and second, a Nichols; Luther 
Chaplin, born 28 Jan., 1837, and died in Lynn, unmarried, a patriot 
veteran soldier; Hannah Almira, born 11 Jan., 1843, and married a 
Kneeland. 

12 Philemon Cummings" was born 23 March, 1805. His first 
wife was P^liza Jane Felton of Salem, published 13 Oct., 1832. She 



go THE PERLEY FAMILV 

died the mother of two children, 14 Oct., 1837, in Ipswich. His 
second wife was Hannah Fickard, born to David and Hannah-Spil- 
ler Pickard of Rowley, Dec, 182U, married H Oct., 1839, and is 
now living with her son David in Rowley. He was a farmer and 
shoemaker, and many years a Turnpike toll-gatherer. He died in 
Georgetown 1 Sept., l8Hj. Foster issue: Eliza Mary'-"; Walter 
Cummings'-'; Richard RusselP^ Hannah Angelia'-'^; Benjamin Frank- 
lin'' ; David Philemon, a shoemaker, born lil Nov., 18;');;, living un- 
married in Rowley. 

lo Sarah^ was born "24 F'eb., 1807, and 15 Dec, 18*27, married 
Daniel I'roctor Pingree, born 7 March, 1807, in l^ridgewater, N. H., 
and died in Linebrook, 13 Nov., 1S8S. She died 27 Aug., 1888. 
They were born the same year; they died the same year. He was 
a shoemaker. Pingree issue: Melinda'"; Mary Abigail-oOf); David 
Philemon, born 27 June, 1883, in Rowley, and died 1 May, 1^38; Da- 
vid MighilP'; Lydia Pllizabeth*'. 

14 David' was born 23 Aug., 1809, and died 4 Sept., 1892, in 
Ipswich. He married 31 July, 1831, Angelina Webster Pingree, (a 
sister to D. Proctor) who was born 21 Feb., 1810, and died 12 Jan., 
1877, in Ipswich. His second wife, married ;') Sept., issi, when .she 
was thirty-nine years old and he seventy-one, was Nancy M. Allen of 
South Sudbury, Mass., widow of Tibbetts of Ipswich. She lived 
last in Beverly. Mr. Foster was a farmer and trader. He was 
early an officer in the militia, under Gen. Solomon Low, for whom 
he named a son. Foster issue: Elizabeth Bixby'"; Angelina Abbie, 
born 5 May, 1834, and now living in Ipswich unmarried; Solomon 
Low'-'; Olive Jane*'; David Calvin, born 28 March, 1846, and died 12 
Sept., 1848; Eleanor Augusta, born <> May, 1850, and living unmar- 
ried in Ipswich; Cynthia Phillips^'. 

15 Lucy H.' was born 4 Dec, 1^11. She married 18 Oct., 1832, 
Joseph Conant-' (brother to Alvin T.) born (5 Nov., 1811, and died 
20 Oct., 1885. She died 12 Nov., 18S6. He was a farmer and shoe- 
maker in Linebrook, without issue. The local new.spaper says of 
him: "He was a quiet man, a good, obliging, social and esteemed 
neighbor. In his manhood's prime he was identified with parish 
affairs, serving it in various capacities. He was one of the proprie- 
tors of the church edifice, and assisted very materially in its erec- 
tion. His active life earned him a comfortable property, and his so- 
briety and kindness a good name." 

Ui Lydia B.' was born 25 June, 1815, and died in Danvers, 20 
April, 1891. She married 5 July, 1888, Trowbridge Curtis Taylor, 
born in Holliston, Mass., 1(3 Oct., 1812. "Before the war of the 
Rebellion," reads the Salem Observer, "he worked at his trade of 
shoemaking. He enlisted 1 Oct., 18G1, and went to the front in 
Co., A, 28"* Infantry, as a musician. He ser\'ed his time or till dis- 
charged, from which time he has not been a well man. He was a 
merited pensioner. Many of his early years were spent in Line- 
brook, and while the old-fashioned church orchestra consisted of 
viols, flute and clarionet, Mr. Taylor was for many years conspicu- 
ous in it. He served the little church long and well, and to show 
their appreciation of his excellent service the society presented him 
with a fine-toned flute costing about ^40. He was an excellent 



HISTORY AND GENEALOUY gy 

player, and could hustle a dance or draw a psalm with the best of 
them. He was a good man, neighbor and friend. He died in Ips- 
wich, at the home of his grandson Arthur W. Conant, 15 Aug., 
i lS9;-3, and was buried at the side of his wife in Danvers." Taylor 

issue: Sarah Maria'** and Everett, born in Sept., 1850. 
J 17 Gorham P.-* was born 15 March, 1818, and died 5 Nov., 1851. 
. He married, 21 Nov., 1848, his cousin, Mary Foster, born 25 Dec, 
1827, to Simon and Mary-Perkins Foster of Linebrook. Simon mar- 
ried Mary Perkins, 10 Oct., 1814, and Eunice Perkins, l(j Oct., 
1827. Gorham was a farmer and shoemaker. His widow became 
the second wife of Asa Lord, Jr., of Ipswich, and after Mr. Lord's 
death, she married Edward Plouff, Senior, of the same town. She 
was thrice widowed, and is now ( 1903 ) living in Ipswich. Mr. 
[• Plouff bought "the old Heard distillery", and converting it into a 
tannery, did a good business till near the close of the War of the 
Rebellion, when he retired. Foster issue: Mary Jane, born 14 Oct., 
I 1845, and died 28 (town records, 2) Nov., 1847; Lewis Philemon, 
; born 17 June, 1848, and died 1(5 March, 1806; Gorham, born 28 
March, 1851, and died 25 March, 1880, by the caving in of earth 
, upon him, in Leadville, Col. 

! 18 Cyrus' was born 27 July, 1828, and died 8 March, 1898, in 

Ipswich. He married 9 Aug., 1858, Martha Mary Potter, who was 

I born 8 April, 1880, to Asa and Susan Hadley-Johnson Potter of 

I "The Village", Ipswich. He was a farmer. He served two years 

i as a patriot soldier, and was discharged for disability. Foster issue, 

1 born in Ipswich except the first : Cyrus Edwin, born in George- 

I town, 12 Oct., 1854, a watch-case manufacturer in Bo.ston, married 8 

Sept., 1880, Isabelle Love Mclntire, and have no children; Martha 

Jane, born 11 July, 1858, and fore-lady in Pray's carpet store, in 

Boston, unmarried; Susan P^liza, born 25 Dec, 1861, married :> 

Dec, 1890, P>ed. Everett Worthington, a jeweler in Beverly, Mass., 

having no issue; Almira Parsons, born 2 May, 1865, married 20 

May, 1895, Forest Almyr Dow, shoemaker, Beverly, born 14 July, 

1857, to Mary-Dow and Lewis Dow, a farmer of Pittsfield, N. H., 

having issue: Martha Pearl, born 18 Nov., 1895, and Ruth Lillian, 

born 27 Dec, 1897; Lillian Cornelia, born 29 April, 1869, married 

26 Oct., 1897, Julian Augustus Fogg, manufacturing jeweler and 

engraver, Boston, now retired to his farm in Hampstead, N. H., 

born 18 Nov., 1889, to Leah Partington and P'rederick Livesly Peter 

Fogg of Stockport, Cheshire, Eng. 

19 Gilbert' was born 1 Aug., 1804, and died 21 March, 1885, in 
Ipswich. He was a school teacher, surveyor, farmer, timber mer- 
chant. He wrote for newspapers upon topics of agriculture and 
birds, and published a work on the birds of this section. He married 
26 Oct., 1881, Lavinia Foster (sister to Irene'-") born 18 Jan., 1807, 
to Thomas and Hitty, and died 7 March, 1870, of dropsy. Conant 
issue: Gilbert Roger, born 19 Aug., 1882, and died 19 Oct., 1859, 
married 4 April, 1859, Mary Abigail Pingree-865, born 8 July, 1881, 
leaving posthumous child, Gilbert Roger, born 6 Jan., 1860, a black- 
smith and skillful horse-.shoer and residing married in Gloucester; 
Caroline Lavinia, born 9 Nov., 1884, residing, unmarried, in Boston. 

20 DanieP was born 11 March, 1806, and died of lung fever, 18 



88 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Aug., 1<S82. He was a farmer in Linebrook and lived on the paren- 
tal estate. He married, first, -i'i April, 1880, Irene Foster (sister to 
Lavinia'^), who died 28 Feb., 183S, aged twenty-nine years. He 
married, second, I Jan., 1889, Miss Hannah Conant, born sister 
to Alvin Tyler", S April, 1810, and died '20 May, I88i). Conant 
issue: Lucy l-^lizabeth'^ born 8 July, 188.'), and 17 Dec, 1851, mar- 
ried Amos J. Millett of (Georgetown; Delia A., who married Lewis 
A. Chapman of Topsheld, 14 Jan., IS — . 

21 Harriet A.'' was born 18 March, ISIS, and died 22 Oct., 18SG, 
in Topsfield. She married 4 April, ls:jS or 9, Rev. Francis Welch, 
pastor of the Linebrook church. 

22 Eleanor E.' was born 9 April, 1821, and died in Boxford 19 
Oct., 1879. .She married 20 P'eb., 1S4-5, Dea. Jacob Symonds Potter, 
who was born to Nathaniel and Phebe of Linebrook Parish, where 




DEACO?? .1. S. POTTEK. 



MISS. ntlTH CONANT. 



MRS. J. S. porrER. 



he was many years a farmer, and a deacon, till he removed to Box- 
ford, and was elected a deacon in the Memorial Church of George- 
town, in which oflfice he died 26 Jan., 1888, in South Georgetown, 
aged sixty-five years, without issue. 

28 Ruth*' was born 10 Dec, 1814 or 15, in Ipswich, and was 
living with her daughter Celia, in Rowley, where she died, 16 Sept., 
1902. She married 2 Dec, 1840, Emerson Howe, who was born 23 
Nov., 1S18, to Mark, a farmer, and Lucy-F"oster How, and died in 
Linebrook, 1 Sept., 1885. The local newspaper thus spoke of Mr. 
Howe's death: 

"He died on the ancestral farm, originally a part of the 'Norton 
Reserves,' which, 11 Jan., 1650, was granted to James How42, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 89 

who lived in three centuries, dying at the age of one hundred and 
four years. The old homestead had garnered many precious mem- 
ories and hallowed associations, and afforded a pleasing family ret- 
rospect of 'IH'4 years; he 

Nor chanj^ed uor wished to t'hange his place. 

"Mr. Howe was one of our best citizens, quiet, intelligent, care- 
ful, unpretending, positive. He sought no office, but his parish- 
ioners in recognition of his worth kept him thirty-six years their 
parish clerk, he serving his thirty-seventh year when he died. His 
church urged him to accept a deaconry, but he declined. For years 
he was a member of the church choir, and nearly all his life of the 
Sunday school, serving many years as assistant superintendent. He 
was an excellent neighbor, social, generous, obliging, exemplary. 
In the affairs of the church and society he was true to principle and 
a righteous man. 

" 'Mark the perfect man and behold the upright, for the end of 
that man is peace.' 

Their only child is Celia Augusta, born "27 Aug., 1843, who mar- 
ried 5 Nov., 1862, George Prescott, born 21 Aug., 1887, to George 
Kittridge, lumber and wood merchant, and Dolly-Chaplin Prescott 
of Rowley. Mrs. I^rescott was educated at the Topsfield Academy. 
Mr. Prescott continued the wood and lumber trade of his father, is a 
public spirited citizen and exercising official station. They have 
had only one child Vernon, who, born 20 June, 1888, died in infancy. 

24 Elizabeth'' was born 8 March, 1811, baptised 19 Nov., 1820, 
and died 12 Nov., 1887, aged seventy-six years, eight months, four 
days, in Ipswich. She married (published 10 Sept., 1831) Luther 
Chaplin, who was born in Rowley, 31 Jan., 1804, to Jeremiah, a 
farmer and shoemaker, and PZunice-Stickney Chaplin, and died in 
Georgetown, 19 Dec, 1882. He was a farmer in easy circum- 
stances, enjoying life and a large circle of friends. Their children 
were Caroline Elizabeth^", and Louise C, who was born 18 P^eb., 
1840. 

25 Eunice C' was born in Ipswich, 10 May, 1825, and died in 
Millwood, Rowley, 15 Feb., 1895. She married in Ipswich, (pub- 
lished 23 Oct., 1827,) Daniel Kimball Jackson, born in Rowley, 1 
March, 1818, to Caleb, a farmer, and Elizabeth-Spofford Jackson, 
and died without issue 20 Sept., 1895. He was a farmer in Rowley. 
Mrs. Jackson was many years afflicted with blindness. 

20 Eliza M.i- was born 12 Feb., 1888, and 12 March, 1850, mar- 
ried Stephen Augustus Perley, who was born in 1830, and lived 
many years with Deacon Potter", in Linebrook. She married, sec- 
ond, (published 11 Jan., 1868) Benjamin Fuller, who was born in 
Middleton, in the fall of 1837, to Benjamin and Esther, and died in 
Georgetown, where his widow resides. Perley issue : Eliza Augus- 
ta, born 2 Oct., 1851, married 20 Jan., 1869, William A. Lamb, .son 
of Augustus and Augusta, a shoemaker, born in Worcester in 1847 
or 8; Annie, born 8 Oct., 1855, adopted in 1857, by John W. and 
Sarah J. Beal, and married 8 Sept., 1878, George Augustus Frame, 
son of Samuel and Hannah-Welder P'rame, a shoemaker, born in 
Middleton, in 1850, now residing in Topsfield; May Goodwin, born 



90 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

in Topsfield 16 Sept., iSttO, and died in Dan vers, 8 Aug., 1S()2. F'ul- 
ler issue: Amos, born 20 March, 1874, in Middleton. 

•27 Walter C' was born 28 July, 1880, and lO Feb., 1804, mar- 
ried Mrs. Margaret-Kneeland Hobson, widow of Henry of Rowley, 
born 10 or 13 May, 1828, to Levi and Margaret Kneeland. She 
died in Rowley 20 Aug., 1884, leaving child Henry Warren Hob- 
son, born 4 March, I845. Walter died of heart disease in New- 
bury 29 Jan., 1893, without issue. 

28 Richard R.'- was born 11 Nov., 1842. He married 1 Aug., 
1878, in Somerville, Mass., by Rev. H. H. Barber, Harriet Elma 
Towle, who was born in Bangor, Me., 4 March, 1840, to Elizabeth 
Reynolds-Barker and James Madison Towle, a farmer and trader. 
They have no children. 

Mr. Foster was a patriot soldier. He acquired his book knowl- 
edge in the Linebrook and Millwood schools. He worked at farm- 
ing and shoemaking till May, 1801, when he enlisted in the Rowley 
company of 1st Battalion Rilies, M. V. M., which later became Co. 
C, 19 Regt. Mass. Vol. Infantry. He went into camp 20 June at the 
Goodhue place at Lynnfield ; the regiment was organized in the 
camp. He was mustered in 20 July, and left the State 28 August, 
going direct to Washington, D. C, and camped at Meridian Hill, 
Georgetown. He finished the summer near Edwards Ferry. 
The regiment was engaged at Balls Bluff 21 Oct., 18<)1, "the first 
time we heard the music of rebel bullets," he says. 

In the spring of 18(52, his regiment went to Harper's Ferry, 
affording him a visit to the scene of John Brown's exploits; then to 
Berryville, affording a view of the field where Brown was hanged ; 
then to Harper's Ferry again; then to Washingtoii, D. C; then to 
Fortress Monroe and Hampton, Va., which place Magruder had 
burned. From 5 April to 4 May, 18()2, was the siege of Yorktown, 
where he helped throw up earth works and build roads, and though 
many times under fire, no casualties came to Co. C. He was 
present at West Point 8 May, Fair Oaks 31 May and 1 June. 

On 25 June, he took part in their first encounter of importance 
with the enemy. He was in the retreat from Fair Oaks to Harri- 
son's Landing, the engagements at Peach Orchard, or Allen's 
Farm, Savage's Station, White Oak Swamp, or Glen Dale, Malvern 
Hill, Bull Run 2d 30 Aug., Antietam 17 Sept., P'redericksburg 
11 and 13 Dec. and 3 May, 1803, Gettysburg 2 and 3 July, Mine 
Run campaign 20 Nov. to 2 Dec, The Wilderness 5-7 May, 1804, 
Spottsylvania, 8-12 May, the 12th being at the bloody angle, or sali- 
ent. He was captured 15 May, 1804; was confined in Andersonville, 
Ga., Plorence, S. C, Milan and Savannah, Ga. He was paroled in 
March, 1805, at Goldsboro, N. C, and was sent around from 
Wilmington to Annapolis, Md.; had 30 days furlough, and 17 May, 
1805, was returned to the regiment. He took part in the grand 
review in Washington, D. C, was discharged 30 June, 1805, at 
Munson's Hill, Va., and arrived in Rowley 3 July, 1805. He was 
appointed corporal 24 Nov., 1862; sergeant in April, 1804, and was 
sergeant of mounted pioneers at headquarters of the Second Army 
Corps when he was discharged. 

Since his return he has done citizen service in Rowley, George- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 9I 

town, Haverhill, Boston, Framingham, Declham, Waltham, Mass., 
and Amsterdam, N. Y. He has been shoemaker, painter, paper- 
hanger, driver of milk wagon ; driver, conductor, starter and foreman 
• of a horse railway ; station agent three years, news dealer two years, 
' real estate agent three years, provision business two years. He was 
appointed justice of the peace 4 May, 18H0 and 1898, by Govs. Rob- 
inson and Russell. He has been adjutant of the Soldiers' Home in 
Mas.sachusetts since 17 Feb., 1890. 

29 Hannah A.^'- was born in Linebrook 20 Oct., 1845, and 20 Oct., 
1863, married in Georgetown, Daniel Woodbridge Dresser, born 23 
July, 1844, in Newbtn-yport to John and Alice Dustin-Cook Dresser. 
He is a shoemaker in Rowley. Dresser issue : Annie Russell"", 
Mary Elma^'- and Lorinda Dustin^'\ 

30 Benjamin F.'- was born 12 Feb., 1849. He is a shoemaker in 
Rowley. He married 24 Dec, 1876, in Linebrook, Etta Jemima 
Dexter, born in New Brunswick 29 May, 1857, to Susannah-Spearing 
and James Andrew Dexter, a farmer. Foster issue: Frank Forrest, 
born 18 March, 1878; Annie Russell, born 14 March, 1882; Fannie 
Florence, born 27 July, 1891. 

31 Melinda''* was born 11 June, 1829, and 28 Dec, 1849, married 
Alvin Tyler Conant, born 1 Dec, 1827, to Joseph Lott and Ruth- 
Gilford Conant of Ipswich, and died 26 Oct., 1863, a patriot soldier, 
at Folly Island, S. C., having been mustered in 3 Sept., 1862. They 
had no children except an adopted child, Jennie, daughter of William 
H. Morse of Lynn, that died 6 June, 1876. Melinda is living in Ips- 
wich. Her husband's father was familiarly known as "Joe Lott," to 
distinguish him from Joseph Conant, father of Elias C.^^ who was 
called "Master Joe," and who was a fine singer and for a long time a 
singing-school master. 

32 David M.^* was born 16 July, 1839. He was for three years a 
Union soldier. He married, Monday, 9 or 16 March, 1885, Mrs. 
Margaret Ann Jackson, formerly the wife of Luther Holland Jack- 
son. She was born to John Calvin and Margaret Ann-Rogers Smith 
in West Newbury, 1 Jan., 1851. Her father was a fllorist in New- 
buryport. Her children born to Jackson are Roland Emery, 18 
Dec, 1871; Joseph Luther, 25 Nov., 1873; Arthur Averill, 10 June, 
1877; Hattie Florence, 3 April, 1878. Pingree issue : Allen Proctor, 
born 10 Nov., 1887; Lydia Ann, 23 Feb., 1890. 

33 Lydia E.'-' was born 6 July, 1844, and 6 May, 1866, married 
Joseph Warren Cheever, Rev. Robert Southgate of Ipswich officiat- 
ing. Mr. Cheever was a clerk in Hovey's dry goods house, Boston. 
He died a young man ; his widow made her home in Ipswich. They 
had three children : Ralph Pingree, Fred Foster, William Partlow. 

34 Elizabeth B." was born 15 Sept., 1832, and died 6 June, 1876. 
She married 31 Jan., 1854, James Harvey Wiley, who was born 17 
Oct., 1827, to Jonathan and Phebe of William.stown, Vt., and died in 
Ipswich, a farmer, 14 Nov., 1892. Issue: Elmer Harvey^^ and Olive 
Jeanette, born 27 Aug., 1867, and is living in Ipswich unmarried. 

35 Solomon L." was born 27 Sept., 1836. He married, first, 13 
Nov., 1867, Frances E. Doyle, who died 6 Sept., 1876, aged 29 years. 
He married, second, 7 Sept., 1875, Mary Abbie Langley, born 21 
Nov., 1845, in Concord, N. H., to Rufus Williams and Almira-Leav- 



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9-2 THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

itt Langley. Mr. Foster was a patriot soldier in the Rebellion, and 
is now a gate man for the Boston & Maine railroad in Ipswich. Is- 
sue: Ida May, who died in Aug., IXlH, three weeks old, and Ger- 
trude Mabel, born 7 Sept., 1881. 

86 Olive ].'' was born 11 April, 1889, and 28 April, 1859, married 
George William Knowlton, a stone cutter, of Salem, Mass., born 15 
July, 1839, to Mary-Doyle and George Knowlton, a blacksmith, of 
Rockport. Knowlton issue: Addie Manette, born 9 Nov., 1859; 
George Frederic, 6 Nov., 1805; Newell Scott, 1(5 Sept., 1868; True 
Blethen, 80 Aug., 1871; Fmma Olive and John Fdwin, 20 March, 
and died Emma 16 and John 18 Aug., 1877; Margaret Olive, 2 May, 
1881. 

87 Cynthia P.^^ was born 18 March, 1854, and 80 June, 1874, 
married Dennison Pickard Moore, born 11 May, 1840, to Dennison 
and Susan-Moore Moore of Beverly, lie is a mariner. Moore issue : 
Charles Dennison, born 6 June, 1875; Angie Foster, 18 Nov., 1876; 
Harry Hemming, 15 Sept., 1880; Bessie P:ila, 10 Oct., 1882, died 15 
May, 1892; Frank Phillips, 8 July, 1885; Herbert George, 8 Dec, 
1887; Galen Blethen, 18 Jan., 1890. 

38 Sarah M.""' was born 23 Dec, 1888. She married 2 July, 1854, 
Elias Cornelius Conant, born 19 March, 1884, to Joseph and Anna- 
Foster Con ant of Linebrook. Mr. and Mrs. Conant are exception- 
ally fine singers, and had they practiced with that reference would 
have excelled in music as a profession. He was several years super- 
intendent of the Topsfield town farm, and also of the town farm of 
Milton, Mass. He owns a fine estate in Hampton, N. H., his home. 
Conant issue, all born in Ipswich: Arthur Webster, 29 Dec, 1854; 
Warren Elias, 16 Nov., 185(); Florence Augusta, 20 Dec, 1858, and 
married William P. Kimball; Anna Foster, 10 July, 1S(>2, and mar- 
ried Frank A. Boyce, baggage master at Londonderry, N. H., son of 
Sarah J.-Melvin and Nelson Boyce 27 Aug., 1881; Alfred Sumner, 
1 Dec, 1867; Cleaveland Augustus, 26 June, 1870; Nellie Miriam, 
1 July, 1874. 

39 Lucy E.-" was born 8 July, is:)5, and 17 Dec, 1><52, by Rev. 
David Tenney Kimball of Ipswich, was married to Amos J. Millett, 
born 1 June, 1832, to Joshua of Rowley. His early life was spent in 
Rowley; he was a shoemaker and farmer. When he settled in 
Georgetown a third of a century ago he learned the mason's trade 
and has pursued it since. He joined the Congregational church in 
Rowley at the age of sixteen, and was transferred to Georgetown, 
where he has been a deacon ten years or more and a long time on 
the standing" committee. Mrs. Millett is a member of the same 
church and has the while been active in its work. They celebrated 
the half-century of their marriage. Their children : Charles E., 
P^lizabeth Irene, who married a P'airbanks, and Ida, who died aged 
sixteen. Portraits of Deacon Millett and his wife are shown on the 
next page. 

40 Caroline E.-^ was born 2 March, 1832, in Rowley, and died 
there 9 Oct., 1875 (Rev. B. H. Weston says 12 Nov., 1887). She 
married in New York City 6 Aug., 1850, Benjamin Scott Dodge, 
born 9 Jan., 1828, to Martha-Scott and Solomon, a miller of Rowley. 
Mr. Dodge was at one time engaged in a proprietary medicine trade, 



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93 



but ultimately disposed of his interest and returned to his farm. He 
has his second wife. Dodge issue: Ella F., born 2 Sept., 1855; 
Georgiana''; Rosabelle, 7 Oct., 1.S5S; Frederick F., 17 Jan., ISHO; 
Mandana Scott, May, l^Hi; Benjamin A., 2:5 Ian., lS«jH; Lizzie Belle, 
19 Oct., lHtJ9. 

41 Annie R."' was born 2»J Feb., 1S64, and died 27 Sept., 1884, 
two months after her marriage with Albert Sheridan Barker, 29 July, 
1884. He was born 8 Oct., 1864, in Newburyport, to George, a har- 
ness maker, and Sarah Elizabeth-Titcomb Barker, now of Ipswich. 
Mr. Barker is a butcher on a wagon in Groveland, where he has a 
family. 

42 Mary E."-* was born 29 Nov., 1860, in Rowley. She married 
Greenleaf B. Merrill, and has Greenleaf B., born 2 June, 1891. 
They resided, 1>^98, in Peabody, Mass. 

43 Lorinda D.'-'' was born 26 Sept., 1870, and 12 Aug., 1896, mar- 
ried, in Rowley, Stephen Augustus Pedrick, M. D., born 12 Nov., 




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DKACOX AMOS .1. MILLErr. 



MRS. I,n( V K. MILLETT. 



1867, in Beverly, to Clarissa Susan-Ober and Richard P'rederic 
Pedrick, a shoe manufacturer. The doctor is in practice in Rowley. 
Pedrick issue: Woodbury, born 10 Jan., 1897, in Appleton, Me. 

44 Palmer H.^^ was born i;> March, 1><66, and married 25 March, 
1887, Nettie Loring Pierce, born 15 May, 1870, to Mary PZlizabeth- 
Schencks and George Washington Pierce of Ipswich. He was for 
many years foreman for Mrs. William G. Brown of Ipswich. Wiley 
issue: Bessie Merton, born 25 July, 1888; Annie Vera, born in July, 
1898, and lived three months. 

45 Georgiana* was born 30 Dec, 1856, in Rowley, where she mar- 
ried 11 March, 1875, Bartlett Hardy Weston, who was born in 



94 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Georgetown 24 Dec, 1840, to Caroline Matilda-Hardy and Flint 
Weston, a farmer. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, was 
several years principal of the historic Atkinson Academy, and is a 
clergyman in Dunstable, Mass. Weston issue : Marion Dodge, born 
10 March, 1884, and Ruth Vernon, born 25 April, 1892. 



FAMILY 52: PERLEY. 

LINEAL UESCENT— ALLAX-1, SAMUEL-S, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30. 

SAMUEL PERLEY was born 11 Aug., 1742, in Linebrook 
Parish, Ipswich. When he was twelve years old, 11 July, 1757, his 
father died. Abraham How of that parish was appointed his guar- 
dian. His boyhood was probably spent in his native parish. He 
was instructed in the family school of Rev. George Lesslie, pastor of 
the parish church. He entered Harvard College at the age of seven- 
teen years, and graduated there in 17H;i, under President Holyoke. 
He declined, it is said, a professorship there, and studied divinity 
with his old instructor, Rev. 

George Lesslie. These au- /^ Cyy ^>n 

tographs were written by ^^(Z^TTlU^^y ^(^^^^^ 
him forty years apart, the i y 

first in 1704, the second in ^^—-"'^^y 

1804. His biography may be ^ ^ y'Oy'^ 

found in "American Biogra- 'Z*.^^*'*'*-^'^ ty ^^rt^^ 

phy." The site of his birth- ^ 

place is pictured in family 80. 

His first pulpit was at Seabrook, now by a change of the town 
line Hampton Falls, N. H. He gathered the church and established 
the Presbyterian faith. He was there ordained and installed, 31 
Jan., 1765, when he was twenty-two years old. His old instructor, 
Rev. Mr. Lesslie, on the occasion preached the sermon, which was 
published. He was there ten years, during which the church was 
built as .shown herewith. He lived in the birthplace of Gov. Me- 
sheck Weare, called the "Boyd house," but now (1893) the "Stan- 
ley house." 

He was next settled over the church in Groton, then known as 
Cockermouth, Strafford County, N. H., which had been organized 
12 March, 1777. He was installed there 8 Oct., 1778, but continued 
only a few months. He was ne.xt installed, 20 Oct., 1780, in Moul- 
tonboro, over the church that had been formed in 1779, a parish 
which he occupied but little more than three years. His next and 
last pastorate was over the Congregational church in Gray, Me., 
where he continued to reside till his death. He was installed 8 
Sept., 1784, as their first minister. He retired from the ministry 
about 1791. As a preacher he has been very highly estimated. 

He led a company of volunteers to the battle of Bunker Hill, 
where he arrived quite too late to participate in the action. His fur- 
ther service was not needed and he returned home with his command. 

Mr. Perley was a man of good natural abilities, and he was pos- 
sessed of extensive learning for the times. His library was large 



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95 



and embraced many valuable works, not only upon the subject of 
i theology, but of law and general knowledge, standard works of that 
period. He was tenacious of his opinions, and, we believe, had just 
' enough egotism to give prominency to his talents. In his dress he 
was very plain ; he said he never wore rufifles but once, and that was 
when he received his diploma at college. Few men wrote more in 
that section up to the time that Simon Greenleaf, afterward professor 
in Harvard College, settled in Gray. In 1809, as well as before and 
after, he had considerable correspondence with John Adams, Presi- 




@ii saiitwi umu m mmmm^ si. i^. 



dent of the United States, upon current questions concerning the 
government and its condition and probable action in the trouble 
which had commenced with Great Britain. In the.se letters Mr. 
Perley betrays a familiar acquaintance with ancient and modern his- 
tory, a versatility of talent to be commended, and a patriotism worthy 
of being placed in the same rank as that of his renowned correspon- 
dent. In one of his letters to Mr. Adams, dated at Gray April 5, 
1H09, after discountenancing the impressions that the "nefarious 
Governor Hutchinson," as he termed him, had occasioned, he closed 
his epistle as follows : 

"But, Honored Sir, the GOD of the armies of Israel was our 
shield, buckler, and salvation. He, with a touch of his fingers, at 



96 THE PERLEY FAMILY ' 

Saratoga, and at Yorktovvn, in Virginia, laughed our enemies to 
scorn; the Almighty held them in derision, — Has not the God of 
Israel given us the best constitution (state and national) that he 
ever gave to any nation, or people, that ever inhabited this terraque- 
ous globe? Has he not prospered us be3'ond all other people? I 
think that the questions imperiously demand an affirmative answer. 
How is it then, that all of a sudden, our political horizon is complete- j 
ly covered with sable clouds, which seem to be impregnated with 
the wrath of Jehovah, and threatening us with the roaring of cannon 
and civil war throughout our political jurisdiction." 

"Sir, I am aba.shed; my soul sinks within me!! It seems to me, 
that our great political parties exert themselves as if it was not in j 
their power to bring destruction upon us so swift and sudden as ' 
they could wish. It seems to me, that I can see the exertions that 
took place in Athens, Macedon, and Sparta; that I can see the in- 
trigues that were in Rome, in the days of Nero and Caligula. Wc 
well know, in our United States, what it was that overthrew all the 
republics in the old world. Shall we not shun these Syllas, these 
Charibdises? 



"But Honored Sir, if I am mistaken as to the nature and tend- 
ency of our State and national constitutions; if I am mistaken as 
to Mr. Jefferson's administration, your correction of these errors, 
will be grateful to millions in the U. States of America. 

"I cannot believe, that you wish for the erection of a monarchy, 
in these United States, together with its concomitants; neither do 
I believe that you wi.sh for a Grecian democracy." 

In his answer to this letter, thirteen days later, Mr. Adams says: 

"I agree with you that our prosperity has been as great as that 
of any peoi)le that ever existed, and that our Massachusetts and 
National Constitutions are better than any that I have ever known 
or read, as long as they are administered by the People and their 
Representatives according to their spirit and true principles. How 
long this will be depends upon the people themselves. If the 
People and their Representatives sacrifice the characters and de- 
stroy the influence of the best, most enlightened, and most disinter- 
ested men by calumnies, and promote those who have neither 
hands nor hearts fit for their stations, and are actuated only by mo- 
tives of avarice and ambition, it will not be very long before our 
prosperity will be exchanged for calamity and our free institutions 
converted into tyrannies." 

Mr. Perley was the delegate from Gray to the convention held in 
Boston to ratify the Federal Constitution in 17H8. In this con- 
vention Mr. Perley was one of the majority that consented to its 
adoption. While the convention was in session, some one had the 
audacity to defame the character of Washington which tended to 
arouse the patriotic feeling of Mr. Perley, who, rising, made a spirited 
reply. He said he had an acquaintance with Roman and Grecian 
history, and he believed there was never since the creation of the 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 97 

world a greater general than Washington, except Joshua, who was 
inspired by the Lord of Hosts over the armies of Israel." 

For some time Mr. Perley was the only physician in Gray, and 
for many years he did an extensive law and probate business, writ- 
ing deeds, wills, agreements, and doing the work of a justice of the 
peace. His first justice's commission is dated 14 Feb., he received 
it 3 April, he qualified before Hon. Robert Southgate and Samuel 
Freeman, Esqs., 11 April, 1804. His second commission was 
dated IS March, 1811, and his third 18 March, 1818. Thus he per- 
formed the office of lawyer, physician and clergyman with ability, 
and his name is yet revered and honored in the place of his use- 
fulness. 

Mr. Perley resided in the house which he built in Gray upon 
the " Parsonage," which was inherited by his twin sons Abraham 
and Isaac, and is now in possession of Isaac's sons Thomas H. and 
Washington, who with their brothers Isaac and Cephas W. possess 
about 550 acres, mostly contiguous. The original farm contained 
about 125 acres, which was somewhat encumbered, till, by the enter- 
prise of Joseph H. Perley of Portland,, the mortgage was lifted. 

Mr. Perley married, 21 May, 17tJ5, about four months after his 
first settlement, Miss Hephzibah Fowler, daughter of John and 
Mercy-Howe Fowler, of his native parish, and took her immediately 
to adorn his pastoral home. She was baptised 22 May, 1743, and 
was sister to Martha who married Allen Perley-42. She died in 
Gray, Friday, 28 Aug., 1818, at the age of seventy-five years. 
Her husband survived her till Sunday, 28 Nov., 1830, the eighty- 
ninth year of his age. Near his residence was an old oak tree 
in whose shade he used to pass much of his time during the 
summer season, and he requested that his remains might repose 
beneath its shade. His request was observed, but a brook that 
flowed fast by washed away the earth, and it was thought proper 
to remove the remains to the village cemetery, — which was done 
a few years since. A newspaper correspondent in Gray wrote con- 
cerning this incident : " I often sit under the same 
oak tree under which he used to sit and write. He 
requested to be buried there. It always reminds 
me of the 'old talking oak,' so beautifully spoken 
of by Tennyson. It stands upon a bank, at the 
foot of which runs a little brook whose liquid music 
you hear all the year. The little stream began to 
undermine the grand old oak, many of its roots 
were bare, and it was evident that in time the tree 
must fall. So the remains were taken to the vil- 
lage cemetery." A granite monument seven feet 
four inches in height marks his resting-place. The 
inscription upon the front tablet is as follows : 

Rev. Samuel Perley, 
Born Aug. 11, 1742, 
Died Nov. 28, 1830. 

The inclosure is ample for the interment of about thirty persons. 
The headstones are of Italian marble, and bear only the Christian 




98 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

names of the persons reposing beneath. The dates of their deaths 
and their epitaphs are upon the monument. The monument was 
erected in 1878, by the brothers Cephas W., Washington and 
Thomas H., grandsons of Rev. Samuel, at a cost of from $1000 to 
$1500. 

One of his grandsons writes: "I was much indebted to my 
grandfather for my early instruction. He gave the impetus; he 
first taught me to articulate the sounds of ideas, and he it was who 
guided my infant steps in my first attempts to walk. His precepts 
and example will cling around my heart while memory endures." 

1 Perley children: Samuel-105, Nathaniel-106, Phoebe", Sa- 
rah-107, Abraham-108, Isaac-109, Hannah'-^, Susannah-. 

2 Phoebe' was born in Seabrook, 28 Sept., 1771. She married 
Abel Merrill of Gray, Me., and located in New Portland. He was 
a captain in the Light Infantry. They had one child Samuel. 
Hannah' was born 18 June, 1780, not of sound mind, died 9 March, 
1840. Susannah' was born 11 Aug., 1782, married Thomas Han- 
cock of Otisfield, Me., and had Samuel, a farmer on the old home- 
stead ; Thomas, one of the most wealthy and influential citizens of 
Gray; Joseph. 



FAMILY 53: PERLEY. 

LINKAL DESCENT— ALL AN-1, SAMUEL-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-3(). 

JOHN PERLEY was born in Linebrook Parish, Ipswich, 22 
Nov., 1743. He removed to Rowley shortly after 3 Jan., 1769, and 
there made his home. He was called captain. He might have been 
a sea captain, as a brother and son were. He married Lucy Hol- 
land, daughter of Joseph and Mary, in Linebrook, 2 May, 1765. 
She was born in Ipswich, where she was baptised 7 Jan., 1738. She 
died in Linebrook, 21 Feb., 1766. He married, second, Hannah 
Mighill of Rowley, 21 Sept., 1769. He was drowned, 28 Nov., 1811, 
at the age of sixty-eight years. His widow survived him only about 
ten months, dying 8 Sept., 1812, at the age of fifty-nine years. His 
first child was born in Linebrook, the other children in Rowley. 

Hannah's descent was honorable. Her father, born 1715, was 
Nathaniel Mighill, Esq., and her mother was Elizabeth Appleton, 
daughter of Col. Samuel Appleton, who was a representative man 
and armiger, whose tomb in an Ipswich cemetery "presents a 
strange instance of false heraldry." Her grandfather, born 1684, 
was Capt. Nathaniel Mighill, active against the Indians, and her 
grandmother was Priscilla Pearson, a descendant of John who built 
the first fulling mill and clothier's works in America. Her great- 
grandfather, born 1651, was Stephen Mighill (son of Thomas the 
immigrant and his wife Ellen), who married Sarah Phillips, whose 
needle-work is spoken of below, daughter of Rev. Samuel Phillips, 
second minister of Rowley, and Sarah Appleton, daughter of Sam- 
uel of Ipswich and descendant of John who died in Great Waldring- 
field, England, in 1436. 

It is said that Mr. Perley's residence was located at the southern 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 99 

corner of the Common, on the right going south, and that the house 
now located there is the same. It has a curb roof, and in Mr. 
Perley's day had an immense chimney in the center, which, it is said, 
his son Nathaniel removed when he thoroughly repaired the old 
mansion, running through it from front to rear door a wide and 
attractive hall, after the English pattern, erecting the two chimneys 
and covering its frame entirely new. The following from the pen 
of Miss F. Ellen Moody Dole^ in relation to this house will be found 
very interesting: — 

"A few years ago, before new buildings had crowded into the 
fields by Rowley Common, there could not be found a more charm- 
ing country scene. From beneath the heavy branches of a giant elm 
at the parting of the ways, was seen our old homestead set among 




MIGHILL-PERLEY HOUSE, NEAR ROWLEY COMMON. 

trees and shrubbery at the farther end of the Common, against the 
beautiful background of Prospect Hill. At a comfortable angle, to 
take in all the sunshine of a winter's day, and with a pleasant slope 
of grass before its broad front door, the house was built about 1730, 
by Nathaniel Mighill. His father, Capt. Nathaniel Mighill, gave 
each of his sons a farm in his own life-time, and the story runs that 
trees were selected in the woods for the frame of this house, there 
being no joint from the ground at the back to the ridge-pole. When 
the house was finished — it was several years in building — Nathan- 
iel was married to Elizabeth, the young widow of Mr. David Payson, 
and daughter of Mr. Samuel Appleton, 3d, and Elizabeth Whitting- 
ham of Ipswich. To visit her must have come a goodly company of 
relatives, and the second marriage of her mother with Rev. Edward 
Payson, the third of the Rowley ministers, brought this household 
into intimate relations with the large family of Paysons. 

"Of the stirring days of the Revolution the old house could tell 
many a tale, for Nathaniel Mighill was chosen to represent the town 

L Of (■ 



100 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

in the Provincial Congress, immediately after the opposition to Gen. 
Gage, and he continued prominent in public life. 

"Hannah, the only child who survived Nathaniel and Elizabeth 
Mighill, married Capt. John Perley of Linebrook, and inherited the 
farm where were born their many children. Many of the fine elms 
along the roadside and on the Common are said to have been set out 
by this John Perley; and his son John was also a tree lover, and 
raised here the Southern Lady apple and other fruits rare in Rowley. 
By the wall on the northern boundary of the field, a row of trees he 
planted still stands; but the gnarled old cherry trees that dropped 
flowers and fruit upon the rumbling stage-coaches, like them are 
gone. The field opposite belonged to this estate, and there, well 
back from the road, stood the ample barn — a fine play-house, we 
may imagine, for the Perley children. 

"Not all of them found homes near by. Priscilla went to Boston 
on her marriage, and at her home died her young sister, Mehitable, 
from a cold caught at a ball. Her grave is in King's Chapel yard. 
John remained in the old home and cultivated his ancestral acres, 
while his sons traveled far. With him lived his sister Hannah, 
whose wheel and loom were busy in the eastern upper chamber, 
from which could be seen Plum I. stand and the ocean. Wonderful 
was the store of linen of many patterns that she wove, and some of 
it is treasured still in the family. To her mother's early home 
came for her golden wedding, the daughter of Elizabeth Perley 
ElwelP, Mrs. Jamin. She had had the unusual experience of visiting 
the princely home of her husband's kindred in the Isle of PVance, 
with her little daughter Hannah, who died before marriage. A long 
poem was written of the child's departure from her village home by 
a local celebrity, the talented Mr. PVederick Knight — 

"But go- we olaiiii not all thy worth ; 

A gem of native growth,' 
Whose stem was of exotic birth, 

It must remember both." 

"The graves ot the Jamin family are marked by a cross of red 
sandstone in Rowley graveyard. 

"It was the daughter of John Perley, Mrs. Lucy Ann Kilham, 
who made the old house so attractive in our time. Many will re- 
member the lady at the open door, the wide hall through the house 
with a curious East Indian chair by the stairs, and graceful statues 
gleaming white against the rich red of the walls. All the wood- 
work was finished like old wood, and the front rooms opening from 
the crimson hall were restful in soft tints, and niost interesting with 
wainscot and cornice and shutters, low mantels and cheerful fire- 
places. The kitchen and other room at the back had large closets, 
and very high mantels with paneled cupboards above. In the par- 
lor were many books in arched alcoves, fine pictures, quaint foreign 
cabinets, richly colored glass, and most effective of all, over the dark 
polished door used to hang one of the curtains embroidered by Sa- 
rah Phillips, daughter of Rev. Samuel Phillips, the second minister 
of the town, and grandmother of the builder of the house. More 
than two hundred years ago the Puritan maiden set the many pa- 
tient stitches in the flowers and vines and the peacock, still gorgeous, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY IQI 

upon that length of homespun. A spindle-backed chair is another 
treasure, marked "not to be taken from the house," and a large 
china punch-bowl, an heirloom of the Perleys. And hidden away 
in the long low room under the roof, a child once found what were 
to her very curiously wrought pieces of metal with names on them — 
the coffin plates of some of her ancestors. 

"To one wandering alone through the deserted rooms, or pluck- 
ing cinnamon roses from bushes long ago planted, or sitting there 
in the shadow of the lilacs, looking off upon the hills, the brooding 
silence is alive with memories, and the mystic bond of kinship 
strengthens with those who have lived and died here. Truly this is 
one of the 

"Old homesteads sacred to all that can 
Gladden or sadden the heart of man." 

John Perley, blacksmith, when of Ipswich, 5 Jan., 1769, pur- 
chased of Abel, Betty and Hannah (widow) Cresey of Rowley a 
third of an acre of land "with a dwelling house and barn thereon" 
for £'67 6s. 8d. The premises were bounded southeasterly by the 
county road, northerly by land of Hon. John Hobson, northeasterly 
by land of Nathaniel Barker, southwesterly by land of Samuel Bai- 
ley, in Rowley. — Reg., 128:86. 

John "Parley," blacksmith, sold (mortgaged.^) for ^'22 a mes- 
suage and third part of an acre of land to John Fowler and Ezekiel 
Potter, "yeomans," of Ipswich, 18 June, 1770. — Reg., 128:37. He 
signed his name "Parley." 

John Perley, Jr., of Rowley, blacksmith, and his wife Hannah, 
bought of P^benezer Boynton and wife Jane of Rowley, 16 Sept., 
1807, for $245, land in the P'irst Parish, with dwelling house, bound- 
ed westerly 55^ feet by land of Daniel Poster, northerly by said 
Foster's land, easterly by land of Amos Daniels 76 feet, and south- 
erly by the county road. 

John Perley, who was "Jr." 11 Dec, 1797, was called "gentle- 
man" 28 Jan., 1808. 

Though Mr. Perley died in 1811, the settlement of his estate was 
not begun till 5 May, 1813 (after the death of his widow), when his 
son John of Rowley, yeoman, filed a bond, No. 21,486, with John 
Manning, Esq., and Joseph Lakeman Ross, blacksmith, both of Ips- 
wich, as sureties. Nothing further appears of record. 

The estate of which the house pictured here is an interesting 
part was owned by Nathaniel Mighill, Esq., at the time of his death, 
26 March, 1788, aged 73, and by inheritance became the property of 
his daughter, Mrs. Hannah Perley, who was his only surviving heir. 
She occupied it many years with her husband, and disposed of it by 
the following will : 

"In the name of GOD, Amen! 

"I, Hannah Perley, the lawful wife of John Perley, Jr., of Rowley 
in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, being feeble in 
body, but of sound and perfect mind and memory (blessed be GOD 
therefor) do make, ordain and establish this my last will and testa- 
ment. And first I do commit my body to the grave, to be decently 
buried by my executors, and my soul into the hands of a merciful 
Redeemer, trusting through His grace that this feeble body will be 



102 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

raised from the dust of death, be fashioned like to His most glorious 
body, and being again united to his kindred spirit, will both be active 
in His praise and worship through a long eternity. 

"As to my worldly interest which it has pleased GOD to give me 
which was left me by my late honored father, Nathaniel Mighill, 
Esq., my will is that it be disposed of after my decease and the de- 
cease of my beloved husband, provided he survive me, in the follow- 
ing manner, that is to say: — 

"I bequeath my daughter Hannah Perley five hundred dollars, 
in money, also my muff and tippet. 

"I give and bequeath to my daughter Elwell and to my daugh- 
ter Rust all my wearing apparel, to be equally divided between them. 

"I also give and bequeath to my four daughters, Hannah Per- 
ley, Hetty Perley, Anstes Perley and Susan Perley, the bedroom 
and east chamber, one-half of the west garret, also liberty in the 
kitchen for household work and the north cellar, all being in my 
present dwelling house. I give also to my four daughters, Hannah, 
Hetty, Anstes and Susan, one-quarter of an acre of land, joining on 
the east end of Plbenezer Perley's house lot ; also liberty for water 
at the well and spout ; also liberty to take any fruit for their own 
eating; also one cow found and kept for them summer and winter; 
also two cords of wood yearly; and all these last enumerated articles 
to be found for them so long as they shall live single and improve 
the same personally. I also give them all my household furniture. 

"I give and bequeath to my three daughters, Hetty, Anstes and 
Susan one hundred dollars each in money. 

"I also give and bequeath to my daughter Dole ten dollars. 

"I give and bequeath to my daughter Perley, the wife of Eben- 
ezer P. Perley, fifty dollars. 

"I give and bequeath to my daughter Kilham fifty dollars. 

"And lastly I give and bequeath all the rest, residue and re- 
mainder of my estate, both real and personal, to my two sons, Na- 
thaniel Mighill Perley and John Perley, equally to be divided be- 
tween them, they paying my just debts and funeral charges. 

"And my will further is that the above said legacies, or sums of 
money, be paid to the respective legatees in one year after my 
decease or the decease of my husband above-named, provided he 
survive me, by my executors hereinafter named. 

"And I do hereby constitute and appoint my two sons Nathaniel 
Mighill Perley and John Perley as executors of this my last will and 
testament; hereby revoking all former wills by me made. 

"In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the 
twenty-fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand 
eight hundred and eleven. 

[Signed] Hannah Perley. 

"Wit. Joshua Jewett, John Lambert, James Perley." 

Proved 7 April, 1813.— Vol. 383:496. 

The inventory of her estate was made by Moses Bradstreet, 
Thomas Mighill and Joshua Jewett, 6 July, 1813, (Vol. 387:29) and 
was as follows: 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



103 



The dwelling house with about 6 acres of land adjoining - $1200 
About 4i acres of land on the easterly side of the way with the 

barn 400 

About 5 acres of land, Trumbel's . . . . . 300 

About 25 acres in West Ox-pasture ... - - 625 
About 5 acres, Bachelor Meadow . . . . . 100 

About 9 acres Ox-pasture Marsh 225 



Total 



$2850 



Plrst Account : 

The inventory, all real estate 
Estate debtor: 

Paid M. Richards 

Paid Timothy Harris, Jr. 

Paid David Saunders 

Paid Nathaniel Harris 

Paid David Saunders 

Paid James Smith 

Paid Humphrey Hobson, on mort. 

Paid M. Bradstreet 

Paid James Smith 

Paid M. Dole, Jr. . - . 

Paid A. Woodbury 

Paid Nathan Hobson 

Paid M. Richards 

Paid Ebenezer Boynton 

Paid Nathan Hobson 

Paid Executor . . . . 

Paid for Inventory 



$2850 



$12.39 
115.00 

49.40 
150.00 
124.59 

14.07 
714.00 
105.00 
149.00 
750.00 
124.82 
166.65 

60.00 
200.00 
400.35 

50.00 
2.00 



$3187.27 
[Signed] John Perley, Jr. 
Dated 5 April, 1815.— Vol. 387:30. 

Second Account. Presented 9 June, 1815. (Vol. 387 :316) : 

Paid H. Hobson (wrongly charged) $714 

Paid M. Bradstreet, ditto 105 

Estate Debtor: 

Charge in former account, . . - - 

Paid N. M. Perley ----- 

Paid Francis Perley 

Paid Francis Perley 

Paid legacy Hannah Perley . - - - 
Paid legacy Anstis Perley - - - - 
Paid legacy Susan Perley - . - - 

Paid legacy Sally Perley . . - - 
Paid for stating this account . - - - 



; 187.27 
500.00 
208.30 
114.85 
500.00 
100.00 
100.00 
50.00 
1.00 



Total 



t761.42 



104 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Third Account. Presented 26 Dec, 1815. (Vol. 388:260) : 

Amount of credit in 2nd account $819 

Real estate sold by order of Court to Daniel Todd, Jr., 
the only highest bidder: 

25 acres West Ox-pasture $700 

15 acres marsh and upland 265 

Dwelling house, barn and land on both sides of the 

road 3000 

3965 



Total $4784 

Estate Debtor: 

Amount of debts in 2d account- - - - $4761.42 
Paid Joseph Woodman, Judith Jewett's executor 100.00 
Paid for stating account 2.00 



Total - - $4863.42 

In 1817, May 6, Daniel Todd, Jr., and Hannah his wife, sold to 
Hannah Perley, Anstis Perley and Susan Perley, all of Rowley, sin- 
glewomen, for $2000, a certain piece of land, about six acres, near the 
Common in said Rowley, with the buildings thereon, bounded east- 
erly by the highway leading to Ipswich ; also another parcel of land 
near the Common with the buildings thereon, about four and a quar- 
ter acres, bounded westerly by the highway leading to Ipswich. — 
Reg. 215:98. 

By this deed the title to this property returned to the Perley 
family, with whose descendants it has since remained, the present 
owner making it her summer home. 

It seems from Mrs. Perley 's will — "all being in my present 
dwelling house" — and the memory of those now living, that the fam- 
ily lived in the Mighill-Perley house, probably from the death of her 
father, "Squire" Mighill, but from the above deeds the family's 
early home in Rowley may have been located elsewhere — some spot 
not now determined but may be later, in the families of his sons, 
Nathaniel Mighill and John. 

This house is one of the most attractive and interesting relics 
of "ye auld lang sine" to be found in the town. 

It is said that in this house Capt. Nathaniel Mighill Perley se- 
creted, for twenty-four hours, a British officer who for some cause 
was a fugitive from British authority. During some part of that 
time the British diligently searched the house in vain. Tradition 
does not name his crime or speak of his ultimate fate. 

1 Perley children: Child^, Elizabeth'^, Hannah-, child", Judith- 
110, Priscilla-, Nathaniel Mighill-lU, Sarah-174, Mary'*, Ruth^ 
Mehitable'% John-112, Anstess'^, Susans 

2 The first child^ was stillborn, 21 Feb., 1766. Elizabeth^ was 
born 8 Feb., 1770, and married, 22 Feb., 1791, Samuel ElwelP in 
Rowley. Hannah^ was born 30 Aug., 1772, never married, and re- 
sided with her brother John, till her death, 3 April, 1853. A name- 
less child^ died in Oct., 1775. Priscilla^ was born 6 July, 1779, and 
by her tomb record died at the age of one year, three months, four- 



I 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 105 

teen days. A second Priscilla married Jonathan Kilham of Boston, 
They had a son who was engaged to Lucy A. Perley-112 when he 
died. She married, however, another son, William Kilham. Eliza- 
beth, daughter of Jonathan, married Michael Simpson'' and had a 
son Harry, graduate of Harvard College, who died in Florence, 
Italy; another, P'rank, who did business in Boston, and a daughter 
who married Prof. Seelye of Cincinnati. Jonathan's daughter Julia 
married a son of President Nathan Lord of Dartmouth College, and 
another had a daughter who married a Mears. Mrs. Lord's chil- 
dren: Mrs. Julia Cowles and Mrs. Hosford. Ruth' died at Moses 
Dole's' in Rowley 28 July, 1803. Mehitable' was born 29 March, 1788, 
and died of consumption at Jonathan Kilham's in Boston, 6 or 16 Oct., 
1816. Anstess' was born 8 or 18 March, 1792, published with Na- 
thaniel Lambert of Rowley, 2 Nov., 1822, and died in Boston, of 
white swelling, 12 or 20 June, 1831, aged thirty-nine years. The 
name is also spelled Anstress, Anstes, etc. 

3 Mary' was born 13 Aug., 1783, a twin of Sarah. She died 26 
April, 1853. She married 6 May, 1806, Moses Dole, born to Moses 
and Lydia-Hobson Dole of Rowley, 11 Dec, 1769. His home on 
Summer street became the home of his son John, where all his chil- 
dren were born: Lewis Henry^, Mary^ Mary*', Charles*', John^, Me- 
hitable^ John Perley^ Anstess^ Anstess Perley^ 

4 Susan' was born in Sept., 1796, and 17 Nov., 1822, became the 
j second wife of Ezekiel Todd, son of Daniel and Hannah-Bradstreet 
I Todd of Rowley. [Ezekiel's first wife was Apphia, by whom he had 
( Ednah Gage, born 11 Jan., 1815, and Daniel Gage, born 13 Jan., 
) 1817.] They lived in Rowley. She died in 1850, aged fifty-six. 
' Their issue were Apphia, born 17 Dec, 1823, and married Joseph 
j Hale of Rowley; Ezekiel Rogers, born 13 May, 1827, and married 
\\ an Adams, and left children. 

' 5 Lewis H.' was born 13 March, 1807. He died of small pox 24 
Ij Feb., 1855. He was a shoe manufacturer in his native town, where 

he was very successful in business and familiarly known for his 

benevolence and public spirit. He married Lydia Ann Ellen 
; Moody and had children : Grace, who died young ; Frances Ellen 
, Moody, born 23 Nov., 1849, who resides, unmarried, in Salem with 
I her mother, and Lewis Henry, who, born 2 June, 1852, died 26 
I Feb., 1863. 

J Mary' was born 7 May, 1809, and died from a burn 12 Jan., 1811. 
] Charles' was born 7 May, 1813, married Mehitable P. Jewett, lived in 

Rowley, and had issue : Mary Ann, who married W. C. Donovan", and 
j Charles Leveritt', who married Lydia Ann Foster, daughter of Sam- 
\ uel Perkins Foster, a war veteran of Ipswich. John' was born 23 
I April, 1815, and died young. Mehitable' was born 18 Feb., 1819, 
j never married, resided on her birthplace. John Perley' was born 24 
I May, 1821, resided with Mehitable on the old homestead. Anstess' 
, was born 29 Sept., 1823. Anstess Perley' was born 27 March, 
j 1826, and lived, unmarried, with Mehitable and John P. on Summer 
' street. 
I 6 Mary' was born 28 Jan., 1811, and became the second wife of 

Mark Jewett of Rowley. [Mark's first wife was Elizabeth Gould of 
■ Ipswich, and his third was Betsey Smith, daughter of "Master" 



106 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Smith, a very successful school master and a cousin of Landlord 
Smith of the "Old Rowley Hostelry." 1 lis fourth was a Miss Brown 
of Hamilton, a sister of Mrs. Francis Dane of Boston.] 

That he was discovered tloatiui;- in Rowley river in 1879, when 
eighty years old. is all that is known of his death. Mary left two 
chikhen : Mary Elizabeth, who married Warren Putney, and had 
Bessie Warren, who died young. Lewis Henry and Edith; and Wil- 
lard Holbrook, who died a young man. 

7 Michael Simpson- gave the annex to the Newburyport Public 
Library, and other public gifts. William Clement Donovan' was of 
Chester, N. H., and a Union soldier. He is dead and his widow 
lives in Lynn. Charles L." is an extensive broker in live stock, of 
which he is an unusually good judge. 

8 Samuel Elwell's- daughter married John F. Jamin of the Isle 
of France. George B. Blodgette, Esq., of Rowley, writes: "I knew 
him well, and he was a gentleman." See Miss Dole's letter above. 

Mr. Jamin's tomb record is as follows: "John P>ancis Jamin, 
born in the Isle of France, 1791, died in Rowley, Mass., 1870, aged 
79 yrs. ; Hannah Mighill, wife of J. F. Jamin, died 18(>9, aged 76 
yrs. ; John P'rancis Codeau, only son of ]. ¥. & H. M. Jamin. died 
1844, aged 18 yrs.; Hannah Elwell, only daughter of J. F. & H. M. 
Jamin, died 1840. aged *21 years. 



FAMILY 54: PERLEY. 

I.1NE.\L DESCENT— ALL AN-1. SAMUEL-3, JOHN-13. SAMUEL-30. 

NATHANIEL PERLEY was born in Linebrook Parish, Ips- 
wich, 11 Oct., 1745. He married Sarah Dutch of Ipswich Village, 
sister to Rev. Ebenezer Dutch, many years pastor of the East Par- 
ish, Bradford, now (jroveland, published "Jo Sept., 1769. She was 
born in 1749. Her second husband was Lt. Samuel Bacon of Brad- 
ford, by whom she had several issue. She died 8 May, 1819, aged 
sixty-nme years. Her epitaph in Groveland cemetery reads: 

What though our joys are torn away 

And buried in tlie silent tomb, 
Jesus can wake the sleeping olav 

And clothe it with innnortal "bloom. 

Sleep on, Dear Mother, thy cares are o'er: 
We soon shall meet to part no more. 

His early home was in Ipswich. We find no corroboration of a 
claim that he lived in Rowley aiid Newburyport. At one time his 
wife and family were living in Groveland, probably with her brother. 

He was a member of Capt. Daniel Rogers' company of minute 
men that marched from Ipswich to Lexington on the 19'** April, 
1775. His company hung upon the rear of the Red-coats as they 
worried their sad way to Boston, and was stationed in that vicinity 
four days. He marched sixty miles and received ten shillings, 
eight pence. After that service he entered with enthusiasm into 
privateering, and did excellent service for a long time. "Cleared 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 107 

from Salem, Schooner Sally, Parley Master, for Nova Scotia," 1774, 
probably refers to him. 

In the spring of 1779, despite his vigilance and alertness, he was 
^captured by the hated Britisher. He could not brook the haughty 
insolence of his captor, and he answered back with spirit. The 
British officer shot him dead upon the spot. Thus tragically ended 
'the heroic life of a sterling patriot, at the age of thirty-two years. 
He left a widow and several small children. The administration of 
his estate was granted his widow 6 July, 1779; the inventory was 
\£'21H 17s; her accounts were allowed in 1779, 1788, and 1793. The 
children's guardian was their mother's second husband, appointed 5 
Dec, 1791. 

1 Perley children: NathanieP, William', Ebenezer-113, Samuel- 
114, Sarah^ (John^'). 

2 NathanieP and William^ were probably twins, since they were 
baptised 27 Feb., 1771. 

3 Sarah' was baptised 6 Dec, 1778, in Ipswich. She discharged 
her guardian 22 April, 1800, when she was of Durham, N. H. She 
married, first, Joseph Pollard of Andover, "who failed in business, 
and not relishing the idea of imprisonment for debt, left for parts 
unknown" to us. She married, second, Samuel Wells, a ship black- 
smith of Amesbury. Their children were : Charlotte Bacon, born 
8 Sept., 180JS, and married Jonathan Gove of Seabrook, N. H.; Sal- 
jly, born 9 March, 1810, and married Eleazer Wadleigh of Salis- 
bury; Rebecca, born 23 Dec, 1811, and married William Wise of 
Boston; Nathaniel, born 31 March, 1814, and married Sophia 
Taverner; Mary Eustis''; Lydia ¥/'; Ruth Ann Currier''. 

4 Mary E.'^ was born 15 Sept., 1816, in Amesbury, where she 
died. She married Jeremiah Merrill, a blacksmith, born in Salis- 
bury, 10 Dec, 1814, to Sarah-Felch of Seabrook, N. H., and John 
B. Merrill, a blacksmith of Salisbury, where he died. Merrill chil- 
dren: John, born 4 Jan., 1840, died before 1895; Charles Perley; 
Mary, born 9 Dec, 1843, and married John True of Salisbury; Ag- 
nes E., born 25 March, 1845, and married Dudley E. Gale of Salis- 
bury; Lydia J., born 29 Oct., 1847, and married a Purinton; Frank 
W., born 16 Oct., 1851, and resides in Boston; George W., born 30 
Jan., 1853, and died young; Addie F., born 5 May, 1856, married 
William Swett, and lives in Chicago, 111. 

5 Lydia F.'^ was born 13 July, 1819, in Amesbury, and died 24 
May, 1891. She married George W. Morrill, born 15 May, 1815, in 
Amesbury, to Hannah-Colby and Moses Morrill, a shipwright, and 
died in Boston, 10 Dec, 1886. He was a manufacturer of cars in 
Cleveland, O., and served one or more terms as a Massachusetts 
State Senator. Morrill issue: Horace Adams, born 16 May, 1844, 
and died 28 May, 1857; Frank P^orrest, born 6 Jan., 1847, and a 
banker in Boston, with residence in Newburyport ; Georgetta, that 
died young; Jettie M., born 13 July, 1855, married Charles W. Was- 
son of Cleveland, O., and died in Amesbury, 14 June, 1887, leaving 
two daughters. 

6 Ruth A. C.^ was born 6 Nov., 1824, in Amesbury, where she 
died. She married in Amesbury, 27 Nov., 1855, Orlando S. B, 
Swett, mill overseer, born 1 1 Sept., 1817, to Mary-Swett and her 



108 THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

cousin Eliphalet Swett, a hatter, of Amesbury. They had Everett, 
who died young. 

7 John\ All we know of this man and his descendants is what 
his grandson and namesake wrote: "All I can find out about my- 
self is that my grandfather's name was John, and that he emigrated 
from New Hampshire to Vincennes in the year 1816, and died 
there the same summer. He had a brother Nathaniel, a lawyer, 
who was a bachelor. My grandfather left four sons, George, Moses, 
John and Samuel. John died in Mississippi; Samuel and my father 
died in Vincennes; I do not know what became of Moses." The i 
record of his own family he gave as follows: John Perley of Atlanta, 
Ga., son of George, married 1 Jan., 1852, R. M. Reade of Liberty, 
Mo., who was born 20 Sept., 1828, and "never had a child." 

This man no doubt belongs to our family, but we cannot place 
him with satisfaction. If his wife was born in 1828, his grandfather 
was born near 1775. He would fit in family 46, but the records and 
traditions do not furnish the man, and Nathaniel was not a bach- 
elor. Squire George A. Perley's chart places him in family 113, 
which gives hardly time enough for three generations, the last mar- 
riageable in 1828. However, this is all we know about him. 



FAMILY 55: AMES. 

LINEAL DESCENT- ALL AN-1, SAMUEL-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30. 

RUTH PERLEY was born 29 Oct., 1747. She was married, 
by her brother. Rev. Samuel Perley of Seabrook, 19 Dec, 1768, to 
Jonathan Ames, baptised in the Second Church, 11 Sept., 1748, for 
Jonathan and Elizabeth-Blunt Ames of Boxford. His birthplace 
was near Capt. Enoch Wood's residence, on the road between the 
two parishes, and the old cellar still marks the spot. There he and 
his young wife made their home, under the parental roof; but only 
a few months elapsed, when, 5 June, 1769, she suddenly died, and 
was quickly buried. Foul play was suspected, and a month later, 10 
July, the body was exhumed and an inquest held. The verdict ran, 
that "she came to her death by poison," and that it was "uncertain" 
who administered it, Jonathan's mother being the person accused of 
committing the deed. It was thought that the great wealth of the 
family saved the wretched woman's life. Such was the tragic end 
of beautiful, young and hopeful Ruth. 

The Essex Antiquarian says this was one of the most interest- 
ing criminal cases tried in Essex County, and thus relates it : 

Spring had hardly come when Mrs. Ames, senior, began to 
speak of Ruth as her son's housekeeper. Eventually, the latter 
part of May, 1769, a child was born to the newly wedded couple. 

On the morning of the fifth of June, one of the neighbors, Mrs. 
Kimball, called to see the young mother. She was met at the door 
by Mrs. Ames, senior, who, in reply to the request of Mrs. Kimball 
to see Ruth, objected, intimating that she was very ill, and had 
vomited and purged so much that it was disagreeable to enter the 
chamber. Notwithstanding, Mrs. Kimball entered the house and 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 109 

went into the sick chamber. She found that the room was clean 
and agreeable, and there appeared no signs of vomiting or purging. 
But Ruth was in deathly agony, with froth or phlegm exuding from 
her mouth. She was taken sick in that manner at about seven 
'. o'clock in the morning and died between eleven and twelve o'clock 
before noon. Mrs. Ames said she knew that Ruth would die, as it 
was the same disorder that a certain Mrs. Chandler died with some 
years before, and that it "was as mortal as the plague"; and that 
there would be another death soon, having reference to the baby. 
On laying out the body, livid spots, indicating poison, appeared on 
one of the arms of the deceased. 

The writer was informed many years ago by an aged lady, who 
. was born and had always lived her almost century of years within a 
few rods of the Ames homestead, and personally knew many of the 
people who took a prominent part in the events that followed, that 
the funeral occurred soon after Ruth's death, that none of the 
neighbors were invited to it and that a clergyman from a neighbor- 
ing town performed the burial service instead of Rev. John Gush- 
ing, pastor of the church, who was their nearest neighbor. The 
burial occurred in the old village cemetery, which is shown as it 
now appears in the middle section of the accompanying illustration. 
Mrs. Kimball was supicious that Ruth had been poisoned to 
j death. She repeatedly told of what she had experienced at the Ames 
'house and in the sick room. The peculiar attitude which Mrs. 
; Ames assumed towards the deceased seemed to confirm the sus- 
, picion of poisoning, and that Mrs. Ames was at least cognizant of 
; the crime. The matter of an accusation was not at first conceived, 
J but about a month afterward the feeling against Mrs. Ames became 
,i so strong that a complaint signed by twenty-nine men, and consent- 
^ ed to by the relatives of the deceased, was preferred to Henry In- 
, galls, Moses Dole and Abraham Choate, three coroners, for an in- 
quisition upon the body, which had lain in the ground all that length 
i,| of time. 

j The coroners thereupon summoned a jury of twenty-five (whose 
, names are affixed to their report hereinafter given, Joseph Osgood 
j being foreman), thirteen of whom were physicians; and four other 
^1 physicians were engaged to perform the autopsy. 

The inquest was opened on Monday, July 10th, "when there as- 
i sembled a promiscuous multitude of people." The court was held 
;i in the meetinghouse, which stood on the easterly side of the "San- 
I dy road" in the pasture in the rear of the old cemetery, a road 
' which can still be traced running from the meeting house up the 
I present wooded declivity to the cemetery, and from thence as it now 
I exists to the parsonage on the ancient Andover road. The site of 
j the meeting house, as it now appears, is shown in the accompanying 
\ illustration, at the bottom. 

j Rarely, if ever, has such a mass of people been seen in the 
] parish, the meeting house being, as the current newspaper* said, 
j "much thronged." 

The court was opened with prayer. The coroners then gave 
I 

* Essex Gazette, July 11-18. 1769. 



IJO THE PERLEY FAMILY 

the jury "their solemn charge." During these exercises, the same 
newspaper account says, "there appeared not the least irregularity 
or disorder, but a solemn, silent sadness seemed to be fixed on the 
face of the gayest youth." 

After the charge, the coroners, the jury and the spectators pro- 
ceeded "with decency and good order," over the winding roadway 
up the hill to the old burying ground, where for five weeks had lain 
the body of the murdered girl. 

The exhumation of the body was begun; and as it progressed 
the human mass surged around the grave so eagerly to see the 
whole operation that they were only kept from causing harm by be- 
ing told that all should have an opportunity of seeing the remains. 

The body was taken to the meeting house, the procession taking 
up its route down the hill, at the middle of that midsummer day. 

An autopsy was made by the physicians; the jury heard their 
report and other testimony, and two days later the coroners and the 
jury made report of their inquisition as follows: — 

"Essex Ss. 

"An Inquisition. Indented & taken at Boxford within the 
s'^ County of Essex, the Twelfth Day of July, in the Ninth year of 
our Sovereign Lord George, the third, by y*' Grace of God, of Great 
Britain, France and Ireland, King, defender of y*" Faith, &c., before 
Henry Ingalls, Moses Dole, & Abraham Choate, Gentlemen, Coro- 
ners for our S'^ Lord the King, within the County of Essex afores*^ 
upon the View of the Body of Ruth Eams Wife of Jon'\ Ames Jur. 
then and there being Dead by the Oaths of Joseph Osgood, || Fore- 
man, Nehemiah Abbot, Amos Putnam, Enoch Sawyer Jun., Micajah 
Sawyer, James Brickett, W'"- Hale, Silas Miriam, Thomas Kit- 
redge, Wallace Rust, Ephraim Davis, Simons Baker, Benjn. Muzzy, 
Ephraim Wales, Peter Osgood, Dan\ Spafford, Asa Perly, Benjn. 
Berry, Nathan Wood, John Hale, Ephraim P\dler, Moody Bridges, 
Nathaniel Pearly, Oliver Peabody, Rich*^. Peabody, Good and Law- 
ful Men of the County of Essex afores'', who being Charged and 
Sworn to enquire for our Lord the King, when, by what means, 
and how, the s'^ Ruth Fames came to her Death, upon their Oaths 
do say, the s*^ Ruth Fames on the fifth Day of June last in the morn- 
ing Died of P^elony ( that is to say by Poison ) given to her by a Per- 
son or Persons to us unknown which murder is against the Peace of 
our s<i Lord the King, his Crown and Dignity. In Witness whereof 
We the s*^ Coroners, as well as the s'^ Jurors to this Inquisition, have 
interchangeably put our Hands and Seals the Day and year above- 
said. 

"Joseph Osgood, Nehemiah Abbot, Amos Putnam, Enoch Saw- 
yer Jun""., Micajah Sawyer, James Brickett, William Hale, Silas Mer- 
riam, Tho^ Kittredge, Wallis Rust, Symonds Baker, Benj«. Muzzy, 
Ephraim Davis, Eph™. Wales, Peter Osgood, Daniel Spaffard, Asa 
Perley, Benj«. Berry, Nathan Wood, John Hale, Moody Bridges, 
Ephraim Fuller, Nath^ Perley, Oliver Peabody, Richeard Peabody." 

When it was found that no sufficient evidence could be adduced 
to connect either the husband of the murdered girl, or his mother, 
with the murder, then was demanded an exhibition of that almost 
forgotten "ordeal of touch," which has rarely been known in Eng- 




Bar aud Post iu the Ames Cellar. 

The Ancient Cemetery. 

Site of the Meeting House. 
APROPOS THE AMES MURDER. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY HI 

land in modern centuries, and, as the writer believes, never in New 
England, except in this instance. 

The body being laid upon a table with a sheet over it, Jonathan 
and his mother were invited to prove their innocence by this grue- 
some test. The ancient practice was similar. The body was laid 
at length, covered only with a sheet of the purest white, in the dim 
and weird church, and the suspected party was invited to touch the 
neck of the deceased with the index finger of the left hand, the su- 
perstition being that when the guilty hand touched the remains blood 
would issue, the whiteness of the sheet making it plainly visible, 
"pleading trumpet-tongued against the deep damnation of her tak- 
ing off." 

These scenes were always awful, being rendered more so by the 
environment and the nervous tension of every one of the multitude 
that gazed with strained eyes and breathless upon the accused as he 
dared to either advance toward or retreat from the remains, either 
direction tending to confirm his guilt in the minds of the spectators 
until he finally passed the ordeal, which but few persons ever did. 

In this instance, from fear, probably, not that they believed in 
the superstition, but were afraid that by some chance blood might 
flow, both refused. 

The "examination gave great occasion to conclude that they 
were concerned in the poisoning," and on Tuesday, July 18, they 
were arrested and taken to Salem, where they were confined in the 
ancient jail where the persons accused of witchcraft were imprisoned 
many years before. 

When the grand jury sat, Mrs. Ames was duly indicted as the 
principal, and Jonathan as accessory in the crime. Mrs. Ames' in- 
dictment was as follows : — 

"The Jurors for the said Lord the King upon their Oath pre- 
sented that Elizabeth Eams the wife of Jonathan Eams of Boxford 
in the said county of Essex yeoman, on the fourth day of June last 
past, at Boxford aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, not having the 
fear of God in her heart, but feloniously, wickedly and of her malice 
aforethought intending and contriving with Poison to kill and mur- 
der one Ruth Eams, then and there being in the peace of God, and 
of the said Lord the King, did then & there with force and arms 
feloniously willfully and of her malice aforethought, mix and mingle 
a great quantity of white arsenic, being a deadly poison, in a certain 
quantity of Spermaceti she the said Elizabeth Earns, then and there 
well knowing the said white arsenic to be a deadly poison ; And 
that she the said Elizabeth Eams, there afterwards, to wit, on the 
.-ame day, the poison aforesaid so mixed and mingled as aforesaid; 
with force and arms feloniously willfully and of her malice afore- 
thought, did offer and give to her the said Ruth Eams, to take, eat 
and Swallow down; and that the s'' Ruth Eams, not knowing the 
poison aforesaid, to have been mixed and mingled as aforesaid, in 
the Spermaceti aforesaid, there afterward on the same day, by the 
procurement and persuasion of the said Elizabeth Eams, did take, 
eat and swallow down the said Poison, so mixed and mingled as 
aforesaid ; and thereupon the said Ruth Eams by the said poison, so 
as aforesaid taken eaten & Swallowed down, then and there became 



J 12 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

sick and distempered in her body; and the said Ruth Earns of the 
poison aforesaid, and of the sickness and Distemper thereby occa- 
sioned, did languish, and languishing did live from the said fourth 
day of June last, untill the fifth day of the same June, at Boxford 
aforesaid in the county aforesaid ; on which same fifth day of June, 
at Boxford aforesaid in the county aforesaid, the said Ruth Earns 
died of the poison aforesaid and of the Sickness and distemper 
thereby occasioned as aforesaid; and so the Jurors aforesaid upon 
their ||said|| Oath do say that the said Elizabeth Eams, in manner 
and form and by the means aforesaid, feloniously, willfully and of 
her malice aforethought, did poison kill and murder the said Ruth 
Eams against the peace of the s*^ Lord the King his crown and 
dignity. 

"Jon : Sewell, Atty. pro. Dom^. Reg^. 

"This is a true bill 

"David Britton, Foreman." 

While lodged in jail, Mrs. Ames was heard to mutter in her 
sleep, "Don't tell on me, Jonathan; if you do, I shall be hanged." 

The superior court, in which the case would be tried, being about 
to sit in Salem, Jonathan's sister Elizabeth was arrested as an ac- 
cessory to the murder, by Amos MuUiken, deputy sheriff, on No- 
vember 9th, and lodged in the jail at Salem on the same day. 

The court convened on the morning of Tuesday, the 14th, in the 
old court house that then stood in the middle of Washington street, 
opposite the Tabernacle church. The judges upon the bench were 
Benjamin Lynde, John Gushing, Peter Oliver and P^dmund Trow- 
bridge, and during the session they boarded with William Goodhue. 

The jury impaneled to try the case consisted of Jonathan Orne 
of Salem, foreman, and John Gardner of Salem, William Bowden 
of Marblehead, Daniel Jacobs of Danvers, Thorndike Proctor, Jr., of 
Salem, William Becket of Salem, Richard Manning of Salem, Ste- 
phen Phillips of Marblehead, Thomas Grant of Marblehead, Theoph- 
ilus Breed of Lynn, Mascol Williams of Salem, and Samuel Holton 
of Danvers. 

The counsel for the king was Jonathan Sewell of Boston. 

The counsel of the accused was John Adams, afterwards Presi- 
dent of the United States. He was, at this time, thirty-four years 
of age. In the trial of this case, we can imagine the dignity and 
deliberation of his procedure, and the beaming of his intelligent face, 
which attracted so much attention when a few years later he became 
the man second in America to none but Washino-ton. 

The witnesses were summoned to present themselves at eight 
o'clock in the morning, and there was a host of them. There were 
Dr. Nathaniel Perkins and Dr. James Lloyd, both of Boston, Dr. 
Isaac Rand of Charlestown, David George and Josiah George, both 
of Newburyport,* Rev. Samuel Pearley of Seabrook,t JohnP^wler of 
Ipswich, yeoman, Enoch Kimball, yeoman, John Chadwick, gentle- 
man, and his wife Susannah, Prudence Tyler, singlewoman, Mehita- 

» These young men were under age, and were summoned in behalf of the prisoner, 
t Brother of the murdered woman. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 113 

ble Tyler, wife of Gideon Tyler, Benjamin Porter, Jr., yeoman, John 
Tyler and Jonathan Tyler (sons of Gideon Tyler), William Eiles, 
yeoman, Oliver Foster, yeoman, Jonathan Foster, gentleman, George 
Farnam, laborer, all of Boxford, Miriam Dole of Rowley, Joseph 
Manning, John Calfe, Ephraim Chadwick, Dr. Thomas Kittredge, 
Dr. Francis Hodgskins, Dr. John Manning, Jr., Abraham How, yeo- 
man, all of Ipswich, Elizabeth, wife of Richard Kimball, Dr. Moses 
Barker, Soloman Cole, yeoman, Daniel Long, yeoman, all of Andor 
ver, Sarah Estey of Middleton, spinster, Nathan Browne, gentleman, 
and Jonathan Cook, fisherman, both of Salem, Aaron Wood, esq., 
and Amos Kimball, yeoman, both of Boxford, Dr. William Hale of 
Boxford, Dr. Macajah Sawyer and Dr. Enoch Sawyer, Jr., both of 
Newburyport, Dr. Nehemiah Abbot of Andover, Lucy, wife of 
Abraham How, Ezekiel Potter, yeoman, and Martha Pearley, spin- 
ster, both of Ipswich, Dr. Ward Noyce of Andover, Moses Dole, 
yeoman, Daniel Spafford, gentleman, and Robert Cregg, yeoman, 
all of Rowley, Moses George of Newburyport, shipwright, Mary, 
wife of Isaac Blunt of Andover, Sarah Porter, widow, and Dea. 
Thomas Chadwick, both of Boxford, John Barker of Andover, Dr. 
Henry Dow Banks of Haverhill, and Richard Dole and his wife 
Miriam of Boxford. 

Mrs. Ames "was thereupon brought and set to the bar and ar- 
raigned and upon her arraignment pleaded not guilty and for trial 
put herself upon God and the country," — so runs the official record. 
The jury were then sworn to try the issue. 

The trial began at nine o'clock; and the substance of the 
evidence, according to the report of the case in the then current 
Essex Gazette, was as follows: — 

"That on a violent Suspicion that the said Ruth Fames, who died 
the Beginning of last May, was poisoned, her Body, five Weeks after 
the Burial, was taken up ; and a Number of Physicians, summoned 
on the Jury of Inquest, on opening the same, and finding a Sub- 
stance, which they believed to be Arsenick or Ratsbane, adhering 
to the Coats of the Stomach, were unanimously of Opinion, that she 
lost her Life by Poison: That to corroborate this Opinion, it ap- 
peared that one Mrs. Kimball went to see the Deceased the Morn- 
ing before her Death, and on signifying her Desire of going up 
Chamber, the Prisoner (who was Mother in Law to the said 
Deceased, and resided in the same House with her) made an Objec- 
tion to it, intimating that her Daughter was very ill, and had 
vomited and purged so much as to render it very disagreeable to 
enter the Chamber; notwithstanding which, Mrs. Kimball went 
up, found (the Reverse of what had been told her by the Prisoner) 
the Chamber clean and agreeable, and no Signs of vomiting or 
purging, but found the Deceased almost or quite in the Agonies of 
Death, with Froth or Phlegm issuing out of her Mouth, and 
expired soon after, viz., between 11 and 12 o'Clock in the Forenoon, 
having been ill from about seven in the Morning: That before her 
Death, the Prisoner said, she would certainly die, for her Disorder 
was the same that one Mrs. Chandler died of some Years before, and 
was as mortal as the Plague; and that there would be another Death 
in the Family soon (meaning an Infant which the Deceased, its 



114 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



mother, had lately suckled): That on laying out the Body, livid 
Spots, an Indication of Poison, appeared on one of her Arms : That 
the Prisoner, when she was assured the Body would be dug up, 
expressed much Concern, and said she should not live a Month : That 
since her Imprisonment she has said she believed her Daughter 
was poisoned, and that her Son Jonathan ( Husband to the De- 
ceased) did it; and asked whether she could not turn King's 
Evidence." 

The court thought proper to admit the evidence of Jonathan, who 
had turned King's evidence against his mother. 

"By his Testimony, it appeared that five or six Days before his 
Wife died, his Mother told him that she would deprive him of his 
Housekeeper (as she called his Wife) if she did it by a Portion of 
Ratsbane; and the Night before her Death, he saw his Mother give 
his Wife a Piece of Bread and Butter, with Ratsbane on it, as near 
as he could tell ; and said that since he has heard the Doctors tell 
what Ratsbane is, he is certain that it was that; and that he 
cautioned his Wife against taking it." 

The trial continued through the short November day, and the 
dusk of evening found the court in session. Candles were lighted, 
and dimly dispelled the darkness of the ancient court room. Gloom 
must have settled on the prisoners, who knew not what the result of 
the trial might be, and the jury, too. could not have escaped from 
the feeling of awe that their duty that night must give or take a 
human life. 

The trial wore on. The midnight hour approached and passed 
before the lawyers began their arguments to the jury. 

John Adams spoke first. With all the solemnity of the hour and 
the occasion, he urged the jury to give release to the prisoner. As 
the substance of his argument, he said that by the evidence it did 
not appear that Mrs. Ames had been guilty of any ill behavior tow- 
ard the deceased during their residence together in the same house; 
that it was the opinion of physicians that it was very improbable, if 
not impossible, that arsenic should lie so long in the body, as it was 
said it did in that of the deceased, that is, from some time in the 
evening till seven o'clock in the morning, before it operated; that 
the body, when taken up, was not putrefied in such a manner as it 
must have been had the deceased been poisoned ; and that the evi- 
dence of the prisoner's son, Jonathan Ames, was not to be relied on, 
as he had sworn before the coroner, at the time the body was taken 
up, that he had no knowledge of anyone's poisoning his wife; and 
now, in order to get clear himself, was so base as to give testimony 
which not only rendered him guilty of perjury, but had a direct ten- 
dency to take away the life of his own mother. 

In reply Jonathan Sewall said, in substance, that the deceased 
on the same day that she ate the bread and butter dined on a fish 
called shad, and in the evening following ate a hearty supper of the 
same kind of fish ; which, together with the quantity of butter on 
the bread, with which it is said the arsenic was mixed, and some 
spermaceti which she took soon after, might very probably tend to 
delay the operation of the arsenic ; or, that which the prisoner gave 
the deceased, on the bread and butter, might have been salt, and 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY II5 

that Jonathan was made to believe that it was ratsbane, as an artifice 
to render a discovery more difficult and perplexing, and that she in 
fact administered the arsenic the next morning; that as to the 
body's not being putrefied as much as might be expected, it was the 
opinion of physicians that so large a quantity of arsenic might be 
received into the stomach as to cause violent convulsions and con- 
tractions of the large and small orifices, which might bring on death 
before the poison had mixed with the blood, and therefore a speedy 
putrefaction, as in cases wherein the body swells, might not take 
place; that the prisoner's son, Jonathan Ames, was a legal witness; 
and that it could not be supposed that he would come into court, 
and, in a most solemn manner, swear to that which was false, when 
he must be convinced that his evidence would probably be the 
means of taking away the life of her who bore him. 

Three of the judges, in summing up the evidence, were clear and 
explicit in declaring their opinion that the circumstances proved 
amounted to a "violent presumption" that the prisoner was guilty. 
The other judge was not so clear in his opinion and said that a doubt 
might arise concerning the prisoner's guilt from the judgment of the 
physicians in her favor. 

The case was then committed to the jury, and the court ad- 
journed, at two o'clock in the morning, until nine o'clock. 

At nine o'clock the court came in, the prisoner was placed at the 
bar, and the jury rendered their verdict which cleared the prisoner 
from the bands of the law at least. The record continues, "It is 
therefore considered by the court that the said Elizabeth Eames go 
without day." The record of the court closes as follows: 

"Upon the motion of John Adams Esq'", attorney to Jonathan 
Eams Jun'" and Elizabeth Eams Jun"" who stand committed to his 
majesty's Goal in this county, viz The said Jonathan for the murder, 
and the said Elizabeth as being accessory to the murder of one Ruth 
Eams, be discharged the King's attorney not objecting — 

"Salem november 15th: 1769. Judgment was entered according 
to the Verdicts and Complaints, &c, and the court is adjourned 
without day." 

The next spring Jonathan Ames, Sr., sold the farm, and the fam- 
ily removed to some place unknown to the people of the parish, be- 
ing virtually exiled from all their old associations and homeland. 



FAMILY 56: CLEAVES. 

LINEAL DESCENT—ALLAN-!, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOMAS-33. 

HULDAH PERLEY was born in Boxford 13 Feb., 1731-2, and 
died in Beverly Sept., 1774. She became, 22 April, 1761, the second 
wife of Joshua Cleaves of Beverly, baptised 2 Feb., 1723-4, for Ben- 
jamin and Rebecca-Conant Cleaves. [Joshua had, by his first wife, 
Elizabeth Putnam of Haverhill, married in 1746, five children.] 

1 Cleaves children : Huldah^ Joshua'-, Benjamin'^, Eunice", Gin- 
ger*, Benjamin", Martha", William'^ . 

2 Joshua' was born 13 Aug., 1763. Benjamin' was born 13 April 
and died 20 Aug., 1765. Eunice' was born 27 Feb., 1767. Martha^ 



11(3 THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

was born 11 June, 1775. William^ was born 27 Sept., 1778, and 
married Eunice Baker of Ipswich 1 Dec, 1808. 

3 Huldali^ was born 28 Jan., 1762. She married Rev. Nathan 
Church of South Hadley, who was the first minister of Bridgton, 
Me. Church issue: Harriet, born in Beverly 18 Sept., 1789, and 
died 8 Aug.. 1823; Marenda, born in Bridgton, Me., 7 July, 1791, 
married Valentine Little, and had a daughter; Nathan''; Amanda, 
born in Bridgton 31 July, 1795, died 6 May, 1822; Eliza, born 2 May, 
1798, died 15 Feb., 1823; and Mary. 

4 Ginger^ was born in Beverly 28 Dec, 1769, and died 23 March, 
1836. She married 27 Sept., 1795, Nathaniel Burnham, born in Bol- 
ton, Mass., 29 Oct., 1769, to Simeon and Molly Burnham, who located 
in Bridgton, Me., in Oct., 1775, which place Nathaniel adopted as 
his home. Burnham children: Nathaniel'; John*; Joshua Cleaves®; 
Thomas^"; Alvin, born 8 July, 1807, died 21 March, 1829. 

5 Benjamin^ was baptised m Beverly 5 Sept., 1773. He died 17 
Feb., 1837. He married 27 April, 1799, Susannah Woodbury and 
settled in Bridgton. They had: Thomas"; WiUiam W., born in 
1801; Benjamin'-; Mary B., born U Nov., 1808, married 28 Oct., 
1830, Enoch Deering, and had Enoch M., and William A.; Nathan, 
who by wife Nancy A. McLellan had Angela M.-258, Emily D. and 
Martha W. ; George L., born 14 Oct., 1806, married Mary Strout and 
had Susan and Anna M. ; Larkin W., born 1 June, 1822. 

6 Nathan'^ born in Bridgton 16 March, 1793, by his first wife 
Mary (Deborah.?) Fowler, married 14 Oct., 1823, had born in Bridg- 
ton, Marshall N., in 1825, who died 1 Dec, 1832; Mary F. (Mar- 
garet.?), Jan., 1828. Mrs. Church died 17 Feb., 1828. Nathan mar- 
ried, second, Miriam Chute, and had Amanda E., born 15 Sept., 1830; 
Melinda G., born 9 Jan., 1833; Louisa W., born in 1835; and John 
and Nathan, who are not recorded in the Ingalls journal. 

7 Nathaniel' was born 20 June, 1796, and died in 1844. He 
married in Bridgton 6 Dec, 1818, Charlotte Smith, born in Bridg- 
ton 18 Oct., 1797, to Jonathan and Lucy Smith, and had born in 
Bridgton Nathan Cleaves, 1 Oct., 1818; Mary W., 28 July, 1820; 
Angelina P., 18 Aug., 1827; Elizabeth D., 4 Dec, 1830, died 8 May, 
1836. •" 

8 John^ born 9 April, 1798, by wife Martha M. Gage, married in 
1822, Kad^lDorn in Bridgton John Lyman, 15 Oct., 1823, died 17 
Sept., 1825; Angehne C, 8 April, 1826; Harriet G., 28 Nov., 1829; 
Martha W., 30 March, 1832. 

9 Joshua Cleaves^ born 10 July, 18 02, married Deborah Hans- 
comb, and had born in Bridgton Frances P., 10 July, 1826; Leonard 
M., 21 May, 1828; Abigail F., 30 May, 1830; and Alonzo. 

10 Thomas^ born 8 March, 1804, died 21 Dec, 1831, married 
Joanna Prentiss and had born in Bridgton, Fanny Prentiss, 25 Oct., 
1829; and Thomas Alvin, 4 March, 1831. 

11 Thomas', born 13 June, 1799, married 27 Dec, 1827, Sophia 
Bradstreet, and had Robert A., born 16 July, 1832; Nathan, born 9 
Jan., 1835; Thomas P., born 7 Jan., 1838; Henry B., born 6 Feb., 
1840; and Mary S. J ' > 

12 Benjamin^ born 28 Jan., 1805, married 22 Dec, 1830, Jerusha 
L. Lewis, and had Ellen F., born 13 Jan., 1832; Edward P., born 5 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



117 



Oct., 1833; Benjamin L., born 25 June, 1835; Celia, born 29 Aug., 
1840; Susan W.. born 7 March, 1842; and Royal L. 



FAMILY 57: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALL AN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOMAS-33. 

ISRAEL PERLEY was born in Boxford 2 July, or June, 1738. 
The house is still standing. It is a few rods from the residence of 
the late James P. Cleaveland, which occupies its original site. In 
1761,. when Israel was twenty-three years old, "the Massachusetts 
government," wrote Moses H. Perley, Esq. -257, "sent an exploring 
expedition to the St. John river in New Brunswick. The party con- 
sisted of twelve men and Mr. Perley was the leader. They proceeded 
to Machias by water; then shouldering their knapsacks, they jour- 
neyed through the woods and reached the head waters of the Oro- 
mocto river, which they descended to the St. John. P'rom the mouth 
of the river they proceeded three days in a canoe. It was difficult 
to land anywhere, the river banks were so thickly grown with small 
wood. They were obliged to creep up the bank upon their hands 
and knees. Reaching the plain above they pitched their tent for the 







SITE OF ISRAEL PERLEY'S HOME. 



night. Making a survey the next morning, they concluded to settle 
there. Upon their return home a colony of Essex County people was 
formed to establish a settlement upon the St. John. Among them 
were Israel, his brother Oliver and his cousin Asa Perley. In 1786 
he had a grant of 1000 acres on the Gaspereaux river, and in 1792, 
three hundred acres in the northwest corner of Maugerville, lot No. 
90, St. John river. His wife was Elizabeth Mooers. They resided 
in Maugerville, N. B., where he died. His will, made 8 June, 1799, 



118 



THE PBRLBY FAMILY 



was proved 20 Feb., 1813. His brother Oliver was executor. He 
was known as 'Israel, the surveyor.' 

"The old homestead where Israel located as one of the first set- 
tlers of New Brunswick, and where the first or second British child 
was born in the province, is now owned by John O. Court, Esq., M. 
P. P. New buildings have been erected, but there remains an old 
elm. The walking stick used by the old gentleman is said to have 
been planted and to have matured into a magnificent willow, which 
succumbed a few years prior to 1879. It is a beautiful place, on the 
bank of the St. John, with a good deal of shrubbery." 

1 Perley children : Israel-11,5, Thomas-116, Solomon"-, Phoebe^ Eliz- 
abeth", Mary-120, Sarah", Frances-, Charlotte'-, Henrietta'-, Charles'-, 
Solomon-117, William'-, William-118. 

2 Solomon^ and William' died young. Charles' died in 1791, aged 
twenty. Of Elizabeth', Sarah', Frances\ Charlotte', Henrietta', we 
have no further knowledge. 

3 Phoebe^ married a Nevers and had a daughter Mary, that mar- 
ried John McGibbon and had a son Charles, born 25 Oct., 1825, who 
married Anna Julia Woodforde Miles-250^ 



FAMILY 58: PEABODY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALL AN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOMAS-33. 

MARY PERLEY was born 4 June, 1741, and died 15 July 
1824. She married 28 June, 1764, Lt. John Peabody, born 9 Aug., 
1732, to John and Sarah Peabody of Boxford and brother of Rev. 
Stephen Peabody, a chaplain in the Revolution and the first minis- 
ter of Atkinson, N. H. At the age of twenty his parents removed 
to Andover, now North Andover. He settled in North Andover, 
where all his children but the youngest one were born. He was a 
lieutenant in the Provincial army at the siege and capture of Louis- 
burg in 1758, and at the taking of Ticonderoga from the French in 
1759. He was captain of a militia company that marched from 
Andover to the battle of Bunker Hill. They belonged to the church 
in West Boxford, having joined 2 Aug., 1778. In the winter of 
1783-4 they removed to the newly settled town of Bridgton, Me., 
and upon their desire to take up their church connection in order to 
assist in establishing a church at Bridgton the West Boxford church 
made this record, "voted to dismiss and recommend them as per- 
sons whose conduct while with us was agreeable to their profession." 
He died in Bridgton 12 June, 1820, aged eighty-seven years. 

1 Peabody children : Huldah-B8, John-\ Thomas*, WilHam^ Bet- 
sey"'^, Enoch-, Aaron-, Augustus'', Polly'-, Aaron'-. 

2 Betsey', Enoch', Aaron' and Polly' were born respectively 27 
Oct., 1772, 8 Jan., 1775, 13 Feb., 1777, and 12 Nov., 1781, and died 
in Sept., 1785. The second Aaron was born 24 June, 1786, and lived 
in Tallahassee, Fla. 

3 John' was born 2 Nov., 1706, and died 20 May, 1838. He mar- 
ried, in 1794, Aseneth Stevens, and settled in Bridgton, where 
she died 19 April, 1840. Peabody issue: Enoch, born 1 Feb., 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 119 

1795, died a master mariner at New Orleans, La., in Aug., 1820; 
Mary, born 10 Nov., 1796, and died 1 Aug., l802; Rebecca, born 10 
April, 1798, and married Nathaniel Martin, 17 May, 1820; Hiildah, 
born 7 Feb., 1800, and died 13 Aug., 1819; Tabitha, born 4 Jan. 
and died 20 Sept., 1802; John, born 7 Oct., 1804, and died 29 Aug., 
1818; Edward, born 18 June, 1806, a physician in Buxton, Me., 
married Lucy Ann Foster, 20 Dec, 1836, and had seven children, 
Charles C. Pinkney, born 13 April, 1808, married 12 June, 1840; 
Cordelia E. Whitney, resided in Calais, Me., in 1868, and had Flora, 
Charles, Charles, Elizabeth, Cordelia, Edna and Mary Edna; Israel 
Perley, born 24 April, 1810, married Rebecca Foster, resided in 
Bridgton in 1868, and had ten children; Aaron, born 13 March, 1812, 
married Mary Whiting, in Dec. 1842, a farmer in Irvington, Kos- 
suth County, Iowa, and has had four children; Mary Amanda, born 

I Jan., 1814, and died 16 Nov., 1832. 

4 Thomas^ was born 31 Oct., 1768. He went to Bridgton with his 
father when he was fifteen years old, married Mary Reed and settled 
there. In March, 1799, he removed to Gilead, Me., then known as 
Peabody's Patent, where he lived a farmer's life and died 9 July, 
1816, and his widow died 12 July, 1843. Children: Mary, born 26 
April, 1800, married Eliphalet Adams, 22 Dec, 1828, resided in 
Gilead; Thomas, born 14 Sept., 1801, married Deborah Adams, 28 
April, 1835, resided in Bethel, Me., and had six children; John Tar- 
bell, born 2 May, 1803, married Mary Ingalls Burbank, 9 Jan., 1834, 
resided in Gorham, N. H., and had three children ; Parmenio, born 

II April, 1805, married Mary Ann Burbank, 14 Dec, 1837, resided 
in Gilead, and had nine children; Asa, born 2 Sept., 1806, married 
Rebecca Howard Wight, 7 Dec, 1833, and resided in Gilead; Caleb 
Strong, born 9 Oct., 1808, married first, Apphia Adams who died 
3 Nov., 1851, and, second, Mrs. Mary Ann Wight, 5 Oct., 1852, and 
resided in Gorham, N. H.; Julia Ann, born 17 April, 1811, married 
Daniel O. Wight, 24 July, 1832, and resided in Boston. 

5 William^ was born 12 Aug., 1770. His home was in Bridgton, 
where he died 16 Dec, 1843. He married in 1797 Sally Stevens, 
who was born 2 Dec, 1773, and died 27 June, 1829. Children: 
Stephen, born 24 Dec, 1791, died 3 Feb., 1802; George, born 28 
March, 1797, died 12 Feb., 1825; Betsey, born 6 Sept., 1801, died 
21 Dec, 1821; Mary, born 3 Sept., 1803, married George Fitch, 16 
Dec, 1823, a farmer in Bridgton; Sally, born 17 Aug., 1805, married, 
first, Ancell Smith, 11 March, 1829, second, a Mr. Brown, a farmer 
in Wisconsin; Nancy, born 17 April, 1807, died 1 June, 1828; Wil- 
liam S., born 8 Oct., 1809, died 29 Dec, 1824; Stephen W., born 6 
July, 1811, died in June, 1831; Caroline E., born 10 Jan., 1814, died 
16 Sept., 1834; Harriet A., born 1 June, 1816, married Loammi 
Lakin, lived in Michigan, and died in 1840. 

6 Augustus^ was born 17 May, 1779. He married Miranda God- 
dard, daughter of Dr. Thatcher Goddard of Boston, 28 Oct., 1815; 
graduated at Dartmouth College, 1803, was counselor-at-law in 
Boston, and died 2 Oct., 1850, in Roxbury, where his widow resides 
(1868). Children: Augustus Goddard, born 4 Feb., 1818, married 
21 May, 1856, Elizabeth T. Holway of Machias, Me., where he was 
a physician, and had three children; Owen Glendower, born 23 April, 



120 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

1822, a lawyer in Boston, died unmarried 27 Dec, 1862; Edward 
Thatcher, born 6 June, 1825, married in Guaymas, Mexico, where he 
died 20 Nov., 1858; Lucien Maria, born 6 Feb., 1828; Francis, born 
22 Jan., 1838, married Rozella A. Roberts of Cheneyville, La., 18 
Oct., 1858, and had two children. 



FAMILY 59: PERLEY. 

LINEAL, DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOMAS-33. 

OLIVER PERLEY was born 30 July, 1743, in the house referred 
to in families 33 and 57. He, with his brother and cousin, was a 
part of the colony that settled on the St. John river in New Bruns- 
wick in 1764. He conveyed, 19 Oct., 1785, five hundred acres of 
land, a share in the Maugerville township, Sun bury County, which 
had been granted to him in 1765, to Daniel Bliss for ^400, and 
afterwards deeded other property to said Bliss. Some time before 
his death, which occurred in 1825, he removed to Sheffield, where 
he left a valuable property. His will is dated 25 Sept., 1813, and 
was proved in 1825. His wife's name was Sarah. His children were 
all born in that part of Nova Scotia which became New Brunswick 
in 1784-5. 

1 Perley children: Daniel-119, Moses-120, Thomas-121, Eunice 
Putnam-117, Allen-, and three daughters of whom we have no knowl- 
edge. 

2 Allen' was born 1 March, 1781. His grandfather Thomas Per- 
ley bequeathed him (calling his name Aaron) a sum of money, if he 
shall live with his uncle Aaron Perley in Boxford during his minority. 
Allen was eight years old when the will was drawn and fourteen 
when his grandfather died. We have no further knowledge of him. 
He is not mentioned in his father's will 25 Sept., 1813. 



FAMILY 60: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOMAS-33. 

THOMAS PERLEY was born 19 June, 1746, and died of old 
age 20 April, 1831, having had no children. He married in Dec, 
1809, at the age of sixty-six years. Miss Sarah Wood, who was in her 
forty-fifth year, having been born 10 April, 1765, to Thomas and 
Margaret-Perkins Wood of Boxford, whose home was on the site of 
the present third district schoolhouse. She died 10 Dec, 1854, prob- 
ably of old age, though she had been troubled for many years with 
cancer. 

Mr. Perley was a tailor by trade and plied his craft from house 
to house as was the custom of the times. His father deeded to him, 
"Thomas Perley, taylor," for "love and affiction," 80 acres, lot No. 
71, in second division, in Winchendon, the original right of Abra- 
ham Tilton [of Ipswich], 5 June, 1780.— Reg., 98:353. This was, 
no doubt, to launch him upon a farming voyage with propitious 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 121 

breeze; but the tailor preferred to "cut wescuts" and make "wear- 
ing apparel" for Boxford yeomen and so sold the patrimony, 4 Oct., 
1784, for "300 Spanish milled dollars," to William Whitney of Win- 
chendon. — Reg., 128:146. 

He early acquired possession of a large farm in East Boxford, 
known early to the writer as the .^ 

Widow Squire's farm, and more ^'^fp u/3 J^ 

recently as the William E. Killam yj/? Om O^ & e/Yl^^^ 
estate. The present dwelling, a large / 

two-story double _ mansion, he built hif^amf 'JhTre'Vown''"' '•'°'' ''^"''' 
in 1810 at a considerable expense. 

Dr. Daniel-145 had the original of the following bill. Maj. Asa 
was probably Asa-3.5, whose family of ten sons doubtless required 
repeated services of a tailor : 

Maj. Asa Perley to Tho*^. Perley Jr. Dr. 

Jan''. 1772 to nine days works at 2:0 pr Day ;^0:1S:0 
April, 1772 to two days works 4 

rec'^ the above account in full 

Tho^ Perley Jun'' 

He was one of the ablest and most respected citizens of the town, 
and his good educational and natural abilities were repeatedly rec- 
ognized in the repeated bestowal of various offices. He was com- 
missioned a justice of the peace in 1791, and regularly commissioned 
thereafter till his death. In 1779 he was one of the committee of 
seven to regulate the prices of merchandise, labor, etc. In 1780 he 
and four others were a committee of the town to examine the form 
of the State constitution and report. In 1798 he was chosen one of 
the three trustees of the Hon. Aaron Wood fund for the support of 
a grammar school in the town. They held the trust for thirty years, 
resigning in 182:->, when the town tendered them a vote of grateful 
thanks for their faithful and skillful management of the trust. He 
was a member of Massachusetts Society of Agriculture in 1796. In 
April, 1812, at the beginning of our second war with Great Britain, 
he and four others were a committee of the town to consider our 
relation with that power and to prepare proper resolves for his towns- 
men's adoption. He was town clerk for nine successive years from 
1780; selectman and assessor in 178,5, 1786, and successively from 
1796, comprising thirteen years in all; moderator of town meetings 
from 1792 to 1801 inclusive, from 1803 to 1810 inclusive, and in 1812, 
1815, 1816, 1818 and 1819; surveyor of highways in 1801, 1809, 1813 
and 1816; member of the school committee, where he ever delighted 
to labor, in 1795, 1796, 1797, 1799, 1803 and 1806; represented the 
town in the General Court from 1792 to 1810 inclusive, and received, 
at various times, votes for the office of senator, lieutenant governor 
and governor. 

The Salem (Mass.) Gazette printed the following: "The pro- 
prietors of 'Bridgeton,' at a meeting the seventh day of January, 
1790, granted a tax of ten shillings on each lot in said township; the 
payment thereof is requested on or before the twentieth day of July 
next ensuing. Thomas Perley, Propr's Receiver. 

Boxford, Feb. 27, 1790." 



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THE PERLEY FAMILY 



A History of Cumberland County thus explains the above notice : 
In 1761, the Legislature passed an act granting to Benj. Milliken, 
Moody Bridges and Thomas Perley, agents for the legal representa- 
tives of Capt. John Tyler and fifty-six others, soldiers and officers in 
the Canada expedition of 1690, a township of land east of Saco river. 
They laid out a tract adjoining Pickwocket, now Fryeburg, 9 miles 
long by Q^ wide, lying on both sides of Long pond and containing 
37,440 acres, and called at first Pondicherry, but soon after Bridg- 
ton, from Moody Bridges, one of the leaders above named. 

In Dec, 1799, Mr. Perley was appointed surveyor of the revenue 
for the sixth assessment district, third division of the Commonwealth, 
for a direct tax. He said he had been assessor, and that "it is easy 
to perceive that the established compensations for the surveyors are 
very incompetent to the services required. Notwithstanding, it may 
be at certain times incumbent on every lover of order and good gov- 
ernment to make peculiar exertions to support the same. Under 
these considerations I conclude to accept the appointment. . . 
If in the future the discharge of the duties are found to demand too 
great a sacrifice of private interest, you will have the goodness to 
accept my resignation." This letter is dated Boston, Jan. 22, 1800. 
He nominated sureties Geo. Todd, Esq., of Rowley, and Nathaniel 
Thurston, Esq., of Bradford. Afterwards he withdrew that nomi- 
nation, and named, instead, Nathaniel Perley and Aaron Perley, both 
of Boxford, yeomen. He sent his bond duly signed, 18 April. Jon- 
athan Jackson was State supervisor and Maj. Hovey collector for the 
district. He says of the sureties at first proposed, Ebenezer Pea- 
body, Moses Carlton, Enos Runnels, — "They are, each of them, in- 
dustrious, respectable farmers, and I suppose the three are really 
worth more than double the sum to be raised in the district." 

He and his family worshiped with the First Church, where he was 
a member from 18 Oct., 1795, and they were active supporters of 

the society. When the parish 

fund was founded in 1824, he 
headed the subscription with $1050. 
His widow materially assisted the 
society when the present church 
edifice was erected in 1838, one of 
her gifts being the elegant sofa 
that adorns the pulpit. 

In 1821 Squire Perley built a 
family tomb. In it now repose 
himself, his wife, his sister Rebec- 
ca, his niece Huldah, daughter of 
his brother Aaron-62\ and his 
wife's mother. The granite block 
above the tomb entrance is cov- 
ered by a marble tablet bearing 
the accompanying inscriptions. 

Mr. Perley was considered 
wealthy, since $80,000 to $40,000 
made a man so at that period. His 



The Family Tomb of 

Thomas Perley, Esq., 

Erected 1821. 

Thomas Perley, Esq., 
Born July 19, 1746, died Apr. 20, 1831, 

aged 85 years. 
Having performed the journey of life 
with integrity, we trust he is now reap- 
ing the reward of the faithful. 

Sarah W. Perley 

Widow of Thomas Perley 

died Dec. 10, 1854. aged 90 years. 

Miss Rebecca Perley 

Born Jan. 12, 1734, died Augt 22, 1813, 

aged 79 years. 

Mrs. Margaret Wood 

Born April 29, 1728; died Feb. 10, 1830; 

aged 101 years & 10 months. 



A tablet on the front reads : 



Huldah Perley, 

Died June 3, 1843, 

aged 38. 




ENOCH PERLEY, ESQ. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



123 



extensive and productive farm exhibited an assiduous and intelligent 
cultivation. He owned land in Maugerville, N. B., which he sold to B. 
and Wm. Brown, half to each, for ;^250, by his attorney, his brother 
Israel. 



FAMILY 61: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAP-16, THOMAS-33. 

ENOCH PERLEY was born 19 May, 1749, in the house referred 
to in family 57. He was a member of Capt. Jacob Gould's company 
of Minute Men that marched to the defence of Lexington 19 April, 
1775. He chased the British into Boston and was out six days, 
and the muster roll reads that he marched sixty-five miles. The next 
year he removed to the 
wilds of Maine, and 
began a settlement on 
land laid out in 17 60 and 
owned by an Essex 
County company. His 
clearing became in due 
time the town of Bridg- 
ton. His original house 
is still standing, and is 
of course the oldest 
house in the town. It 
is used as a tool repair 
shop, and was owned by 
his grandson, Hon. John 
P. Perley, who owned 
and occupied the farm. 
Augustus Perley of 
Bridgton, a grandson of 
Enoch, has furnished 
some particulars of the 
old house: It was about eighteen feet square, with about seven 
foot posts, and had quite a sharp roof. The covering was good 
pine boards feather-edged, without clapboards. What little of 
chamber there was, was lighted through a hole between the 
studs, which was closed by a piece of board fitted in and held in 
place by a cleat. The chamber was entered through a trap-door, 
which was reached by a turn-up ladder. A trap-door led into the 
cellar. The chimney and fireplace were at one corner and built of 
stone ; the latter broad enough to take a four-foot log, and the man- 
tel so high that a man might stand erect beneath it. The bed was 
in one corner and the cupboard in another. The house had three 
windows and one door. Soon after his marriage in 1778, he built 
a new and commodious house, which, with the proprietor's records, 
was destroyed by fire "2 Oct., 1880. 

Mr. Perley was moderator of the first town meeting of Bridgton, 
where he afterwards held many other town offices. He was a jus- 
tice of the peace and quorum in 1816, and must have been for some 




GROUND-FLOOR PLAN OF ENOCH'S HOUSE 



124 



THE PERLBY FAMILY 



time before, for on 2 May, 1796, there was acknowledged before him 
a deed conveying "a dwelling house situated on Prison lane in 
Salem, Mass., which house now stands on land of John Teague of 
Salem, blacksmith, near the house of Widow Williams, one end of 
said house fronts on the easterly side of Prison lane." He was in 
many respects a remarkable man — of great activity of mind and body, 
untiring perseverance and keen sagacity. He was small in stature, 
with a sharp voice and a quick emphatic manner of speaking, peculiar 
to himself. He foresaw, at an early day, the prospective value of 
pine timber in that region, and purchased large tracts for a compar- 
atively trifling consideration, and while others were stripping their 
lands of timber, wasting and burning it, he carefully preserved his 
until, before his death, it became to him a large fortune. At the 
time of his decease he was by far the wealthiest man in all that 
region. He left the principal part of his property to his two sons, 
who were extensively known in this County and in other parts of the 
State, as Maj. Perley and Gen. Perley. In their hands, and up to 
the time of their decease, the property was not only preserved but 
increased, and, what is a little remarkable, the same may be said of 
it in the hands of the third generation. Enoch Perley was always 
known in Bridgton and the surrounding towns by the title of "Squire 
Perley," and even now, he is spoken of and distinguished from his 
sons who succeeded him, as "the old Squire." . We have heard many 
anecdotes illustrating the keen sagacity and sharp wit of this little 
old gentleman, in short breeches and large shoe-buckles — always 
busy, exercising his various occupations of farmer, carpenter, stone- 
mason, smith, turner, tanner and currier, hunter and fisherman and, 
it would seem from the lines we copy, occasionally indulging in po- 
etic flights! 

The following lines were written by Mr. Perley in 1776, in Bridg- 
ton, on the bark of a birch tree, and were published in the Portland 
Advertiser in 1856. So far as poetic construction is concerned, they 
are very defective. But there is something in them — in the time and 
manner in which they were written, as well as the thoughts expressed, 
which interests us. There is enough in them, if clothed in the ele- 
gant diction of a Longfellow, to make an elegant poem. 



All ye who love the joys of peace, 

Ye who would dwell where tumults cease, 

Come, seat yourselves at my right hand; 

For here I've found the happy land; 

Where canuon and the sound of war. 

Are only heard as news from far. 

No British troops disturb my rest, 

No savage of the wilderness; 

Beneath my little homely cell 

In perfect quietness I dwell; 

Surrounded by as rich a soil 

As any found in Britain's isle. 

A spacious, and a .goodly land, 

When once subdued liy human hand. 

As labor was my father's lot. 

Labor I learnt and ne'er forgot; 

He eat his bread with sweating brow. 

And I expect to eat so too. 

Here, oft, when I the forest roam, 

I think of Eden's sacred grove, 

While numerous blessings me surround. 

Fancy portrays that ha[)py ground. 



Lo, here, these forests wild produce. 

Already fitted for my use. 

Paper, whose siheets are fine and large, 

Without a farthing's cost or charge. 

How far exceixls all human skill 

This perfect work of nature's will! 

And, lo, when art is forced aside. 

All bounteous nature will provide! 

And here her ample stores uufold; 

Her treasures, formed in times of old. 

Earth, air, and water « ill appear 

With food and medicine fraught its share. 

Tlie ponds and brooks. I daily find. 

Fish afford of differing kind — 

The chub, the eel, the horned pout. 

The pickerel, perch, and spotted trout; 

These, with a numerous silver train, 

Sptu-t up and down the liiiuid plain. 

The tortoise, too, both flesh and Jish. 

To epicures a dainty dish. 

Our native beasts, that range tlie wood, 

Serve both for clothes and find us food. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



125 



The gallant moose, so famed for speed. 

On these majestic mouctains feed. 

The threatening armor from his head 

Excites in man an awful dread. 

But the fierce hound, endowed with skill, 

To know and act his master's will, 

Shall quickly make the monster know 

That man is lord of all below. 

The nimlile deer, like lambkins, play 

Where wolves and bears pursue their prey. 

The beaver, too, whose silken coat 

Is worn and prized by lords of note. 

The cony, and loug-liaired raccoon — 

The partridge, duck, and gabbling loon. 

Besides, in nature's garden grows 

A healing balm for many woes; 



Wihich cures the direst of disease, 
And gives the suffering patient ease, 
Of deepest and most deadly wound, 
Of broken limbs, and joints made sound; 
Agues, and fevers, cramp and gout. 
With colics, quineys, and no doubt 
Hysterics, with disordered brain. 
And rheumatism's acutest pain. 
The serpent's oil I've also found 
A cure for many a chronic wound. 
The fir defies the surgeon's skill — 
While the kind birch supplies my quill; 
These blessings, and a number more. 
Which might be added to the score. 
Were made to serve the use of man. 
When first the world and time began. 



Mrs. Rensselaer Cram of Portland, Me., a descendant of Mr. Par- 
ley, has kindly furnished us another of his poems, as follows : — 



Lines composed by a Traveler while pass- 
ing through the Notch of the White Moun- 
tains, and committed to paper at the next 
Tavern : — 

Here let the weary trav'ler pause, 
And contemplate his Maker's laws. 
Whose boundless power and matchless skill. 
Are marked on ev'ry rising hill. 
Lo, mountains upon mountains rise. 
Whose forms terrific threat the skies; 
Their tow'ring summits rals'd so high. 
As oft to impede the clouds that fly. 
No shrubs on their cold regions giow. 
Where summer's sun scarce melts the snow. 
As beacons, fixed by Heav'n they stand. 
A guide to seamen far from land. 
Through rifted vales the torrents roll, 
Like rattling thunder round the pole. 
Huge rocks in wild disoidrr tlirowu, 
While thousands more seem tumbling down 



To form dark caves, where beasts may den. 
Secure from all pursuit of men. 
Here, through the mighty ragged mass. 
Nature liad made a narrow pass. 
And man, whose searches know no bound, 
Sought till tliis only path was found. 
Where lofty crag, on either side. 
Have form'd a never-failing guide. 
Here, beasts of burthen spend their toil. 
Laden with fruits of northern soil. 
Here, Europe's wealth and India's goods, 
Find passage to Canadia's woods; 
Marking the great Creator's care. 
Who gives to each his iib'ial share; 
Who formed the world of various climes; 
Ordain'd the seasons, and the times; 
Made ev'ry part, from north to south, 
Luxuriant of its native growth — 
And rendering all complete together, 
Make one dependent on the otlier. 



After residing in his forest home about two years, Mr. Perley 
married Miss Anna Flint, daughter of Samuel and Lydia-Andrews 
Flint, of Middleton, Mass., 17 March, 1778. She was born 20 July, 
1753, and died in Bridgton 15 April, 1823, seventy years old. He 
died 23 Dec, 1829, eighty years old. 

Enoch Perley of Bridgton, Me., hearing of the dissension in his 
native church at Boxford, Mass., and its threatened dissolution, 
expressing his good will toward his native town, offered one hun- 
dred dollars to establish a fund "to secure the permanent enjoyment 
of the preaching of the gospel" there. A subscription was started 
and thirty-nine subscribers gave $3400.00, eight of whom were Per- 
leys who contributed $1805: — 



$500 Charles Perley 

20 Enoch Perley 

20 Henry Perley 

100 Thomas Perley 



5 10 

100 

5 

1050 



Aaron Perley 
Amos Perley 
Artemas W. Perley 
Asa Perley, Jr., 

One-fifth of the subscribers contributed half the amount. 

1 Perley children: John-122, Thomas-123, Rebecca', Nancy^ 
Huldahl 

2 Rebecca^ was born 19 July, 1786, married E. P'essenden and 
had children, (of whom one married Horatio M. Page, M. D., of 



126 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Chelsea, and was living in 1842); Huldah^ was born 10 Oct., 1796, 
and died, unmarried, 9 Dec., 1818. 

3 Nancy^was born 28 July, 1791 (Ingalls' journal 23 July, 1793), 
married 26 Dec, 1820, Ruel Barrows, and had Thomas P. and Mary, 
who married J. G. Shepley and had Annie V., Bessie and George. 



FAMILY 62: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAX-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOMAS-33. 

AARON PERLEY was born 18 Sept., 1755, in the house de- 
scribed in family 57. In 1818 he removed the old house a few rods 
away and built the present Cleaveland mansion on the site. He 
was a very extensive farmer for his time. He kept a large stock of 
cattle, and his teams were continually in the market with the prod- 
ucts of his farm. A cider mill he erected in 1776, which became 
another exit for the fruit of his extensive orchards. 

He was a Minute Man of Capt. Jacob Gould's company, that 
marched to the defence of Lexington in 1775. He was always a 
patriotic and public - spirited citizen. He held numerous town 
offices. He was selectman and assessor in 1788, and on the school 
board 1808, 1813, 1818, 1822. Mr. Perley, however, gave more at- 
tention to his own business than to the affairs of others, and amassed 
great wealth for his time. He was always interested in the cause 
of the church. At his death, he gave five hundred dollars toward 
founding the East Parish Church Fund, and his widow, when the 
new church edifice was erected in 1838, presented the society with 
the Bibles and hymn books. 

His wife, married 27 June, 1786, was Mehitable Wood, his 
brother Thomas' wife's sister, and daughter of Thomas and 
Margaret -I^erkins Wood of Boxford, where she was born — where 
the third district schoolhouse now stands — 26 Nov., 1761. She 
died 15 March, 1853, at the age of ninety-one years. [Her mother 
died at the age of one hundred and one years and ten months, the 
oldest person that ever lived in Boxford.] He died 10 Dec, 1831, 
or 10 Jan., 1832, aged ninety-six years. They rest in Harmony 
Cemetery. 

1 Perley children: Mary', John-124, Israel-r25, Enoch'^, Asa*, 
Enoch'^, Thomas''', Rebecca*^, Harriet-126, Huklah'. 

2 Maryi was born 10 Oct., 1786, and married 29 Dec, 1807, 
Artemas Peabody, son of Asa and Susannah-Perley-65 Peabody 
of West Boxford. She died 5 May, 1813, aged twenty-six years. 
Her only child was born in Boxford : Amanda, born 23 Dec, 1808, 
whom her grandfather Aaron Perley adopted, changing her name 
to Mary Perley Peabody. She married Joseph G. Dummer, 28 
Sept., 1836. 

3 Enoch^ was born in 1792, and died 20 Feb., 1795. Enoch^ 
was born 4 Feb., 1795. In 1812, when he was seventeen years old, 
he entered Phillips Exeter Academy. He died 24 May, 1814. 

4 Asa^ was born 27 June, 1793. He lived with the family on his 
old birthplace, a faithful, Christian gentleman, esteemed by all, till 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 127 

his removal to the insane asykim at Charlestown, where he died, 
unmarried, 12 Sept., 1845. 

5 Thomas^ was born 29 Feb., 1797. He never married. He 
was a farmer, cultivated the parental farm, and sustained the repu- 
tation and integrity his father had enjoyed. He was a militia captain 
and wore the title through life. He died 18 Jan., 1856. 

6 Rebecca' was born 21 April, 1799. "Aunt Rebecca," as she was 
familiarly called, was never married. Her birthplace was always 
her home, where she died 18 Sept., 1881. She was a fine lady, 
possessed a bright intellect and good memory, and she shed a glowing 
radiance of peace all along her pathway. We -380 recall with 
pleasure the many happy hours of our childhood spent in listening 
to her recital of tales of the olden times. She was the Lord's and 
is now with him in glory. 

7 Huldah' was born 22 May, 1805. She resided with her parents 
till her death, .3 June, 1843, aged thirty-eight years. Her remains 
are entombed with her uncle Thomas-60, in Harmony Cemetery. 



FAMILY 63: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35. 

DUDLEY PERLEY was born in Boxford 23 Nov., 1738. His 
father, 10 Jan., 1764, for natural affection, gave him, laborer, of Ips- 
wich-Canada, lot No. 26, 100 acres, originally Thomas Lord's. — Reg- 
istry, 49:331. John Hale of Boxford, gentleman, for love, gave his 
daughter Hannah, wife of Dudley Perley, 80 acres adjoining Perley's, 
in March, 1768.— Registry, 133:411. 

Dudley and Hannah his wife, 29 April, 1780, sold to Ebenezer 
Richardson, blacksmith, 20 acres, for ;^600. — Registry, 82 :455. They 
sold, 7 June, 1798, for $233, to John Flint of Winchendon, 45 acres. 
— Registry, 133:592. He sold his son Henry of Winchendon, for 
$100, "half the homestead farm in Winchendon, which he could not 
sell while his father lived," 19 Oct., 1807.— Registry, 169:166. In 
1768, July 26, he and his wife removed to Winchendon, Mass., when 
that town was almost an unbroken wilderness, and began to make a 
farm. We note from the town records that a committee, 17 March, 
1774, reported "the most convenient place for a schoolhouse for the 
east part of the town is in the great road by Mr. Dudley Perley's." 
In 1796, May 5, a proposed new road from James Raymond's to 
Dudley Perley's was negatived. A road was early laid out from 
"Mr. Dudley Perley's by Moses Hale's, through the village to Mr. 
Benjamin Kidder's, 4 miles 117 rods." At a town meeting, just 
prior to the Revolution, obeying the precept of a public letter from 
Boston, urging an earnest consideration of "the distressing and dan- 
gerous circumstances of our public affairs," Mr. Perley was made 
one of a committee of five, "to prepare a draft to lay before the town 
of such measures as may be thought proper for the town to come 
into, in order to defend their rights and liberties." The same com- 
mittee was made a committee of correspondence. He was a mem- 



128 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

ber of the Winchendon company of Minute Men. He attained to 
lieutenant in the militia, and ever after wore the title. He was a 
selectman in 1772. 

Mr. Perley (pub. 3 Aug.) married, 3 Dec, 1767, Hannah Hale-5^, 
daughter of John and Priscilla-Peabody Hale of Boxford. She was 
born in Boxford 26 Oct., 1743, and died in Winchendon 9 Aug., 1806, 
aged sixty-three. Her husband survived till 16 Dec, 1810, when he 
was seventy-two. 

A paper beginning "We the heirs of the estate" is signed 
"Henry Perley, Ezra Hyde, Jr., Joseph Whitney, Jeremiah Spauld- 
ing." His oldest son, 9 Jan., 1811, had received his share of the 
estate, given a quit-claim, and settled in Maine; the second son lived 
in the state of New York. The rest of the children attended their 
father's funeral. — Registry, 46020. 

1 Perley children, all born in Winchendon : John-127, Dudley-, 
Asa-128, Disperse-, Betsey-129, Hannah-130, Mehitable^ Ephraim'-, 
Thomas , Henryl 

2 Dudley^ was born 26 Aug., 1770; he had no children; he lived 
in Pompey, N. Y., when, 15 Aug., 1812, he sold to Asa Perley of 
Winchendon, for $150, lot No. 26, 33 acres, the part set off by a 
committee of probate to Dudley Perley, late of Winchendon. — Reg- 
istry, 237:4-29; Disperse' was born 3 Aug., 1774, and died 26 Sept., 
1775; Ephraim' was born 7 July, 1781, and died 3 Aug., 1786; 
Thomas' was born 7 June, 1783, and died 22 Jan., 1803. 

Mrs. Hannah Whitney writes: "Grandmother told me that she 
prayed one night when grandfather was in the army that the enemy 
might be dispersed. Before morning a daughter was born, and that 
same night the enemy fled, and the daughter was named Disperse." 

3 Henry' was born 2 July, 1785, and died 9 June, 1833, leaving 
no children. He is remembered as the poet of the family, having 
left several pieces of meritorious verse. His wife was Martha Han- 
ford, married 12 Jan., 1814. [She married, second, Philip Short of 
Lynn 27 Oct., 18:34.] 

I, Henry Perley, yeoman, for $1400 convey my interest in land, 
house and other buildings, (the premises my honored father, Dud- 
ley Perley, conveyed to me 19 Oct., 1807,) to Joseph Whitney, 2 Sept., 
1811, all of Winchendon.— Registry, 239:170. 

David F. Burgiss and wife Lois G., for $435, sold, 10 Dec, 1816, to 
Henry Perley — both of Ashburnham, 135 acres land. — Reg., 246:12. 

His name appears in the Lynn directory for 1832. He made his 
will 19 May, 1833, and named his wife executrix. In it he is called 
cordwainer. Her notification of appointment is dated 3'^ Tuesday 
(20) Aug., 1833. He gave his brothers John and Dudley, his sis- 
ters Hannah Whitney and Mehitable Spaulding, and his nephew 
Ezra Hyde, 3'\ one dollar each, and the use and improvement of the 
rest to his wife and if anything remained after her decease, it was to 
be equally divided among the children of his brother Asa dec*^, pro- 
vided, however, that she could sell the entire estate, if, at her dis- 
cretion, it was needed for her "comfortable maintenance." 

Worcester Co., 307:447.— Martha Perley, Lynn, widow, $450, sold 
Samuel J. Goodwin, Lynn, housewright, in W. part of Ashburnham, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 129 

135 acres, 5 April, 1834. Witnesses: Erasmus Munford and E. C. 
Richardson. Caleb Wilder, Jr., Surveyor. 

Essex Co., 275:242. — Martha Perley, Lynn, widow, for $700, sold, 
5 April, 1834, to Samuel J. Goodwin, Lynn, housewright, land, 28.83 
poles, in Lynn, at Gravesend, so called, bounded east on North street, 
3 rods; southwesterly on Rocks pasture, so called, 3 rods; northerly 
on William Ashton, 9.70 rods; southerly on James Breed, Jr., 8.83 
rods, with dwelling house and other buildings. "North street" is 
now Chestnut, and "Gravesend" is now Glenmere. 

4 Mehitable^ was born 17 Aug., 1779. She married in Aug., 
.1799, Jeremiah Spaulding of Peterboro, N. H., who was a blacksmith. 
They removed to Aurora, N. Y. 



FAMILY 64: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALL.4.N-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-lti, ASA-35. 

ASA PERLEY was born in Boxford 13 Dec, 1740. He emi- 
grated to New Brunswick about 1764, with his cousins Israel and 
Oliver Perley. They settled on the St. John river, and founded the 
town of Maugerville, Sunbury County. They were the pioneer 
settlers of that section. 

Thomas Perley of Boxford under date of 1 July, 1816, writes his 
cousin Henry Perley of the same place, Asa's brother, and thus an- 
nounces Asa's death: "I have this day received aletterfrom my brother 
Enoch wherein he writes that our cousm Mehitable Perley with 
them has just received letters from her friends at St. John, dated in 
March last, and informing of the death of your brother Asa Perley." 
Mr. Perley's will is dated 21 May, 1808, and was proved in Nov., 
1815, which was within a month of his death. He mentions in his 
will three sons, Amos, Asa and Dudley, and two daughters. He 
left real estate to xA.mos. His wife was Hannah Pickard of St. John. 

1 Perley children: Amo.s-131, Dudley-132, Asa-133, Nathaniel, 
and two daughters. 



FAMILY 65: PEABODY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-l, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-3.5. 

SUSANNAH PERLEY was born 13 July, 1744, but when and 
where she died is unknown to us. She married, 5 Sept., 1765, Asa 

Peabody of Londonderry, N. H., son 

of John and Mary-Chadwick Peabody : i„ n„>uiory of ■ 

of Boxford, where Asa was born 1 ' *J':- ^^'i K^^^°il~ ' 

July, 1/4L Ihey lived at first in : ^t. 67. 

Londonderry, settled in Boxford, and ; Lived respected & died lamented. 
the site of his residence is now occu- ; ''^'''^ '""'^'"'^ * «'^" °' *'''' ^'^°""'- ; 
pied by the residence of Mr. Solomon 

Washington Howe in the East Parish. He was town treasurer for 
several years; he was much respected for his integrity and sym- 
metry of character. Just previous to his death he presented the 



130 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

town the original cemetery lot near the First Church ; he was the 
first to be interred there. 

1 Peabody children : Allen"'^, Ezra'-, Oliver'^ Susannah'^ Lois'^, Asa^, 
Enoch^, Artemas-62-, Polly.- 

2 Allen^ was born 2 June, 1770, and settled in Meredith, N. H. 
Ezra^ was born 7 Aug., 1772, and died 27 Aug., 1811. Ohver^ was 
born 19 Dec, 1774, and published 16 July, 1798, with Nancy Pratt 
of Reading. Susannah^ was born 30 or 20 Jan., 1777, and Perley 
Derby (page 15*) says she married Enoch Foster of Lynn. Lois^ 
was born 2 or 12 April, 1779, married 29 July, 1799, John Town, born 
27 Aug., 1771, to John and Anna Town of Boxford. Asa^ was born 
13 April, 1781. Enoch^ was born 20 or 24 Aug., 1783. Polly^ was 
born 14 March, 1788. 



FAMILY 66: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT- ALLA>M, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35. 

ELIPHALET PERLEY was born 22 Nov., 1747. He lived, 
first, in Dan vers, removed to Boxford about 1777 and to Rindge, 
N. H., about 1779, and located probably near Perley pond in that 
town. In 1775 he was a corporal from Danvers in Capt. Israel Hutch- 
inson's company of militia, which marched to the battle of Lexing- 
ton, and serving two days received pay for fifty miles travel. While 
the Continental Army was stationed at Dorchester, 18 April, 1776, 
Ens. Eliphalet Perley was a member of the Board of Survey, which 
consisted of a president and four members. He kept a diary while 
in the army, and it is said his son Asa had it. Miss Alice H. Byrd 
-134 says Eliphalet was a farmer and later the first mate of a mer- 
chantman. J. P. Lowe-134'^ says he was a major under Gen. Wash- 
ington and much in the general's company. He was surveyor of 
highways in 1787. 

His brother Henry wrote in Aug., 1822, to his (Eliphalet's) 
widow: "Tell your children that their father and my brother was a 
brother soldier with me in 1776, and that he was never known to 
desert his post. It is a great comfort that Congress has remembered 
the remnant of the poor men who helped gain our freedom. I 
desire that you would tell your children and that they would tell 
their children's children that they may defend the liberties which 
we have gained for them, and which were bought with the blood of 
my fellow soldiers." 

Mr. Perley married in Boxford 24 March, 1774, Anna Porter, 
daughter of John and Apphia Porter, innholder of Danvers. She 
was a daughter of his step-mother. About 1782 he removed to 
Fitchburg, Mass., where he died 15 April, 1822, at the age of 
seventy-four years. His widow in a letter to his brother Henry, of 
Boxford, dated 22 July, 1822, thus speaks of his sickness and death: 
"Your brother Eliphalet is dead. . . . He had been failing 
for some time, but was able to keep about and do some work, until 
the 1st of January, when he was taken with a dropsical affection. 
He continued very feeble through the winter, but was able to walk 
about the house. On the morning of 15th of April he got up, ate 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 131 

breakfast, and talked with one of the neighbors an hour, and ap- 
peared to be as well as usual, but was suddenly taken speechless and 
senseless, and appeared to be in a lit. For two years past he had 
been considerably affected with numb palsy, and it was thought to 
be that and a fit of apoplexy, which terminated his life at half past 
nine in the evening. . . . We are very lonely; my family now 
consists of myself and two daughters Betsey and Clarissa. Putnam 
and Susan with their families have removed 240 miles from us into 
the State of New York. Asa was with us through the winter and 
spring, but is now living in Lancaster, fifteen miles from Fitchburg. 
Brother Allen was here at the funeral of his brother. ... I 
wish you to write to brother Daniel soon." 

Mrs. Perley died the next year, 1823, July 10. The particulars of 
her death were given by her daughter Clarissa to her brother Henry, 
of Boxford, 29 Aug., 1823, as follows : "Mother died July 10. She 
had long been sick. About a week previous to her death a violent 
cough set in, which finally terminated her life. . . . Uncle 
Perley of Gardner called on us a few days since. He is well for a 
man of his age. He said he thought he should go to Boxford this 
fall. . . . There is no one left in our solitary dwelling but my 
sister Betsey and myself. My brother Allen lives in town. Brother 
Andrew died last fall — his family live about a mile from us. We 
have lately had letters from my brother and sister at Vienna, N. Y. 
Putnam often wishes to know if we have heard from Boxford." 

His son Asa "the only son in this State" was his administrator. 
His bond is dated 12 Nov., 1822. In the settlement his wife Anna 
is mentioned, and that he was a pensioner. — Registry, 46022. 

Asa Perley of Boxford, gentleman, for natural affection, gave his 
son Eliphalet, cooper, then of Boxford, 80 acres, drawn on the 
original right of Thomas Lord, 4 June, 1776. — Registry, 77: 104. 

When of Rindge, gentleman, 1 March, 1779, he sold for ;!^250, 
land in Winchendon — 80 acres — to Thaddeus Bowman of Winchen- 
don, yeoman.— ^Registry, 82 :244. 

Eliphalet Perley of Rindge, 2 Jan, 1783, sold Isaac Gibson, Jr., of 
Fitchburg, 31 acres of land in Fitchburg, courses and distances 
fully stated, for $150.— Registry, 87: 223. 

Anna, wife of P31iphalet of Fitchburg, bought 26 Dec, 1783, for 
;^30, of Aaron Jewett of Harvard, gentleman, administrator of the 
estate of John Park, late of Fitchburg.— Registry, 94: 347. 

Eliphalet gave Samuel Perley and Solomon Perley security on 
note dated 4 June, 1789, and 8 Oct., 1797, relinquished 15 acres, the 
southerly part of Eliphalet's farm, amount $87.09. — Registry, 135 : 236. 

Eliphalet and Anna sold Joseph Fox, Esq., land and building.s — 
31 acres— all of Fitchburg, 11 March, 1799, for $274.60. Registry, 
130:600. 

Eliphalet, gentleman, and wife Anna, 28 Jan., 1808, sold 31 acres 
land and buildings in Fitchburg to Israel Wetherbee, Jr., of Ashley, 
for $625.— Registry, 67 : 520. 

1 Perley children: Putnam"'^, Eliphalet^ Apphia\ Nancy^ Susan- 
nah-134, Betsey^ Clarissa^ Asa^ Andrew^ Allen^ 

2 Putnam^ was born in Danvers 18 April, 1775. The town of 
I'itchburg boarded him eighteen weeks in the winter of 1806-7. He 



132 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

was returned to Boxford, his nativity, where he was boarded with 
Ensign Daniel Gould and Capt. Joseph Symonds in 1807. He re- 
turned to Fitchburg soon after, and married Mary Fisher. About 
1823, they removed to Vienna, N. Y., where he "lived on a small 
farm, but having poor health was not able to do much." He died 
about 1830. He was a cooper by trade. They had no children. 

3 Eliphalet^ was born 9 March, 1778, in Boxford. Nancy' was 
born 13 April, 1783, in Fitchburg, published with Nathan Andrews, 
a farmer, 15 Dec, 1810, had Daniel, Nathan, Porter, Leander, Ly- 
sander and Nancy, and died in Fitchburg, 19 Feb., 1842. Betsey' 
was born in Fitchburg, 7 May, 1788, and died there, unmarried, 21 
Sept., 1849. By will she gave all her property to her brother Asa 
and nominated him executor, 18 May, 1849. The will was filed 22 
Sept., the same year. — Registry, 46018. Clarissa' was born in 
Fitchburg, 28 Oct., 1790, and died there of consumption, 10 Feb., 
1846. For Andrew^ and Allen' see extracts from letters above. 

4 Apphia^ was born in Rindge, N.H., I July, 1780, and died, unmar- 
ried, in Fitchburg 15 Nov., 1816. Her father, in a letter to her uncle 
Henry-t)9 of Boxford, dated 26 Nov., 1816, thus speaks of her: 
"Daughter Apphia died the 15th, about 6 o'clock in the morning, 
after a confinement of about a month with a consumptive cough and 
a fever attending it, which she bore with a submissive patience. 
She had her reason to the last, and appeared to be fully resigned to 
death. She left us with consolation under a hope she has made a 
happy change. . . . Love and respects to sister Phebe and her 
children." Apphia Perley sold to Betsey'' and Clarissa'', all spin- 
sters, for $25, !^ Nov., 1816, land in the northern part of Fitchburg 
reserving to my father and mother Eliphalet and Anna the use of it 
while they live. — Registry, 211: 68; and Israel Witherbee, Jr., car- 
penter, for $42, sold to Apphia and Susanna Perley-134 single 
women, 1 Feb., 1809, 3 acres, in Fitchburg. — Registry, 178: 259. 

5 Asa' was born in Fitchburg, 30 Sept., 1793. His wife, married 
27 Nov., 1823, was Eliza Jane Oakman, since by the P'itchburg 
records (4: 344) she married as Eliza and (9: 21) died as Jane. 
She died of lung fever, 12 April, 1870, aged seventy-four years. He 
was a farmer, and by trade a cabinetmaker. 

He bought 12 P^eb., 1820, for $252.50, land and buildings in Fitch- 
burg, three-fourths of a mile east of the meeting house, near a black- 
smith's shop, of Amos Durant and Joanna his wife. — Registry, 220 : 
538. He bought of John Thurston, gentleman, and Elizabeth his 
wife, for $175, half the land and buildings near blacksmith's shop 
and three-quarters of a mile east of the meeting house. Registry, 
220: 559. Pie bought 12 June, 1821, for $70, land sold for taxes, 
the John Manning lot. — Registry, 259: 202. Asa and Eliza his 
wife bought, on mortgage, 7 Feb., 1825, of James L. Hayes and his 
wife Nancy of Fitchburg, cabinetmaker, land and buildings near 
blacksmith's shop for $400, and for $275, land and buildings on the 
Lunenburg road, 1 Dec, 1827. He bought 15 May, 1829, for $16, 
land on the Ashley road, of Israel and Hephzibah Wetherbee. — 
Registry, 284: 251, and 26 Sept., 1831, for $100, sold land on the 
Ashley road to Isaiah Putnam, all of Fitchburg. — Registry, 284: 252. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY I33 

His will, drawn 12 April, 1865, mentions beloved wife Jane, who 
had $bOi); son Alvin in California, $bQ, and daughter Eliza Jane 
Whitcomb of West Acton, ^100.— Registry, 46016. 

He died 80 Nov., 1865. Their children were Alvin, born 1*2 
Dec, 1824, and Eliza Jane, born 15 Feb., 1828. 



FAMH.Y 67: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-l, THOMAS-4, TH0MAS-l(i, ASA-35. 

ALLEN PERLEY was born in Boxford 9 June, 1750. He so- 
journed in Ward, now Auburn, and removed to Gardner. The 
attraction to that section about that time was the movement in real 
estate. Massachusetts had paid her soldiers of the French and 
Indian Wars in wild land in the northern middle part of the State, 
and farms and sections could be bought in many instances very 
cheap. Asa Perley, gentleman, and Thomas Perley, yeoman, both 
of Boxford, sold 19 April, 1769, for ;^66, 150 acres of land to Peter 
Damon of Weston. — Registry, 64: 154. They sold 18 Feb., 1767, 
for ;j{^188 6s. 8d., 175 acres in Weston to Joseph Parker of the same 
place. This was a part of the land laid out to Capt. Thomas Perley 
and Capt. .Stephen Peabody-16. The witnesses were Dudley Per- 
ley and Enoch Perley. — Registry, 66: 528. All these persons were 
Allen's neighbors in Boxford. He may have been an agent there 
for the sale of these lands. 

He was of Winchendon 11 Sept., 1779, when he was published 
with "Mrs." Judith Case, "both of Winchendon." He was pub- 
lished 24 Nov., 1798, with Miss Lydia Porter, and married her 29 
Jan., 1794, when both were of Gardner. She was born in Westford, 
and died in Gardner, the widow of Allen, 3 March, 1846, aged 89 
years, 4 months, 19 days. 

He was in Gardner a selectman 1800-1, and member of the school 
board in 1808. His father, Asa of Boxford, gentleman, gave "his 
son Allen, cordwainer, of Boxford." 80 acres of land No. 176, in 
Winchendon, drawn on the original right of Thomas Lord, 4 June, 
1776, witnesses Samuel Perley and Solomon Perley. — Registry, 77 : 
108. 

He died, in Gardner probably, in Dec, 1829. Lydia Perley was 
administratrix of estate of Allen Perley of Gardner, 20 Jan., 1880. 
The inventory of Allen of Gardner's estate was filed 28 Feb., 1808 — 
real estate $30 and personal $149.85. It seems by registry, 341 : 1 
and 844: 277, that Allen sold his estate, for $1000, to his son Asa in 
consideration of the support of himself and his wife Lydia during 
their natural lives, 80 July, 1828, half of lot of 80 acres, formerly in 
Winchendon, but in Gardner at that time. This transaction occa- 
sioned the small probate inventory in 1830. 

1 Perley children: Susannah*, Allen-185, Sarah", David-136, 
Anna-137, Asa-138. 

2 Sarah^ was born 14 Dec, 1784, married 29 Dec, 1816, Jonathan 
Wood, Jr., of Gardner, as his second wife, and had born in Gardner, 



134 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Sally C, 27 June, 1818, and Nelson P., 26 Jan., 1821, who married 
Mary Nichols. 

3 Susannah^ was born 9 April, 1780. She married Ezekiel Marsh 
of Millbury, Mass., where he was born 7 Dec., 1775, and died of 
dysentery 30 Aug., 1818. She died of consumption, 8 March, 1838. 
Their home was Millbury; he was a carpenter and a farmer. Marsh 
children: George^ Susan'*, Daniel*, Elijah'*, Ezekiel Preston"*, Susan'*, 
Ebenezer*. 

4 George'^ was born 12 Feb., 1805, and was a filer by trade, re- 
sided in Millbury, where he died 30 July, 1833; Susan'' was born 29 
July, 1806, and died in Millbury 14 Jan., 1810; DanieP was born 18 
June, 1808, was a stone mason, married Emma Jackson, 30 Jan., 
1859, and resided in Auburn; Elijah'' was born 11 May, 181 0, was a cabi- 
netmaker, married Eliza Prouty, resided in Millbury and died in 
Worcester, 15 Aug., 1869; Ezekiel Preston*' was born 28 June, 1812, 
and 10 April, 1839, married Hannah R. White, and was a blacksmith, 
residing in Auburn; Susan" was born 27 Sept., 1815, and 1 Aug., 
1838, married Joseph Stowell, and resided in Millbury, where he 
died 24 Jan., 1841; Ebenezer' was born 18 June, 1817, was a black- 
smith, and resided in Millbury, where he died 15 April, 1837. 



FAMILY 68: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35. 

DANIEL PERLEY was born in Boxford 24 Sept., 1752. He 
removed to Bridgton, Me., with his cousin Enoch, before 1781, 
where he settled for life. He married 6 Dec, 1781, Rebecca Por- 
ter, the daughter of a sea captain who was lost at sea. She died 20 
Feb., 1810. His second wife, whom he married 14 Feb., 1815, was 
Huldah-Peabody-58, who was born 6 Jan., 1765. Huldah's first hus- 
band was Nathaniel Chamberlaine of Portland, Me., married in Jan., 
1787. She died 22 Aug., 1854. Daniel died in Bridgton, 6 March, 
1838. 

1 Perley children, born in Bridgton, Me. : Frederick'-, Clarissa^ 
Parmelia'-, Sophia"*, Lucy'-, Daniel-139, Porter-140, Martha"-, Rebecca'^ 

2 Frederick* was born 5 Aug., 1784, and died 18 Sept., 1785; 
Parmelia* born 17 June, 1788, married Nat Webb and lived in Bos- 
ton, where dying, she left two sons and three daughters; Lucy^ 
born 24 April, 1792, died unmarried in Bridgton, Me., in 1874; 
Martha*, born 24 Oct., 1800, was a coat maker in Boston many 
years, where she died unmarried, 11 Feb., 1841, and was buried 
there; Rebecca*, born 23 March, 1805, married William Ally of 
Lynn, and died before 1874, leaving children. 

3 Clarissa*, born 18 Aug., 1786, married 19 Apr., 1814, William 
Green of Sweden, Me., and had five sons and three daughters. Her 
children are all dead save John, who has two sons, and is living (1880) 
in River Falls, Wis. 

4 Sophia"*, born 10 June, 1790, married Isaiah Ingalls, born 5 
June, 1787, to Isaiah and Phoebe-Herrick Ingalls. She died before 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY I35 

1874. Mr. Ingalls was elected captain 10 July, 1816, by his company 
of Light Infantry attached to the 2*^ Regiment, I''' Brigade and 12"^ 
Division of the Mass. Militia. He was commissioned 20 July, 1816, 
by Gov. John Brooks, Alden Bradford, Sec'y; and qualified before 
John Perley, major of the regiment. The original document is in 
possession of his son George Henry Ingalls of Boston. Capt. 
Ingalls was a descendant of Edmond Ingalls, who was born in Lin- 
colnshire, England, and came to America with his family and 
located in Lynn in 1629. Ingalls children : Louisa A. '^I Frederick 
P.®; Sophia, born in Harrison 16 Aug., 1816, married Dr. Whitney 
of Charlestown, and died in Harvard, Mass., 8 Nov., 1859; Julia 
A., born in Harrison 6 Apr., 1818, and died 20 June, 1820; James 
H., born in Portland 8 Sept., 1822, and died 3 Apr., 1823; James 
Porter, born 14 Aug., 1824, in Portland, married Eunice Weston, 
and died 4 June, 1895; George Henry, born 17 Aug., 1832, in Bridg- 
ton, married Martha E. Shaw, daughter of Joseph and Eliza-Dennis 
Shaw, 25 Jan., 1869. 

5 Louisa A.^was born 3 July, I8l0 ; married Dr. Barnard Usher 11 
June, 1833, and died 1 Jan., 1850. Usher children : Marshall, born 
in Bridgton 3 Dec, 1834, and John D., born 11 Sept., 1838. 

6 Frederick P."* was born 27 Jan., 1812, and married Frances Ann 
Berry in Portland 18 Dec, 1834. She died 15 Feb., 1894, aged 
eighty-eight. Ingalls children : Mary Elizabeth, born 4 June, 
(Ingalls journal, 25 Oct.,) 1835; Ann Louisa, born 20 April, 1838; 
Frederick Charles, born 4 June, 1843; Frances Ellen, born 10 Aug., 
1845, and died 3 June, 1892; Joseph Henry, born 10 Dec, (Ingalls 
journal 6 April,) 1848. 



FAMILY 69: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALL AN-1, THOMxVS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35. 

HENRY PERLEY was born in Boxford, 17 Feb., 1755. During 
his minority he was living in Stoughton, Mass. He left a manuscript 
of his Revolutionary experience, from which we gather the follow- 
ing: On the morning of 19 April, 1775, he marched to the battle of 
Lexington, in Capt. Asahel Smith's company, of Stoughton, at- 
tached to Col. Lemuel Robinson's regiment. He served nine days 
and received ;^12 10s. 4d. He then enlisted in the service, in Capt. 
William Bent's company. Col, John Greaton's regiment, where he 
remained till his term of service expired, 31 Dec. The next day he 
enlisted again m Capt. Bent's company for one year, and was sta- 
tioned at Fort No. 2, in Cambridge. About the 18th of March they 
were ordered to New York, via Connecticut. They shipped at Nor- 
wich, sailed to Long Island, and marched to New York. There they 
encamped about three weeks, when they were ordered to Canada 
via Albany. The division was commanded by Gen. Thompson, who 
died at Chambly of small-pox. The troops were ordered over a 
great part of Lower Canada. Most of the army being sick with 
small-pox, they were obliged to retreat before the enemy, leaving 
their sick and languishing upon the ground. They retreated to 



136 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Ticonderoga, and when the regiment was ordered to Mt. Indepen- 
dence, Mr. Perley, who was sick with intermittent fever, was dis- 
charged, 1 Nov., 1776, by order of Gen. Gates, commander. He 
then came home to Boxford, where he remained some time, and was 
a member of Capt. Jacob Gould's company. In 1778, July 31, he 
was ordered to Rhode Island, where he served six months in Gen. 
Sullivan's expedition in the company of Capt. Simeon Brown of 
Salem, Col. Wade's regiment, Marquis de Lafayette's division. 
They were afterwards disbanded. In the year 1779, he belonged to 
the company of Jeremiah Putnam of Dauvers, Col. Tyler's regiment, 
and was stationed at Providence till the enemy left Newport. This 
regiment occupied Newport till the expiration of their term of ser- 
vice 5 Jan., 1780. For his service, he was granted a pension. 

The year following his martial service he married. His first wife, 
married 27 Oct., 1781, was Eunice Hood, born 1 Oct., 1757, to John 
and Mary-Kimball Hood of Topsfield, in the house now owned and 
occupied by S. D. Hood, Esq., and built in 1716. They resided in 
(North.'') Andover, till about 1786, when he went to Boxford. 

The house here pictured was built about 1754 by Joseph Mat- 
thews. Mr. Perley bought the estate about 1786 and "settled down 
to a life of repose." He died there, and his son Henry occupied the 




THE HENKY PERLEY HOUSE. 



place till he also died there. Then Maj. Moses R. Rust rented it, 
occupying it twenty years. From that time it fell into "innocuous 
desuetude," except an occasional dweller, till it became quite unten- 
antable. It was demolished in 1883. 

Mr. Perley's wife died in childbirth, in Boxford, Monday, 11 Oct., 
1790, when only thirty-three years old. His second wife was Me- 
hitable Peabody, daughter of Daniel and Anna-Stickney Peabody, 
married 30 Oct., 1799, and born 12 Nov., 1763. 

In his sixty-eighth year, Aug., 1822, in answering a letter received 
from the widow of his brother Eliphalet, concerning Eliphalet's 
death, he says, "I can mourn with you as one that mourneth. . . . 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY I37 

I have been carried through troubles, and have been supported when 
I was almost overwhelmed with sorrow. ... I am an old man 
and cannot expect to tarry long on the stage of human affairs. . . . 
God's tender mercies are over all the work of his hands ; and I hope 
that He who hath made us will have mercy upon us." 

Mr. Perley was five feet and four inches in height; his com- 
plexion was dark with black hair and black eyes; and his physique 
was compact and muscular, and capable of extreme endurance. 

The only town office of importance that was held by him was 
surveyor of highways in 1800 and 1810. He died G Feb., 1838, 
wanting only eleven days of completing his eighty-third year. His 
remains repose in the cemetery near the First Church edifice. His 
widow, mother of the youngest child only, died "The death of the 
righteous," 28 Oct., 18-14, aged eighty years. 

1 Perley children: Eunice'-, Henry-141, Susanna'-, Samuel-142, 
Leonard-143. 

2 Eunice^ was born 14 April, 1782, in Andover. She married 
Daniel Dresser of Bangor, Me., in Aug., 1809, and died 18 July, 
1862. Susannah^ was born IG March, 1788, in Boxford, where she 
died 23 Nov., 1791. The Hood Genealogy reads "born 17 Feb., 1789." 



FAMILY 70: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALL AN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35. 

SAMUEL PERLEY was born in Boxford 15 Sept., 1757 or 8. 
He served in the army of the Revolution a few months near its close, 
and then settled upon the parental farm. A good view of the 
ancient mansion and the massive, wide-spreading elm that graces 
the frontage, is shown on the next page. This is one of the largest, 
most symmetrical, and beautiful elms in the County. The illustration 
properly belongs to family 35, which see. 

Thomas Perley-4 chose the site for his residence as early as 1(384. 
The property passed to his son Thomas-16; then to Asa-35, who 
razed the old house and built the present one. The subject of this 
family was the next owner. Later owners were Israel and Isaac 
Hale, then Isaac Hale, and now Frank Barnes, though the house is 
still known as "the Hale house." 

Mr. Perley was a frugal, diligent, and prosperous husbandman. 
He was a selectman in 1797, and district surveyor of highways in 
1786 and 1800. He died of a wound 18 June, 1807, aged forty-nine 
years. His wife, Phebe, daughter of Capt. Daniel Dresser of Row- 
ley, born there 29 April, 1762, and published 24 March, 1798, suc- 
ceeded him in the husbandry. She died 25 Feb., 1850, of "old age," 
aged eighty-eight years, at the residence of her son Daniel, in Lynn. 
Though the means of education were small in those days, she was a 
well informed woman, of more than ordinary natural gifts. She 
managed the farm and her three boys (so her son, the doctor, says) 
with much discretion. She labored hard to live and educate her 
children, and in her age rejoiced to see the boys stand highest in 



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THE PERLEY FAMILY 



their professions. Her remains rest at the side of her husband's 
in Harmony Cemetery, Boxford, and her epitaph reads: "All the 
days of my appointed time will I wait." 




TIIK HALF. nuisK. 

1 Perley children: Ira-144, Asa'-. Daniel-145. 

2 Asa^ was born 2 Dec., 1802 (or 1801, the doctor said), and died 
22 Oct., 1827, unmarried, or as the doctor says, "in Sept., 1826." 
The doctor says, "He was a promising farmer, of unblemished char- 
acter, and held for several years the most important offices in town." 



FAMILY 71: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35. 

SOLOMON PERLEY was born in Boxford 25 Feb., 1760. He 
married, 26 Nov., 1789, Lucy Kimball, baptised 6 Sept., 1767, for 
Jacob and Priscilla-Smith Kimball of Topsfield. She was sister to 
Jacob, the celebrated musician. She died of consumption 29 Sept., 
1790, a bride of only ten months. 

In 1792, Solomon Bixby-Perley was born. In July, 1807, when 
he was of Caseway-Ridge, York or Sunbury County, N. B., he gave 
his cousin Thomas Perley of Boxford, a power of attorney, to recover 
the real estate his father deeded him, etc. 

1 Perley children : Solomon-146, Nathaniel-147. 



FAMILY 72: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, .TACOB-37. 

ISAAC PERLEY was born in Boxford 5 Sept., 1730. It is 
said that he was called "Deacon," and that at some time he resided 
in the Emerson house lately located near the residence of Francis 
Harden, and also that he was very homely. He probably removed 
from town about a century and a quarter ago, but we know not 
where, though tradition suggests New Boston, N. H. He was 
admitted to the First Church 8 June, 1760, where his two younger 
children were baptised. 

Mr. Perley married 4 Dec, 1755, Hannah Lakeman, daughter of 
Solomon and Hannah of Ipswich, where she was baptised 4 April, 
1731. 

1 Perley children : Sarah^, Lucy^, Isaac'', John^ 

2 Sarah^ was born 4 May, 1757. Tradition says she was very 
handsome, and when the small-pox prevailed in the vicinity, she, 
fearing its evil effects upon her beauty if she should take it, entered 
the pest-house, the Nelson house near by, for the varioloid. She died 
there. She married 4 May, 1780, Nathaniel Hale, born 4 Sept., 1754, 
to Abner and Kezia-Baker Hale of Boxford. He died 29 Nov., 1831 ; 
she, 12 Aug., 1837. Their children were born: Perley, 27 Oct., 
1780; Hannah, 28 Dec, 1782; Sally, 5 June, 1785; Lucy, 28 April, 
1788, in Bridgton, Me.; Irene, 3 March, 1791; Nathaniel, 30 April, 
1793; Olive, 11 Jan., 1796, and died 14 Dec, 1831; Harriet, 16 Oct., 
1799, and died in June, 1803. 

3 Lucy^ was born 22 July, 1760, and married 30 May, 1784, Samuel 
Sawyer of Hopkinton, N. H. Isaac^ was baptised in the First 
Church, Boxford, 23 June, 1765. John^ was born 5 Oct., or Nov., 
1766. 



FAMILY 73: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37. 

JACOB PERLEY was born in Boxford 8 June, 1732. He led a 
farmer's life in his native town for many years, giving almost exclu- 
sive attention to the cultivation of the soil. The first nine years of 
his married life, from the age of about thirty-two, he lived in Box- 
ford. In 1773, the family removed to Chester or Candia, N. H., the 
settlement of which had just begun. There seven years later he 
buried the wife of his youth. He y y' r\ ^ 

removed to the wilds of Maine about (^^;z~<.^t>^ ^^-<^-'^^^^ 
1794, and since Moses and Aaron '^ t-^ ^ 

seem not to have been of the family, Mr. Periey-s signature 28 Feb., ires. 
they were probably "put out," upon the death of their mother. 

Sarah Perley, spinster; Jacob Perley and Joshua Perley, hus- 
bandmen, 29 May, 1792; Apphia Perley, spinster, 16 Sept., 1793; 
Moses Perley, husbandman, 24 Nov., 1797, all of Candia, N. H., con- 
veyed to Jacob Andrews of Boxford, land belonging to the estate of 



140 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

their grandfather Joshua Andrews, late of Boxford, dec'd. Jacob 
Perley, husbandman, of Tingstown, Me., conveyed his son Aaron's 
share in the same, 1 Dec, 1797. 

Our esteemed venerable friend, Dr. James Lewis Blake of 
Bridgton, Me., informs us that about 1794, Jacob Perley with his 
second son Joshua and two daughters, Apphia and Irene, lived with 
their father in a log house, in what was then called Ting town or 
Ting's town, a name derived from the fact that a man by that name 
owned the township or a large part of it, and was the first settler. 
The name of it now is Wilton. About 1798, Mr. Perley removed 
thence to Montville, Me., where he died 81 March, 1804, aged 
seventy-one years. 

Mr. Perley held only such town offices as reputable persons were 
obliged to take or be fined. In Boxford he was surveyor of high- 
ways in 1709, and in 1767 and 1770 was hogreeve. It is said that 
he was a large, stout, resolute man, was employed as swine-butcher 
by the farmers for miles around, wherein he used to boast that he 
could "stick a hog without staining the knife," and that he was 
an honest, industrious and highly useful citizen. 

The History of Chester, N. H., records Jacob Perley on the list 
of those who pledged life and fortune in the common cause against 
the British in the Revolution. 

His wife, married 19 April, 1764, was Sarah Andrews, born 8 
Sept., 1741, to Joshua and Hannah-Wood Andrews of Boxford. She 
died in Chester, N. H., 29 March, 1780, aged thirty-eight years. 

1 Perley children : Sarah-, Jacob-, Joshua-148, Apphia-149, Irene 
-150, Moses-151, Aaron-152. 

2 Sarah^ was born 9 June, 1765, in Boxford. Her husband's name 
was Jefferds, married in New Hampshire, where probably she lived. 
She died in Oct., 1797, aged thirty-two. Jacob^ was born 16 Oct., 
1767, in Boxford. He married Sarah Sargent, in New Hampshire, 
where he soon after died, it is said, without issue. 



P'AMILY 74: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, .TA('OB-37. 

BENJAMIN PERLEY was born in Boxford 10 Feb., 1735. 
He married, 2 Jan., 1759, Hannah Clark, born in Topsfield 9 May, 
1735, to Jacob and Mary-Howlett Clark of Boxford. They joined 
the First Church, Boxford, 10 Jan., 1762. She died probably in 1771 
or 2, since he married 12 Oct., 1773, Miss Apphia Andrews of Dan- 
vers. His wives had six children each, all born in Boxford but the 
last one. In 1816, when he was eighty-one years old, his house took 
fire, and he, endeavor- . •-n. 

ing unsuccessfully to J^ ' ^^ C? ) y^ 

extinguish it, perished /fy^^ i^^^yyui^^ j^ C^p.-^O^-y' 
in the flames. His ^ (j / 

widow survived him TIus is Mr. rfilcy's signature to a bond. 

till 20 June (Townrecords: 15 July), 1825, when she was eighty-one. 

Benj. Perley of Boxford, gentleman, and Apphia, his wife, 10 

May, 1777, for ;£o60, conveyed to Samuel Hewes of Boston the 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 141 

Savage place with buildings thereon. (A blacksmith's shop stood 
in the corner near the burying ground.) 

In 1781 or 2, he removed from Boxford to Topsfield; in 1789 he 
returned to Boxford; in 1791 he removed to Dunbarton, N. H. 

In the Revolution he was a patriot and a soldier. He was a 
Minute Man at the battle of Lexington, as lieutenant in Capt. Wil- 
liam Perley's company. He was ever after called lieutenant. In 
March, 1777, he was one of a committee to hire soldiers, and again 
in 1780. 

He was prominent in civil affairs. In Boxford he was a select- 
man and overseer in 1774, 1778, 1779, 1781; a constable in 1770; a 
moderator of town meetings in 177G; a surveyor of highways in 
1790; a warden in 1776; a hogreeve in 1765 and 1791; a tithing 
man in 177*2, 1774, 1780; a sealer of leather in 1767, 1769, 1770, 
1772, 1773, 1779, 1780. In 1779 he was one of seven to regulate 
the prices current. In 1781 he was one of two chosen by the town 
to instruct the representative at General Court. 

The public records evidence his ability and character and the high 
regard in which he was held by his fellow citizens. 

1 Perley children : Mary-153, Dorothy'^ Rebecca-154, Benjamin- 
155, Hannalr, Paul-156, Apphia-157, Anna-158, John-l59, Sarah-l60, 
Betty\ JaCob-161. 

2 Hannah^ was born 20 Oct., 1767, married Ebenezer Smith, 
who was born 9 Jan., 176:3, and had Ebenezer, born 10 Dec, 1793, 
in Chelsea, Vt., died 29 Sept., 1873, married 9 Jan., 1820, Sarah 
Hood; Hannah, born in Chelsea, 1794, married Dexter Chamber- 
lain; Rebecca''; Dolly, who married Stephen Fogg; and Perley, who 
married Laura Thompson. 

3 Dorothy^ was born 26 Sept., 1761, and published with Moses 
Adams, of New London, N. H., 6 P'eb., 1790. Bettie^ was born 16 
May, 1781, and married Asa Kimball of Bradford 17 Jan., 1838. 

4 Rebecca'^ was born in Chelsea, Vt., 6 Aug., 1797, died 27 Oct., 
1882, in Derry, N. H., married 23 Sept., 1821, in Chelsea, Harvey 
Hood, a farmer, who was born to Gillin-Lane and P3nos Hood, a 
farmer in Chelsea, 1 June, 1798, died 18 Sept., 1878, in Derry, hav- 
ing had, in Chelsea, Vt., Harvey Perley''; Gilbert V.., born 21 Nov., 
1824, married 13 May, 1852, Frances K. Herrick, and without chil- 
dren lives in Lawrence, Mass.; Eliza P., born 2 Aug., 1827, and 
resides in Reading, Mass.; Lucinda R., born 28 May, 1830, married 
20 Aug., 1857, Rev. Azro A. Smith of Reading, and have no chil- 
dren; Mary A., born 28 Aug., 1833, and died in Boston, 27 June, 
1886; Henry C, born 19 Nov., 1835, and died in Derry, N. H., 22 
P'eb., 1866; Edward P., born 3 March, 1838, and died in Derry, 6 
Nov., 1860; P:ilen M., born 10 July, 1840, died in Derry, 20 April, 
1S60. 

5 Harvey Perley^ was born 6 June, 1823, was a milk contractor, 
died in Derry, N. H., 17 June, 1900, married 5 May, 1850, in Charles- 
town, Mass., Miss Caroline Laura Corwin, who was born in Chelsea 
1 March, 1829, to Clarissa-Thompson and John Corwin, resides in 
Derry, having had two children born in Charlestown and four in 
Derry, thus: Laura Caroline, born 16 Sept., 1851, married John 
Walter Johnston in Nov., 1892, reside in Manchester, N. H., without 



142 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

children; Clara Rebecca, born 22 Oct., 1854, married 4 June, 1902, 
Greenleaf Kelley Bartlett, and resides in Lawrence, without chil- 
dren; Nellie Frances*'; Charles Harvey"'; Edward John^; Gilbert 
Henry^. 

6 Nellie Frances^ was born 23 Oct., 1856, and married 1 Feb., 
1882, Marcell Nelson Smith, having issue: Nelson Harvey, born in 
Feb., 1890; Miriam, born in Oct., 1891, and Lawrence, born and 
died in Sept., 1895. 

7 Charles Harvey^ was born 26 Feb., 1860, in Derry, is a milk 
contractor, resides at 2 Benton road, Somerville, Mass., married 2 
June, 1886, in Derry, Katherine Wyman Eastman, who was born in 
Derry 23 June, 1862, to Benj. F. Eastman, lumber agent, and Sabra 
Wyman Jones, and has had children: Marion Allen, born 20 Aug., 
1888, in Derry; Caroline Wyman, born in Derry 21 March, 1892, 
and died in Somerville, 13 Dec, 1897; and, born in Somerville, Har- 
vey Perley, 12 April, 1897; Sabra Louise, 17 Sept., 1901; Helen 
Katherine, 11 Sept., 1902. 

8 Edward John^ was born 26 Oct., 1864; married Harriet Geddes 
in June, 1894, in Winchendon, Mass., and lives in Somerville, Mass. 
Issue: Marjory, born in April, 1896, and died in Jan., 1897; Zaida, 
born 19 April, 1899. 

9 Gilbert Henry*^ was born 6 May, 1866, and married Helen Marr 
Davis 8 Sept., 1892. They reside in Derry, N. H. Issue: Emily 
Caroline, born 29 Nov., 1897; Gilbert Henry, born 19 Aug., 1899. 



FAMILY 75: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT—ALLAN-l, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37. 

JOHN PERLEY was born in Boxford 7 Dec, 1746. He was 
of Haverhill previous to his marriage. He was a tailor and doubtless 
practiced the art from house to house, as was the custom of the 
time. He owned a small farm and had at the time of his death a 
horse and two cows. 

He was a member of Capt. Daniel Hill's company of militia in 
Col. Johnson's regiment ; was at the battle of Lexington and in the 
famous retreat to Cambridge, serving four days. By the muster 
roll, he marched seventy miles. In June, 1778, the selectmen of 
Haverhill gave him an order on the town treasurer for ;^3 15s. 

His wife was Hannah Green of Haverhill, who survived him. 
He died of small-pox 2 Dec, 1778, at the age of thirty-one. His 
widow became administratrix of his estate 2 Jan., 1779. The ap- 
praisers were Samuel Souther, David Marsh and Ebenezer Gage, 
Jr. The inventory, presented 4 July, 1780, amounted to ^1094 
15s. 8d. Two items were "a brown Coat crimson Jacket & everlast- 
ing Breeches p^lO," and "a Velvet Jacket & Leather Breeches £b." 
Benj. Perley of Boxford, his brother, was appointed the guardian 
of his children 4 Jan., 1779. 

1 Perley children : John-162, Sarah-, Nathaniel-163, Hannah'^. 

2 Sarah^ was born 7 April, 1771, and married David Loring of 
Concord, N. H. Hannah' was born 5 Aug., 1777 or 8, and married 
Moses Payson of Haverhill, Mass. 



FAMILY 76: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS 4, JACOB-17, NATHAN-38. 

NATHAN PERLEY was born in 1737 in Boxford. He settled 
in Methuen, Mass. The last house in that town on the main road 
to Haverhill is occupied by Edmund Perley, a grandson of Nathan. 
Three half-centuries ago the house was owned by one Symonds, 




Tliis iiicture is made from a pen-aud-ink drawing nf tlic XaUuin IVrloy house in Me- 
tlmen and has been pronounced by a daughter, who well remembered the place, as "correct 
in every particular." 

among whose children, "to the manor born," was a daughter Sarah. 
Nathan went a-courting Sarah, and Nathan and Sarah expected to 
wed. For some unexplained reason the wedding was deferred, 
Nathan married Mehitable Mitchell, who died 24 Nov., 1773, the 
mother of seven children. Sarah married William Rea of Dan- 
vers, who died leaving one son, who was called by his father's name, 
William. Nathan remembered his first love and paid a visit to 
Sarah. The flame was warm and reciprocating. Rev. Christopher 
Sargent, the first minister of that town, aged and much loved, made 
them one, 13 Oct., 1774. 

The first year of his second marriage he lived in Methuen. He 
had been a soldier in the French and Indian War, and he foresaw 
the approaching conflict of arms, and in consequence advocated the 



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144 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Study and practice of military tactics. He was then a member of 
the first militia company of Methuen, and with the rest of the com- 
pany signed a paper 6 Oct., 1774, "covenanting and engaging to 
form themselves into a body, in order to learn the manual exercises." 
He was at the battle of Concord and Lexington, as sergeant, in 
Capt. James Jones's company, and was out four days. 

Shortly after the Lexington campaign, he removed to Danvers, 
where he lived several 
years and the rest of 
his children were born. 

About 1790, he re- / ^/^ ^ 

turned to Methuen, ^^ 

and located upon the This is Mr. Perley's signature, as appiaiser, 

old Symonds estate, to an inventory 7 May. ITSI. 

the nativity and patrimony of his wife. He razed the old house and 
erected the present dwelhng. He died there about 1816; his widow, 
about 1839. 

1 Perley children: Martha'', Lydia^ John-164, James-165, Mar- 
tha", Nathan-, Joseph", Mehitable'\ Lydia-166, Sarah^ Edmund-167, 
Amos", Asa-168, DanieP. 

2 Martha^ was born 10 Feb., 17(50, and died 8 April, 1762. 
Lydia^ was born 15 Feb. and died 27 Mar., 1762. Martha^ was born 
22 June, 1767. Nathan^ was born 27 Feb., 1769. Of Mehitable', 
who married Sewell Bennett, and of DanieP we have no further 
knowledge. Joseph' was born 29 Jan., 1771. Sarah' married James 
Keen of Boston 1 Sept., 1819, by Rev. Charles O. Kimball of 
Methuen. 

3 Amos' was a school teacher. In an advertisement of his school 
to begin in Salem 10 April, 1810, he "tenders his grateful acknowl- 
edgments for past favors," and will limit the numbers of his 
scholars to thirty. He "will open a department for females." The 
branches to be taught were reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, 
English grammar, drawing, painting, embroidery and various kinds 
of needlework. The tuition was four to five dollars. It is under- 
stood that he and his wife sometime taught in the Bradford Acad- 
emy. Both were pupils there and may have been pupil-assistants, 
though there may be no record of it. In 1816, they were living in 
Bradford, and had seven pupil-boarders. He was a man of piety, 
and showed his faith by his works. He organized, in 1818, the first 
Sunday School in Dracut. He was a deacon in the Central Con- 
gregational Church there from 19 Dec, 1827. 

He married Hannah Carleton of Bradford :U Mch., 1810. Relin- 
quishing teaching, they retired to a farm in Dracut. There, while 
gathering apples, in 1837, a sudden pain .seized his arm. The pain 
increased ; it became severe in the extreme. The cause was never 
explained; his death ensued a week later. His widow died of old 
age about 1850. They had no children, though both were very fond 
of them. The writer's mother knew the family well, while she was 
a student in the Bradford Academy, and years after spoke of their 
home life as a pleasing memory. 

He made his will 2 Nov., 1837. It was proved 9 Jan., 1838. He 
is styled yeoman. He bequeathed his brothers Edmund and Asa, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 145 

his sisters Mehitable Bennett, wife of Sewell; Lydia Metcalf, widow, 
and Sarah Keen, wife of James, and his mother, Sarah Perley, one 
dollar each ; his niece, Mehitable Smart five hundred dollars. He 
desired that Niece Mehitable might continue to live with his widow 
as usual and share her interest and affection. His wife Hannah C. 
had the rest of the estate and was nominated executrix. 



FAMILY 77: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JAC01M7, KRANCIS-.T.). 

WILLIAM PERLEY was born in East Boxford 11 Feb., 1735- 
6, on the site of the present residence of Mr. D. DeWitt C.Mighill . 
When a young man, he bought the land which now constitutes the 
Boxford poorfarm and he built there the house which is now the 
Boxford almshouse. That was his only home; it descended to 
his son Abraham. 

Mr. Perley retained all the spirit and patriotism of his own fam- 
ily and inherited much of that romantic daring so characteristic of 
his uncle Israel, the renowned Gen. Putnam. In January, 1775, 
he was elected captain of a Boxford company of Minute Men. It 
was his iirst military office. The company consisted of fifty-two 
men, and drilled weekly. On that beautiful, yet tragic, morning, 
19 April, 1775, they and two other Boxford companies marched to 
the conflict. The British had already begun their retreat, when the 
Boxford men arrived, but the latter heartily joined in pursuit 
and helped play mischief with the red-coats. They were at- 
tached to Col. James Frye's regiment, and encamped with the 
twenty thousand around Boston. May 28, the town gave him an 
order of ^16 to find blankets for the company. Next we find him 
following Col. Prescott across Charlestown Neck, on the momentous 
night of the 16th June, and engaged in fortifymg Bunker Hill, in 
throwing up those breastworks that so startled the British the next 
morning and gave the lie to their complaisant midnight assurance, 
"All's well." Capt. Perley and his company were in the battle that 
ensued; they fought with ammunition, swords, clubbed-muskets and 
missiles against bigotry, superciliousness and tyranny, in defense of 
home and its loved ones, with all their heart and soul and strength. 
Eight of them fell dead upon the field. 

I. N. Tarbox's "Life of Gen. Israel Putnam" relates, that, "Pres- 
cott's, Frye's and Bridges' regiments sustained the heaviest slaugh- 
ter, because they were directly in the path where the British broke 
through. . . . These regiments who stayed to the last deserved 
to be crowned as heroes." 

PVothingham's "Siege of Boston, "second edition, says that the 
three regiments were in the redoubt, but among the officers does 
not name Capt. Wm. Perley. His name is found, however, on the 
original papers at Washington, D. C. Several Hessians taken pris- 
oners during the war lived with him at his Boxford home. 

In March, 1776, Capt. Perley was chosen on the committee of 
safety for the town. In 1777 he was on a committee of three to 



146 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

procure money to pay soldiers. In March, 1780, he was one of a 
committee of five to hire soldiers. 

In 1779, 16 Aug., he was one of a commission chosen by the town 
to regulate the current prices of merchandise, labor, etc. He held 
numerous town offices, in which he was selectman and overseer, 
1772, 1773, and 1779, school committeeman 1802 and 1806; town 
treasurer 1781 to 1788 inclusive, eight years. 

Capt. Perley married, first, Sarah Clark, daughter of Jacob of 
Topsfield, 26 March, 1761. She was the mother of all his children. 
She died* 28 Nov., 1791, at the age of fifty-five. He married, second, 
Anna Porter, daughter of Elijah and Dorothy of Topsfield, and 
widow of Dr. William Hale of Boxford, 22 Jan., 1793. She was born 
about 1745 and was published to Dr. Hale, 18 Oct., 1770. Dr. Hale 
built the Sayward house in East Boxford village, and there prac- 
tised the healing art. He was born in Boxford 9 Nov., 1741, to 
Thomas and Mary-Kimball Hale. They joined the Boxford church 
29 Dec, 1771. He died about 1785, leaving two daughters: Eliza- 
beth, born 19 March, 1772, and Dorothy-l80. 

Mrs. Perley died 15 Sept., 1800, aged fifty-five. Mr. Perley, 
"being advanced in years and laboring under bodily infirmities," 
made his will 18 March, 1812. He died 29 March, 1812. His will 
was proved 17 April following, and his son Abraham was the ex- 
ecutor. His probate inventory is ^7197.01. 

1 Perley children, all born in Boxford: Humphrey Clark-169, 
William-170, Huldah'-, Phineas-171, Deborah-, Abraham-, twrns'^ 
Fanny'^ Oliver-172, Deborah^ Abraham-178. 

2 Huldah' was born 17 Oct., 1764, and published 3 Jan., 1806, to 
Isaiah Bradley, son of Nehemiah, and farmer in Haverhill. Debo- 
rah' was born 5 May, 1768, and Abraham' 17 Nov., 1769, and both 
died young. The twins were born 19 July, 1771, (and both died 15 
Sept., 1800.^) P'anny' was born 9 July, 1772, and Deborah' 5 July, 
1776, but were not mentioned in their father's will in 1812, and 
probably had died. 



FAMILY 78: ROBINSON. 

LINKAL DESCENT -ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JAfOlMT, FKANriS-39. 

HULDAH PERLEY was born 21 March, 1741-2, and died 5 
Aug., 1812. She was married 27 Nov., 1764, by Rev. Elizur Hol- 
yoke of Boxford, to Lt. Col. John Robinson of Westford, who was 
born in Topsfield 4 July, 1785, to Jacob and Mary-Gould Robinson, 
who afterwards removed to Westford and became one of the early 
families of that town. John was a lieutenant colonel in Prescott's 
regiment and was one of the officers, if not the officer, that repelled 
the attack of the British at Concord on that historic morning 
of 19 April, 1775. Mrs. Jonathan Prescott, who is still (1882) 
living in Westford, is a granddaughter of "Col. Robinson; and al- 



* An entry in an account book of Joshua Jackson reads as follo-ws : — " I with my wife went 
to the funeral of Cajit. Wm. Perley's wife Friday 25 Dec, 1791." 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY I47 

though bearing the burden of ninety years, she distinctly remembers 
him, being twenty years old at the time of his death. She says he 
was a tall man, of commanding presence, well proportioned, and fear- 
less. She thinks that when the alarm came, on the night of the 
eighteenth of April, he stood not on the order of his going, but 
mounted his horse and hurried to Concord, leaving orders to his 
hired man to follow with provisions. She thinks also, that he was 
invited to take the command, and says that the tradition in her 
family always has been that he did assume it, and ordered the troops 
to fire." This Revolutionary soldier and patriot reposes in the West 
Cemetery of Westford, and the following is his memorial : 

"Here reposes the body of Col. John Robinson, who expired June 
18th, 1S05, aged 70 years. In 1775, he distinguished himself by 
commanding the corps of soldiers who first opposed the menacing 
attempts of the British troops at Concord Bridge. 

" Here rest thy ashes; on thy silent grave. 
May dews distil, and laurels gently wave. 
Let heralds far proclaim thy soul was fired 
Dy love of freedom, and by Heaven inspired : 
First in the glorious oauseOur rights to attain, 
Last in our hearts shall thy brave deeds remain.'" 

Rev. Edwin R. Hodgman of that town further writes: "For 
seventy years the dust of Col. Robinson has lain in our soil, with no 
monument above it, save the simple stone that family affection has 
reared. Not on the marble, or on any printed page, is there any- 
thing to tell how truly the people of this town appreciate the courage 
and patriotism of the man who stood side by side with those im- 
mortal men, whose praise even the mute granite has been taught to 
speak at Acton and at Concord. Not at the Bridge alone did our 
brave Spartan show his unflinching valor. In that fiercer conflict 
on Bunker Hill, two months afterwards, he stood in the front, 'in 
shape and gesture proudly eminent,' exposed to instant death, yet 
doing his duty; now leaping upon the parapet, a target for the ad- 
vancing foe, and now reconnoitering, with the ill-fated McClary, 
the position of the enemy, to find the best way of repelling his per- 
sistent attacks; .showing himself everywhere the efficient officer and 
the strong-hearted man." 

The colonel lived on the farm now owned by Stephen E. Hutch- 
ings, and was one of Westford's selectmen from 1771 to 1774. 

1 Robinson children: Huldah", Mehitable", Betsey'^ Sally', Re- 
becca', Mehitable'-, Betty-l7o, John'\ 

2 Huldah' was born 28 Sept., 1765, married 25 Aug., 17.V4, Benj. 
Robins, and had a daughter that married Jonathan Prescott. Me- 
hitable' was born 9 Aug., 1767; Bet.sey', 8 May, 1770; Sally', 3 May, 
1772, and the three died in 1775. Rebecca' was born 7 July. 1774, 
and married Joshua Abbott Jewett 15 May, 1800. Mehitable' mar- 
ried 27 Aug., 1797, Benj. Fletcher of Westford. 

8 John' was born 17 Feb., 17^1, and 1 Jan., 1<S09, married Han- 
nah Woods of Westford, where they afterwards lived. Issue: John, 
born 10 May, 1810; Francis Perley, born 25 Feb., 1812; Walter, 
born 7 Feb., 1814, died 28 Jan., 1858, buried in Westford; Harriet 
and Huldah, twins, born 19 April, 1818. 



FAMILY 79: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39. 

FRANCIS PERLEY was born 11 Jan., 1744-5 (1745-G?), in 
Boxford, where he lived till 1800, when he removed to Rowley, where 
he died, in a fit, 17 July, 1810, aged sixty-five. His first wife, mar- 
ried 28 Nov., 1771, was Ruth Putnam of Danvers. She died in 
Boxford 6 April, 1784, at the age of thirty-two. Hannah Payson, 2d, 
of Rowley, became his second wife, 31 Oct., 1786. She was born 
28 July, 1760, and died 22 Jan. (21 July.?), 1814. 

He became a member of the F'irst Church, Boxford, 22 Nov., 
1772; his wife 21 Feb., 1773. In this church most of their children 
were baptised. 

He was something of a military man in his day. He was lieuten- 
ant in 1784, and captain in 1786. This latter title he wore till his 
death. 

He held numerous town offices, and exercised them with integ- 
rity and ability. He was on the school board 1797, was surveyor of 
highways 1779 and 17S6, a constable 1796, moderator of town meet- 
ings in 1785, 1787, 1791, 1795, selectman and assessor 1782-1786, 
1788, 1792-1795. In 1780 he was one of a committee to hire soldiers. 
In 1799 he was chosen one of the trustees of the "Aaron Wood 
School Fund" of Boxford. In 1809, Jan. 28, he was on the com- 
mittee of safety for Rowley. He was a licensed auctioneer. He 
was, in 1785, a joint executor of the will of David Stickney, son of 
Susannah-26. 

At his death he owned, in Boxford, a farm of sixty-eight acres, 
valued at $2720, which the year following his death was occupied 

Thf followiug is from the Salom Gazette:- by his SOU JamCS. Hc alsO 

owned half a farm in Winthrop, 

BY ORDER OF COURT, ,yr 1 1 t^ Sil AAA U" 

Will be sold at Public Auction, ou the prem- IVie., VaiUeCl at ^lUUU. rll S 

ises on Tuesda.v the^ 10th day of March widoW WaS appointed admiuis- 
next, at one o clock, F. JI. . ^ . ^ ^ 

A FARM in Boxford, belonging to the tratnx of hlS CStatC 6 Aug., 1 81 0, 
estate of Capt. Francis Pekley, late of i a■^^c>rr^'^rtr^ nf Ki'c -irrmncrpct 

Rowley, deceased. Said farm consists of ^"0 gUarOiaU 01 niS yOUUgCSt 

about 70 acres of wood, tillage, and pasture rViilHrfTi 9 Tan 1^11 Mic (^c 

Land, with the buil(liu^-s th.Teon. For fur- ^-Uliuicu z, Jctll., lOii. iii^ Cb- 

ther information inquire ,.f .TAMES PERLEY, tatC WaS appraiscd bv ThomaS 

of Rowley, or DANIKL KODWELL, on the ,, , t-, i i "^i t-i 

premises, where the conditions of sale will be rcrley, Paul J CWCtt and 1 homaS 

"■"'^ '""""• HANNAH PERLEY, admx. PaySOU, 31 Oct., 181(1. lu the 

Rowley, Feb. 7, 1812. Boxford church he had H pews, 

valued at $100. His debts were about $3000. 

1 Perley children, six by his first wife : James'-, Fanny', P>ancis*, 
Nancy*, F'rancis^ Ebenezer Putnam-174, James-175, Hannah-176, 
Putnam, "^ Ruth Putnam'', Deborah*^, Edward Payson*^, William Henry"\ 

2 James^ was born 1 Nov., 1772, and died 18 of same month. 
The church records read that he was "baptised 18 Nov., 1772, 
privately, by Mr. Holyoke, it being apprehended drawing nigh its 
end, and it died in about an hour after." 

3 Fanny^ was born 1 Feb., 1774. She married Dr. Dennison 
Bowers of Boscawen, N. H., 19 May, 1791. He was born in Bille- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY ^49 

rica, Mass., and after practicing medicine in Boscawen from 1805 to 
1815, he removed to Salisbury. He had three sons and two 
daughters, one Fannie, who hved and died in Salem, Mass. He left 
grandchildren by the name of Gale. We have this record : Anna 
Maria Bowers married Capt. Edward Gale of Salem, who died at 
sea, and had Andrew Bowers, Charles Tucker and Edward F. 

4 Francis' was born 13 March, 17TG, and died 4 March, 1780. 
Nancy^ was born 19 May, 1778, and died in Boscawen 21 Nov., 1805, 
only twenty-seven years old. 

5 Francis' was born 19 July, 1780. In 1815 he was a victualer 
in Ipswich. In that year, 27 May, ^^p7~~^ • y<^>~\ 
he conveyed to Eliphalet Perley of -^ — - - '^ 
Boxford, yeoman, for ^340, twelve 
acres of salt marsh, on Hog Island, 
Rowley. It is said by the family 

that "he died .qt sea"- hut the fnl- ''wsed thp petition of Ebenezer p. Pel-ley to 
LiidL lie uicu ctL sect , uuL LUC lui ^^j, ^^^ guardian, real estate of his ward. 6 

lowmg from a Salem paper, dated i*'eb., isie. 

6 March, 1815, reads: "Francis Perley, merchant, formerly of 

this town, died at Deer Island, Me., aged thirty-two." 

6 Ruth Y.\ born 12 June, 1791, died young. Ruth Y.\ born 25 
Dec, 1793, married 27 Jan., 1818, Joseph T. Haskins of Gloucester, 
and died, without issue, in 1840 or 1849. Deborah' was baptised 21 
Feb., 1790, in Boxford. Edward P.\ baptised in Boxford 8 April, 
1798, "died abroad." William H.' was baptised in Rowley, 3 Nov., 
1801, "aged two years." 




FAMILY 80: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT --ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39. 

AMOS PERLEY was born on the D. DeWitt C. Mighill place 
in Boxford 28 Jan., 1748-9. He married, first, Rebecca Hovey, 6 
June, 1775. She was born 15 Dec, 1754, to Dea. Joseph and Re- 
becca-Stickney Hovey of Boxford; she died 10 April, 177(J, of puer- 
peral sickness, at the age of twenty-one. His second wife was Sarah 
Smith, married 4 P'eb., 1779. She was born at Newbury 1(5 March, 
1757, and died at Vassalboro 29 Sept., 1842. 

Mr. Perley removed from Boxford about 1790, and became one 
of the first settlers of Winthrop, Me. He was a currier by trade, 
and probably worked in his father's tannery till he went to Winthrop. 
He belonged to the First Church of Boxford, wherein he was ad- 
mitted 24 March, 1776. He was one of the incorporators of the 
First Congregational Society, Winthrop, 1800. 

He died 6 Dec, 1830, aged eighty-one years. His widow after 
1883, having survived him a few years. Another record reads that 
her age was eighty-six years. Their children were all born in Boxford. 

1 Perley children: Rebecca'^, Amos-177, Israel-178, FVederic-179, 
Sarah'-, Fanny', Olive'l 

2 Sarah\ Fanny' and Olive' were born 3 April, 1786; 15 June, 
1789; 28 April, 1793, and died unmarried 25 Nov., 1858; 26 Sept., 
1851; 19 Sept., 1850. These three maiden sisters lived together in 
the same house, and "the course of true love ran smooth" for many 



150 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

years. At length, however, a carpenter divided the house into one 
and two thirds; Sarah occupied the former, and Fanny and Olive 
the latter. When Olive, who is called "seamstress," died, she gave 
all her property to Fanny, and Fanny buried her before the front 
door of the house. Fanny, by will, ordered that the body of her 
sister be exhumed and buried in the grave with herself, that fine 
headstones be erected, that the grave be protected by an iron fence, 
and that the balance of her estate be given to a friend. Sarah re- 
moved to and died in Augusta, and, by will, protected her grave by 
a heavy iron fence, and gave the residue of her property to Colby 
University. Their home was Winthrop. 

8 Rebecca^ was born in Boxford 21 March, 1776, and married in 
Winthrop, Me., (J Jan., 1799, Isaiah Wood, who was born in Middle- 
boro, Mass., o July, 1778, to Moses and Lydia- Waterman Wood. 
They died in North Anson — he about 1<S82, she in April, 1S68.. 
Isaiah was a farmer in his young manhood and school teacher, exer- 
cising the ofifice of the latter very successfully. About 1805, in 
order to avoid mistaken identity (there being another Isaiah Wood), 
he had his name changed to Moses and his son Isaiah Winthrop's to 
Chessman Hovey, by act of the Legislature. This act was only a 
few years before his death and he was always remembered in the 
family as Isaiah. Right after marriage, he went to and settled in 
Anson, Me., when it was practically a forest, and won by hard work 
and skill a large productive farm and reared a large family of intelli- 
gent, useful, respected men and women: Harlow Putnam''; Amos 
Perley, born 19 Dec, ISOI, and died '24 June, 1S02; Sally Perley, 
born 11 Sept., 1S08, and died 4 July, ls22; Louisa Perley'; Ouincy 
Pickering''; and Chessman Hovey'. 

4 Harlow P.'* was born 2 Dec, 1799, and married Sarah Jewett of 
Solon. He was in the hardware trade in Hallowell, where they had 
these children: Harlow Stewart, born 18 Jan., 1826, and died un- 
married; Walter Jewett, born 21 Jan., 1828, (who, in Rockland, mar- 
ried, first, Flvira Hanscom and had Luella that married P2. E.Gillette, 
of Jamaica Plain, Mass., who had two daughters, and second, Julia ^ 
•'_±^_ without issue); William Pe-^rley, born 18 June, 1830, (whomar-,^ 
ried ElonaV — — ^ and had May, now married with one child, Vi^ and ,> 

''Villa unmarried, and Harlow, married with four children); Amos ^ 
Pe^rley, born 25 Nov., 1882, (who married, first, Abbie Davenport and 
had Abbie, and married, second. Celeste and had George and Wal- 
ter, three who are married) ; Sarah Louisa, born 24 April, 1835, (who 
married Eben Mayo and has Walter Eben, married with two chil- 
dren, and George Kaler, married with one son, all at Rockland ) ; 
James Llewellyn, born 29 Dec, 1837; Charles Francis, born 21 June, 

1842, (who married Celeste and had Adela Hills, who married 

Prof. H. De F. Smith of Amherst and has one child ) ; George Henry, 
born 18 May, 1844, who married Georgia Willey and has Llewellyn, 
unmarried. 

5 Louisa P.'^ was born 15 June, 1808. She married Asher Ward, 
a farmer, who was born in Norridgewock, Me., to Timothy Ward, 
also a farmer, and died in Madison, Me. She died 1 April, 1887, in 
Madison, having had only one child, Georgianna, born 15 Jan., 1848, 
who married George A. Taylor, and about five years after marriage 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



151 



died 5 Sept., lcS72, without issue. George married again, and lived 
with his first wife's parents as their son as long as they lived. He 
died several years ago. 

6 Quincy P.'^ was born 27 Dec, 1811. He was a farmer in North 
Anson, where he died. He married, first, Lavinia Jewett of Solon, 
who died in North Anson, the mother of only one child, Ruth Black- 
stone, who died at the age of twenty-five years. His second wife was 
Ellen vR. Campbell, by whom he had three children : Ellen Lavinia, 
who died several years ago; Emma, who married Wm. Dow, who lives 
in Hartland with two children. Belle and Leo; and Quincy Campbell, 
not married. His second wife married again and died in 1903. 

7 Chessman H.^ was born 30 Sept., 1815, in North Anson, Me., 
and died there 17 Dec, 1886, a farmer. He married in Hallowell 
in 1849 Sarah Marble, who was born 20 Nov., 18*25, in Vassalboro, 
to Marcia-Lewis and Coker Marble, a farmer. She died in North 
Anson 21 May, 1882. Their only child, born 17 Oct., 1853, in North 
Anson, is Marcia Louisa Wood, secretary in the ofifice of S. R. 
Bailey & Co., carriage manufacturers, Amesbury, Mass. 



FAMILY 81: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT- ALL AN-1, THOMAS-4, JArOH-17, FRANClS-39. 

JACOB PP:RLEY was born l(i March, 1750-1, on the D. DeWitt 
C. Mighill place in Boxford. In 1777, two years after his marriage, 
he removed to Reading, Mass., and in 1779, to Byfield Parish, New- 
bury, where he built and occupied. ( In the same house, years after, a 
Mr. Caldwell was murdered by his wife. ) He was a member of the Box- 
ford P'irst Church while living in Byfield, having joined 28 April, l77t). 

In Jan., 1810, he bought of Benjamin Poor and his wife Ruth a 
house and about ten acres of land on Warren street, about a third of 
a mile southwest of the Byfield church, and in 1818, sold to Poor a 
place at the head of Warren street, next to the estate of Thomas 
Gage, Esq., which estate is now the Georgetown poorfarm. Jacob 
Perley was a selectman of Newbury 1814. 

He married 14 June, 1775, Dolly Wood, who was born 14 Oct., 
1752, to Nathan and P21izabeth-Wood Wood of Boxford. Their mar- 
ried life continued half a century, less about fiv^e months, when she 
died 30 Jan., 1825, at the age of seventy-two years. He survived till 
5 Jan., 1832, when he was eighty-one 3^ears old. Their "narrow 
house" is in the Congregational church yard. South Byfield, Rowley. 

1 Perley children: Jacob-180, Jonathan-181, Lucy-, Deborah-l82, 
Jeremiah-l83, Nathan-184, Samuel", Francis-185, Putnam-186. 

2 Lucy' was born in Newbury, 19 Aug., 1780, and died unmar- 
ried, in Groveland, in 1857, or Oct., 18(50. Samuel" was born 27 
Dec, 1788, and was drowned in Plum Island river 17 Sept., 1817. 
He was interred at the side of his parents, and his epitaph reads : 

" Where is Tomorrow ? In another world. 
For numbers this is certain; the reverse 
Is sure to none." 




FAMILY 82: CLARK. 

LINEAL DESCENT- ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, MOSES-4(). 

HANNAH PERLEY was born 14 April, 1745, and died 19 
Sept., 1842, aged ninety-seven. She married 12 Nov., 1771, Lt. 
Daniel Clark, born 4 Feb., 1778-4, to Daniel and Martha-Redington 
Clark of Topsfield. He was a tavern-keeper in his native town, on 
the present site of John Bailey's grocery building, which his ances- 
tors had occupied for nearly a cen- 
tury. In 1784 he removed to 
Georgetown, where he died 19 Dec, 

J , ^ ^ „ 1799, in the house now occupied by 

q '1 T ^^Tfl T. G. Elliot, in which his widow re- 
^ J- -i - ^J i sided till her marriage, 22 Nov., 
1814, with her brother-in-law, John 
Perley-48. Lt. Clark's Georgetown 
home stood in the angle of Main 
''^H^^JpSSi and Library streets. He bought it 
from John Brockbank 17 Mar., 1808, 

THK GLAUK HOUSE AT GRi )K(;ET0WN. for $500. 

1 Clark children: Elijah-, DanieP, Daniel^ Elijah'', Moody"^ Moses'-, 
Jeremiah'. 

2 Elijah' was born 28 Aug., 1772, in Topsfield, and died there 
13 March, 177(5. Daniel' was born in Topsfield, 22 May, 1774, where 
he died 29 Feb., 177G. Moody' died unmarried. Moses' was a 
physician in Lawrence. 

3 Daniel' was born 11 Nov., 1777, in Topsfield; married, first, 28 
April, 1801, Olive Nelson, born in 1776, to Capt. Amos and Olive- 
Dole Nelson of Georgetown, and died in Rowley, childless. He 
married, second (published with, 14 May, 1807), Hannah, daughter 
of John Curtis of Rowley, and had Olive N. 

4 Elijah' was born 29 Jan., 1779, in Topsfield, and died 28 March, 
1857. He married Sarah Parker, daughter of Samuel. She died 
very suddenly on the evening of 16 Jan., 1857, aged seventy-four 
years and nine months. 

In ISOO he went to Groveland, where he was a shoe manufacturer 
and trader. During his trading journeys into Canada, although nat- 
urally strong, through fatigue and exposure, he contracted chronic 
rheumatism, which unfitted him for active service in later life. 
Issue: Daniel, died young; Elijah"; Alexander H., died young; Jer- 
emiah, born 184 7, resided in San Francisco, Cal., practised law after 
1850, visited his parents in 1854, and returned home with a wife — 
Lottie F., daughter of Dr. Kane of Plattsburg, N. Y. 

5 Jeremiah^ was born 8 March, 1786. He married Lucy Hardy, 
and, secondly, Judith Chute, born in 1802 to David of Georgetown. 
Issue: Maria, Daniel, P^mily, Jeremiah, (which four died young); 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 153 

Laura, born in iJ^oo and lived with her Aunt Nelson; George W., 
born in 1841. 

t) Elijah^ married Elizabeth A., born in 1814 to Thomas Morse. 
He was a shoemaker and stabler. Issue: Daniel, born in 1834, went 
to California ni 1858 and practised law with his uncle Jeremiah 
Clark; Louisa, born 1886; Sarah P., died young; Hannah M., born 
1S40; Elizabeth A., died young; William M., died young; Norman, 
born 1847; Mary A., born 1850; William, born 1855. 



EAMILY 83: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, MOSES-40. 

STEPHEN PERLEY was born 8 Dec.,1747,in Boxford,on asite 
north of Baldpate pond, near Elbridge Perkins' barn. About 1784, 
the time of his marriage, he built the house lately located on Hovey's 
plain, between Pye brook and the railroad, a short distance from the 
latter. He owned and cultivated an extensive farm, which de, 
scended to his nephew and namesake, Stephen Perley, son of Moody- 
who occupied it till a few months before it was destroyed by fire in 
the summer of 1867. His children all died young and he had none 
to care for him in age, except various tenants that occupied a portion 
of his house, a convenient acquisition, since he was so far removed 
from neighbors. He was highly esteemed as a friend and neighbor, 
and is still spoken of as a good, kind-hearted gentleman. 

In 1784, June '29, he married Elizabeth Gould, born 4 Dec, 1752, 
to Joseph and Elizabeth-P2merson Gould. She died 4 April, 1840, 
aged eighty-seven years. He died 16 Feb., 1839, at the great age 
of ninety-one. Her will was proved 8 April, r840. 

1 Perley children : Betsey", P'annie^ Sarahs 

2 Betsey^ was born in 1785 and died unmarried 17 Nov., 1819. 
Fannie^ was born in 1787 and died 13 (tombstone), 30 Sept., 1800. 
Sarah^ was born in 1790, and died 20 June, 1795. All were buried 
in Topsfield. 



FAMILY 84: PERLEY. 

LINEAL I)f;SCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, MOSES-40. 

NATHAN PERLEY was born 9 March, 1752, north of Bald- 
pate pond in Boxford. In 1783 he built a dwelling house, near his 
birthplace, just over the town line in Rowley, now Georgetown. 
F'our years later he married, and that house became his residence. 
He was centrally located upon an extensive and productive farm, 
upon the southern slope of Baldpate hill, alike noted for its height 
(being the highest but one in the County) and fertility. In 1825 
Thomas Nelson purchased the estate; afterwards Luther P. Tidd 
was the owner; it now (1880) belongs to and is occupied by Henry 
E. Perley-141. His daughter Hannah writes that the current report 
that her father's barn was moved from "the Stetson place" is false, 



154 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

and further that her father had a piece put on in 1815 or 16, two 
men from Newburyport doing the work. 

Mr. Perley married, IB Sept., 1787, Ruth Gould, who was born 
'I'l Jan., 1755, to Jacob and EUzabeth-Towne Gould of Topsfield. 
He died 9 Oct., 1820, aged sixty-eight years. She died of palsy 18 
July, 1822, aged sixty-seven years. They repose in Harmony Cem- 
etery, Boxford. His epitaph is: 



Hers: 



Keueath tliis iiru, till God sbal! bid bim rise, 
A ijusband dear and inucb beloved lies; 
In vain our tears, death comes at Heaven's 
Deprived tbe world of a good and u-eful man. 



Friends and physicians could not save 
My mortal body from the grave; 
Nor can the grave confine me here 
When Christ commands me to appear. 



1 Perley children: Sarah-160, Moses", Ruth-187, Jeremiah'\ 
Hannah^ 

2 Moses' was born 28 Jan., 1798, and died 25 Feb., 1838, in Dun- 
barton, N. H. His will is dated 21 Feb., 1888, and was proved "the 
4th Tuesday," 27th of Feb., same year. He bequeathed $1000 to 
Moses Perley, 2d, son of Warren, $100 to his brother Jeremiah of Box- 
ford, $50 to his sister Sarah Perley, widow, of New Rowley, $5 to 
Ruth Nelson, wife of Deacon Asa, $200 to Sister Hannah Perley of 
Bradford, $25 to Henry Bachelor, son of George of Bradford, and 
the remainder to Moses Perley, 2d, son of Warren. Humphrey. 
C. Perley of Dunbarton was executor. 

8 Jeremiah' was born 11 Dec. 179(5, and was never married. 
He lived in Boxford in 1880 with Misses Lucy A. and Sarah P. Per- 
ley-142 at the age of eighty-three. His mind had been wrecked for 
several years. A few moments' conversation, however, would 
hardly betray his real mental condition. He died 9 Feb., 1882. 

4 Hannah' was born 7 July, 1798. In 1880 she lived in South 
Groveland, unmarried. She was as fine an old lady as is often met. 
Her natural faculties and physical strength were well preserved, 
and her memory of her childhood's years was vivid and entertaining. 



FAMILY 85: BALCH. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, .TACOB-17, MOSES-40. 

SARAH PERLEY was born 27 July, 1757, and died 28 Oct., 
1887, aged eighty years. She married in Boxford 14 May, 1782, 
Roger Balch, who was born 26 May, 1755, to John and Rebecca 
Balch of Topsfield, where he died 6 Jan., 1842, aged eighty-six years. 

1 Balch children : Perley^ Moody-. 

2 Moody' was born 3 Feb., 1794. He left on the morning of 10 
Nov., 1852, and was found dead in a pasture on River hill, Topsfield, 
the 16th. He never married. 

3 Perley' was born 5 Aug., 1788, and died 2 May, 1858, of 
stomachic cancer. He married (published 20 Nov., 1808,) Sarah 
Perkins, daughter of Asa. He belonged to Topsfield, where in 1818 
and 1819 he was a selectman. He repo.ses in the South Cemetery, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY I55 

and his epitaph reads: "He was an honest man." His widow died 
"28 March, 18G5. Issue: Perley\ Eunice^ Mehitable**, Humphrey", 
Jeremiah^ Benjamin Johnson''. 

4 Perley' was born '17 April, 1809, and died 9 Feb., 1881, in 
Lowell, where he was a school teacher. He married in 18:^6 Susan 
H. Glazier, who was born in 1817 and died 28 July, 1879. Issue: 
Mary Abby, born 10 March, 1844. 

5 Eunice'^ was born 21 Sept., 1811, and died childless 81 Dec, 
1878. In 1883 she married Amos Perkins, born Jan., 1811, to Amos 
and Betsey-Brown Perkins of Topsfield, their home. 

t) Mehitable" was born lb May, 1814, and died 24 July, 1891. 
She married 25 Nov., 1834, William G. Lake, who was born 12 May, 
1808, to Eleazer and Ruth-Prime Lake of Topsfield, and died 10 Jan., 
1853. Issue: Merietta B., born 13 Dec, 1835, died 15 Nov., 1845; 
Susan J.' ; Perley B.^'; William G.''^. 

7 Humphrey' was born 18 May, 1818, and died 1 June, 1897. He 
married in 1842 Hannah P., born March, 1823, to Porter and Mehit- 
able-Bradstreet Bradstreet of Topsfield. He was an efficient school 
teacher, a popular summer landlord, a trustee of the public library 
and prominent citizen. Issue: Humphrey Porter, born 28 May, 
1844; died 23 May, 1847; Edward Perley^^ Gilbert BrownelL''; 
Anna Bradstreet'". 

8 Jeremiah'^ was born 17 May, 1823, and died 27 July, 1904. He 
married 24 Oct., 1849, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremiah and 
Mary-Symonds Shepherd of Salem. He was an accomplished 
musician, and was leader of the Haverhill Brass and Quadrille Band, 
a very popular organization. His sons are also fine musicians. His 
home was in Waltnam. Issue: Harriet Webb, born June, 1850, 
died 5 July, 1858; Mary Augusta"; Jeremiah Perkins, born 12 April, 
1855, died 24 May, 1856; Clarence Linwood, born 21 May, 1857, de- 
ceased; Jeremiah Shepherd, born 6 Nov., 1859, married Lizzie 
Kench ; Edward Forrest, born 7 April, 18G2. 

9 Benjamin Johnson" was born 9 Sept., .1826. He married, first, 
2 May, 1858, Eliza, who was born in 1831 to Oliver and Betsey- 
Gould Kill&m of Boxford, and died in Topsfield 22 Jan., 1868, having 
had one child, Florence Eliza, who was born 3 Sept., 1859, and mar- 
ried Emery C. Kinney. She was for many years teacher of music 
in Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, and later, with her husband, did 
extensive missionary work, reviving churches -and building up Sun- 
day schools, in V^ermont. He married, second, 26 Sept., 1871, 
Caroline Pingree of Topsfield, who was born 25 May, 1833, to Jewett 
and Mary-Perkins Pingree, and has had one child, Franklin, who was 
born 15 Jan., 1876, and is an attorney in Boston. 

10 Susan J." was born 24 June, 1838, and married E. Perkins 
Averill, a shoemaker of Topsfield. Issue: Elmer P.^^; Carrie, born 
11 Dec, 1872; Lulu J., born 3 April, 1876. 

11 Perley B.,*' was born 9 March, 1848, and 18 Nov., 1870, mar- 
ried Carrie Pitman. Issue: Lenora Bruce, born May, 1872; Edward 
Hewlett, born Jan., 1874; Charles Woodward, born Jan., 1876; Ava 
Maude, born May, 1879; Carrie Pearle, born Feb., 1880. 

12 William G.^ was born 27 Feb., 1851 ; married Margaret 
Walker. Issue: William G., born Sept., 1886, died Nov., 1902; 



156 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Clarence W., born 4 March, 1888; Lillian, born July, 1890, died 
May, 1903; Benjamin Balch, born 1 March, 1894. 

13 Elmer P.^' was born '20 April, 18(55; married Annie P. Ingalls. 
Issue: Plorence Osgood and Charles. 

14 Edward Perley' was born 13 Jan., 1850. He married, first, 
Mary H. Orne; second, Laura H. Lake. He has a delightful home 
in Bradford, and is associated with his brother Gilbert^" in an exten- 
sive book publishing business in Boston. 

15 Gilbert BrownelL was born 9 Feb., 1856; married Sarah 
Lizzie Perkins of Topsfield, born to Elbridge and Susie-Adams 
Perkins. Mr. Balch has a spacious and costly summer home in 
Topsfield. He is of the firm of Balch Bros., the largest subscrip- 
tion book publishers in New England. 

16 Anna Bradstreet" was born 18 P'eb., I860; married Charles 
P>ed Jordan of Byfield 28 Nov., 1883. Mr. Jordan is in the employ 
of Balch Bros. Issue: Alice Balch, born 4 Nov., 1884; Helen 
Pearle, born 18 July, 1886; Gilbert Balch, born 26 Dec, 1890; Per- 
ley Balch, born 27 Sept., 1892; Harold, born 1 April, 1896. 

17 Mary Augusta^ was born 16 June, 1853, and died 31 March, 
1888. She married Theron D. Perkins of Topsfield, an accomplished 
cornet soloist and bandmaster. Issue: Sallie Mabel, born 19 June, 
1876; Mollie Winfield, born 15 July, 1880. 



FAMILY 86: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT—ALLAN-!, THOMAS-4, JACOH-IT, MOSE.S-40. 

MOODY PERLEY was born north of Baldpate pond in Box- 
ford 16 March, 1760. His first home was the Killam house, burned 
a few years since, on the left of the road from Boxford village to 
Georgetown, and near the Francis Marden place. In 1801 or 2, he 
removed to the Flint Tyler place, now ( 1880) the Adams place, on 
the old Andover road, about half a mile from his former residence. 
About 1827, he removed to the "old Andrews house," in the south- 
ern part of the town, and occupied by Albert Tyler. 

He was a surveyor of highways 1797, 1806, 1814; hogreeve 1815; 
member of the school board 1807. He was esteemed for his 
numerous good qualities. He left a considerable estate. 

He married, 10 Dec, 1793, Abigail Gould, who was born 25 Dec, 
1769, — a Christmas gift, — to John and P31izabeth-Bradstreet Gould 
of Topsfield. He died 23 Sept., 1833. She, a widow, occupied the 
old farm, with her sons Moody and Leander and her daughters, 
Abigail and Fanny, more than seventeen years, dying 23 Jan., 1851, 
aged eighty-one. A double stone marks their resting-place in 
Harmony Cemetery, Boxford. 

1 Perley children: Betsey Gould-188, Moody-, Hiram'^ Abigail, 
Fanny", Moody'\ Stephen", Leander'*. 

2 Moody^ was born 15 April, 1798, and died in five years 7 Nov., 
1803. 

3 Hiram^ was born 18 July, 1800. He married 4 April, 1844, 
Ruth Ann Smith, who was born in Boxford 4 Nov., 1806, to Joseph 



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157 



and Kezia-Gould Smith. Hiram Perley was a member of a fire com- 
pany, 1826, at New Mills, Dan vers. They owned and cultivated a 
farm in Francestown, N. H., going there before 1852, and there they 
died, without issue, she 18 Feb., 1863; he 23 Feb., 1865. A double 
stone marks their burial place in Harmony Cemetery, Boxford. 

4 AbigaiP was born 19 March, 1803. In 1864 she went to live 
with her brother Moody in Boxford. She never married. 

5 Fanny ^ was born 4 April, 1806. She spent the greater part 
of her life as housekeeper for her brother Stephen, going to live with 
their sister Betsey in Georgetown when he went to live with their 
brother Moody. 

6 Moody^ was born 26 March, 1809. He cultivated his father's 
farm till about 1864, when he purchased a farm of Phineas Foster, 
in Boxford. His sister Abigail lived with him as housekeeper. 

7 Stephen' was born 8 Feb., 1811. He was named for his uncle 
who gave him his farm. Upon that farm 
Stephen and his sister Fanny as housekeeper 
lived, till the old house was untenantable and 
his health was broken. He lived with his 
brother Moody but a few months, dying 23 
March, 1867, at the age of fifty-six. He 
never married. His tomb record in Harmony 
Cemetery, Boxford, is here shown. 

8 Leander^ was born 14 Nov., 1815. He lived on the parental 
estate, and assisted in "carrying on the farm." Ne never married. 
He died 11 Oct., 1864, and sleeps in Harmony Cemetery. 



The Heirs of 
.Stephen Perley. Jr., 

to the memory of 

tlicir brut her who died 

March 23, IStJT 

Aged 54. 

There is rest in Heaven 



FAMILY 87: WOOD. 

LINEAL DESCENT—ALLAN-l, THOMAS-4, ,TACOB-17, MOSES-JO. 

PHCEBE PERLEY was born 14 Jan., 1763, and died 29 March, 
1833. She married (published 30 Oct., 1784,) Solomon Wood, who 
was born on the Albert Perley place in East Boxford, 7 Jan., 1763, 
to Solomon and Mehitable-Peabody Wood. Their home had been 
his father's. He died 6 Oct., 1829. A double stone, in Harmony 
Cemetery, Boxford, shows where they rest, and is thus inscribed : 

" May we meet in Heaven." 

1 Wood children: Hannah-141, Oliver', Phebe'', Mehitable Pea- 
body^ Sally', Betsey'. 

2 Oliver' was born 6 April, 1788, lived in Groveland with his sister 
Sally', died unmarried 20 Sept., 1863, and was buried at the side of 
his parents. Mehitable P.' was born 16 Feb., 1794. Sally' was born 
27 Nov., 1798, and married Geo. H. A. Bachellor-297. 

3 Phebe' was born 2 Aug., 1791. She married 29 Dec, 1814, 
Samuel Hood, born 8 Nov., 1787, son of Richard and Lydia-Tarbox 
Hood of Wenham, who died in Georgetown 8 June, 1848. She died 
24 April, 1884, aged ninety-two years, nine months. The local 
journal thus speaks of her demise : 

"Death of a Nonagenarian. Mrs. Phoebe Hood, widow of the 
late Samuel Hood, died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. 



158 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Leonard Jewett, last Thursday. After her marriage she removed 
to Georgetown where she has resided ever since. She has buried 
two grown sons. One son, Samuel, and two daughters, Mrs. Jewett 
and Mrs. George M. Spofford, survive her. She was one of the best 
as well as one of the oldest persons in town. She was a beautiful, 
benignant looking old lady five years ago, and retaining all her 
faculties save hearing. We recall but two persons who approach 
her in seniority of birth, viz: the venerable Capt. William George, 
who was born in March, 1790, and Mrs. Jewett, grandmother of E. P. 
Wildes, who was born the same year and not far from the same 
month with Mrs. Hood. Their lives cover nearly the whole history 
of the American republic." 

Hood issue: William Henry, born in W^enham 26 Oct., 1815, died 

18 April, 1824; Samuel"; Mary Ehzabeth, born in Wenham, 12 Jan., 
1820, died 25 July, 1893, married 29 April, 1851, Dea. Leonard 
Jewett of Georgetown, who died 9 March, 1899; Solomon Perley, 
born in Wenham, 31 March, 1822, died unmarried 10 Nov., 1850; 
William Henry, born in Boxford 25 June, 1825, died 15 Sept., 184(5; 
Sarah Peabody". 

4 Betsey^ was born 28 July, 1801, and died, his widow, 11 March, 
1877. She married 8 March, 1827, Samuel Dale, farmer, of 
Andover. Their home was Boxford at the Samuel Twisden place. 
He was drowned 10 Sept., 1836, aged thirty-six years. His epitaph 
is seen near the graves of her parents, — thus: 

Kntvviiied liy all the tender ties of life. 
To a (ieai- oliild. and a beloved wife; 
I strovi' in vain, my precious life to save. 
But sinik in death, beneath the briny wave. 

Farewell! farewell! a sad, a long farewell! 
Willi iny dear friends on earth, no longer ran 1 dwell. 
l'^ri(>iiils and (•om[un)i<in- all, a sad. a last adieu, 
I'reiiare to frllow uie, I cannot lume to you. 

Their child: Herbert Augustus, born 11 Aug., 1831, is a shoe- 
maker and lives in Georgetown. He married Sarah M. Boynton, 
daughter of Edmond Boynton of Georgetown. They had a son born 

19 P'eb., 1854; Georgianna, born 26 April, 1856; Lizzie, who married 
John F. Wells; Oliver Augustus, born 10 P'eb., 1864. 

5 SamueP was born in Wenham, 16 Dec, 1817. He was pub- 
lished with, 16 May, 1846, and married Elizabeth Nichols of West 
Amesbury, now Merrimac, who died 10 July, 1857. They lived in 
Georgetown. He died there 17 Jan., 1896. 

6 Sarah Peabody' was born in Boxford, 2 April, 1S28, and 7 Nov., 
1852, married George Milton Spofford of Georgetown, who was born 
8 June, 1824, to Sewell and Elizabeth Nelson Spofford of George- 
town. They live in Georgetown. They had : Mary Elizabeth, born 
3 Sept., 1854, died 12 Dec, 1876; George Henry, born 15 Feb., 
1858, died 8 Sept., 1858; Harriet Hood-3S0; PLllen Wood, born 16 
Dec, 1863, a teacher, graduated from Salem Normal School and 
residing, unmarried, in Georgetown; Charles Milton, born 28 Sept., 
1871, who, a professor in Institute of Technology, Boston, married 
5 Feb., 1896, Florence M. Swalm of Middletown, N. Y., and resides 
in Newtonville, Mass., having a child, Christine Swalm, born in 
Georgetown, 16 Nov., 1896. 



FAMILY 88: SCOTT. 

LINEAL DESCENT -ALL AN-1, TIMOTHY-6, STEl'HEN-lD, ALLEN-42. 

MARTHA PERLEY was born Monday, 30 July, 1759, and died 
9 June, 1833. She married (published 29 Dec., 1780,) Benjamin 
Scott, born 5 Dec, 1753, to Samuel and Bridget-Boynton Scott of 
Rowley. He was a farmer, a very active and capable man, a ster- 
ling citizen. " Scott's hill," in the Linebrook district, Ipswich, was so 
called because his home was there. The hill is now sometimes 
called Garrette's hill, because the Scott farm is now owned by Wm. 
Garrette. 



Mrs. MARTHA SCOTT, 

Widiw of 

Caiit. BENJAMIN SCOTT, 

Died June 8, 1833, 

Aged 74. 

Dearest motlier. tbou liast left u 
Here tbv lo>s we deeply feel, 

But 'tis God that liath bereft us. 
He ean all our sorrows heal. 



IN 

Memory of 

CAPT. BENJAMIN SCOTT 

who died 

Marrh 12, ISO'.); 

JEt. 55 

A husband kimi. a ii.'ireiit dear. 
A sineere friend lies buried here. 



1 Scott children : Martha'', Nathaniel', DolIy-1 02, Martha'', Sally', 
Benjamin'', Hannah'', Perley". 

2 Nathaniel' was born Tuesday, 12 July, 1785, and 20 Feb., 1812, 
married Sarah Kimball. He died 1(5 Nov., 1862. His wife was 
born Monday, 7 April, 1788, and died 22 Feb., 18(i9. He was a 
man of great capability and an exemplary farmer. He took charge 
of the " Treadwell farm," East street, Ipswich, 23 March, 1819. He 
was several years superintendent of the Ipswich town farm. They 
had a son born Sunday, 20 Dec, 1812, and buried the next day; 
Sarah, born Tuesday, 18 April, 1815, married 1 Sept., 1831, George 
Hodgdon of Ipswich; Mary Ann-47"; Elizabeth, born 26 Feb., 1820, 
in Ipswich, where she died 17 Aug., 1896, married 16 Dec, 1841, 
Nathaniel Bradstreet, Jr., a farmer, born in 1816 to Elizabeth- 
Nourse and Nathaniel Bradstreet, a farmer in Ipswich, where he 
died 4 June, 1879, and where their children were born: George 
Scott, 1842, who married and lives in Beverly; Nathaniel Perley,1844, 
who married and lives in Salem; Charles William, 1846, who mar- 
ried and lives in Rowley; Lorenzo Thair, 1849, who married and 
lives in Rowley; John Francis, 2 Jan., 1853, who married and lives 
in Rowley; Daniel Wise, 26 March, 1856, who married and lives in 
Rowley; Albert Edward, 17 July, 1861, who married and lives in 
South Dakota; and Elizabeth Jane, 1851, Mary Ann and Angle 
Emma, three that are dead. 

3 Martha' died in infancy, 1 Aug., 1783. Martha' was born Sat- 
urday, 1 May, 1790, and died 1 Nov., 1873, aged eighty-three years. 
She became, 7 Nov.., 1809, the second wife of Capt. Solomon Dodge, 
born 1775 or 1776 to Phineas Dodge of Rowley and died 20 June, 
1860, aged eighty-four years. Mr. Dodge's residence has been since 



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160 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

known as the "Dodge house," and is located in the western part of 
Millwood, or "Rooty Plain." He was a captain in the militia; he 
was extensively engaged in the lumber trade; he was exemplary in 
all his business concerns. His father built a grist mill in 1780, 
about half a mile above the present mills, and in 1823 it was removed 
by Capt. Dodge, who erected a new mill near his saw mill in the 
rear of his residence, the site of the first saw mill in town. [By his 
first wife he had a son, born in liSO'2; Solomon, born in 1804, who 11 
July, 1810, was killed with a scythe in the hands of his eight-year-old 
brother; Sylvanus, who lived in Danvers and was father of Gen. 
Granville Dodge of the Regular Army, prominent in the Indian 
wars.] Dodge (-Scott) children: Martha Perley, born 20 Nov., 1810, 
married Wm. Boynton of Georgetown, died 17 Feb., 1851; Solomon, 
born 2 July, 1813, married Hannah M. Todd of Rowley, where he 
lived, and died 14 Aug., 1861; Eliza Mary**; Palmira Newell, born 10 
July, 1820, married Harrison Nelson, lived in Rowley without issue; 
Benjamin Scott''. 

4 Sally^ was born Monday, 30 April, 1792, and died 17 Aug., 
1878, in Topsfiekl. She married 24 April, 1815, Capt. Wm. Cum- 
mings, born 17 Jan., 1788, to Elijah and Painice-Conant Cummings 
of Topsfiekl, and died there 10 Oct., 18G8. Issue: Alfred'"; William 
Perley, who had two wives, Mary C. Dodge of Hamilton, and Almira, 
who in 1880 became the second wife of Dea. Samuel Todd of 
Topsfield. 

5 Benjamin^ was born Wednesday, 17 Aug., 1790, married 30 
Dec, 1824, Elizabeth Phillips, died 4 Jan., 1877. Their home was 
Ipswich, their children: Sylvester, born 19 Sept., 1825; Benjamin. 

6 Hannah' was born Tuesday, 1 May, 1798, and died 21 Nov., 
1850. She was married 30 Oct., 1824, by Rev. David Tenney Kim- 
ball of Ipswich to Maj. Paul Dole, a farmer of Georgetown, who 
died 23 Feb., 1800. Their only child was Hannah, born 7 Aug., 
1843, with home in Georgetown. 

7 Perley' was born Wednesday, 6 Jan., 1804, and died 17 Jan., 
1872. He married 7 Nov., 1839, Almira Stone, born to William and 
Polly-Hovey vStone of Ipswich, and died 13 April, 1895, aged eighty- 
five years, ten months. 

8 Eliza M.-' was born 7 Oct., 1817, and died in Rowley 20 Sept., 
1863. She married 25 P'eb., 1839, George March Nelson, born 2 
Aug., 1816, to Thomas and Susannah-March Nelson of Georgetown, 
and died in California. Their children : Elizabeth Perley, born 10 
May, 1839, was educated in the Topsfiekl Academy, and married 4 
Jan., 1865, Jonn A. Durgin of West Newbury, who was educated also 
in the Topsfield Academy, and who, dying without children, left to 
his widow a half interest in the Sinclair hotel property in Bethlehem, 
N. H.; Mary, born in 1845; Benjamin Scott, born 4 June, 1846, mar- 
ried 6 Jan., 1872, Fannie S., or Frances, Currier of Haverhill, where 
they lived, having one child, Maud Elizabeth, born 3 April, 1879, 
and where he was foreman of J. Durgin's shoe factory. 

In 1882, the Georgetown Advocate printed the following: "The 
Sinclair House of Bethlehem, N.H., kept by our old friend and neigh- 
bor, Mr. John A. Durgin of West Newbury, is having its full share 
of patrunage this season, and continues to be one of the best of the 



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HISTORY AND GENEALOGY Igj 

many first-class hotels at the White Mountains. Its 'menu' is 
printed on one of Lowell's elegant portrait folio cards, and embraces 
almost every delicacy that can be procured at Young's or the Parker 
House. Hops are given two or three evenings in the week, and are 
managed by the guests." 

9 Benjamin Scott^ was born 9 Jan., 18*28. He married, first, 
Caroline L. Chaplin, daughter of Luther and Elizabeth-Conant 
Chaplin of Linebrook. He married, second, a widow Harris; lives 
near his grandfather's residence. He was at one time proprietor of 
Atwood's Jaundice Cure, which had an extensive sale. Their chil- 
dren were Georgie A., born in 1856; Lizzie Bell, born 19 Oct., 1869, 
and married Prof. Bartlett H. Weston of the Atkinson Academy, 
N. H., and others that died quite young. Bartlett Hardy Weston is 
a graduate of Dartmouth College, was many years a classical teacher, 
and now is a clergyman in Dunstable. 

10 Alfred' married 18 April, 1847, Salome M. Welsh, daughter 
of Samuel of Sanford, Me. He is a farmer in Topsfield, Mass. 
Issue: George; William; Martha Stevens, born 1852; Abbie Jane, 
born 1854; Laura Anna, born 1856; Sarah Burgiss, born 1859; 
Hannah Eva, born 1863; Charles Arthur, born 1870. 



FAMILY 89: DORMAN. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY 6, STErHEN-19, ALLEN-42. 

DEBORAH PERLEY was born Monday, 11 Dec, 1760, and 
died 6 April, 1840. She married (published 4 Jan., 1782,) Timothy 
Dorman, who was born 24 Oct., 1757, to Timothy and Eunice- 
Burnham Dorman of Boxford. He was a farmer. He built his 
residence, now occupied by John C. Ames. 

He responded to the "Lexington Alarm," served eight enlist- 
ments in the Revolutionary army, and one on board of a Salem 
privateer, "The Black Prince," which carried eighteen six-pound guns 
and a crew of one hundred and twenty to one hundred and sixty 
men, and which was burned in the Penobscot 14 Aug., 1779, to 
prevent capture. He was under Gen. Washington in 1776, and at 
the battle of Saratoga and surrender of Burgoyne in 1777. He drew 
a pension after his seventy-fifth year. During his last years he was 
deaf and blind. His native integrity passed into the common re- 
mark: "As honest as Tim. Dorman." He died 23 Dec, 1835. 

1 Dorman children: Deborah'^, Timothy, born. 4 Jan., 1784, 
Perley^ Nathaniel"*. 

2 Deborah^ was born in Boxford 18 May, 1782, and died in Line- 
brook 25* Feb., 1805. She married 24 April, 1804, John Fowler, Jr., 



*Mr. Nathaniel Scott's diary record reads : 

" Mr. John Fowler died Sept. 9, ls03, aged 91 years. He had 7 children, 58 grandchildren, 
and 80 great-grandchildren. 

John Fowler jnn wife died Feb. ;^0, 1805, aged '22 and ten. 

Perkins Fowler died March 0, 1804, aged 20 years. 

Gilbert Fowler died April 16, 1804. 

Benj. Scott died March 12, 1809, aged 55 yrs. 3 mos. 7 days. 

John Fowler jun died Aug., 1809, aged 31 yrs. 7 mos. 

Samuel Scott died April 26, 1812, aged 86." 

This is an item from Benj. Scott's diary record: 

" Mr. John Fowler and family moved to Bridgton April 23, 1810." [Is this John Fowler the 
John Fowler, 3d, of the Fowler Genealogy, Page 166?] 



162 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

born in Ipswich 30 Jan., 1779, to John and Sarah-Perkins-Abbott 
Fowler, and died there, says Benj. Scott's diary, 18 Aug., 1809. 
After the death of his wife he was of Newburyport, but died in Sa- 
vannah, Ga. His father, John Fowler, administered the estate of 
John Fowler, late of Newburyport, cordwainer, deceased, intestate, 
giving bond 2 Oct., 1809, with Isaac Potter and Timothy Dorman 
sureties. The inventory is dated 6 Dec, 1809, and exhibits an acre 
of land in Ipswich, $35 ; 200 acres in Bridgton, Me., at the head of 
Crotchet pond, $800; other lands there, $1470; lots in Harrison, 
Me., $725 — the total real was $2755, total personal, including a share 
in the Boxford library, $274.95. 

Their only child Deborah became the ward of her grandfather, 
when she was about five years old, 6 Nov., 1809, and all the articles 
of the personal estate were delivered to him for "Deby" Fowler 
"only child and heir of the deceased" 15 Oct., 1816. Deborah mar- 
ried, 10 June or 27 Oct., 1824, Aaron Beeman, born in Bridgton, 14 
July, 1797, to Aaron and Phebe-Kimball Beeman, where they set- 
tled and had these children: Charles A., born 1 May, 1825; Edward 
P., born 5 Aug., 1828; Horatio L., born 2 Nov., 1830; and Louisa 
R., born 16 March, 1832. 

3 Perley' was born 7 May, 1785, and died of consumption 20 
July, 1858. He married 7 P"eb., 1809, Mehitable Symonds, born 11 
Nov., 1790, to Joseph and Susannah-Hale Symonds of Boxford, and 
died 26 Nov., 1855. He was six feet tall, a man of wonderful activ- 
ity, and a natural arithmetician. It is related that he would add 
double columns of figures with accuracy and more rapidly than 
others could single columns. He worked for John Perley-104 as 
clerk, and was the marvel of the customers the country round, by 
the rapidity with which he would figure the totals of bills of many 
items. As clerk he excelled; he was gentlemanly, honest, accurate 
and active. Issue: William H.°; Mary Symonds, born 28 Oct., 
1814, married Wm. Tyler, Jr.; John Perley, born 25 April, 1818, 
married 1 Jan., 1844, Ann M. Emery of Georgetown, where they 
lived and he died 9 May, 1848 ; Samuel S., born 23 Dec, 1829, and 
died 20 March, 1833; Sarah Mehitable, born 30 Dec, 1831. 

4 NathanieP was born 25 Jan., 1790, and died 22 Sept., 1868, aged 
seventy-eight years. He married, first, 17 Dec, 1825, Parmelia 
Gould, born 19 Oct., 1802, to Nathaniel and Betsey-Andrews Gould 
of Topslield, and died suddenly 28 Jan., 1830. He married, second, 
Mary E. Pervia, 11 Feb., 1836. He succeeded to his father's farm. 
Issue: Horatio Gates, born 24 July, 1827, died 5 Feb., 1830; Re- 
becca Eveline, born 21 May, 1829, married John Batchelder Lake 
and lived in Topsfield; Elizabeth Georgianna, born 5 Dec, 1836, 
married Daniel Wilkin s, who was a teacher of mathematics in Tops- 
field Academy. 

5 Wm.H.^wasbornin Boxford 4 July, 1811, and died in Georgetown 
23 Oct., 1863. He married, in Boxford, 19 April, 1832, Sarah 
Barnes, born in the "Old Warren House," built in 16 — , in Waltham, 
13 Aug., 1810, to Sally-Spofford (born in Boxford, 31 Dec, 1786, 
and died there 22 Oct., 1850 ) and Phineas Barnes, a farmer, (born in 
Waltham 29 July, 1780, and died in Boxford 4 May, 1856). Sarah 
died in Georgetown 3 March, 1892. Wm. H. was engaged in early 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 1(33 

life in variety store keeping. Later he carried on a painting busi- 
ness. Their children were Charles Henry, born 24 April, 1833, and 
died in Georgetown 15 May, 1837, and William Barnes". 

6 William B.^ was born in Boxford 20 April, 1835. He was many 
years a druggist in Georgetown. The last seventeen years he was 
a manufacturing perfumer in Boston. In the Civil War he was in 
the Banks expedition to New Orleans, and detached, by special 
order of the general, for, hospital service. Later he was with the 
Mass. 59th regiment, and detached for hospital service. He was 
night and day, for eleven weeks, under constant fire of shot and 
shell before Petersburg. 

He married in Newbury-Byfield, 27 Oct., 1866, Mary Helen 
Spiller, who was born in Georgetown-Byfield, 25 July, 1850, to Mary 
Elizabeth-Wildes (died in Oldtown, Me., 5 Feb., 1892,) and Timothy 
Whitney Spiller, practicing physician in Oldtown and Bangor, 
where he died 15 March, 1894. Dr. Spiller enlisted in the 11th 
Mass. Infantry, was in the first battle of Bull Run, was wounded at 
Williamsburg and discharged. Later he joined the Veteran Reserve 
Corps and served till the close of the war. William B. is a member 
of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Freemasons and the Colo- 
nial Wars. Their home is in Everett; their children: Charles 
Henry, born 17 Nov., 1867; William Edgar, born 25 June, 1869; 
Edith May, born 26 May, 1871, and died; Maurice Arthur, born 4 
Aug., 1873, and died; Archie Maurice,'born 19 Feb., 1875, and died; 
Philip Eugene, born 20 Jan., 1876, and died; Gertrude Adele, born 
25 May, 1878 ; Gerald Whitney, born 16 Feb., 1880; Frederick Paul, 
born 8 Jan., 1882, and died; these all in Georgetown; Florence 
Maud, born 27 Nov., 1883, in Deering, Me.; George Spiller, born in 
Oldtown, 7 March, 1885, and died; Edward Lester, born 5 April, 
1887; Carrie Helen, born 27 May, 1889, and died; these two in 
Maiden. 

Two of these sons have had office of first lieutenant in the Sons 
of Veterans; a third has been in the U. S. Navy several years, was 
in the fighting off Santiago de Cuba, and in the action where 
Admiral Schley destroyed the Spanish fleet. Philip Eugene died at 
the age of fourteen years and eight months. He was known far and 
wide as the "boy astrologer." He was certainly far beyond his 
years in the occult science. He was a wonder to the professors at 
Harvard College. Among his correspondents were Dr. Franz Hart- 
mann of Vienna and Prof. Camille Flammarion, the distinguished 
French astronomer. 



FAMILY 90: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCEMT— ALLAN-1, TLMOTHY-6, STEPHEN-l'J, ALLEN-42. 

ALLEN PERLEY was born on the site of the cellar, page 48, 
Friday, 13 May, 1763. His home was the farm just north of and 
around the old cemetery, about a mile east of his birthplace. The 
farm was originally a Fisk place. In recent years it has been owned 
successively by Clapp, Day and Woodward. It is now (1904) occu- 



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THE PERLEY FAMILY 



pied by Adam G. Lauer. Mr. Parley was a diligent farmer, and for 
those times a successful one. In Nov., 1788, he married Esther 
Burpee of Rowley. The records of their deaths are in the Linebrook 
Cemetery : 



ALLEN PERLEY 

DIED 

June 24, 1843, 

M. 82. 



Kind father, thou hast left us, 
And thy lo-:s we deeply feel; 

But 'tis God that hath bereft us. 
He can all our sorrow heal. 

How loved, how valued once avails thee not, 
To whom related or by whom forgot; 
A heap of dust alone remains of thee. 
'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall l)e 



widow of 

ALLEN PERLEY 

DIED 

Fe6. 4, 1853, 

M. 89 y'fl. 10 m's. 

My children all, come view my grave. 

Prepare to follow me. 
And if your peace is made with God, 

How happy you will be. 

Erected by her daughter. 



1 Perley children : Allen-189, Joseph Burpee-190, Abrahara-191, 
Daniel Jewett-192, Eliza-193. 



FAMILY 91: PLUMMER. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-6, STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-41!. 

HANNAH PERLEY was born 27 Nov., 1765. She was pub- 
lished 23 Aug., 1785, to David Plummer, and married him 8 Dec, 
the same year. He was born 23 Oct., 1757, to John and Abigail- 
Dole Plummer, the only son of five children and a farmer. He 
occupied his grandfather's homestead in Newbury, where he died 30 
April, 1847; and she, 3 May, 1849. 

1 Plummer children : AbigaiP, David'', Stephen^ 

2 AbigaiP was born 27 Sept., 1786, and married Dudley Ladd. 
David^ was born 11 Jan., 1789, and 25 June, 1818, married Lydia 
Hoyt. He was a doctor in Amesbury. He died 29 Jan., 1852; she 
29 Oct., 1863, aged sixty-nine. Their son, Wm. P., married 31 Aug., 
1847, Jane H. Randall of Newbury, and has married since. 

3 Stephen^ was born 9 July, 1793, and 21 Jan., 1824, married 
Lydia Pillsbury of Barrington, N. H. He was a militia captain, an 
extensive farmer, and resided on the old place in Newbury, near the 
Parker river bridge. He died 4 Jan., 1850; she 27 Aug., 1876. 
They had seven children, one of whom was Sophronia Osgood, a 
twin-371; another was Salina G., married 29 April, 1851, Daniel 
Harris Hale, son of Francis P. and Sarah, lived in Rowley, who had 
issue; Elizabeth E., born 21 Nov., 1833, married Edward Dole, milk- 
man and farmer of Ipswich, who had Ada Jane, born 5 June, 1854, 
and married a Brown, Ella Louisa, born 17 July, 1856, and died 
young, Hallet, who lives in Ipswich, and a daughter that died young. 



FAMILY 92: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT- ALL AN-1, TIMOTHY-6, STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42. 

JOHN PERLEY was born Saturday, 6 Feb., 1768, in the same 
house the other children were, (see page 48), but after it was re- 
moved across the brook to a point opposite the residence of Abel 
Spofford Howe. Upon his marriage he purchased a house located 




JOHN PERLEY. 



in Rowley, a little distance north of the first site of the Linebrock 
meeting house or Rev. George Lesslie's estate, and removed it over 
frozen meadows to its present location, just east of his birthplace. 
He doubled the size of it by building to the west end. His son 
Silas added as much more to the east end, upon his marriage, 
and entered upon the cultivation of the farm, occupying the part of 
the house he built and two rooms which were relinquished by 
his father. The middle portion of this house, which is pictured 
on the following page, is among the few oldest houses in the town. 

The farm proper contained about seventy-five acres, but Mr. 
Perley's possessions were much greater, and, too, were much greater 
than appears by the probate inventory of his estate, he having set- 
tled estates upon some of his children before his death. 

In his old age he occasionally spoke of "going after old Shays," 
referring to his enlistment in January, 1787, for thirty days, for the 
suppression of Shays' Rebellion. He had proceeded beyond Boston^ 



166 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

when news was received that the Shays' Rebelhon had collapsed, as 
later collapsed the " Deacon's one-horse chaise." 

A notice of his death in the Salem Gazette said: "Mr. Perley lis- 
tened to the booming cannon on Bunker Hill in 1775 with trembling 
anxiety for the vanquishing of the British ; and was afterwards active 
to overcome that rebellious people led on by Shays. He devoted 
his after life to agriculture, and was ever opposed to every form of 
oppression." 

Mr. Perley's first wife was Mehitable Dwinnells, born in Tops- 
field 3 April, 1775 to Jacob and Joanna-Rhoads-Clark Dwinnells of 




RESIDENCE OF JOHN PERLEY AND HIS SON SILAS. 

Rowley, and married 2 Jan., 1799. This lady was mother of all his 
children. She had a good mind, was agreeably social and a provi- 
dent housewife. One Saturday evening, she disappeared, and the 
family were unable to find her till the next morning, when by dili- 
gent search she was discovered in the brook, to which she had gone 
to fetch a pail of water. Whether she was drowned by accident or 
heart failure is not known. The latter cause prevailed among her 
relatives. 

His second wife was Susannah Pearson, married 6 July, 1841. 
She was born in 1795, in Byfield Parish it is thought, to David 
and Lydia-Welch Pearson, ^terwards of Canaan, N. H. After 
the death of her husband she went to live with her brother Dea, 
Moses Pearson, in Coventry, Vt., where she died 27 July, 1865. 
She was a good, kind, charitable, sterling Christian, whose life, as 
the writer knew it, is one of his most cherished memories. 

[Jacob Dwinnells was of Topsfield, but removed to Rooty Plain, 
the western part of Rowley, now named Millwood, and about 1780 
built the house still there in the Dwinnells family name. He 
married 12 Dec, 1769, Mrs. Clark— Miss Rhoads — and had Israel, 
who married Mary Story ; Anna, who married John Dresser; and 
Mehitable who married John Perley, as above. 

[Miss Rhoads was born in Bradford. Her first husband was Hum- 
phrey or Elijah Clark of Topsfield, his later home. The family ob- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY. 



167 



tained their water supply from the pump on the main street near 
the entrance to the Academy grounds. By Clark she had two 
children: Humphrey, who mar- 
ried in Boston and had Mary, 
Louisa, Adeline, Caroline, Elijah, 
Humphrey, John Nathaniel ; and 
Mary, who married Daniel Balch, 
brother to Mrs. John Peabody, 
the mother of Dea. Joel Peabody, 
and lived in Topsfield and Dan- 
vers. After the death of her 
second husband, Dwinnells, she 
went to live with her daughter, 
Mary Balch. In her age her 
mind became enfeebled, and she 
became an anxious burden to 
her daughter, who placed her 
in the almshouse at Bradford. 
Her granddaughter Louisa 
Clark penciled the profile of 
her here shown. She died a 
short time after entering the 
almshouse, between 1830 and 
1835, aged ninety-seven years.] 

In the Linebrook Cemetery 
are the accompanying records. joa.n.na uiinAD.scLAKK dwinnells. 

1 Perley children : Maria-194, Silas-195, John-19(), Humphrey-197. 




SACRED 
To the memory of 
MRS MEHETABEL 

wife of 

MR. JOUN PERLEY 

Died Nov. 26, 1836 

JEt. 61. 



JOHN PERLEY, 

DIED 

Aug. 20, 1858, 

2Et. 90 yrs. 6 mo« 

& 14 days. 



FAMILY 93: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-6, STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42. 

STEPHEN PERLEY was born on the site opposite the resi- 
dence of Abel Spofford Howe in Linebrook Parish, Ipswich, Sunday, 
7 Oct., 1770. When about seventeen years of age, he went to 
Meredith Bridge, now Laconia, N. H., as clerk for Horton & Boyn- 
ton. He soon after engaged in business for himself. His father- 
in-law built a gristmill and a sawmill on the Gilford side — then 
Gilmanton or New Salem — upon the mill grant. The sawmill was 
located on the northerly side of Mill bridge and descended to Dud- 



168 THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

ley Ladd. The gristmill was on the southerly side of the bridge, 
about three rods below, and it descended to Jonathan Ladd. The 
mill grant descended to Mehitable Ladd, Mr. Perley's wife, which 
extended from Sanbornton Bay to the river near where the house of 
Hon. E. A. Hibbard now stands, and through which Mr. Perley cut 
the canal that leads to the car shops, built by the Randet Car Co. 

Mr. Perley was an extensive general merchant; his store occu- 
pied the corner of Main and Mill streets, where he was in trade more 
than fifty years. Besides this, he built mills, oil and clothing, where 
Messrs. Russell now (1880) are located, on the north side of Mill 
street; a whitesmith shop with trip hammer for scythes, axes, etc.; 
a grain distillery, and potash works where the Belknap brick mill 
now stands, and a three-story dwelling where Knight & Atkinson 
are in trade, which Mr. Perley sold to the company, and invested the 
same in stock. It was the first cotton factory so called, built there. 
Later it was purchased by the late Daniel Avery and chartered the 
Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company. On the canal, he 
built oil, carriage, threshing and other mills and sold the whole to 
the Winnipiseogee Lake Company, who are leasing the same to 
other parties. He was largely engaged in moving real estate — he 
purchased and sold lands, opened and graded streets and laid out 
building lots. Some of the streets are Mill street, Cross street to 
Canal street. Water street half-way to Bay street, and Main street 
to Oak street crossing. 

Mr. Perley sold the clothing mill to Samuel H. and Nathan Bean, 
who continued the business while they lived, after which time it was 
sold to James P. Morrison. He sold the oil mill to John and Simeon 
Chase, who made and repaired machinery. The nail mill he sold to 
Cheany & Co., who manufactured wheel-head, bobbins and spools. 
These embrace all on the north side of Mill bridge. The south side 
was sold to Daniel Tucker, who continued the white and black- 
smithing. The location was where Lewis Busiel's mill is. Cooper- 
ing was also carried on by Mr. Perley. Perley block is a large brick 
structure in Laconia. 

Stephen Perley, Esq., was one of the fathers of Meredith Bridge ; 
he was the oldest individual in the place at the time of his death ; he 
was strictly honest in all his dealings; he commanded the respect 
of old and young; he was _^ 

"genteel" in his manners, -'-^^^--:^^~^ /T^ /^ 

genial in his disposition, ,;;-/X^''-//^''*^*-*'-*-« {/-C^c-O*-^ 
and dignified in his de- v*^ 

portment; he was a resi- ^ 

dent of his adopted town ^^ 

for more than sixty years. ^Xj^^^y^y^t^^ ^i-y^-wZi.,^ 
It was truly said at his ^^^^^''^' ^^y^^ 

funeral, attended by Rev. f^ "^ 

Young: "The history of 

tVii'c liff^ was: tVi«^ Viiijl-nrv nf These autographs are from tamlly letters 

this lite was tne niStOry Ot ^^.^^^^ ^ Dec, I829, and W July, 1843. 

our village. He was 

called upon to fill some of the most important offices in the gift of 
his townsmen. He represented the town in the State Legislature, 
was postmaster for upwards of thirty years, and was one of the 




STEPHEN PERLEY, ESQ. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



169 



electors of Martin Van Buren for President of the United States in 
• 1840. 

Mr. Perley's first wife was Abigail Ladd, and his second was her 
sister Mehitable, daughters of Col. Samuel and Abigail-Flanders 
Ladd of Meredith. Abigail, born 4 Oct., 1778, was the mother of 
one child, and died 4 Oct., 1798, aged just twenty. Mehitable was 
born inGilmanton,5 April, 1783, and died 25 Oct., 1834, aged fifty-one. 
He died of lithic disease 13 April, 1855, at the age of eighty-four 
years. His epitaph is "Rest is sweet." 

1 Perley children: Sally-, Stephen Jefferson*, John Langdon- 
198, Louisa^ Louisa^ Abigail^ Martha Maria-199. 

2 Sally^ was born 19 Nov., 1796. She married Dr. John Durkey. 
They lived on Staten Island. They resided in Laconia, where he 
practiced medicine, for many years during the latter part of his life. 
She died 6 Nov., 1853, aged fifty-six years, leaving several children. 

3 Stephen Jefferson^ was born 21 Nov., 1802, and died unmar- 
ried, 30 July, 1832, aged twenty-nine. Louisa^ was born 21 July, 
1807, and died 17 Sept., 1808. 

4 Louisa^ was born 17 Sept., 1809, and married Nathan Fogg of 
Laconia — no issue. Abigail' was born 30 Aug., 1811, and married 
John H. Brewster of Laconia — no issue. 



FAMILY 94: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT -ALLA^M, TIMOTHY-6, STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-4,i. 







MARY 



MARTHA 



JACOB PERLEY was born on the site opposite A. S. Howe's 
residence, Linebrook Parish, Ipswich, Friday, 12 Aug., 1775. His 
father's home was his by inheritance. He was a very extensive 
land owner, controlling, at one time, by deed or mortgage, all on the 



170 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



southeast side of the road from Galloup's brook in Topsfield to the 
old cemetery in Linebrook. Upon a division of it at his death, the 
homestead fell to the youngest son, Augustus M. This is the farm 
of the emigrant referred to on page 4 as the grant of 3 July, 1651. 

He was considerably interested in the militia and was elected to 
the captaincy. He was active and efficient in whatever he under- 
took; his own business 
always took first rank in 
his attention. He was 
ever ready to give a rea- 
son for his hope whether in 
civil life or religious. In 
1814 he headed a petition 
for setting off certain fam- 
ilies of Linebrook Parish 
to the parish of Topsfield. 
The petition failed, but he 
went and his pew there 
was No. 100. 

His wife was Mary Pot- 
ter, daughter of Ezekiel — 
twice married — and Eliza- 
beth-Perkins, or Hannah, 
Potter of Ipswich, born 
Sunday, 15 Oct., 1775, and 
married 17 Oct., 1797. She 
was the kind of woman 
that made home attractive, 
prosperous and happy. 
Mr. Perley's sickness was 
peculiar; it was located in 
his stomach; he had several attacks; the doctors were puzzled ; they 
suggested that the trouble proceeded from his teeth and some of 
them were extracted; a post mortem examination revealed "a sore in 
his stomach." 

They repose in the Linebrook C metery, where you may read : 




MARY PERLEY, AT AGE OF 75 YEARS. 



In Memory of 

OAPT. JACOB PERLEY. 

who died 

May 21, 1829 

aged 54 years. 

Ohildrenof dust, whoreadwith pensive eye, 
This lettered stone, where mortal relics lie; 
Think as you sigh, because they live no more. 
Soon you shall drop, and be what you deplore. 



MRS. MARY, 

wife of 

Capt. Jacob Perley, 

DIED 

Dec. 13, 1854, 

Mt. 79. 

She was a mother kind and bright. 
In whom fond children took delight; 
Her soul to unknown worlds is fled. 
Her aged form lies with the dead. 



1 Perley children : Elizabeth-195, Mary-191, Jacob-200, Stephen- 
201, Martha-202, William Perkins-203, Augustus Monroe-204. 



FIFTH GENERATION. 



FAMILY 95: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOHN-L', THOMAS-!<, AMOS-JO, NATHANIEL-41;. 

AMOS PERLEY was born 30 July,1759,in East Boxford, where 
now is the residence of Thos. Perley Killam, and died there 3 Aug., 
1829, at the age of seventy years. He married, first, Hannah Proctor of 
Danv^ers, in 1788 (?), and she was mother of all his children. She 
died 14 Aug., 1809, at the age of forty-one years. He married, 
second, Mrs. Abigail-Kimball Ranlett, widow of Phineas, (published 
22 Jan.) 24 April, 1823, in West Boxford. She was born 29 Feb., 
1776. [She married Mr. Ranlett 29 May, 1801, by whom she had 
two children born in Boxford: Mary P., born 17 March, 1802, and 
Huldah K., born 11 June, 1804, who lives in Topsfield unmarried. 
Mr. Ranlett died 5 Oct., 1812, aged thirty-six years. After the 
death of her husband Perley, she married, third, Capt. John Kim- 
ball of Boxford, with whom she was published 16 April, 1832. Mr. 
Kimball died in 1850, and she removed to Topsfield, where she died 
18 March, 1862, aged sixty-nine.] Mr. Perley and his first wife 
repose in Harmony Cemetery, East Boxford. 




THE AMOS PERLEY HOUSE 

In the Amos Perley house pictured here were born Rev. Hum- 
phrey Clark Perley-169, and Sidney Perley, Esq.-380. The estate 
was owned by Capt. Francis Perley-39, who devised to his son Jacob- 
81. Jacob made a large addition to the house and sold the whole for 
;£220 to this Amos, as it is here shown. 

About the year 1856, Humphrey Perley-197 purchased the estate 
and occupied it. After a few years he demolished the old house 
and built anew upon the site. The property is now owned by his 
daughter Emma and her husband, who reside there. 

Mr. Perley was somewhat employed in town affairs, for which his 
good judgment and integrity eminently qualified him. He was a 
selectman, 1799, 1800, 1807, 1816, 1817; a constable, 1803, 1804; a 
school committeeman, 1804; a surveyor of highways, 1796, 1808, 



172 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

1817, 1822. He was a good farmer, and amassed a competency. He 
was an active citizen, and valuable in the civil and social life of his 
town. His will is dated 30 June, 1829, and was proved I Sept., 1829. 
The witnesses were John Perley, Haskell Perley, Thomas Perley. 

1 Perley children : Mehitable', Hannah-205, Charles-206, Green- 
leaf^ Ruth«, Nathaniel-207, Frederic-208, Olive Wood^ Amos 
Proctor-209. 

2 Mehitable^ was born 7 Nov., 1789, and died unmarried in Tops- 
field 23 Nov., 1821. Greenleaf^ was born 21 Jan., 1796. The Salem 
Gazette of 28 May, 1824, reads: "In Calcutta, Jan. 30th, of con- 
sumption, Mr. Greenleaf Perley, son of Mr. Amos Perley of Boxford, 
aged 2(5; second officer of the ship George of this port — a worthy 
and promising young man." 

3 Ruth^ was born 16 April, 1798, and died 20 Jan., 1826. She 
married 22 April, 1824, Thomas Frye Odell, who was a merchant in 
Salem, where he was born 9 Oct., 1792, to James and Sarah-Very 
Odell, and died 7 July, 1860. They had only one child, Benjamin 
Greenleaf Odell, who was born 6 Jan., 1825. He married Sarah 
Ellen Dennis, who died 29 April, 1855, aged twenty -five years and 
one month, the mother of only one child, born 24 Dec, 1851, and 
died 18 May, 1852. Mr. Odell was a grocer at the corner of North 
and Bridge streets, and died, of consumption, 23 Jan., 1852, aged 
twenty-seven years and seventeen days. 

4 Olivia VV.^ was born 4 Nov., 1804, married in Lynn, Mass., 13 
Oct., 1830, John Batchelder, Jr., of Lynn, a school teacher, afterward 
postmaster, born 9 July, 1805, in Topsfield, Mass., to Joseph, farmer, 
and Sarah-Perkins Batchelder. She died in Lynn, 3 Dec, 1884; and 
he, 4 Aug., 1885. Issue: Maria Olivia, teacher for some years, born 
25 June, 1833, married in Lynn, 17 Feb., 1876, Rollin Eugene Har- 
mon, Judge of Probate Court, born in North Adams, Mass., to 
Nathan W., lawyer and judge, and Cornelia-Briggs Harmon. 



FAMILY 96: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOHN-L', THOMAS-H, AMOS-20, NATHANIEL-46. 

JESSE PERLEY was born 23 June, 1761. He owned the farm 
on the road from the Boxford railroad station to Topsfield, lately the 
property of Joseph H. Janes. 

He cared little for office, though abundantly qualified to exercise 
it. A barrier to an easy official service was the long distance of his 
home from the town center. He was a surveyor of highways 1796, 
1808, 1813, 1816, 1819, and was a member of the school board of 
1805. His farm grew well under his skill and diligence. He built 
a house, the one now on the estate, in 1790. 

His wife was Widow Elizabeth Moulton, married 10 June, 1788. 
She died 9 March, 1840, at the age of eighty-eight years. He died 
18 April, 1846, at the age of eighty-four years. Their remains were 
entombed in Harmony Cemetery, Boxford. 

1 Perley children : Francis-210, Jesse-211, AncilP, Irene-212. 

2 AncilP was born 3 July, 1798, and died unmarried, 28 Dec, 
1831. He was buried in Harmony Cemetery. 



FAMILY 97: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOHN-2, THOMAS-.s, AMOS-i:0, NATHANIEL-46. 

NATHANIEL PERLEY was born 22 March, 1768. We have 
no knowledge of him till he graduated at Dartmouth College in 179L 
He received his Master's degree in course. In his class were 
Humphrey C. Perley-169, Ebenezer Adams, Heman Ball, Dudley 
Chase, John Coffin, Seth Williston, Eliphalet Gillet, et al. He 
studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1794. The next year he 
settled in Hallowell, Me., a thriving settlement on the Kennebec 
river, to which many families of Essex County migrated, for the 
building of homes, about that time. He and Amos Stoddard were 
the only lawyers there till 1798, when Samuel S.Wilde located there 
from Waldoboro, when Stoddard left. 

Mr. Perley was naturally a business man, active, and eminently 
social. He gathered to himself many friends and easily established 
himself in a lucrative practice. The country was too young for 
cases that required eloquent pleading at the bar. Whatever may 
have been his power to unfold the law, to set forth a case and to 
sway a jury cannot be known. His natural shrewdness and good 
judgment equipped him for the service of his constituency, as attor- 
ney and counselor. It is said he was lavish of his knowledge and 
legal advice; nevertheless he amassed wealth. He gave much of 
his attention to local improvements in the care of his property, thus 
augmenting his own and the public's together. His property busi- 
ness at last absorbed all his time and attention, to the entire loss 
of his practice in law. By and by, business reverses met him, in 
advancing age, and despondency brooded over his mind. The af- 
fection of his faithful wife and children sustained him to the last. 
In 1806 he was blasting stone in building a conduit for water from 
a pond to a stream upon which he erected a grist mill, in Winthrop, 
about a mile west of Hallowell, when a large piece of the ledge 
struck him upon the breast and seriously affected him at the time. 
This hurt was considered a remote cause of his death. For several 
years considerable business was carried on at the mill; but the Cot- 
ton Manufacturing Company purchased Mr. Perley's establishment 
and closed the canal. 

While Mr. Perley confined his attention to the practice of his 
profession, his home was attractive to the legal and judicial profes- 
sion in general. Chief Justice Parsons, also a native of Essex 
County, held to him the relation of esteem and regard, and often 
enjoyed Mr. Perley's hospitality. Members of the profession fre- 
quently enjoyed Mr. Perley's home, his fund of anecdotes and wit, 
while court was sitting at Augusta, two miles away. He repre- 
sented Hallowell in the General Court in 1804 and again 1816. The 
Salem, Mass., Gazette, 9 May, 1803, reported: "More increase of Fed- 
eration. Hallowell, heretofore uniformly represented by a Democrat, 



174 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

has this year made choice of N. Perley, Esq., (Federalist) by a major- 
ity over Col. Fillebrown, the old member, 111 to 66." 

Charles Dummer, Esq., in speaking of our subject, says: "Had 
he remained faithful to the noble objects of true professional life, 
had he diligently strengthened his mind by study as a lawyer, he 
would have gathered the fruits of honorable labor and attainments, 
— all would finally have been well. Possessing great quickness of 
perception, his free social habits were both an attraction and 
temptation." 

He was apt at repartee, and frequently was surprised by the 
effect of his replies. Once in particular he was engaged in an action 
of replevin before Judge Weston, in the Court of Common Pleas. 
The case was warmly contested. An important witness of the 
other side had been examined for two or three hours, when the 
court adjourned for dinner. After dinner, Mr. Perley called the 
same witness to the stand, when the judge remarked : " This witness 
has been examined at great length already; what further do you ex- 
pect to obtain from him.-'" Mr. Perley immediately replied : "The 
truth, your honor; I've obtained everything else." He was public 
spirited and patriotic ; he was social, witty, learned ; he was a faith- 
ful and firm friend ; his home was cheerful, happy and cultured. 

His wife, married 7 Feb., 1796, was Mary Dummer, daughter of 
Richard and Judith Dummer of Byfield Parish, Newbury. He died 
25 July, 1824. She died 7 Jan., 18B8, aged sixty-eight years. 

1 Perley children: George Dummer'^, Mary*, Richard-213, 
Louisa'^ Henry Augustus", Nathaniel Henry'", Caroline Augusta'l 

2 Louisa' was born 1 Nov., 1801, and married John Dumont of 
Hallowell; Henry A.' was born 16 April, 1804, and died 1 July, 1806; 
Nathaniel H.' was born 5 Sept., 1806, and died 22 Jan., ("March" 
— gravestone,) 1811; Caroline A. ^ was born 19 July, 1811, and died 
unmarried 9 Feb., 1850. She was for many years a school teacher 
in Hallowell. 

3 George Dummer' was born 18 June, 1797, and died 28 April, 
1826. He married Jane Louisa Jackson, daughter of Dr. G. K. 
Jackson, a musician of Boston, in 1821, and had a daughter, Louisa 
Jane, born 4 June, 1822. He was a graduate of Bowdoin College, 
class of 1818; and studied law with his father. He was an attorney- 
at-law and lived in Hallowell. His widow removed to Boston. His 
epitaph reads: 

Go, tender partner, to thy native sky, 
Go bear thy consort's love, and dwell on high 
Thy generous heart relieved the poor's distress, 
And (iod a soul like thine will ever bless. 

4 Mary' was born 2 Sept., 1799, and died 28 March, 1848. She 
married 21 Dec, 1820, William F. Lane, a native of Stratham, N.H., 
who was for many years a bookseller and stationer in Hallowell, Me. 
Lane issue native of Hallowell: Henry Perley, born 23 Oct., 1821; 
Mary Louisa, born 1 Jan., 1824, married C. H. Bonney of Wayne, 
Me., or Manchester, N. H., and died in 1851, leaving children, Clara 
and Fred; George Frederic, born 21 Feb., 1826; Richard William^ 

5 Richard William* was born in Hallowell 11 Sept., 1828, and 
died in San Francisco, Cal., 20 June, 1890. He married 2 June, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY I75 

1874, in Honolulu, S. I., Louise Isabelle Friel. who was born 20 
July, 1857, to George Friel, a merchant there. He was in the Navy 
during the Mexican and Civil Wars. At the close of the Civil War 
he went to Honolulu, where he was Mexican consul, and was con- 
sul for Spain to the time of his death. His only child, Richard 
Wilder, was born in Honolulu, 6 Aug., 1875, and is a clerk in a 
hardware store in San Francisco. 



FAMILY 98: ADAMS. 

LINEAL DESCENT- ALLAN-1, JOHN-2, THOMAS-8, AMOS-20, NATHANIEL-46. 

LOIS PERLEY was born 9 Sept., 1771. She married 17 May, 
1798, Benjamin Adams, 3d, who was born 14 June, 1773, to Benjamin 
and Sally S. Adams, in the Shute house, near the Boston & Maine 
station in South Georgetown. He erected and resided in the 
"Temperance house" near his birthplace. She died 22 Jan., 1842. 
Her epitaph in Marlboro Cemetery, Georgetown, reads : 

She died to grief, sbe died to care. 

And but a momont felt llie rod; 
Then rising in the voiceless air, 

Spread her light wings and soared to God. 

After ten years, he died 2 Jan., 1852, and was buried at his wife's 
side. His epitaph is: 

Blessed are the peacemakers. 

1 Adams children: Abraham^ Louisa'', Mehitable Perley*', Benja- 
min Perley^ Charles Henry^ Samuel^ George Washington-211*, 
Sarah Spofford*, [William, born 26 Jan., 1816, Perley Derby says 
belongs to this family.] 

2 Abraham^ was born 25 April, 1800, and died 8 Aug., 1849. 
His widow, says the Georgetown Advocate, who "died at Cam- 
bridgeport on Tuesday of last week, was a native of Boxford. Her 
name was Ruth Ann Lofty, and she was a sister to the first wife of 
David Haskell and an aunt of Mrs. Holt, the Librarian of our 
Library. Her husband died in 1849. For twenty years or more she 
has lived with her only daughter, Mrs. Clarence Davis, at Cambridge- 
port. Her funeral took place in that city Saturday, and the remains 
were brought to Georgetown for interment." ' 

3 Charles H.\ a native of this town, and a prominent citizen of 
Danvers for over twenty-five years, died at his residence in that 
town last Saturday, 18 Sept., 1880. He was born 17 May, 1809, in 
the old Adams homestead, now owned by Shute on Nelson avenue, 
and with his eldest brother Abraham, built the house now occupied 
by Mr. Lowell G. Wilson. He married Miss Eliza Moore, a niece 
of the late Thomas Perkins of Topsfiield. Four children were born 
unto them, two boys and two girls, all first saw light in this town. 
One only survives her father, Mrs. Augustus M. Spofford, now resid- 
ing at Danvers. Mr. Adams held the ofifice of constable in his 
native town, and has been elected to the same in Danvers nearly 
every year for twenty years. He has held a deputy sheriff's war- 



176 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

rant for twelve successive years, and was always a faithful and con- 
scientious officer. He has held various positions in the municipal 
affairs of Danvers, among which is that of selectman. The writer 
has been associated with him as officer of the peace and regarded 
him as a brave and resolute man, yet all his business was performed 
with courtesy and consideration of the feelings of his prisoners. 
The death of his son about a year ago was a severe blow which 
added to a not very strong constitution and general ill-health nearly 
prostrated him and from which he never recovered, but gradually 
failed until the end. — From the Georgetown Advocate. 

4 SamueP was born 17 June, 1811, married Betsey Gould of 
Topsfield, resided there and was clerk for his brother Benjamin P. 

5 Louisa' was born 27 Sept., 1801, and married 26 Nov., 1823, 
John Kimball of Georgetown. Kimball issue: John A., born 4 Dec, 
1824; died 23 Dec, 1824; Louisa M., born 28 Nov., 1825, died 2 
Aug., 1869; Caroline A., born 10 Jan., 1828, married 10 June, 1849, 
Eben Hobson, in Georgetown, where she was a milliner; George A., 
born 8 Jan., 1830, married 7 March, 1860, Anna F. Todd; Abbe B., 
born 24 Feb., 1832, married 7 Oct., 1849, D. W. Palmer; Sarah A., 
born 27 Nov., 1834, died 12 Feb., 1840; Charles A., born 4 April, 
1837; Sarah A., born 12 Dec, 1840, married 7 Jan., 1869, Robert 
Coker of Georgetown; Benjamin A., born 22 March, 1844, died 4 
Oct., 1869. 

6 Mehitable Perley' was born 5 Aug., 1804, and died 12 March, 
1830. Her husband was John A. Lovering of Georgetown, by whom 
she had John A., born in July, 1829, and died 1 Oct., 1829. His 
second wife was Eliza Jewett, by whom he had John A., shoe man- 
ufacturer in Georgetown; Sarah M., born 1835, died 19 May, 1871; 
Benjamin A., born in 1839, died of scarlet fever 28 Dec, 1846; 
Helen PVances. He was a shoe manufacturer and owned many 
tenement houses. 

7 Benjamin Perley^ was born 5 Sept., 1806. His first wife, mar- 
ried 9 July, 1833, was Mary Ann Cummings, daughter of Cyrus and 
Susanna. She died 13 May, 1840, aged twenty-seven years. His 
second wife was Abba L. Stimpson of Salem, published 15 May, 
1841. He was a general merchant in Topsfield, was affable, 
courteous, and a man of honor and sterling integrity. He died 10 
July, 1875. Their children: Catherine Cummings, born 3 July, 
1835, died unmarried 1 Nov., 1868; Mary Ann, born 9 Nov., 1842, 
married a Mr. Whittemore and lives in California; Benjamin 
Perley, born 9 March, 1845, succeecied to his father's business, was 
much respected and honored by his townspeople and died unmarried 
9 Dec, 1883. 

8 Sarah Spofford^ was born 11 Feb., 1821. She married 22 Oct., 
1846, Charles S. Piper of East Boston. Children: John Adams, 
born 4 April and died 4 Oct., 1848; Anna Durant, born 4 Oct., 1853, 
and married 1 July, 1873, Charles Alfred West of Boston, by whom 
she has had Pxlith, born in 1875, and Anne, born in 1877; Sarah A., 
born 11 Sept., 1862, and died 9 Aug., 1863. 



FAMILY 99: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLA^M, JOHN-2, THOMAS-8, AMOS-20, NATHANIEL^6. 

ARTEMAS WARD PERLEY was born on the present T. P. 
Killam place, East Boxford, 29 Jan., 1776. He was a farmer and 
lived on the parental estate till about 1838, when he removed to the 
ancient Zaccheus Gould mansion in Topsfield, where he spent the 
remnant of his life except a short time in Hampstead, N. H., where 
he owned a farm. 

He was a man of means and held in good repute. He was sur- 
veyor of highways 1810, 1815, 1820, 1826; on the school board 1811, 
1820, and surveyor of highways in Topsfield 1837. 

Mr. Perley's Boxford residence was the style that begun about 
1670, having the long back roof, two stories high, two large rooms 
in front and a large kitchen and two bedrooms in the rear, on the 
first floor. It was destroyed by fire in April, 1832, together with 
the barn, which was very large, and other out buildings. 

Mr. Perley then removed to the residence of his brother Amos, 
who was lately deceased, and whose farm was nearly contiguous. 
He remained there a few months only and removed to Topsfield. The 
parental estate was his till about 1838, when he sold it to Joseph 
Hale, who erected a house on the site of the old cooper shop of Mr. 
Perley's father. Mr. Hale crowned the site of the old house that 
was burned with a new and spacious one in 1841, and occupied it 
till 1862. It is now owned by Mr. Thos. Perley Killam. 

The house seems to have been predestined to a baptism of fire. 
Once it caught from the improper disposal of ashes and live coals by 
the hired girl. Again it was discovered to be on fire by Mr. Perley's 
son, Haskell, who was returning about 11 o'clock at night from 
Topsfield, where he was engaged for the season at farming. When 
some distance from the house, he saw the light and hastening for- 
ward found the front room was on fire. Instead of disturbing the 
family, who were asleep, he soon extinguished the flames. The big 
back-log of the great fireplace had rolled out of its place and kindled 
a wicked fire. Haskell retired and in the morning told his parents 
the tale of their deliverance. 

Mr. Perley married, first. Miss Eleanor Putnam of Danvers, 20 
March, 1803. She was the mother of nine of his children. She 
died 1 June, 1821, at the age of thirty-seven years, when her young- 
est child was but a week old, having been born 29 May, 1784. He 
married, second, Mrs. Elizabeth Boardman, widow of Daniel, of 
Topsfield, and daughter of Zaccheus and Anna-Brown Gould, 20 
May, 1823. She was born 17 March, 1785. She was the mother of 
two of Mr. Perley's children. She died 10 Sept., 1827, leaving an 
infant three months old. His third wife was Huldah, a sister of his 
second, married by Rev. J. F. McEwen, 28 Feb., 1833. She was 
born 6 Nov., 1787, and died 27 Nov., 1874, at her home with Wm. 



178 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Hubbard, in Hamilton, at the age of eighty-seven years. After the 
death of her husband 6 Jan., 1862, she Uved with her relatives. 

1 Perley children, all born in Boxford: Julia A.-214, Haskell-215, 
Artemas Ward-216, Putnam-217, Nancy Putnam^ Samuel Holton'^, 
Harriet Augusta-218, Emeline-219, Edwin F.-220, Huldah Gould^ 
Charles Greenleafl 

2 Samuel Holton^ was born 1 July, 1815, and died in Topsfield of 
consumption, 10 March, 1850; Huldah Gould^ was born 20 March, 
1825, and died 17 Dec, 1844, unmarried ; Charles Greenleaf^ was 
born 14 June, 1827, was cared for by his aunt Huldah after his 
mother died, and was taken to his father's home when his aunt be- 
came his step-mother. He died 7 Nov., 1832, aged five years. 

3 Nancy Putnam^ was born 10 June, 1812, married Henry F. 
Burchstead, a shoe merchant of Lynn, where he died 6 April, 1858. 
They were published 14 June, 1833, and he was of Worcester when 
married. They had two children : Mary Ann^, and Henry Frederick, 
born 21, Sept., 1846, in Columbus, Ohio, and died 9 Aug., 1891. 

4 Mary Ann" was born in Worcester, Mass., 20 Oct., 1836, and 
married Herbert Johnson of Lynn, and had Harry Herbert, born 24 
Oct., 1858, died 9 Aug.,1821 ; Nellie Perley, born 25 Oct., 1863, mar- 
ried 2 Oct., 1888, in Lynn, Frederick William Hughes, secretary 
Buckeye Buggy Co., Columbus, Ohio, born in Chester, Eng., 18 
April, 1862, to William H. and Rebecca-Davies Hughes, and has 
children: Mary Johnson and Rebecca; George Frederick, unmarried. 



FAMILY 100: PERLEY. 

LINEAX DESCENT- ALL AN-1, SAMUEL-3, SAMUEL-12, DAVlD-27, JOHN-48. 

SAMUEL PERLEY was born in Rowley (the part now Mill- 
wood) 6 Aug., 1770. He bought the farm in Boxford that was once 
the property of his great uncle, Capt. Francis Perley-39, and resided 
there, leaving the estate to his children. It is now occupied by 
David DeW. C. Mighill. 

Mr. Perley was a man of good natural and practical ability. He 
was called into town affairs in other relations beside these. He 
was surveyor of highways 1813 and 1820; constable 1817, 1821 and 
1823; tax collector 1817; member of the school board 1817 and 1824. 
In the militia he was ensign in 1817 and as late as 1821. 

Mr. Perley married Lydia (Nabby.^) Perkins of Topsfield, 12 Jan., 
1812. She was born 5 July, 1772, to Stephen and Hannah-Potter 
Perkins. He died 27 May, 1848, aged seventy-seven years. His 
widow died 1 Dec. next. They repose in Harmony Cemetery, East 
Boxford. 

1 Perley children : A child', Lydia'-, SamueP, Stephen Perkins'*. 

2 Lydia^ was born 8 Jan., 1813. She never married; she made 
her home with her parents and after their deaths "kept house" for 
her brothers. She died 11 Nov., 1857, aged forty-four years. The 
first child' died an infant 25 March, 1812. 

3 SamueP was born 7 Feb., 1815. He always lived at home and 
assisted in carrying on the farm. He died of jaundice 18 March, 
1869, aged fifty-four years, unmarried. 



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179 



4 Stephen Perkins^ was born 15 Aug., 1818. He lived with his 
parents while they survived, then assisted his brother in cultivating 
the farm. He was a wheelwright by trade, and worked some at the 
business. After his brother's death, he disposed of the farm in 1875, 
and went to live with his cousin John, in Rowley. Later he was as- 
sistant to a physician in Hampton, N. H., and died in 188-. 



FAMILY 101: HAZEN, CONANT. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALL AN-1, SAMUEL-S, SAMDEL-12, DAVID-27, JOHN-48. 

LUCY PERLEY was born 26 March, 1773. Her first marriage, 
17 Jan., 1799, was with Josiah Hazen-45^ of Boxford, born 23 Oct., 
1774. They lived in Georgetown. He died three days before his 
thirty-first birthday. She married, second, 26 March, 1811, Capt. 
Daniel Conant, son of William and Mary Conant of Ipswich. Capt. 
Daniel was born 11 Jan., 1775. [By a former wife, Sarah Chapman 
of Ipswich, married 21 March, 1800, he had: Joseph Chapman, who 
was born 19 May, 1802, married Abigail Lamson, died 24 March, 
1834, and had issue: Sarah who died 25 May, 1834, Lucy who died 
10 Nov., 1848, and Joseph Chapman; Sally, who was born 7 May, 
1804, and married 25 Dec, 1827, Abraham Lummus of Ipswich.] 
Capt. Conant died 11 May 1856, aged seventy-five years. His re- 
mains repose in Harmony Cemetery, Georgetown, and his epitaph 
reads: — 

Why weep we then for him who having pass'd 
The bounds of man's appointed years at last, 
Life's blessings all enjoyed, life's labors done, 
Serenely to his final rest has gone. 

His widow survived him ten years, and at the great age of eighty- 
seven entered upon the fruition of her hope, Thursday, 22 Nov., 
1860. She was interred in Harmony Cemetery and her epitaph is 

Blessed are the dead, which die la the Lord. 

1 Hazen children: Josiah", Moody Perley^ Greenleaf''. Conant 
children: Lucy P.^ John Perley^ Mary^ Almira-350. 

2 Josiah^ was born 15 Nov., 1799; he married Hannah Brown of 
Bridgton, Me., where he lived. Sarah J. was the only issue we know 
of, born 9 July, 1834. 

3 Moody P.^ was born 9 May, 1802; he married Laura Tapley of 
Dan vers, 12 June, 1828; he died of consumption 21 April, 1830, at 
the age of twenty-seven years; she died 5 Aug., 1847. They lived 
in Ipswich; we know of only one issue, Ann Maria, who married 
Nathaniel Batchellor. 

4 Greenleaf^ was born 3 June, 1804; he married, first, Susan P. 
Towne, daughter of Jacob and Hannah, of Boxford, 22 Oct., 1828. 
She died 18 Sept., 1847, aged forty-three years. Her tomb in 
Harmony Cemetery, Georgetown, reads : — 

Forgive, blest shade! the tributary tear 

That mourns thy exit from a world like this; 
Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, 

And stayed thy progress to the realms of bliss. 

Mr. Hazen married, second. Widow Elizabeth-Creasey Boynton 
of Rowley, 5 April, 1848. They lived in Rowley, where she died 



180 THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

22 Oct., 1877, aged eighty years and two months. She rests in 
Harmony Cemetery also, where may be read her epitaph : — 

As she lived, so she died, a Christian. 

Their issue: George Edwin, John Greenleaf, Jacob Francis, 
Josiah Arnold, Joseph Warren, Nathan T., and Marshman Williams, 
who was born in Beverly, Mass., 28 July, 1840, and is a graduate of 
Dartmouth College in the class of 1866. His own exertions during 
his vacations paid his college expenses, and he may be justly called a 
self-made man. After graduation, he was employed in teaching, 
also for a time as newspaper editor. He was for a time at the head 
of the Boston branch of D. Appleton & Co.'s New York publishing 
house. He was prominently interested in introducing the decimal 
system of weights and measures into this country, and his success 
was highly gratifying to him. He was associate compiler of several of 
Appleton & Co.'s school books, prominent among which is a series 
of five readers. He introduced the "indestructible reader" for 
youngest scholars. He is now located in New York City, a lawyer. 

5 Lucy P.' was born 3 Jan., 1812. She married 3 Feb., 1829, 
Leander Jewett of Waterford, Me. She died 7 Nov., 1829. 

6 John Perley'was born 13 July,1813,and 13 April,1843, married 
Louisa A. Nelson, daughter of Thomas and Susanna-March Nelson 
of Georgetown, where she was born 20 Nov., 1819. Their home 
was in Georgetown, where she died 15 Aug., 1893. In 1903, "he 
observed his ninetieth birthday at his home on Central street. South 
Georgetown. Quite a large number of the neighbors called during 
the day for a pleasant chat with their venerable friend. Mr. Conant 
was named for John Perley, the donor of the Perley Free School of 
that town. The old gentleman is in fairly good health, but his eye- 
sight is failing him, but he retains the rest of his faculties to a 
marked degree." He is still living, 15 Sept., 1904. Their children 
were Abbie Louisa, born 2 Oct., 1845, and died 3 Aug., 1848, and 
John W., born 4 Sept., 1849, who became somewhat noted as a 
musician and cornetist. 

7 Mary^ was born 16 Oct., 1816, or 10 Aug., 1817. She married 
19 Dec, 1844, Charles Mason, son of George and Abigail of George- 
town, by Rev. Isaac Braman. They chose their home in George- 
town, where he was born in 1815. Issue: Charles Henry, born 24 
March and died 11 Sept., 1850; and Frederick W., born 10 Sept., 1851. 



FAMILY 102: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3, SAMUEL-12, DAVID-27, JOHN-48. 

DAVID PERLEY was born in Rowley 10 May, 1776. He 
settled upon the parental estate, where his son David Eri now lives. 

He enlisted in the service in the 1812 war, and received therefor 
of his town, April, 1815, $10.63. He was, 27 May, 1830, a petitioner 
for the incoporation of the Second Parish in Rowley, now George- 
town. His nephew John-222 writes that he lived a few months with 
his Uncle David, when the latter was about sixty-five years old. He 
says: " I still see him with his staff in hand wending his way on some 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY Igj 

mission of labor or business, singing his favorite air, 'I'll take my 
staff and travel on.' He was fond of singing and withal was an in- 
veterate joker. He was stout built, of medium height, had flowing 
curly hair, was straight as an arrow, and his countenance was open, 
genial, pleasant. He lived in a quiet, secluded nook of rural beauty; 
the scenery was surpassingly lovely, which accounts, in some meas- 
ure, for his happy, genial disposition. The face of the territory is 
undulate with forest hills and pasture knolls, with arable plains and 
green, mossy meadows, with meandering brooklet. How delightful 
the forests, in still, dreamy October days, decked in their many-hued 
regalia! How sparkled the orchard after a gentle winter rain and 
the frost-embrace of night had secured on twig and limb its store of 
crystal waters, scintillating as gems of rarest worth and beauty, in 
the radiance of a morning sun ! What gratifying sweetness, as spring 
brought back the babbling of the brook, the chirp of the squirrel, the 
chatter of the woodchuck, the lowing of the cattle, and filled the 
broad expanse of sky with birds and melody. How picturesque and 
sweet the home of Uncle David. 

"I occasionally spent much time at Uncle David's in my boy- 
hood. He gave me my first lesson in astronomy. We had been 
husking corn in the barn. When we returned to the house, the 
whole heavens appeared one vast sea of sparkling crystals. The 
northern constellations shone with unusual brilliancy. Attracted 
probably by the splendor, he pointed to the Dipper and told how by 
it to find the Polar star — a lesson that often recurred to me when 
pursuing that study in school ! 

"He related to me, how my father ' crossed the Rubicon.' It oc- 
curred in the work of marshing, as it was called, when probably my 
grandfather was in his prime, and 'the boys,' father, and Uncles David 
and Samuel, were sprightly and helpful. On this occasion, a deep 
and narrow creek ran between them and the marsh lot. They were 
threading their way up the side of it, in search of a fording place, 
when to my father a circumvention was suggested. He threw his 
luggage to the opposite bank, all but one hay pole. That pole he 
planted in the middle of the creek, expecting by a masterly muscular 
effort to spring up upon the perpendicular pole and be carried to 
the opposite side. The muscular effort was a success, but when 
the pole assumed a perpendicular, it sank and stuck in the mud, 
with my father clinging to the top of it. It was an object lesson 
with a practical turn, always to be remembered." 

He married, 17 Dec, (published 24 May) 1809, Dolly Scott of 
Ipswich, who was born Tuesday, 5 June, 1787, to Martha-Perley-88 



: : DOLLY 

DAVID PERLEY : 

: : Wife of 

DIED : 

! : DAVID PERLEY 

Aug. 14, 1851 : 

I : DIED 

JEt. 75. : : 

: : Feb. 7. 1871, 

The eye of him that hath seen me : : Mt. 83 yrs. 8 mos. 

Shall see me no more. : : 

: The memory of the just is blessed. 



182 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

and Benjamin Scott. He died of consumption, says the record. 
His widow died of pneumonia at her home with her son. Both re- 
pose in the Linebrook cemetery. They left one child, David Eri-221. 



FAMILY 103: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3, SAMUEL-12, DAVID-27, JOHN-48. 

MOSES PERLEY was born in the part of Rowley now called 
Millwood 5 June, 1879. He settled in Rowley. His first wife was 
Sarah Morse, daughter of David and Betsey-Tom Morse of Danbury, 
N. H., married 4 April, 1822, in Rowley. She was probably born, 
in 1800, in Danbury, N. H., the town of her parents. She was 
mother of all his children, and died of consumption, 12 Sept., 1833. 
Her burial was in Boxford. His second wife was Mrs. Nancy Scott 
of Newburyport, daughter of Carpenter and Susan Greenough, 
married 23 April, 1835. Mr. Perley died in Newbury 24 May, 1857; 
his widow, 31 Dec, 1857, aged sixty-eight. 

His son writes: "My father remained at home till his majority, 
when he hired out as a farm laborer with a neighbor. After a few 
years, his brothers having homes of their own, and his father being 
alone, he returned and assisted in carrying on the farm. At the age 
of forty he married, but remained with his father till the latter's 
death, when the farm was divided among the heirs. My father then 
bought the farm where I now live and what we are pleased to call 
the 'old homestead.' It is situated in the northeastern part of 
Rowley near the Newbury line. My mother had lived here but a 
few years when she died. Three years after her death, my father 
married again, and thus the remainder of his life was greatly embit- 
tered for nearly twenty-five years. The last eight years of his life 
were spent in Newbury. My father was a very snug, shrewd, calcu- 
lating man, as are the Perleys generally with but few exceptions. By 
his frugality and trading in cattle he succeeded in accumulating con- 
siderable property, which was considerably diminished at the time of 
his death by his second wife's prodigality. He was a man of temperate 
habits, as were also his brothers, and are the Perleys in general. I 
think I never heard him utter a profane word. He always showed 
his respect for religion, and was charitable toward those who differed 
with him in religious behef. It is said he walked from some point 
in Maine to Rowley, in one day, a distance of eighty miles." 

1 Perley children: Sarah Jane'^ Maria^ John-222. 

2 Sarah J.^ was born 28 June, 1822. She married 27 Nov., 1844, 
George Nathan Lambert-4P, son of John and Sarah-Bradstreet of 
Rowley, where he was born 4 Jan., 1821. She died in Rowley 1 
March, 1865, after which he resided in Rowley with his brother-in- 
law, John Perley. He died 30 Jan., 1900. Lambert issue: Hannah, 
who died 17 Sept., 1869, aged twenty-four years and twenty-four 
days; Georgianna^ Maria, who died 8 Feb., 1871, aged nineteen 
years and six months; Sarah P., who died 8 P'eb., 1868, aged twelve 
years and ten months; John, who died 9 June, 1864, aged six years 
and six months. 

3 Maria' was born in May, 1824. She married 9 Sept., 1847, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 188 

Samuel W. Craig, son of Tappan W. and Harriet P. Craig of Rum- 
ney, N. H. She died 26 May, 1851. He married, second, Hannah 
A. Plummer, daughter of David and Lydia (*see -91^) of Newbury- 
port, pubUshed 20 July, 1853. She died 18 April, 1886. 

4 Georgianna'^ was born 12 June, 1849, married Henry E. Keyes, 
and had George Lambert, who was born 26 Jan., 1869; Sarah Maria, 
who was born 19 March, 1871, married 27 Feb., 1896, in Rowley, 
Gorham P. Jewett, who was born 2 Aug., 1871, in Georgetown, to 
Gorham P. and Sarah-Poor Jewett, and had Lawrence R., born 26 
Feb., 1898, Greta Lambert, born 29 Aug., 1901, E. Bailey, born 30 
June and died 16 Dec, 1903. 



FAMILY 104: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3, SAMUEL-1'2, DAVID-27, JOHN-48. 

JOHN PERLEY was born 3 Sept., 1782. "A family is the 
collective body of persons who live in one house and under one head 
or manager," says Webster, and it is very proper to assign to Mr. 
Perley a "Family," although he never married. 

His nephew John-222 says of him : " My Uncle John, my namesake, 
being the youngest of the family and of delicate constitution, was 
regarded by my grandfather with a more favorable eye than the rest 
of the boys, therefore at the age of eighteen years he gave him a 
piece of property of about $2000 in value. Naturally shrewd and 
calculating, he, no doubt, turned the gift to good account. His del- 
icate health precluded farm labor, and he learned the trade of shoe- 
making. He set up a small shop in Linebrook Parish where he sold 
groceries, etc., at intervals, while shoemaking. He continued thus 
but a few years. He next located in Danvers, where he set up quite 
a large grocery. There he remained a number of years and accum- 
ulated quite a fortune. He remained in Danvers, I think, till 1835 
or 7, when from failing health he removed to New York, but I have 
never learned that he engaged in any business there besides speculat- 
ing. He spent there the remainder of his life, making occasional 
visits to his relatives in Georgetown, and on account of his delicate 
health spending many summer months at Saratoga. He was a heavy 
holder of real estate in Georgetown and vicinity. I have never 
heard anything remarkable of him besides his excellent business 
ability. He always seemed to me very reserved and taciturn, a 
walking statue, composed of mortgages, bank-notes, checks and deeds." 

Becoming of age, he became a member of the family of his Uncle 
Philemon Foster-51, in Linebrook Parish, Ipswich. The house stood 
on the Newburyport turnpike, where it had been removed about the 
time the building of that highway was begun. There our subject 
worked at his trade, cordwaining or shoemaking, and run a grocery 
for the accommodation of the road builders. His work and business 
were successful, and laid the foundation of his business career. 
When that section of the turnpike was completed and trade in con- 
sequence fell off, he removed to Danvers where he opened a store at 

* This reference i8 made on the supposition that there is a relationship, but which is not 
known as a fact. 




184 THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

"the Plains" which has probably continued in the Perley name to 
the present day. Charles N. Perley-387 is the present owner. 

In 1835, "Johnny" Perley, the storekeeper at the little village 
which was springing up at Porter's Plains, petitioned for a fire en- 
gine, to be located near Berry's Tavern. It was provided later. He 
spent the last years of his life in New York state, where he died. He 
was a sagacious, honest and judicious business man, and had he 
lived in these days would probably have been a millionaire. 

He exercised the same discretion and good judgment in the 
disposal of his large estate, and 
divided most of it to charitable, 
religious and educational purposes. 
David Pingree of Salem, Moses 
Dorman of Boxford and John Killam 
and Geo. W. Chaplin of Georgetown ^'^^ g^ he signed a receipt at ws stotL. 
were the executors and trustees of '" Danvers m isia. 

his will. After providing for family connections, it continues : — 

"All the rest and residue of my estate real, personal or mixed, 
of which I shall die seized or possessed, or to which I shall be en- 
titled at my decease, I give, bequeath and devise unto my aforesaid 
trustees, David Pingree, Moses Dorman, John Killam and George 
W. Chaplin, their survivors and successors, in fee simple, in trust, 
and upon the special trusts following; that is to say: — 

"1. That my said Trustees shall sell at public auction, at such 
times and places as they shall deem expedient, all the real estate, 
except my burial place in Harmony Cemetery, which is to be re- 
tained and kept in repair from the trust fund, and reduce the same 
and my personal estate to money hereby authorized and empowering 
said trustees to sell and convey any and all of said estate to the pur- 
chaser or purchasers by good and sufficient deeds and instrument, 
no purchaser from them to be bound to see to the application of the 
purchase money, and after payment of their just and proper ex- 
penses and charges, invest the proceeds thereof, and all unappropri- 
ated income that shall from time to time accrue therefrom, in the 
bonds, scrip, or other securities of some of the states and cities fol- 
lowing viz: the states of Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts 
and Maine, and the cities of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, New York 
and Albany in New York, Boston in Massachusetts, and Portland in 
Maine; or if from any cause this should become impracticable and 
unadvisable, then in such securities as shall in the judgment of said 
trustees be equally safe and productive, that the same may be safely 
kept and accumulated to accomplish the object of these trusts." 

[The second item refers to private bequests.] 

"3rd. That my said trustees shall set apart thirty-five hundred 
dollars from said trust funds, as a perpetual fund, the income of 
which they shall on the first Monday in every January of every year 
after my decease, distribute among the poor of good habits of said 
Georgetown in such manner as my said trustees shall think judicious. 

"4th. That my said trustees shall set apart seven thousand 
dollars of said trust funds as a perpetual fund, the income of which 
they shall pay to the Orthodox Congregational society in said George- 
town, where I now worship, for the support of preaching, and a sab- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 185 

bath school in said society annually, while said society has a settled 
minister, the same to be paid to George W. Chaplin and Sylvanus 
Merrill for the purposes above specified during the lives of them and 
the survivor of them, and after their decease to such persons as said 
society may appoint, and in case said Orthodox Congregational 
society shall for any period cease to have a settled minister, or be 
dissolved then I direct my said trustees to appropriate the income 
of said fund for such period as said society shall have no minister, 
or in case of dissolution the whole income to the uses and purposes 
of the Free School, hereinafter provided for. 

"5th. That my said trustees shall set apart another sum of seven 
thousand dollars of said trust funds as a perpetual fund, the income 
of which they shall pay to the Orthodox Congregational society in 
Linebrook parish, in the towns of Ipswich and Rowley, for the sup- 
port of preaching and a sabbath school in said society annually, while 
said society has a settled minister, the same to be paid to William F. 
Conant and such other person as said society shall appoint for the pur- 
poses above specified, during the lives of them and the survivor of them, 
and after their decease to such persons as said Society may appoint, 
and in case said society shall for any period cease to have a settled 
minister, or be dissolved, then I direct my said trustees to pay the 
income of said fund for such period as said society shall have no 
settled minister, or in case of dissolution, the whole income to the 
uses and purposes of the Free School hereinafter provided for. 

"6th. That my said trustees shall invest all said trust funds and 
income not hereinbefore appropriated, in the securities aforesaid, 
and cause the same to accumulate until the same shall in their judg- 
ment constitute a fund adequate to the purchase of a site, erection 
of buildings, and the endowment and maintenance in said George- 
town of a Free School to be called the Perley Free School, for the 
instruction of children and youth in such branches of science and 
learning as they shall deem most useful, and the purchase of a 
Library and scientific apparatus for said school, and when said fund 
shall be by them deemed adequate for said purposes, that they shall 
obtain an Act of incorporation, with such provisions for securing 
succession and otherwise as they shall determine, from the legislature 
of Massachusetts, by the name of the Trustees of the Perley Free 
School, and shall convey to said corporation all said Fund and En- 
dowment, together with my said burial place, upon such conditions, 
statutes and trusts as they shall in furtherance of the objects of this 
trust prescribe for the erection, foundation, maintenance, adminis- 
tration and government of said Perley Free School, and the privileges 
and funds thereof, providing especially that in the enjoyment of the 
privileges of said school the preference shall in all cases be given to 
pupils belonging to said Georgetown, and those of them who may be 
in indigent circumstances, and further providing that the said school 
shall not be put in operation until the income accruing from said 
fund shall have accumulated to a sum sufficient to pay for the site, 
and erect all the buildings required for the same, that the principal 
sum may be preserved entire forever. 

"7th. That my said trustees shall after the establishment of said 
corporation, further convey unto said corporation the three several 



186 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

funds hereinbefore provided for, viz: the fund for the Orthodox 
Congregational Society in Georgetown, the fund for the Ortho- 
dox Congregational Society in Linebrook parish, and the fund for 
the poor of said Georgetown, upon the same trusts as I have herein 
devised, the same to them, and devolve all said duties and trusts on 
said corporation forever, prescribing in such conveyance such 
conditions and rules as shall secure the fulfilment of said trusts." 

Mr. Perley's will is dated 22 Aug., 1857, about three years before 
his death, and was witnessed by Amos B. Merrill, Henry B. Graves 
and Andrew Harnden. Two years later a codicil was added affect- 
ing slightly the private bequests. He died Friday, 11 May, 1860, 
and his remains are interred in the Harmony Cemetery, Georgetown. 
This cemetery was instituted by him. It is a circular plot of ground, 
and has leading from the street a driveway which is bordered on each 
side by a row of beautiful evergreen trees, and which enters into 
the grounds and extends round the entire outer border. In the 
center is a mound from which radiate paths that connect with the 
outer driveway. The mound is about two feet in height and three 
rods in diameter, and in its center stands Mr. Perley's monument. 
This memorial is constructed of the finest marble in beautiful sym- 
metry and taste, enhancing much the general beauty of the sur- 
roundings. It has the following inscriptions on the four faces : — 



JOHN PERLEY, 

DIED MAY 11, 1860. 

AGED 78. 



He Devoted and Secured 
nearly all the accumulated wealth of a life of 

Frugality and Sobriety 
to the good of those who should come after him. 



He made a liberal Donation for the use of 

The Orthodox Congregational Society of Georgetown, 

and also for 

The Orthodox Congregational Society in Linebrook Parish. 



He established a permanent fund for the relief of 

The Poor of Good Habits; 

And provided for the liberal endowment of a Free School 

in this, his native Town. 



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187 



The fond hope of this public benefactor is now a realization. 
"The Perley Free School" building was dedicated, Saturday after- 
noon, 15 Sept., 1900, "in the presence of a large assemblage. The 
interior of the building was tastefully decorated with ferns, palms 
and flowers, and after the exercises, was thrown open to the public, 
who were given an opportunity to go through the building. 

"The exterior walls of the building are constructed of selected 
water struck brick. All of the trimmings are of Indiana limestone 
and terra cotta. The three entrances on the front and either 
end, are handsomely treated with terra cotta pilasters, carrying 
heavy carved entablatures. The name, 'Perley Free School,' is cut 
in classic letters in granite over the main front entrance. 




THE PERLEY FREE SCHOOL BUILDING, GEORGETOWN, MASS. 

"Opening from this corridor, on either side, are the principal's 
and teachers' rooms, which are connected with the recitation 
rooms in either front corner of the building. On the back corners 
are two class rooms, lighted by seven large windows, and between 
the class rooms are two large coat rooms, supplied with set bowls. 

"On the second floor are the chemical and physical laboratories, 
two supply and apparatus rooms, and in the front a drawing room 
and the library and trustees' room. The central position of this 
floor is occupied by an assembly hall, with stage and dressing rooms. 

"On the third floor are the tank and storage rooms, which are 
lighted and ventilated by three large dormer windows in the front. 

"The entire building is heated by steam and lighted by gas. 
Electric bells are in every room. The system of ventilation is of 
the best and applies to every room in the building. 

"The dedication exercises were held in a large tent on the campus 
in the rear of the building. The first regiment band of Boston ren- 
dered a concert from 2 to 2.30 P. M., after which the dedicatory 
prayer was offered by Rev. De Witt S. Clark of Salem. This was 
followed by a short address by the president of the trustees, Ubert 



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THE PERLEY FAMILY 



A. Killam of Haverhill, who dwelt on the exemplary life of the 
donor of the school, John Perley. 

"The next speaker was Joseph H. Towne of Salem, treasurer of 
the board of trustees, who gave a brief history of the trust. 

"The principal address of the afternoon was delivered by Prof. 
George H. Palmer of Harvard University. 

"In the evening the building was thrown open and the band gave 
a concert on the grounds in front of the building. The building was 
completely equipped and furnished, and the school was opened on 
the following Monday." 




EARLY HOME OP JOHN PERLEY 

This man's body has long since returned to its mother earth, but 
he still lives. As long as wealth has value, and learning is sought, 
and charity is kind, his name will be mentioned with praise, and his 
life will be fresh and fruitful as the dew, and as redolent as the lily 
upon the bosom of crystal waters. 

The farm whereon Mr. Perley was born was established as a 
home by Samuel Perley, the grandson of the immigrant Allan. 
Samuel probably built the farm house during the period of 1690-1694, 
and had it ready furnished for the business of housekeeping when 
he married Miss Cummings, at the latter date. The farm is now 
owned by David Eri Perley and has been in the Perley name for 
about 200 years. Upon it were born Sergt. David Perley in 1702; 
his son John, in 1737; David, the father of David Eri, in 1776; 
Moses the father of Sarah, in 1779; and John the subject of this 
family, in 1782. 

Twenty years and more ago there were two old houses on this 
original farm, standing about a mile apart, one of which was the 
birthplace of this John. The picture shown on the preceding page 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 189 

and titled "the Early Home of John Perley" was sketched only a 
few days before the building was razed in 1884. It has been called 
John Perley's birthplace upon the authority of Humphrey Perley- 
197, born in 1808, who was, in his boyhood and youth, familiar with 
the family living there. He later lived there himself, and said that 
John often visited him and spoke of the place as his birthplace. 
Apropos this claim. Miss Eva Perley, upon the authority of her 
father David Eri-221, born in 1816 on the premises, says concerning 
her great uncle John, the philanthropist: "He was not born in the 
house near the Georgetown line. He was born on this place in the 
old house which stood where the present one does. His father moved 
from this place when John was sixteen years old or thereabouts. 
No Perley was ever born in that house, unless Moses Perley's 
daughter Sarah was." We may, then, regard the old house shown 
in the picture to be, at least the home of the philanthropist's youth. 



FAMILY 105: PERLEY. 

LINEAX DESCENT-ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-52. 

SAMUEL PERLEY was born in Hampton Falls, N. H., 17 
Nov., 1766. He was a farmer. About 1795 he removed to Grey, 
Me., and in 1807 established a home in Harrison. He first occupied 
"the Giles house," a short distance south of Summit mineral spring, 
on the old road from Harrison Village to Caswell's Corner. In 1808, 
he built a residence opposite, near the present homes of his son and 
grandson, David L. and William S. Perley. "Early Settlers of 
Harrison" says he was sometime of "Groton, Mass." which probably 
should read Groton, N. H., where his father at one time preached. 
Samuel Perley, Jr., of Grey, Me., husbandman, 16 March, 1789, 
mortgaged a farm in Cockermouth [Groton], N. H., which he had 
that day bought of the grantee. — Deeds Reg., 12 : 362. His father. 
Rev. Samuel Perley, bought sixty acres in the same town 10 Dec, 
1779,— Deeds Reg., 5 : 415,— and 15 April, 1780, sold fifty acres in the 
same town, lot No. 6, third range, second division, which "was drawn 
to the ministerial right." — Deeds Reg., 7 : 99. 

He married in Ludlow, Vt., Abigail Lewis of that place, 13 Nov., 
1793. She was born in Pepperell, Mass., 2 Oct., 1773. He died of 
diarrhoea 10 Sept., 1828, aged sixty-one. She died 5 June, 1848, at 
the home of her sons David L. and Luther L., of nervous prostration 
and old age. 

1 Perley children: Abigail,^ Abigail-223, SamueP, Susannah^ 
Persis', Rhoda-224, David Lewis-225, Isaac-226, Luther Lewis-227, 
William-228. 

2 AbigaiPwas born 14 Nov., 1794, in Groton, N. H., where she 
died 14 Dec, 1794. SamueP was born in Grey, 16 Dec, 1798, and 
died in Harrison, of diarrhoea, 22 Sept., 1823. Susannah^ was born 
14 Jan., 1801, in Grey, where she died of scarlet fever, 25 June, 1805. 
Persis^ was born 15 March, 1803, in Grey and died there, of scarlet 
fever, 15 June, 1805. 



FAMILY 106: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALL AN-1, SAMUEL-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-52. 

NATHANIEL PERLEY was born at Hampton Falls, N. H., 
1 March, 1769. He lived awhile when a small boy in New Ipswich, 
N. H., then lived in Grey, Me., tilljl794, when he established his 
home in Livermore. In 1798 and 1799, he was assessor, and a se- 
lectman in 1801. He was a farmer and trader, and a justice of the 
peace. 

Mr. Perley married 19 July, 1795, Lucinda Strickland, daughter 
of Rev. John and Patty-Stone Strickland and sister to his own sister 
Sarah's husband. She was born 7 Feb., 1777, and died March,1842. 
He died 8 Jan., 1851. 

1 Perley children : Lucinda^ Nathaniel-229, Sylvester Strickland", 
Ulmer-230, Maria"\ Sarah Strickland-231. 

2 Lucinda' was born 17 Jan., 1799, and died 23 March, 1819. 
Sylvester S.' was born 20 Aug., 1805, and died 5 April, 1866, unmar- 
ried, in Livermore. 

3 Maria' was born 11 Feb., 1810, and about 1850 became the 
second wife of Samuel P'ernald of Buckfield, Me., where he was a 
farmer, born 30 June, 1789. His first wife was Amy Wescott, born 
1793, and died about 1850. He died in Livermore. Maria died at 
Joseph Hussey's, 20 Oct., 1887, having had no children. 



FAMILY 107: STRICKLAND. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30. SAMUEL-52. 

SARAH PERLEY was born 14 June, 1774, in Seabrook, N. H. 
She married in Grey, 13 June, 1793, Hastings Strickland, born in 
Nottingham, N. H ., 1 8 Aug., 1 768, to Rev. John and Patty-Stone Strick- 
land of Turner, Me. He removed to Livermore, where he had a 
large farm with extensive orchards. He died of dropsy 11 March, 
1829. His widow died 29 Aug., 1842. 

Agnes Strickland's " Queens of England," the thirty-third page of 
the first volume, reads: "Tradition says a Strickland was the first 
man to set foot on English soil from the ships of William the Con- 
queror, and that the name and arms are derived from that circum- 
stance." Logges Peerage says: "The parent stock of this family 
was settled previous to the Norman Conquest at Strickland or Strik- 
land (as anciently written). County Westmoreland, where it continued 
for several generations. The founder of this branch, Roger Strick- 
land of Marsh (supposed to be a younger branch of the house of 
Sizergh) married Mary Appleton, and was father of William 
Strickland, or Strykeland, who is said to have accompanied in his 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



191 




STKICKLAND ARMS. 



youth Sebastian Cabot in some of his voyages of discovery to 
the New World, and after his return to have purchased Boynton 
and other estates still owned by his de- 
scendants. He obtained a grant of arms, as 
at present borne, in 1550." 

1 Strickland children: John^, Isaac*, Sam- 
uel Perley'', Hastings^ Lee^ 

2 John^ was born 10 Sept., 1794, in Turner, 
Me., and died in Livermore 20 Jan., 1867. 
He married 8 April, 1821, Miss Julia A. Sawin 
of Lansingburg, N. Y., who was born 25 Nov., 
1802. He was an independent farmer, was a cap- 
tain in the 1812 war, was a selectman fourteen 
years in succession and held other important 
town offices. He stood five feet and eleven 
inches tall, and straight as an arrow, and smart 
and lithe as a wrestler. He was a Universalist, 
a constant church attendant, and liberal in so- 
ciety support. He always did unto others as 
he would be done by. He died in Liver- 
more 20 Jan., 1867, aged seventy-two. His 
widow was living in 1880. Issue, all born 
in Livermore and all living in 1880, except 
Elizabeth: Lysander^; Jane C, born 24 Jan., 1823, married Alonzo 
Washburn, 10 April, 1850 ; Sarah P., born 8 Oct., 1826, married 
Ganem Washburn, 19 Nov., 1850; Lyman S.^; Ann Maria, born 9 
July, 1832, married George F. Chase, 14 Feb., 1860; Josephine, born 
29 Feb., 1834, married Cyrus H. Pierce, 21 Feb., 1865; Elizabeth, 
born 14 May, 1839, died in Livermore, 26 Feb., 1879; George Byron, 
born 16 Oct., 1842, has been superintendent of schools and selectman. 

3 Isaac' was born 17 Dec, 1796. He married 30 Sept., 1821, 
Miss Patty Monroe of Livermore. He began the business of drover 
in 1817; was a deputy sheriff in his native county, Oxford, 1818-21 
inclusive; was several years captain and then major of cavalry; was 
State legislator 1835-36-46, and senator 1848-9; was postmaster about 
twenty years; was many years selectman. He was wealthy and one 
of the most active and influential men in his section. He had a fine 
physique and commanding appearance. He was a Democrat and 
Universalist, and contributed liberally to both causes. He died in 
Livermore 4 March, 1886. His wife died there in 1872. Issue: 
Frances Elliot, born 14 April, 1823; Ruth Ann, born 1828; Mary 
Thorndyke, born 1833; Mortimer Clifford, born 1838 and died 1872. 

4 Samuel P.^ was born 25 June, 1801. His first marriage was 20 
March, 1823, to Frances E. Gushing of Turner, Me., who was born 
26 Feb., 1803, and died in Bangor 15 F'eb., 1845, aged forty-one 
years. His second marriage was 12 April, 1846, to Miss Ruth W. 
Bacon of Buxton, York County, Me. She was iDorn 3 June, 1810, 
and died 30 Nov., 1878, aged sixty-eight years. He was a merchant 
in New Portland from 1820 to 1833, when he removed to Bangor, 
where he partnershiped with Maj. Amasa Crafts. After one year 
he engaged with his brother Hastings as lumber merchant. Their 
mills were extensive, they handled large forests, and manufactured 



192 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

millions of feet of lumber. In 1850, they dissolved, each pursuing the 
same business and taking his son as partner. He was colonel and 
major general in the State militia, was State legislator 1827-57-58-62; 
was State councilor 1832; one of Gen. Grant's electors-at -large. 
He was a Democrat till the formation of the Republican party, 
which he joined. He was wealthy. He was a Unitarian, and be- 
lieved that "after death, God is the father of us all." His children 
were all by his first wife. Issue: John Turner, born 13 March, 1827, 
in New Portland, married Miss Mary Varney of Bangor, and died in 
Bangor of consumption, 11 Nov., 1868, aged forty-one years; Sam- 
uel Franklin, born 1 Sept., 1829, died of consumption in Bangor, 9 
March, 1854, aged twenty-four years; Charles Gushing, born 6 
March, 1834, in New Portland, married Miss Sarah Torrey in Ban- 
gor; Clara Augusta, born 28 Dec, 1836, in Bangor, married A. P. 
Thorpe of New York, 1867; Frances Elizabeth, born 10 Dec, 1839, 
in Bangor, married in New York, Charles Lord of Bangor, June, 
1861. 

5 Hastings' was born 16 May, 1803. He married 3 Nov., 1828, 
Clarinda Brettun of Livermore, who was born 24 April, 1807. His 
father gave him a portion of his minority. He was eight years 
deputy sheriff. When about twenty-five years old he was captain 
of cavalry and was soon promoted to major. At about thirty-three 
years of age, he established a livery business in Bangor and was soon 
after deputy sheriff of that county, for the years 1836-7-8, and in 
1839 was sheriff. He was partner of his brother Samuel, which see 
above. His two sons, Wra. H. and Philo A., are now in the lumber 
business. In 1846, he was State legislator, was member of a Presi- 
dential nominating convention at Baltimore, was nominee for Con- 
gress two campaigns; was State councilor 1856. He was charitable 
and liberal, and had hosts of friends. He was a Universalist, then a 
Unitarian. He was always a Democrat. Issue: William Hastings^ 
and Philo Augustus^'\ 

6 Lee' was born 14 July, 1806, in Livermore. He married, first, 
18 July, 1880, Mary Hanson in New Portland, where she was born 
to Nathan, a landlord of a hotel. She died in Livermore 4 April, 
1864, mother of all his children. His second wife was Mrs. Susan B. 
Emery, his first wife's sister, married in Dec, 1864. He began life as 
a merchant, at the age of twenty-four years was deputy sheriff, was 
State senator two terms, was a staunch Democrat, raised a company 
of volunteers for service in the Civil War, was colonel of the 8th 
Maine Regiment, was postmaster, was selectman several years, was 
county commissioner eight years, was Master Mason of Oriental 
Star Lodge, No. 21, of Livermore. He was a Universalist, and an 
exemplary man in his home, in society and wherever he served. He 
died in Livermore, 28 Sept., 1873, at the age of sixty-seven years. 
Children: Isaac", Charles Lee^"^, Augustus Henry-230''. 

7 Lysander-, was born 12 Oct., 1821; married Susan S. Berthum, 
12 Oct., 1848; went to Bangor in 1842; began lumber trade in 1844, 
in which he still continues; was member of the city government 
1869-72 inclusive; director of the Maine Central Railroad Corpora- 
tion 1871-74 inclusive, State legislator 1878 and 9. 

8 Lyman S.^ born 22 July, 1830; married Jeannie McClosky, 26 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY I93 

June, 1866; graduated from Bowdoin College; entered the regular 
army as first lieutenant in 1862 and resigned in 1864; studied 
law with Judge Peters and practised in Houlton ; was register of 
probate, county treasurer, State senator, a selectman of Houlton. 

9 William Hastings^ was born 4 Feb., 1830. He married 26 
Dec, 1855, Miss Clara Leighton, in Bangor, who was born in Ports- 
mouth, N. H., 26 Feb., 1831; was State legislator in 1876, business 
partner of his father and brother. Issue: Frederic Hastings, born 
1856, and Lillian March, born 1861. 

10 Philo Augustus"" was born 23 Nov., 1831. He married 15 
Sept., 1853, Miss Mary Elizabeth Larrabee of Bangor, who was born 
there 16 July, 1832. He was State legislator in 1872; was bank 
director and held other offices of trusts Issue : Nellie Augusta, 
born 1861, married a Hill and resides in Hyde Park, Mass.; Samuel 
Larrabee of Bangor, Me., born 1865. 

11 Isaac'' was born in Turner, Me., 31 Jan., 1831. He married 
in Bangor, Me., 30 July, 1857, Frances Angelia Wing, born in 
Levant, Me., 20 March, 1835, to Aaron Allen, merchant, and Eliza- 
Chase Wing. They reside in Bangor, Me., where Dr. Strickland is 
a dentist. 

12 Charles L.'^ was born in Livermore, 11 Aug., 1836.' His home, 
the last thirty years, has been in Charlottetown, P. E. I., where he 
is a dentist. He married there 11 Oct., 1866, Miss Jessie Russell 
Watson, who was born there to William Russell, a druggist, and 
Sarah-Crosskill Watson, and died 15 Jan., 1895. He served in the 
United States army during the Civil War as second lieutenant and 
first lieutenant and captain in the 20th and 4th Maine regiments. 
Children: WilHam Lee'^ and Lottie Grant, born 20 Feb., 1872, in 
Charlottetown, who is a trained nurse in Newport, R. I. 

13 William L.'- was born in Bangor, Me., 12 June, 1868. He 
married, in Boston, Mass., 11 Oct., 1901, Miss Charlotte L. Gage, 
who was born in ArHngton, Mass., 17 Aug., 1869, to Charlotte L.- 
Reed and Charles O. Gage, dealer in ice. He is an attorney-at-law 
in Boston. He was educated in Charlottetown and New York, 
studied law under Judge Hodgson of the former place, and was 
admitted to the Canadian bar in 1892 and to the bar in Massachu- 
setts in 1896. He served the city of Boston in the Common Council 
as a Republican, 1900-1901. 



FAMILY 108: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-5'2. 

ABRAHAM PERLEY was born in Seabrook, N. H., 26 May, 
1777, a twin with Isaac-109. He and Isaac inherited the parental 
home and made it his. He was a "smart man" on the farm and ex- 
celled as a reaper, in many friendly contests. 

Mr. Perley's first wife was Rebecca Humphrey, daughter of 
James and Mary-Twitchell Humphrey of Grey, who was born there 
21 April, 1780. She died 21 Aug., 1816, the mother of six children, 



194 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

the last only a week old. His second wife, married in 1818, was 
Mrs. Lois Haskell, widow of Ebenezer, and daughter of William and 
Tabitha-Goldsmith Burnham of New Gloucester, Me. She was 
born in Essex, Mass., 15 June, 1781. She died 11 Oct., 1862. She 
had three Haskell children: Ebenezer, who went early to Philadel- 
phia, and became extensively engaged in carriage manufacture; 
William, who was a graduate of Bowdoin College, a Congregational 
minister and died about 1850; Louisa, who married Daniel Berry of 
Grey. Her husband Haskell died at Fort Preble, Me. 

1 Perley children: Mary S.'\ George-232, Paulina^ John Humph- 
rey-233, Nathaniel-234, Rebecca-235, Jonas Humphrey-236. 

2 Mary S.^ was born 30 March, 1802, and 21 April, 1825, by 
Clement H. Humphrey, Esq., married William Dolley, who was 
born 14 Feb., 1800, to WiUiam and Hannah-Hayden Dolley. She 
died in childbirth — a daughter — about 1837. His second wife was 
Martha Foster. He died 5 April, 1858. 

3 Paulina^ was born in Grey, Me., 12 June, 1806. She married 
Nathaniel Rounds, farmer, born in Buxton, Me., 13 May, 1803, to 
Joseph, farmer, and Nancy-Small Rounds. She died in Danville, 
Me., 2 July, 1837; and he, 24 March, 1884. Rounds issue: Samuel 
Perley^; William Haskell'; Charles Bean''. 

4 Samuel P.' was born in Grey, Me., 24 Jan., 1830. He married 
in Lewiston, Me., 24 Sept., 1855, Sarah Maria Hilbourn, born in 
Oxford, Me., 25 April, 1832, to Hiram, a blacksmith, and Esther 
Richmond-Bryant Hilbourn. Mr. Rounds was a teacher and farmer. 
He died 3 Aug., 1871, in Auburn, Me., where his widow now resides. 
Their children: Ella Frances, born in Danville, 7 Aug., 1856, a 
teacher, unmarried, in Auburn, Me.; Mary Etta, born in Danville, 
81 May, 1860, died 27 June, 1864; Henrietta Perley, born in Dan- 
ville, 8 Feb., 1866, died in Auburn, 14 June, 1874; Ina Gertrude". 

5 Wm. H.-' was born in Danville, Me., 19 July, 1832. He mar- 
ried there 20 June, 1860, Rebecca Fitz, born in Danville, 3 Nov., 
1838, to Moses, a farmer and a drover, and Mary W.-Emerson P^itz. 
He was a merchant ; he served two terms as State representative 
and one term as State senator. He died 27 Nov., 1880, in Minot, 
Me., where his widow resides. Rounds children: William, born in 
Poland, Me., 20 May, 1861, who married 23 May, 1893, and is a mer- 
chant in Minot, Me.; Ralph P., a merchant, born in Poland, Me., 8 
Jan., 1863, married 22 Nov., 1887, and died in Auburn, Me., 6 May, 
1897; John M., an electrician in Strong, Me., born in Minot 28 Nov., 
1868, married 23 April, 1892. 

6 Charles B.*^ was born in Danville, Me., 8 Dec, 1834. He mar- 
ried in Calais, Me., 4 Jan., 1865, Harriet Norwood Chase, born in 
Milltown, Me., 4 Jan., 1839, to George Monroe, a lawyer, and Har- 
riet Green-Norwood Chase, and died there 17 Nov., 1903. He was 
county attorney, a judge for fifteen years, and superintendent of the 
schools of Calais. Their children, born in Calais: Mina DeHart, 8 
Oct., 1865, a graduate of Wellesley College and the wife of W. A. 
Murchie of Calais; Pauline, 6 Sept., 1867, a student at Mt. Holyoke; 
Dora Madeline, 27 Aug., 1872, a graduate of Wellesley College, and 
teacher of English in Rochester, N. Y.; George Munroe, 29 April, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY I95 

1876, a graduate of Dartmouth College and a miner in Colorado; 
Helen Norwood, 6 June, 1880, a graduate of Wellesley College. 

7 Ina G."* was born in Auburn, Me., 28 Feb., 1870. She was a 
school teacher until her marriage 11 July, 1896, to Almon Roscoe 
Thurston of Auburn. They had one child: Arthur Rounds, born in 
Kingfield, Me., 25 July, 1897, and died in Auburn, 30 Sept., 1898. 



FAMILY 109: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, 8AMUEL-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-52. 

ISAAC PERLEY was born a twin with Abraham-108, in Sea- 
brook, 26 May, 1777. They inherited the parental homestead and 
lived there. He married 29 Oct., 1801, Eunice Hancock, daughter 
of Lt. Joseph, of Otisfield, where she was born 2 or 16 Jan., 1782. 
Her father was an ofificer in the Revolutionary War, a descendant of 
Gen. Hancock of Revolutionary fame, and a relative of John Han- 
cock, president of the first Congress. He died 9 June, 1848; his 
widow, 31 March, 1860. 

1 Perley children: Joseph Hancock-237, Eunice'^ Susan'\ Sarah^ 
Thomas Hancock-, Melinda\ Isaac-238, Lucinda^ George Washing- 
ton^ Cephas W.-239. 

2 Eunice' was born 9 Aug., 1804, and died at her parental home, 
unmarried, of consumption 29 Sept., 1870. Sarah' was born 30 
March, 1808, died unmarried, 17 Jan., 1892, was housekeeper for her 
brothers Thomas and Washington. Thomas H.' was born 21 April, 
1810, never married, was part owner of the parental house with 
Washington', who was born 25 Oct., 1823, and died, unmarried, in 
East Grey, 11 Feb., 1887. 

3 Susan' was born 15 March, 1806, and 18 May, 1833, by Elder 
Perkins, married Arthur Higgins, son of Elezar and Susanna, of 
Grey. He was born in Portland 8 Feb., 1808. He was a farmer in 
good circumstances. She died 9 Jan., 1870, of consumption. Their 
issue: Martha Porter, born 9 April, 1835, who married 20 Nov., 1856, 
Lothrop Blake, son of Rev. Elias and Elizabeth-Trion Blake of 
Grey, and had Lizzie Higgins, born 29 March, 1859; Cora Susan, 
born 23 April, 1864; Arthur L., born 15 June, 1872, died 28 Aug., 
1877; Orrin Smith, born 19 Jan., 1837, who married his cousin Hen- 
rietta Perley-232^ Susan Dyer, born 9 Nov., 1839, who married her 
cousin Cyrus Jordan Perley-232''. 

4 Melinda' was born 12 Oct., 1812, and 21 Nov., 1833, married, 
by Elder Perkins, John F. Sawyer, son of Reuben, of Grey or New 
Gloucester, where he was born 12 Oct., 1807. He was a farmer. 
Five children: Albert N., born 6 Sept., 1834, married Clarissa O. 
Small of Grey, 15 Oct., 1863, who was many years a school teacher, 
was a State representative, and died in Grey, 21 Jan., 1879, leaving 
a son and a daughter; Lucinda P., born 13 July, 1837, married 30 
June, 1861, Frank Lawrence of Portland, and died 29 Oct., 1878, 
leaving a daughter; Jennette B., born 23 Jan., 1843; Williard, born 
17 Aug., 1848, who married Mary Louisa Perley-233^ ; Cephas F., 



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born 4 Sept., 1852, who married Florence M. Lowe of North 
Yarmouth, Me., 3 Aug., 1876. 

5 Lucinda^ was born 1 June, 1819, married Rufus Berry 27 Oct., 
1842, in Grey, where he was a carriage manufacturer, a painter, and 
a deputy sheriff. 



FAMILY 110: RUST. 

LINEAL DESCENT- ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, JOHN-53. 

JUDITH PERLEY was born 13 July, 1777, and 24 Dec, 1801, 
became the second wife of Nathaniel Rust, a seafaring man, bap- 
tised 21 July, 1777, for Nathaniel, Jr., and Sarah-Robbins Rust 
(married 22 June, 1776,) of Ipswich, where Judith died of senile 
debility, a widow, Monday, 20 Mar., 1871, in her ninety-fourth year. 
The town records read : ninety-seven years, eight months, fifteen days. 

Judith is said to have been the first woman to carry an umbrella 
in the town of Rowley, It was a red one and she walked to Byfield 
to church. It is also said that her wedding bed she ever after occu- 
pied, not leaving it for a night even, till the Thursday before the 
Monday of her death. She was an excellent motherly woman and 
her family refer to her with affection. 

[Nathaniel's first wife was Miss Kate Henderson, married 8 
Nov., 1797, and baptised 2 May, 1779, for Thomas of Ipswich, and 
died 25 Oct., 1798, leaving a son John, born 20 Oct., 1798.] 

1 Rust children: Dennison'', Catherine^ Sally'^, Charles'^ Na- 
thaniel Perley', Hannah-Ill-. 

2 Sally' was born 10 April, 1807, and died 7 April, 1809. 
Charles^ was born 9 Sept., 1809, was a steamer captain between 
New York and St. John, N. B., married Bethiah-Hobson Newhall, 
had only one child that died young, and died himself in Aug., 1882, 
in the United States Marine Hospital, Bedloes Island. 

3 Dennison^ was born 19 Nov., 1803. He was a sea captain. He 
married 24 May, 1827, Harriet Farley Smith, born 25 Sept., 1808, to 
Jeremiah and Lucy-Pulsipher Smith of Ipswich. He died 19 Dec, 
1846; and she, 20 Dec, 1875. Rust issue: Dennison", Harriet 
Ann', Charles Perley^ Nathaniel Perley", Lucy Mary' ', Sally Perley", 
Caroline Elizabeth'-, George Henry, who died 28 May, 1842; Lu- 
cretia Smith, born 27 Aug., 1843, who is a nurse, and resides unmar- 
ried, with her sister, Caroline P21izabeth ; Sarah Frances'^ 

4 Catherine^ was born 14 or 16 April, 1805. She married, in 
Ipswich, 21 Jan., 1824, James Alfred Clark, a weaver and stocking 
maker, who was born in Nottingham, England, in June, 1800. His 
mother's maiden name was Green. He came for the purpose of 
setting up machinery for the lace factory, which then was in the 
house now the palatial home of Joseph Ross on High street. He 
died 7 May, 1862, a patriot soldier in the Rebellion War, at Hatteras 
Inlet, (Rust Genealogy: 12 March, 1864, at Fort Clark,) having en- 
listed in Co. I, 23d Infantry, 28 Sept., 1861. She died 28 April, 
1873, (Rust Genealogy: March, 1863,) in Ipswich. Clark children: 




MRS. NATHANIEL RUST. 



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Elizabeth Green"; Nathaniel Perley, who died young; Mary Ann, 
who married William Barnes of Troy, N. Y.; John Francis Jamin^°; 
Charles Henry, who died young; Lucy Ann Perley'"; Nathaniel 
Langmire, who married Abbie Crane, lived in Beverly and had two 
children: Arthur W., who married Harriet Merrill and has child 
Doris Elizabeth and lives in Hamilton, and Nellie Glazier; Sarah 
Ellen, who married Ira Albert Dunnels of Hamilton and had son 
Albert who lives in Hamilton; Sybell Barnes^^ 

5 NathanieP was born 10 Aug., 1811, and 23 June, 1827, married 
Sarah Jane Whittier, who was born to Moses and Rhoda, of Rowley, 
and died in Salem 26 May, 1868, aged sixty-two years, ten months, 
fourteen days. He was early a seafaring man, then a truckman 
and contractor. He died 8 Oct., 1856. Rust issue: Ruel, who died 
in Salem, 10 Aug., 1830, aged twenty-one months; Francis Augus- 
tus Peabody'**; Benjamin Tucker, born in Salem, 29 Oct., 1832, mar- 
ried 18 July, 1852, in Ipswich, Betsey Gray Penniman, born in 
Moultonboro, N. H., 6 Nov., 1832, (died in Worcester, Mass., 15 
May, 1897,) to John and Sarah-Leavitt Penniman, and had Charles 
Perley, born in Salem 1 July, 1853, and Walter Sumner, born in 
Manchester, N. H., 29 March, 1859; Ann Louisa, who married 2 
Feb., 1869, Seth Henry Littlefield, a commercial traveler, of Dor- 
chester, son of Daniel of Grantham, N. H., and had one child, still- 
born 9 July, 1870. She is engaged in missionary work in Boston. 

6 Dennison" was born 27 Aug., 1827, and has been many years 
of the firm Rust & Grant, wholesalers of fish, in Ipswich. He mar- 
ried 28 Nov., 1858, Harriet Brown who was born 1 Jan., 1840, to 
Thomas and Elizabeth-Dwyar Brown. Rust children : Valencourt 
Eugene'*, Charles Henry, who died, eleven years old, and Elvira 
Jane-'. 

7 Harriet A," was born 4 Sept., 1829, and married 19 Feb., 1855, 
Wm. F. Downes, a commercial man, born 1 Aug., 1826, in Andover, 
to Benj. R. and Fanny A., of Bradford. [His brother, Benj. Robert 
Downes of Bradford, was a popular teacher of piano music in Essex 
County.] They lived and had two children in each place: Kanka- 
kee, 111., Ipswich and Boston, Mass. Downes issue: Henry R., 
born 13 March, 1857, married in Sept., 1882, Alice Hackley, and had 
in Boston, Carlton W., born 28 Feb., 1883, and later lived in Med- 
ford; Carrie L., born 18 May, 1860, married Charles Merritt and 
had Lester M., born in Dorchester, 18 Feb., 1884; Addie C, born 
29 Jan., 1864, and married Frank Copperthwait; Charles C, born 
25 Dec, 1865, and married Lizzie Stone; Lin wood W., born 10 Feb., 
1870, and died 10 Jan., 1881; Annie F., born 9 Sept., 1873. 

8 Charles P.'^ was born 15 July, 1831, and 28 Aug., 1857, married 
Harriet Luretta Tarlton, born about 1839, in Shapleigh, Me., to 
"Sophia Tinney of Shapley, Me., and Timothy Durgin of Northfield, 
Me." She died in Ipswich, of cancer, 25 Nov., 1892, aged fifty-three 
years. Rust issue: Fred Clifton, born 23 Jan., 1858, and Ethel 
Lena, born 29 Sept., 1859. Both reside with their father in Ipswich. 

9 Nathaniel P.'* was born 1 March, 1833. His business is gar- 
dening and farming. He married 24 Nov., 1868, in Hamilton, 
Catherine Aurelia McGrath, who was born to Elizabeth-Burrell and 
David McGrath. Rust issue: Maud Clayton^'; Helen Farley-^; 



198 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Christie Verne, born 25 Dec, 1878, and died 18 July, 1879; Ernest 
Carter, born 14 April, 1880, and is employed by Jackson's express 
company in Newburyport. 

10 Lucy M.^'was born 10 qr 11 Jan., 1836, and 26 Jan., 1858, 
married Edward Woodbury Russell, born 6 Feb., 1835, to Andrew, 
a cabinet maker, and Dorothy-Jewett Russell of Ipswich. He was 
three years a patriot soldier and ranked sergeant when discharged, 
20 Oct., 1865. He is a carpenter by trade, but since the war has 
been dyer in the Ipswich mills. Russell issue: Mabel Clifton'-'^; Ed- 
mund Asbury, an engineer at the Ipswich water works, born 26 
Nov., 1861; Frank Allen, born 25 Dec, 1871, graduated at the 
Manning High School, 1888, married, in Ipswich, 6 July, 1897, Mar- 
tha Ellen Hooper, born in St. George, N. B., 14 May, 1877, to James, 
a carpenter, and Elizabeth-Leavitt Hooper. He is a wholesale sales- 
man in dry goods. They have Mabel Vivian, born 30 Nov., 1900. 

11 Sally P.^ wa& born 10 or 11 July, 1838, and 26 June, 1861, 
married Carlton Copp, born in Berwick, Me., 23 Dec, 1839, to Uriah, 
a farmer, and Martha-Goodwin Copp. He was many years foreman 
in his brother-in-law, John A. Johnson's shoe factory, Ipswich; is 
now retired. Copp issue: Effie Estelle, born 4 Dec, 1863, married 
8 Sept., 1886, Frank H. Preston, a harness maker, of Winchester, 
had child Royal Atherton, born 30 July, 1887, died 19 July, 1889; 
Charles Wesley, born 9 Aug., 1865, in Ipswich, in lumber trade in 
Flushing, N. Y., married 25 Dec, 1886, in Ipswich, Mary Mee, born 
in Manchester, England, 19 April, 1866, (to Ann-Knowles and Rob- 
ert Mee, a baker,) whose children, born in Flushing, except the first 
in Brooklyn, are Alice Blakeman 8 April, 1891, Mary Estelle 1 May, 
1893, Carlton 6 May, 1896, Emily 8 Feb., 1899, Alfred Hutchinson 
20 Oct., 1900, Charles Wesley Jr., 28 Oct., 1902; Harriet Maria, 
born 5 Feb., 1867, in Ipswich, a stenographer in New York; 
Harry Carlton, born 31 March, 1875, married 14 July, 1897, in 
Ipswich, Marguerite Elizabeth Brewitt, who was born 15 May, 1872, 
to Margaret Elizabeth-Duffield and Wm. Brewitt, a carpenter of 
Halifax, N. S., but later of Dover, N. H. They have one child, 
Effie Estelle, born 16 Feb., 1900, and are living in Flushing, N. Y. 

12 Carohne E.' was born 10 Jan., 1840, and 22 March, 1863, mar- 
ried, in Ipswich, Robert Loude Gove, who was born 9 Sept., 1835, 
to Rhoda-Loude and Robert Gove of Edgecomb, Me., a retired sea 
captain. Gove issue: Nellie Estelle-^ Mildred Orne^^ Frank 
Alyn-*^, and Harriet Farley, born 10 Nov., 1876, who is noted as a 
fine singer. She married 14 June, 1904, Walter James Shaw, born 
to Harriet-Banner and Henry Shaw of England. Mr. Shaw is head 
clerk in J. W. Goodhue's hardware store, Ipswich. 

13 Sarah Frances'^ was born 22 Aug., 1846, and 25 May, 1870, 
married, in Ipswich, James Austin Lord, who was born in Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 17 July, 1845, to Mary-Yurk^ and John Henry Lord, a 
machinist. He is a shoemaker, and was two years a patriot soldier. 
Lord issue: Leon Raymond, clerk for Harry K. Dodge, born 19 
May, 1872, married, 27 Feb., 1897, in Portsmouth, N. H., Maud 
Steeves, who was born 26 Jan., 1878, to Jane-Bazley and Elias 
Steeves, a stone mason, of Hillsboro, N. B., and has Edna Steeves, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY. I99 

born 3 Aug., 1899; Farley Clayton, born 12 March, 1880, married 
Adah Newman and has Elliott Russell. 

14 Elizabeth G.^ was born 28 April, 1824, in Ipswich, and 6 Oct., 
1844, married, in Ipswich, Jonathan Ball Brown, who was born in 
Chester, N. H., 16 Oct., 1822, to Sarah-Ball and Jeremiah Brown, a 
farmer. He was by trade a tanner and currier. He died in Iowa 
Hill, Cal., 4 March, 1897. She resided in Ipswich, and was many 
years a dressmaker in the venerable Norton-Corbett house. She 
was apprenticed to a Salem modiste at the age of fourteen. Her 
later years she lived with her daughter Mrs. Howe. She died 29 
Dec, 1903. The local journal said: she was "one of the oldest and 
kindest of the kindly ladies that composed the Woman's Relief Corps of 
this town. . . . She was an exceedingly bright and intelligent old 
lady, cheery in her disposition, with kindness and Christian charity 
her motives of living." " For fifty years she has been a loyal member 
and earnest worker in the Methodist church, retaining with her early 
zeal for its work much of her own youthful spirit and energy. She 
never was absent from church unless actually ill and until late years 
her seat in the Sunday school room seldom was vacant." Brown 
issue: Jeremiah William, born 24 Jan., 1845, a year and a half a 
patriot soldier, enlisting 22 Feb., 1864, a private in the 4th Mass. 
battery, H. A., and died at Crowville, La., Sedgwick hospital, 27 Oct., 
1865; Mary SybilF; and Sarah Elizabeth-^ 

15 John Francis J amin^ was born 23 July, 1831, and married in 
Ipswich, 5 Dec, 1851, Martha Ann Fowler, who was born 8 April, 
1835, to Joseph and Mary-Bailey Fowler. He was a Union soldier 
in the Civil War. In a notice of his decease the Salem Gazette 
said: "Mr. Clark died 28 April, 1899, of old-fashioned consumption. 
The day was the anniversary of his mother's death, which occurred 
twenty-six years before. For years Mr. Clark has been feeble, but 
only within the last four months has he given up his work. His five 
children died of consumption before the age of thirty-five. Two 
sons' wives and two grandchildren also were victims of this disease, 
until now, of all the happy household, only the wife and one grand- 
daughter. Miss Ethel Clarke are left. In his early life Mr. Clarke 
worked in Salem as engineer for J. Gibney. When the Civil War 
came he left Salem and enlisted in Company I of the 23d Regiment, 
M. V. M., and went into camp at Lynnfield under the late Capt. 
John Hobbs. His enlistment was for three years, but before his 
term expired he was discharged for physical disability. On his 
return, or as soon after as his strength was recuperated, he went 
back to his old work, serving as engineer at the Countyhouse for 
several years. Later he occupied the same position at the Ipswich 
woolen mill, where he remained until illness came upon him. His 
last work was gate-tender for the Boston & Maine railroad. He 
always has been an honored member of Gen. James Appleton Post 
G. A. R. One of the kindest-hearted of men, he was ready to do 
others a service whenever there was need. He was a good citizen 
and a pleasant neighbor. Although his sorrows seemed at times 
more than he could endure, he has borne them bravely and man- 
fully. He leaves a widow and one granddaughter, who, since the 
death of her parents, has been a member of his household. Of his 



200 THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

early family four sisters and a brother survive him." Clark chil- 
dren: Franklin Pierce-''; William Barnes, born 27 Jan., 1855, died 11 
May, 1894; Ida Jane, born 18 Feb., 1857, and died in Feb., 1868; 
Charles Harrison^"; Rebecca Fowler, born 18 Nov., 1872, died 25 
Aug., 1892. 

16 Lucy Ann Perley* was born 16 Dec, 1834, and married 5 
Nov., 1854, in Ipswich, George Edward Lord,^who was born to Levi, 
a farmer, and Elizabeth-Kimball Lord, 20 Feb., 1832. She died 
6 April, 1904. Mr. Lord is a wheelwright by trade, but till late has 
lived leisurely at his home, pictured on page 5. He now lives in 
Maiden with his son Charles Barnes. Lord issue, all born in 
Ipswich: Edwin Reed, born 3 July, 1855, and married in Cambridge, 
N. Y., 31 Jan., 1883, Frances A. Fuller, born in Cambridge, N. Y., 
9 Sept., 1850, to Freeman Allen and Philindia-Carter Fuller, resid- 
ing in Maiden, Mass.; Annie Laurie, born 23 Dec, 1858, and married 
in Mount Vernon, N. Y., Benj. F. Downing, 16 Aug., 1886; Charles 
Barnes"^; P"red Lincoln, born 5 May, 1865, married in Oct., 1888, 
Florence Matterson and lives in Everett ; George Warren"^. 

17 Sybell B.^ was born 10 P'eb., 1846, and married 2 Oct., 1864, 
in Ipswich, Aaron Cogswell Perkins, who was born in Essex, 19 
Aug., 1840, to Hannah Day-Cogswell and William Perkins, a ship 
builder. Mr. Perkins is also a ship builder in Gloucester, Perkins 
issue: Llewellyn Hull, born 21 Dec, 1865, and died 17 March, 1866; 
Almenia Sybell, born 10 March, 1867, in Essex, married 4 April, 
1887, Willard Knowles Hobbs, a restaurant managerfor the Pennsyl- 
vania railroad at Philadelphia, born 13 Nov., 1862, in Boston, to Ruby- 
Knowles and Abraham Hobbs, a farmer, and had children : Willard 
Knowles, born and died in Salem, in April, 1888, Ruby Data, born 
27 Dec, 1890, and Leland Stanford, born 24 Feb., 1892, both in 
Gloucester; Wm. Alfred, born 19 April, and died 25 July, 1868; 
Katherine Perley, born in Essex, 19 June, 1870, married in Glouces- 
ter, 9 June, 1,894, James Roberts Somes,^ born 23 June, 1869, (to 
Eliza Jane Grotto and John James Somes, city clerk of Gloucester,) 
and had a son, John James, born 9 Aug., 1902; Bertha Ellen, born 
19 May, 1873, married in Gloucester, 30 Nov., 1898, Walter Warren 
Paige, a real estate broker, born in Brookline, Mass., 4 Oct., 1870, 
to Carry W.-Paige and Albert S. Paige, police inspector; Hannah 
Mabel, born 4 Oct., 1876, married in Gloucester, 19 June, 1901, 
Ernest Rockwell Friend, a clerk in the post ofifice, born in Glouces- 
ter, 23 Feb., 1877, to Grace T.-Powers and George Friend, a book- 
keeper, and had Ernestine, born the day following her father's 
death; Aaron P>ancis, a clerk, unmarried, born 27 Aug., 1878. "^ 

18 Francis A. P.^ was born 10 March, 1830, in Salem, and married 
there 25 Nov., 1852, Elizabeth P'owler, born 4 Feb., 1833, in Lynn, 
to Abigail-Lewis and Samuel Fowler, and died 2 Feb., 1893, in 
Salem. Mr. Rust has been engaged as teamster for the past forty- 
five years in Salem. Rust issue: Wm. Augustus, shoemaker, born 
in Salem, 7 Nov., 1854, died 30 May, 1899, married 3 Oct., 1882, 
Lucy Searles Fairfield, who was born in Salem, 12 Dec, 1858, to 
Jane S.-Hill and Samuel G. Fairfield, and had child Rena Fisk, born 
in Lynn, 13 Dec, 1883; Jennie Frances, born 20 May, 1859, in 
Salem, married in Beverly, 23 Feb., 1893, Joseph Allen Davis, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 201 

musician, who was born in Salem 16 July, 1856, to Annah-Fairfield 
and Warren Putnam Davis, and resides in Salem. 

19 Vallancourt E." was born 31 July, 1859, and married 29 May, 
1881, Annie Maria Tolman, who was born in Rochester, N. H., 9 
Sept., 1859, to Hannah-Daily and Edmund Tolman, a machinist. 
Vallancourt is foreman in the office of the "Ipswich Chronicle." 
Rust issue: Charles Linwood, born 12 Feb., 1882; Vallancourt 
Eugene, born 16 Aug., 1883; Harriet Newhall, born 12 May, 1888. 

20 Elvira J.'^ was born 20 Sept., 1863, and 29 Jan., 1887, in Ports- 
mouth, N. H., married John PVank Grant, who was born 29 Sept., 
1863, in Ipswich, to Julia Besse-Deshon and James O. Grant. They 
have a daughter. Both men are shoe furnishers in Lynn. 

21 Maud C' was born 26 Oct., 1870, and married 9 June, 1896, 
Seth Hathaway Clothey, born. in Peabody 15 May, 1870, to Adeline- 
Brown and Thomas Clothey, a glue manufacturer of the same place, 
where Seth is a morocco dresser. 

22 Helen F.^ was born 5 March, 1873, in Ipswich, and 25 June, 
1891, married PYederic P^ranklin Byron, who was born to Selina- 
Rennie and George Washington Byron, an engineer. Mr. Byron is 
dealer in periodicals, fruits, and a manufacturing confectioner in 
Ipswich. 

23 Mabel Clifton^" was born 25 Aug., 1859, and 16 Oct., 1895, 
became the second wife of Walter Ezra Lord, who was born 22 Jan., 
1856, to Lydia A.-Lakeman and Ezra W. Lord of Ipswich. His first 
wife, married 13 Sept., 1882, was Kate L., daughter of Eliza-Caldwell 
and Wm. Lummus Lord, a farmer, of Ipswich. She died 1 Sept., 
1889, aged thirty-four years, five months. Mrs. L. A.-Lakeman Lord 
died 3 March, 1902. Mr. Lord is a leading merchant in dry goods, 
has repeatedly filled the most important town offices and has rep- 
resented his district in the Legislature. 

24 Nellie E.''^ was born 5 Jan., 1864, and married 3 Nov., 1883, 
in Ipswich, Charles Henry Baxter-^a house painter, who was born 
9 Sept., 1864, to Emma-Lambert and Edward Hallam Baxter, a 
machinist, in Nottingham, England. Baxter issue: Edward Lee, 
born 16 Jan., 1885; William and Joseph, twins, born 13 Dec, 1889. 
Both died in infancy. 

25 Mildred O.i- was born 12 April, 3,865, and 13 Sept., 1881, in 
Salem, married P>ancis Jarvis Cartledge, a machinist, born in Ports- 
mouth, 9 May, 1860, to Ellen-Jarvis and William Henry Cartledge, 
a hosiery manufacturer, both born in England. Cartledge issue: 
Leslie Jarvis, born 1 June, 1886. 

26 Frank A.^- was born 15 Feb., 1868, and 24 March, 1888, mar- 
ried Mary Ella Crowley, who was born in Addison Point, Me., 1 
March, 1866, to (sea-) Capt. Obed Thomas Crowley and Octavia 
Frances Pullen. He is an electrician, but at present a wood and 
coal salesman. Gove issue born: Evelyn Frances, 29 April, 1889; 
Frank Stanley, 25 Aug., 1890; Mildred Eugenia, 16 June, 1892; 
Dorothea Elizabeth, 12 Oct., 1896; Eleanor Farley, 3 Mar., 1901. 

27 Mary S.'' was born 3 June, 1847, in Marblehead. She mar- 
ried Edward Jason Atkinson, who was born in Lynn, 21 March, 1841, 
to Ruth Chadwell-Mudge and Joseph Alley Atkinson, who was suc- 
cessively engaged in the shoe business and as nursery man. Their 



202 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

children were born as follows: Grace, 8 Jan., 1872; Alice Maria, 20 
Sept., 1874; Mary Elizabeth, 2 June, 1876. 

28 Sarah Elizabeth" was born in Ipswich, 30 Jan., 1849a She 
married 17 March, 1867, in Ipswich, Theodore Cummings Howe, 
who was born 4 May, 1846, in Braintree, to Daniel and Hannah 
Lincoln-Cook Howe. Hannah was of the eighth generation in 
direct descent from Miles Standish of Pilgrim fame. Daniel was 
woolen yarn manufacturer and colorer, and later — 1865-76 — superin- 
tendent of the Ipswich woolen mills. Theodore enlisted at Brain- 
tree as a private 7 Dec, 1863, in the 3d Mass. Cavalry, and was 
discharged at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as a quartermaster ser- 
geant 28 Sept., 1865. He was made a first lieutenant, 5 Oct., 1865. 
He participated in these engagements in the Shenandoah Valley — 
Front Royal, Luray Road, ^A^oodstock and Edinburg. He is now a 
clerk in the United States Navy. Their children: William Alwyn, 
born in Ipswich, 15 Aug., 1867, a foreman in a shoe manufactory, 
married 21 May, 1886, in Ipswich, Fannie Stuart Ehrlacher, who 
was born 1 Oct., 1866, in Roxbury, to Martin (receiving clerk, de- 
partment U. S. Navy) and Katherine Lord-Philbrook, and have 
Bertram Chesley, born 9 Aug., 1886; Theodore Frederick, born in 
Ipswich, 29 Aug., 1876, who is paymaster's clerk in the U. S. Navy 
on the Des Moines. 

29 Franklin Pierce'^ was born 8 July, 1852. He married 10 Nov., 

1880, Lenora Grant, born 2 July, 1861, to Frank and Honora 

Grant. He was by trade a wheelwright. He died 18 Feb., 1884, 
having had Ethel Lena, born 18 Dec, 1881, who is clerk in Dexter's 
photographic studio, Ipswich; Frank Pierce, born 3 June, 1884, died 
24 or 25 Oct., 1886. 

30 Charles H.^"^ was born 19 July, 1859; he married in Aug., 1885, 
Elizabeth Butterworth, born in Nottingham, ling., to Henry and 
Mary-Scathern Butterworth of Sherwood Forest, Eng. They lived 
in Lynn, where their only child was born. She died 4 March, 1887; 
and he 5 April, 1897. Their child was Roxy F"owler, born 18 
March, 1886, and died at her grandfather Clark's, in Ipswich, 7 May, 
1894. 

31 Charles Barnes^'' born 10 Jan., 1863, married in Boston 7 Oct., 
1891, Florence Holmes, born in South Boston 24 July, 1869, to Wm. 
S. and Julia-Coleman Holmes. He is a produce dealer in F"aneuil 
Hall Market, Boston, and resides in Maiden, Mass. Issue: Florence 
Lucy, born 6 July, 1892; Charles Barnes, Jr., born 31 Aug., and died 
14 Sept., 1893; Harry Holmes, born 28 Dec, 1895; Edwin Lincoln, 
born 31 Jan., 1899. 

32 George Warren^'' born in Ipswich 22 March, 1872, married 1 
Jan., 1900, in Lynn, Mass., Mrs. Annie Jane Symonds, born 18 July, 
1871, in Danvers, to Mary Elizabeth-Swaney and Robert Burns 
Standley, a shoemaker. Mr. Lord is a graduate of the Manning 
High School, Ipswich, class of '89. He worked for the "Ipswich 
Chronicle" till the summer of 1890, when he engaged as salesman 
for H. A. Hartley & Co., carpets, etc., Boston, and remained with them 
for nearly six years. In the spring of 1896 he was employed by D. 
B. H. Power, Lynn, and had charge of the carpet department for 
about eight years. In June, 1904, he became proprietor of the 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 203 

Geo. W.Lord Mfg. Co., manufacturing novelties in muslin and net 
goods, Jamaica Plain, Mass. He is a member of John T. Heard 
Lodge of Freemasons, Ipswich, and of Mystic Lodge, No. 10, 
Ancient Order of United Workmen, Lynn. 



FAMILY 111: PERLEY. 

UNEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, JOHN-53. 

NATHANIEL MIGHILL PERLEY was born 5 July, 1781, 
in Rowley. The residuary part of his mother's estate fell to him 
and his brother John. He spent most of his life "on the ocean 
wave." He was a ship carpenter by trade, but in the application for 
administration of his estate he is called merchant. He was some- 
time engaged in shipbuilding in Norfolk, Va. 

A Law Report furnishes the following interesting particulars. 
We have no further knowledge of the case, as such, than this recital : 
" Benjamin Hooper vs. Nath'el M. Perley. Hooper's apprentice, with 
Hooper's consent, shipped as seaman, 14 Jan., 1812, for a voyage to 
Europe and return, on the Volant, Perley master. They sailed from 
Boston on the 28th of March of that year. The vessel arrived at 
Bayonne, France, with her cargo, in safety. On the 16th of April, 
the outward cargo was completely discharged, and on the same day 
Capt. Perley commenced loading with brandy for a return cargo. 
On the 18th of May they had laden on board four hundred pipes of 
brandy. The ship was detained from this time till the middle of 
September, waiting for a license from the Emperor to depart with 
the cargo. The license being obtained, the ship was ready to sail 
on the last day of September, but was detained by adverse winds 
and tides until the fifth of November, when she sailed from Bayonne 
bound for Boston. In attempting to go to sea the vessel struck the 
bar, which obliged the captain to take out part of the cargo, and to 
return to Bayonne for repairs. They were again detained by the 
repairs and unfavorable winds and tides until the 12th of February, 
1813, when they again set sail for Boston. On the 26th of March 
followingthe ship was captured by a British war vessel, and sent to 
Halifax, where she was afterwards condemned, with her whole cargo, 
which were wholly lost to the owners." 

He was an intrepid privateersman and delighted to play mis- 
chief with the Red-coats. His brother-in-law, Nathaniel Rust, then 
lived in a house that stood in Ipswich near Diamond Stage, an 
ancient wharf of the Ipswich harbor. Many weird stories are told 
by the Rust family-110, how the two Nathaniels stored temporarily 
midnight reprisals in the Rust cellar to be removed as stealthily. 

At one time the search ofificer came down upon the Rust man- 
sion when there still remained in the cellar some little evidence of 
their prowess. "Capt. Nat." nothing daunted, entertained the 
officer with wine and repartee till the innocent tell-tales were beyond 
his official ken. 

"At another time, while at Bayonne, his ship was commissioned 
as a letter of marque under the authority of the United States, and 



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THE PERLEY FAMILY 



was armed and equipped as such; having taken on board a number 
of guns, and increased her complement of men from twenty-five (the 
number with which she left the United States) to seventy. After 
leaving Bayonne, on her passage home, she recaptured an American 
vessel from the British, manned her and sent her to France." 

It is said, by a Washington, D. C, correspondent, that "Niles' 
History of Old Wars," a book we cannot find by that title in New 
York, Boston and Cambridge libraries, relates a number of daring 
exploits of "Capt. Nat." and that the British government, at one 
time, offered ;^1000 for his capture, dead or alive. 

The location of the premises, page 101, bought 5 Jan., 1769, is 
not yet determined; the estate bought 16 Sept., 1807, was on Sum- 
mer street, not far from that corner of "The Common." 

Benjamin Todd, Rowley, tailor, for ^50 sold Nathaniel Mighill 
Perley and John Perley, both of Rowley, minors, sons of John 
Perley, Jr., of Rowley, "If acres and 24 rods " of land bounded 
northerly by land of John Perley, Jr., easterly by land of the 
heirs of Thomas Lambert, Esq., 20 rods 9 links, southerly by said 
Lambert's heirs, 11 rods 7 links, westerly by land of Joseph Pickard 
25 rods 6 links, 11 May, 1802. 

Mr. Perley and his brother John, 25 Nov., 1814, sold their 



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EAST PART OF THE MIGHILL-rERLRY HOMESTEAD. 

mother's estate, including the homestead, to Daniel Todd, Jr., yeo- 
man, of Rowley, for $2400. One part of the homestead was bounded 
east by the highway, south by land of Benjamin Smith, west by land 
of Mark Creesy and Joseph Pickard and north by Joseph Pickard, 
and was estimated at sixteen acres, the other part of the homestead 
was bounded westerly by the highway, northerly by Ebenezer Per- 
ley and Nathan Lambert, east by the heirs of Thomas Lambert, and 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 205 

south by Joseph Pickard ; also eight acres, bounded northerly by 
highway, westerly by the burying ground, etc. Nathaniel M. and 
John Perley signed the deed. — Reg. 205 : 25. The next year, 27 
June, 1815, their right to the property was complete, for the undi- 
vided half belonging to Nathaniel Mighill Perley, merchant, was 
taken to satisfy a judgment of court against him in favor of James 
Locke of Newburyport. The amount secured was ;^1037.34. 

The barn and its half acre of land were not included, because of 
some provision of the will conveying it. 

By the map it is clear who owned the "Perley" house opposite 
the Mighill-Perley house T page 99) at that time. Mr. Charles P. 
Mighill of Rowley, who "can remember back about sixty-eight 
years," says, 1904, "the two-story house you speak of was occupied by 
John Lambert from my earliest remembrance, until his decease, 
when by will it passed to his brother George and is now owned by 
George's heirs. I learned from my parents that it was John's wife's 
father's place, who was Mr. Ebenezer Perley. 

"It strikes me now that previous to John Lambert's living there, 
Mr. Nathaniel Lambert, who married Anstice Perley-53^ John Per- 
ley's sister, lived there, and kept a store in a two-story building near 
there, which building was moved to Clark's hill and made into a 
dwelling house and is now occupied as such." 

John Perley, by the request of his brother's widow, who was then 
in Lowell, Mass. ( Prob., No. 21507) and his brother's son, Nathaniel 
M., Jr., who was twenty years of age, was appointed administrator 
of the estate, 17 May, 1886. His bond was $12,000. The inventory 
"of the estate of Nathaniel M. Perley, last an inhabitant of Rowley, 
merchant, who has lately, viz.: within twenty years, died intestate," is 
stated thus: "Real estate, none; Personal estate, F'rench claim, 
nominal value, g8-t55, $5000." 

The following is ship news from the Salem Gazette. It is diffi- 
cult sometimes to tell which Capt. Perley is meant : — 

The wreck of the ship Favorite, N. M. Perley master, was re- 
ported 1 P^eb., 1805. [For an account of it and a beautiful picture 
of the vessel, see family 118.] 

Oct. 11, brig. Comet, Flemming, sailed from Bourbon for New 
York, Capts. Perley (late of the Favorite) and Depeseter passen- 
gers, the latter having lost his vessel on the coast of Madagascar, 
was reported 30 Dec, 1806. 

"Ship Betsey, Nash, from Lisbon, 25th ult., 5 leagues W. of 
George's was boarded from the British sloop-of-war Curlew, from 
Halifax, having the valuable and long-looked-for ship Volant, Perley, 
from France for Boston in company. She had been chased 48 
hours, when two 74's hove in sight and she was obliged to surrender." 
Reported 2 April, 1813. 

Sloop Yarico, Perley, cleared from Salem for Boston, 27 April, 1815. 

Ship James, Perley, arrived in Boston three days from Halifax 
30 , 1827. 

Miss Dole ( whose mother's maiden name corrected was LydiaAnn 
Emery Moody-53^) here favors us with a quotation from " The Bodleys 
on Wheels" by Scudder. It is said Mr. Scudder was friendly in the 



206 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Killam family and may have derived his story from that source. He 
has, however, merged John and his son, Nathaniel Mighill in one 
man ; whereas, it was the son who built the vessel, not on Rowley 
Common as it is sometimes printed, but on the lawn in front of his 
residence, the house pictured on page 99 from a very accurate sketch 
of it by Miss Dole. The vessel was called "The Country's Won- 
der," and "was the largest vessel," says Gage's History of Rowley, 
" known to have been built so far from water." In the quotation 
read Perley for Burly : — 

"Captain Burly was a great man about here. He was a mighty 
smart man. Why, that fellow had command of a merchant vessel 
before he was twenty-one, and that meant something in those days. 
It meant that he was a merchant as well as a captain. He carried 
his cargo to the East Indies and sold it, and bought a cargo and 
brought it home. It took a good deal to make a captain in those 
days. Well, he had about the most iron-bound will of any man that 
was ever born, I guess. He had thirteen children. I knew 'em ; 
stiff, unyielding men and women that knew their minds and could 
stand up to anybody. I never saw their like, but they bent like 
reeds before Captain Burly. Captain Burly wanted a ship, and he 
said he wasn't going down to the river to build it. He'd build it by 
his own door, on Rowley Common. People laughed at him, and said 
they guessed Captain Burly was one too few this time, but the more 
they said the more he stuck to it. And he built it, sir: he did. I 
was a little shaver, but I remember it. The people shook their 
heads, and some said he was Noah building an ark; and others said 
he was Robinson Crusoe that built his boat and couldn't launch it ; 
but the old man knew better. When he was all ready, he went and 
hired all the oxen in the country round. Yes, sir, he had a hundred 
yoke of oxen here, and he hitched 'em to the vessel, and by the jump- 
ing gingerbread he hauled it down to the water. Pretty much all 
the country was there to see it. P'act." 

The following is from the Salem Gazette, 10 May, 1814, copied 
from the Sentinel; — "Boston, May 7. Naval Architectural Enter- 
prise. We learn that Capt. Nathaniel M. Perley, late commander of 
the ship Volant, which was captured on her passage from Bayonne 
to Boston and carried into Halifax, has constructed and nearly com- 
pleted, within eight weeks, a schooner of about 110 tons, which for 
beauty, strength and utility, is not excelled in the world. She was 
built near Rowley Green, one mile and an half from the water. No 
object of this nature and magnitude has ever created more specula- 
tion of opinion, than the building of this vessel ; and it was generally 
conceived that she could never be transported to her destined 
element : But to the surprise of many, and the joy of all, on Mon- 
day last, (May 2), she was started from her building place at about 
10 o'clock, A. M. and before 5 P. M. was landed at the water's edge. 
The whole apparatus for the operation was prepared under Capt. P.'s 
immediate direction. She was borne by a set of trucks, of four 
wheels each, about two feet in height, and 16 inches broad. — These 
were drawn by one hundred yoke of oxen, in four strings — two of 
which were hitched to the forward trucks, and two attached to a 
cable prepared for the purpose. The subject is rendered more in- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 207 

teresting by the fact, that neither man, beast nor property received 
any essential injury. The weight is estimated at from 100 to 120 
tons. Improvements may probably be made on this invention, 
which will prove highly useful to the mechanic, merchant, and the 
man of enterprise." 

His wife was Mary Elizabeth de Bade, married about 1814. She 
was born within sight of the Tuileries in Paris, France. She was a 
lady of social refinement and worth — a "most charming woman." 
(She had three brothers, unmarried, in the French army.) When 
she came to Rowley, she had very little ability to speak English, and 
her natural sensitiveness or diffidence on account of the inability, 
confined her almost exclusively to her immediate family. Her later 
years were spent in the family of her husband's brother John, where 
she died, of dysentery, 27 Sept. 1855 or 4, at the age of sixty-five. 
Soon after Capt. Perley returned to Rowley with his wife, he left on 
a long voyage, from which he never returned. It is said he was 
wrecked on the South Carolina coast, on his return from France, 
was in the water a long time before rescued, contracted a fever, and 
died in Savannah, Ga., 17 March, 1817. 

Mr. Perley was a man of versatile talents. He could manage a 
farm, build a ship, sail the seas, trade as a merchant, lead in any 
heroic defense, or enjoy the rural beauties of his country home. He 
was a remarkably active man ; with brain or brawn he labored in- 
cessantly in what was nearest and fittest to be done. He had a fine 
appreciation of the eternal fitness of things; the pee of his balance- 
scale was justice; he could brook no domineering, no over-reaching; 
and he was, like his uncle Nathaniel, brave to a fault. He was a 
firm friend, an obliging neighbor, a positive and progressive citizen, 
and loved in his family. 

1 They had two children : Nathaniel Mighill-240, and Hannah D'^ 

2 Hannah D.^ early became a member of her aunt Judith's 
family-110, perhaps by legal adoption, when her father took his 
homesick wife back to her kindred under the probability of never 
returning. Hannah married Stephen S. Kendrick of Ipswich. 
Their daughter, Ann Elizabeth, married 5 May, 1854, George Ropes 
Felt, of Salem. She was born in Ipswich 25 June, 1833; he in 
Utica, N. Y., 21 Dec, 1831, a son of Ephraim and Elizabeth-Ropes 
Felt, who removed to Utica in 1828. Mr. George R. Felt was a 
book-keeper in the Naumkeag National Bank of Salem, where he 
died. The Felt children are Sarah Elizabeth, born 28 Feb., 1855, 
married 9 Jan., 1879, Samuel Otis Loud, born in Newburyport 24 
July, 1856, to Abel Coffin and Olive Caroline-Robinson Loud of 
Merrimac, Mass., where he is a carriage manufacturer, having no 
children; Mary Kendrick, born 22 Feb., 1858, married 15 April, 
1885, in Salem, Arthur Burrage French, who was born in Boston 80 
April, 1849, to Abram and Sophia Jane-Cobb French, and who is an 
importer of chinaware in Pittsburg, Penn., having one child, G. 
Brewer, born 17 March, 1887; George Ropes, born 25 Sept., 1860, 
married Jane Arnold; Ann Perley, born 17 Jan., 1864, married 14 
July, 1886, Charles George Williams, who was born in Salem, 6 
April, 1863, to Charles Albert and Abbie-Kenney Williams of 



208 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Peabody, Mass., and is in the milk traffic in Danversport, Mass., 
having one child, Marion Deland, born 11 April, 1887, in Altoona, 
Penn.; Alice Buffum, born 15 April, 1869; and Ephraim, born 19 
April, 1873, who died in Salem 11 Nov., 1876. 



FAMILY 112: PERLEY. 

ONEAL DESCENT- ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, JOHN-53. 

JOHN PERLEY was born in Rowley 21 March, 1791, and inher- 
ited with his brother Nathaniel M. the residue of the parental estate. 
He married 4 Dec, 1817, Ann D. Haskell of Newburyport. Her death 
came by her own hand 22 Sept., 1842. He died of cancer of the 
throat 24 P>b., 1861. Mr: Perley 

was one of those all-round men so c^^tT^i^^ /f^-^'^^CS-jy^ 

needful in every community, but ^/^ ^ S^ 

seldom found. He could assist a '^ /x 

neighbor to anything in the line of 

r • t- r iU „ „„ So he indorsed the petition of Ebenezer P. 

a farmer or a justice of the peace. i.erley, as guardian, to sell real estate of 

He was a man of fine presence, "^^ '^^''^- ^ ^^^■' ^^^^■ 
agreeably social, and held in high esteem. 

1 Perley children: Lucy Ann', John Legarde^ Amos PettingilP. 

2 John Legarde' was born 16 Feb., 1824. He died in Callao, 
Peru, 20 March, 1856. after an illness of twelve days, and was buried 
in the Protestant cemetery in Bella Vista, about one mile from Cal- 
lao. His business was ship brokerage and shipping guano from the 
Chincha Islands. He never married. His father, says Geo. B. 
Blodgette, Esq., received his estate, which netted about $4000. 

3 Amos PettingilP was born 26 April, 1835. When some more 
than twenty years of age (Squire Blodgette says in 1860), he went 
to Valparaiso, Chile, South America. There he became a shepherd 
and owned an extensive ranch upon the Andes Mountains. In a 
stubborn defense of his flocks, by himself and assistants against 
marauding Indians, he was mortally wounded. He was taken to a 
hospital in Valparaiso, where he died. He was buried in the Protes- 
tant cemetery in that city. That was about the year 1890. He was 
never married. 

4 Lucy Ann' was born 22 May, 1818, and 15 Jan., 1845, married 
her cousin, William Kilham, born to Jonathan and Priscilla-Perley-53^ 
Kilham, of Boston, in 1805. They resided many years in South 
America, then returned to Boston. She died of apoplexy 26 Dec, 
1897, and was interred in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge. 
Issue: Amita, born 3 July, 1852, in South America, died unmarried, 
of consumption, in Saxonville, Mass., 4 Oct., 1872, and was buried 
in Mount Auburn Cemetery. 



FAMILY 113: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-S), NATHANIEL, 54. 

EBENEZER PERLEY was born in Ipswich, where he was 
baptised 25 July, 1773. His father died in 1778, and his stepfather, 
Lt. Samuel Bacon of Bradford, was appointed his guardian 5 Dec, 
1791. When of Salisbury, 19 July, 1798, he discharged his guardian, 
and acknowledged the receipt of $200 as per his guardian's ac- 
count. He married and resided in Salisbury. He bought 12 Nov., 
1798, for $570, one-quarter acre of land "with the house" upon it, 
on Webster's Point, of Jacob Currier of Salisbury, calker, " extend- 
ing three rods on both sides of the highway," bounded by the river 
/; channel southerly, by Daniel East- 

^f / h, / j man and Meltiah Merrill westerly, by 

ncu>q/yUA/h fj^^lcy/ Joseph Wells northerly, by John 
y-/ Stevens easterly, the highway (.?) 

Her signature to a petition to Pro- "holding the width of three rods 
bate Court, 29 Dec. 1817. from ouc cnd to the Other." He 

owned a farm in that town, located back of S. Smith's farm, north of 
the Rocky-Hill Church, marked E. Dow on D. G. Beer & Co.'s 
County Atlas, 1872. Hannah, his wife, 30 Dec, 1817, represented 
to Probate Court that her husband, Ebenezer Perley of Salisbury, 
was absent at sea and was not expected soon to return, that the 
property in Salisbury of which the children were joint owners in 
their own right, half an old house, thirty acres of woodland, 
and twelve of pasturage, and that the children, Sally, nineteen ; 
Nathaniel, sixteen; John Hodge, fourteen; Louisa, twelve; James, 
ten; P2benezer George, eight; and Benjamin Dutch, six, needed 
"immediate and constant care and attention" and asked a guardian 
of the children to take care of their real estate. John Balch of 
Newbury, merchant, was appointed. A house on Ring's Island is 
mentioned. These children were of Baltimore, Md., in 1818 and 
1820: Nathaniel, John H., Louisa, James, Eben G. and Benj. D. 

In 1804, Sept. 10, Mr. Perley was on a committee to establish an 
academy for the two towns, Amesbury and Salisbury. The academy 
was instituted at Bartlett's Corner. He became a sea captain and 
sailed on foreign voyages. He probably began his sea life out of 
Newburyport. "Arrived at Newburyport forty-nine days from 
Hamburg, 26 Aug., 1799, schooner Regulator, Perley, master." 
Perley was in Hamburg the July before. The Salem Gazette 13 
Jan., 1804, reported : "The Favorite, Perley, master, arrived at Nor- 
folk, from Newburyport." See page 205. 

Between 31 March and 29 September, 1818, he removed his family 
to Baltimore, Md. About 1820 he sailed and was never heard of after- 
wards. James405 says his grandfather was "lost at sea in 1825." 

"Lowle" in the Georgetown Advocate printed the following paper, 
which in this connection is very interesting: — 

"The first notice of Ebenezer Perley in this town by his employ- 



210 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

ment of our mechanics is the nearest that I can fix his advent in 
SaHsbury, and perhaps a list of the vessels built by his order, while 
a resident here, may be of interest to the editors of the Advocate, if 
not to some reader. Let me here add that he bought quite a large 
farm in Salisbury and occupied it while in business here. The 
old farm is still known as the Perley farm, although long ago deserted 
by its distinguished proprietor. His first vessel was the schooner 
Hope, of 29 tons, built at Newbury in 1786 in company with S. 
Clark of Salisbury. In 1799 he had built in Amesbury the schooner 
Regulator, of 94 tons. See page 209. In 1800 the ship Jason, of 
151 tons, built at Salisbury and owned by Perley and Daniel Web- 
ster of Salisbury. In 1801 the ship Hannah, of 181 tons, built at 
Salisbury. In 1802 the ship Favorite, 134 tons, built at (Pleasant 
Valley) Amesbury, by David Clough. One of the builder's descend- 
ants, Mr. J. S. Clough of Chelsea, Mass., has a fine oil painting of 
this old ship Favorite under full sail, and gaily decked with colors, 
represented as taking her departure from some foreign port. This 
is truly a valuable relic of the old builders, not merely as the work 
of the foreign artist, but by the careful drawing of all minor parts of 
hull, spars and rigging, and presents to us clearly the peculiar 
style in every particular of the ship of one hundred years ago. [The 
picture of the ship here shown is from a photograph of the painting, 
by the kindly favor of Mr. Clough.] In 1803 the ship Aurora, of 235 
tons, built at Salisbury. This ship I think was built by the Stevens 
Brothers, as also were other vessels of his fleet, in their old ship-yard 
in front of their dwelling house, a part of which is at present occu- 
pied by the writer, (who has the honor of being of that family of 
shipwrights), but only as a builder of dories and skiffs, on such hal- 
lowed ground ! ! where those old shipwrights produced from the 
rough white oak of our forests, many a noble ship, — 'O tempore, O 
mores' how hath the mighty fallen, from the staunch old ship to the 
frail skiff, — 'Pity 'tis, 'tis true.' Well, we will use the skiff occasion- 
ally to paddle with pleasure alongside of that old drifter of our 
fathers, the old wooden ship, whose noble place, with all those 
ancient associations of its construction, is fast being taken up by the 
riveted plate-iron, pot-like monster of the present, with no charm in 
history for the New P3ngland shipwright. 

" The last ship Perley was concerned in here was named the 
Rising Sun, of 284 tons, built at Salisbury in 1804 and owned by 
Perley and J. Nelson. How long Perley remained in Salisbury I 
cannot say, but certainly while here, this record of a few years 
proves him to have been an active and enterprising man, whose mem- 
ory we should ever respect. I learned that he sold out here after 
a few years and removed with his family to Baltimore, Md., and that 
comprises all that I can give of the interesting history of Ebenezer 
Perley, the bright meteor that once flashed across our pathway and 
so soon disappeared." 

"Boston, Jan. 31. Loss of ship Favorite. The ship Favorite, 
Nathaniel M. Perley, master, sailed from thence to Lisbon: — after 
standing off, with a light breeze, from 11 A. M. until 8 P. M., the 
wind began to haul to N. E. and coming on to snow, the weather 
very thick, Capt. P. thought best to heave about and stand in, and 



212 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

endeavor to make a harbor — he ran in about a mile above the light 
and came to, with both anchors ahead and rode until about 5 o'clock 
on Monday morning, it then blowing very hard from E. N. E. The 
ship parted both her cables, and in ten minutes struck on Rocky 
Point and is bilged ; it is expected a large part of the cargo will be 
saved." 

Mr. Perley married Hannah Currier. She died in Baltimore. 
Their children were all born in Salisbury. 

1 Perley children : Sally^ Nathaniel'^ John Hodge", Louisa^ 
James-2-11, Ebenezer George", Benjamin Dutch". 

2 NathanieP, born about 1800, became a lawyer in Tennessee. 
John H.^ was born about 1802. In 1811, Louisa', Eben G.^ and 
Benj. D.^ were put under guardianship, being minors. 

8 Sally' was born about 1798, and between 31 March and 29 
September, 1S18, married Orlando S. Morse, born about 1790 
(1795.') to Joseph and Tabitha-Sargent Morse of Amesbury. They 
resided in Baltimore. He was United States consul at Porto Rico, 
West Indies. Their children : Hannah, who married Gamaliel 
Gleason of Andover, Orland S., who was of Andover, 1849, and 
Sarah G., who probably resided there the same ye.ar. 



FAMILY 114: PERLEY. 

1,1NEAL 1)ES( ENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, NATHANIEL-54. 

SAMUEL PERLEY was born in the East Parish of Bradford, 
19 July, 1775.. His father died 1778, when he was only three years 
old. His stepfather was appointed his guardian, 5 Dec, 1791, and 
when he was of Bradford, IB March, 1797, he discharged his guardian 
and receipted for $25, as per his guardian's account. He was ap- 
prenticed to Silas Hopkinson of Bradford, the part now Groveland, 
and of him learned the trade of house carpenter. 

He resided, first, in Newburyport, where he built a number of 
houses. He was of Londonderry, N. H., 24 April, 1812, engaged in 
farming. In 1814, he took "the western fever," prevalent at that 
time, and planned to go west. He took an overland route, with his 
own team, in the spring of 1815, saying goodbye to New England. 
His family consisted of himself, wife and four children, the youngest 
only two years of age. He was forty-five days en route. They 
crossed the Alleghany Mountains during the engagements of Water- 
loo, 15-18 June, 1815. They made a halt at Steubenville, Ohio, 
where his "fever" turned. In the spring of 1816, he retraced his 
steps to Harrisburg, Pa., where they resided about nine years. Then 
they located in New York City. 

Mr. Perley married 16 Jan., 1799, Lucy Balch, born 21 Feb., 1779, 
to Rev. Nathaniel and Joanna-Mitchell Balch of Bradford, now 
Groveland. She was a very handsome woman, and was known 
among her acquaintances as "the Lily of the Merrimac Valley." To 
her physical beauty was added the charm of Christian beauty 
and grace. Through all the vicissitudes of her life, she retained an 




MRS. SAMUEL PERLEY. 
"The Lily of the Merrimack Valley. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



213 



unfaltering trust, and at its close rested in hopeful peace.- She died 
in New York City, 29 April, 1831; her husband 30 April, 1830. 
Charles says his mother died in 1 854, aged seventy-five years. This 
is doubtless correct. 

1 Perley children : Lucy Balch*, Elcy-, Samuel-242, Charles-243, 
Eustace Balch". 

2 Elcy' was born in Newburyportj 1 Aug., 1802. Eustace B.^ 
was born in 1813, in Londonderry, N. H., and died at the age of 
twenty-five, unmarried. 

3 Lucy B.^ was born 4 Jan., 1800, and in 1827 married Capt. 
Joseph Livermore of Eastport, Me. They resided in New York City. 
He was a sea captain, and died in 18.52, of yellow fever, at sea. His 
widow died in New York City, 5 Feb., 1855. Livermore children: 
Caroline, who married Hon. Richard L. Larrimore of Jamaica, L. L, 
a judge of the Superior Court of New York City, and had a large 
family; and John R., who resided in New Jersey. 



FAMILY 115: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57. 

ISRAEL PERLEY was born in Maugerville, N. B., 10 Jan., 
1765. In 1786 he was granted forty and a half acres of land in Bur- 
ton, Sunbury County, lot 7, on the St. John river. He married, in 
Waterboro, N. B., 4 Oct., 1790, Hannah Tisdale, who was born 4 
Feb., 1771, to Ruth- Strange and Ephraim Tisdale, a sea captain. 
They resided in Maugerville, N. B., where all their children were 
born, and son Charles died. In 1801, she with her three remain- 
ing children went with her brother Ephraim's family to the "Long 
Point" country, "Upper Canada," as it was then called, and set- 
tled about four miles from our correspondent. Miss Maggie E. 
Palmer's home in Vittoria. In 1802, Hannah's brother Joseph 
removed there, and the greater part of Hannah's life and the chil- 
dren's till they grew up and married, were spent in Joseph's family, 
where Hannah died 31 Aug., 1844. In the same house her daughter 
Elizabeth M. and son Itphraim T. died. Miss Maggie E. Palmer 
has a dress that was made for her great -aunt, Mrs. Hannah-Tisdale 
Perley, when the latter was fourteen years old. Mr. Perley made 
his will 8 June, 1799, and appended a codicil 2 March, 1801. He 
died 8 May, 1830, in the Universalist faith, "much to the distress," 
wrote his sister Sarah, "of his family and relatives." 

[Mrs. Perley's father, Ephraim Tisdale, at the time of the Revo- 
lutionary War, was loyal to royalty, and sacrificing his property 
sailed from New York to New Brunswick. During the voyage, Mrs. 
Tisdale gave birth to a son whom she named Walker in honor of 
the captain of the frigate they sailed in.] 

[Hannah's brother Joseph Tisdale was born in Freetown, Mass., 
23 Feb., 1778. He was a pioneer farmer in "Upper Canada," prom- 
inent in the military, served in the War of 1812, against the Rebel- 
lion of 1837, and later in life was a magistrate. He died 18 March, 



214 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

1864, in Vittoria. His wife was Margaret Lawrence, married 7 
June, 1810, in New Brunswick, where she was born 25 Sept., 1786, 
to Capt. John and Mary-Rezeau Lawrence. She died in Vittoria, 
15 Sept., 1864, leaving children, Margaret J., Lott, and Hannah who 
married a Palmer and had Margaret E. (mentioned above), to whom 
this work is greatly indebted for much information.] 

1 Perley children: Elizabeth Mooers'-, Charles"', Ephraim Tis- 
dale'^ Charles Strange-244. 

2 Elizabeth M.^ was born 13 Aug., 1791, in New Brunswick, and 
died in Vittoria, Ont., unmarried, 8 May, 1851. Charles^ was born 
25 Nov., 1792, and died 2 Sept., 1795. Epliraim T.^ was born, in 
New Brunswick, 22 Aug., 1794, and died in Vittoria, where he was 
buried 29 April, 1871. He was a farmer and a major in the militia. 
He married in Jan., 1817, Philena Tisdale, who was born in Char- 
lotteville. County Norfolk, Ont., in 1795, to Submit-Newcombe and 
Ephraim Tisdale, and died without issue in Courtland, Ont., Mrs. 
Nugent-244'' said, in 1864. Her father was a farmer and a high 
constable for London District, and he fought in the War of 1812 at 
Oueenstown Heights and Lundy's Lane. 



FAMILY 116: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-IC, THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57. 

THOMAS PERLEY was born in Maugerville, N. B., where he 
made his home, and died in June, 1815. His will is dated 14 May, 1815, 
and was proved in the July following. He left all his property to 
his wife, and mentions in the will only one son, P'rancis. He married, 
her grand-nephew Stephen Peabody says, Rhoda Peabody, who was 
born about 177(5, to Samuel and Molly-Hildrick Peabody of Mau- 
gerville. She died in 1846. The inventory of her estate amounted 
to £&2l 10s. 

1 Perley children : Francis Peabody', Charles-245, George Simeon- 
246, Thomas Edward-247, Maria'^, Fannie', Elizabeth^, Susan Ann"*, 
Charlotte', Lydia-, Caroline Elizabeth*'. 

2 Francis P.' was living 14 May, 1815; it is thought he married a 
widow; he left no children. Fannie' married Andrew Smith; Eliz- 
abeth' married William Taylor of Fredericton ; Lydia' married Jon- 
athan Taylor, brother to William, and their son Dr. Frank Perley 
Taylor is in Charlottetown, P. E. L All these parents are dead. 

3 Maria' was born in Maugerville, N. B., 20 Dec, 1798. She 
married in Maugerville, hrst, 2 Nov., 1819, John Allan, druggist, 
born in Aberdeen, Scotland, to Robert, captain in the navy, and 
Christina-F'orbes Allan. He died in St. John, N. B., in September, 
1825. Mrs. Allan married, second, in St. John, 2 May, 1837, John 
Burns, watchmaker, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, 2 Dec, 1785, to 
John and Margaret-Edwards Burns. He died in St. John, 23 March, 
1866. His widow died in Woodstock, Carleton County, N. B., 2 Oct., 
1892. Allan children: Mary, born in St. John, N. B., 29 July, 1821, 
died unmarried in Woodstock, N. B., 19 Dec, 1901; John Thomas, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 215 

born in St. John, 4 June, 1825, died in Woodstock, 21 June, 1891; 
Robert, who died in infancy. Burns children: Margaret Edwards, 
who was born in St. John, N. B., 25 Feb., 1841, and resides in Wood- 
stock, Carleton County, N. B.; a son, who died in infancy. 

4 Susan Ann^ of Maugerville married George Peabody of the 
same place, who was born 16 Dec, 1802, to Oliver and Huldah-Tap- 
ley Peabody. They lived in Northampton. Carleton County, N. B., 
where he died in 1838. They had these children: Thomas Perley, 
who married Augusta Foster, and to whom, at 292 Bowery, New 
York City, a letter addressed in 1904, was "returned to writer" in- 
dorsed "Deceased"; and Charlotte who married a Burnett, and died 
some years ago, having had no children. 

5 Charlotte' was born in Maugerville and became the second wife 
of Thomas Treadwell Smith, whose first wife was a Miss Barker. 
He was a merchant. They died in Fredericton. His child by his 
first wife was Thomas Barker, his children by Charlotte were Wm. 
Francis^; twins, that died in six months; John Treadwell; Charles; 
Maria Elizabeth. 

6 Caroline E.^ was born in Maugerville, 5 March, 1813, and mar- 
ried there 17 Sept., 1833, Warren Collingwood Bull, farmer and lum- 
berman, who was born 4 Aug., 1807, in the parish of Woodstock, 
and died 28 April, 1881), in Grafton, N. B., where she also died 11 
Sept., 1901. Their children born in Northampton: George Allen^ 
Charles Perley', Jarvis Leavitt, 7 Oct., 1842, a lieutenant in the 
Canadian militia, who died 6 June, 1865; Caroline Elizabeth' '. 

7 William"' who died in Woodstock, 13 May, 1902, married Susanna 
Isabel Fisher of Woodstock in Nov., 1860, and had Henry Edward 
Leavitt, who was a college graduate and was drowned in July, 

1888, in Victoria, B. C; Francis Arthur, who died young, and Ella 
Anna, who resides in Woodstock, N. B. 

8 George A.'' was born in Northampton, 18 Aug., 1834, and mar- 
ried, in 1864, Sarah Ann Scott, who was born in the same place to 
Andrew, a farmer, and Lydia-Dickinson Scott, and died in Dec, 

1889. Mr. Bull is a farmer and lumberman in the parish of North- 
ampton, where their children were born: Warren Collingwood, 13 
Aug., 1865, who is married and living in Grafton; William Allen, 10 
Dec, 1866, who is married and living in Cabour (.?), Wis.; Alice 
Blanche, 23 Feb., 1868; Horace, 9 Oct., 1873; Milton, 21 March, 
1878; the last three are living at home. 

9 Charles P.« was born 28 Sept., 1837. He married 10 April, 
1867, Margaret Amelia Macquaine, born in the parish of Woodstock, 
4 Jan., 1846, to John, a farmer and lumberman, and Agnes Ritchie- 
Wood Macquaine. Mr. Bull is a farmer and lumberman of Wood- 
stock. Their children were born in Northampton, as follows: Ada 
Florence"; Marie Louise, 8 July, 1869; John Jarvis, 10 Nov., 1873, 
who is captain of Company No. 1 of 67th regiment of Canadian 
militia; Harvey Peter, 9 Oct., 1876, which three are living in Wood- 
stock. 

10 Caroline E.** was born in Northampton, Carleton County, 
N. B., 24 May, 1848. She married there Joseph Thomas Alexander 
Griffith, a farmer, who was born in Woodstock, 17 Jan., 1844, to Ben- 
jamin Peck, a farmer, and Sarah Eliza-Lyon Griffith. She died 19 



216 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

March, 1876, in Woodstock, where Mr. Griffith now lives and where 
their children, Bessie Edith Eliza and Anna Caroline Louisa (twins) 
were born 18 Feb., 1875. 

11 Ada F.'' was born 23 Feb., 1868, and is a professional nurse. 
She studied in the Newport (R. I.) hospital, and is a graduate from 
that institution. She has been very helpful in furnishing material 
for her branch of the family. She is now residing in Woodstock 
and assisting in the local hospital. 



FAMILY 117: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT- ALL AN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57. 

SOLOMON PERLEY was born 5 Feb., 1779, in Maugerville, 
Sunbury County, N. B., where he selected his home. It is said that 
at one time and another he was merchant, farmer, mill owner, coro- 
ner, ship builder, and lumber merchant. In 1799 he was granted 
209 acres of land in York County. Administration was granted on 
the estate of Solomon Perley of Maugerville, 26 March, 1832. The 
probate valuation of the estate was ^643. J. Clarkson of the Deeds- 
Registry says: "From 1785 down, the transfers to and from the 
Perleys are nearly innumerable. They were possessed of many 
very valuable properties, in 1783, on the River St. John and else- 
where." 

He married, in 1802, Eunice Putnam Perley-59' of Sheffield, 
N. B. She was born in Lincoln, 28 Oct., 1779, and died in Freder- 
icton, 24 Dec, 1849. He died 8 April, 1831. 

1 Perley children: George Asa'-', James Edwin-248, Enoch Allen^ 
Sophia', Eliza'^ George Augustus-249, Frederic Allen-, Augusta 
Sophia-246, Nancy Amanda-250, F'rances Elizabeth-251. 

2 Geo. A.' was born 7 June, 1803, and died 25 March, 1808. 
Enoch A.' was born 4 Dec, 1806, and died 28 April, 1807. Sophia' 
was born 6 May, 1808,.and died 16 March, 1809. Eliza' was born 
26 Sept., 1809, and died 31 May, 1810. Fred A.' was born 14 July, 
1813, and resided in Woodbridge, San Joaquin County, Cal., where 
he owned an extensive vineyard. He died in Stockton, Cal., 3 
March, 1881, unmarried. 



FAMILY 118: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57. 

WILLIAM PERLEY was born in Maugerville, N. B., 1 Jan., 
1781. He settled in Maugerville, and in 1822 his property was con- 
sidered ample security for ^1500. He married 14 Aug., 1813, 
Elizabeth Duncan, who was born 22 Sept., 1786, in Westfield, 
Queen's County, to John and Charlotte-Hamilton Duncan, of 
Miramichi, Northumberland County, N. B. Mr. Perley died 2 Aug., 
1825, and Solomon Perley administered on his estate in 1828. The 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 217 

probate value was ;^814 10s. His widow, Mrs. Bailey, was living with 
her son, Hon. William E. Perley, when she was ninety-four years old. 

[Mrs. Perley's second marriage was 1 Sept., 1830, with John 
Bailey, who was born to Benjamin, in Blissville, 26 Nov., 1785, and 
by whom she had one child, Matilda Ann, born 15 March, 1831. 
Mr. Bailey died 16 March, 1868. His first wife, married 27 Nov., 
1807, was Mary DeWitt, who was born 22 Jan., 1782, and had by 
him: Abraham, born 7 Feb., 1808; Phoebe Eliza, born 4 March, 
1810; John Thomas, born 27 March, 1812; Charles James, born 26 
Sept., 1814; Gideon Daniel, born 5 Feb., 1817; Luke P2dward, born 
22 Aug., 1820; Benjamin Studley, born 27 June, 1823; Ephraim 
Manasseh, born 10 July, 1827.] 

1 Perley children : William Edward-252, Duncan Wellington-253, 
Adeline-254. 



FAMILY 119: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-l, THOMAS-4, THOM.A.S-16, THOMAS-33, OLIVER-59. 

DANIEL PERLEY was born in Maugerville, N. B. He was a 
farmer and a tavern er. He married Elizabeth, understood to be his 
cousin Elizabeth Perley-57\ Mrs. Nevers-255'^ thinks she died 
"about 1842." He lived in Oueensbury, N. B., with hi§ youngest 
son Frederick, where he died 5 July, 1827. 

1 Perley children: Oliver'', John'-, William and George, twins^ 
Israel Edwin-255, Frederick Adolphus-256. 

2 Oliver^ died young without family ; William and George died 
unmarried, the former "some years ago"; John' never married. 



FAMILY 120: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOMAS-33, OLIVER-59. 

MOSES PERLEY was born in Maugerville, N. B., and married 
his cousin Mary Perley-57' of the same place. In 1883, a tree was 
planted in St. John, and dedicated to him by his descendants. 
Other Perleys were honored on that occasion through the generous 
kindness of Geo. A. Perley, Esq. -249. 

1 Perley children: Charles Allen'-, Moses Henry-257. 

2 Charles A.' was born 7 July, 1803, and died 15 Aug., 1808. 



FAMILY 121: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOMAS-33, OLIVER-59. 

THOMAS PERLEY, born in Maugerville, N. B., in 1778, made 
his home in Sheffield. His will is dated 22 Jan., 1838, and was 
proved the same year. His personal property was valued at ;!^1489. 
His first wife was a Miss Martha Gregory Harrison, married 2 Jan., 
1808. He married, second, as her second husband, Mary Gallishan 
Burpee, born in Sheffield, 12 Oct., 1801, to Joseph and Abigail- 
Gallishan Burpee. He died in PVench Lake in 1838; she in Sheffield 



218 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

in Feb., 1887. His children, nine in all, three by his first wife, were 
all daughters. 

1 Perley children : Jane Bean'-, Charity Eliza'-, Martha Harrison'^ 
Ruth C.-, Mary^ Margaret E.-, Caroline', Charlotte Hayvvard^ 
Harriet Atwood". 

2 Jane B.^ was born 4 Dec, 1808, and married John Christie; 
Charity E.' was born 8 June, 1811, and married Samuel Simmons; 
neither family had children. Ruth C.^ was born 24 Dec, 1824 ; 
Margaret E.^ was born 27 Nov., 1827; Harriet A.' was born 29 
April, 1833; neither of these three married. 

3 Martha H.' was born 11 Feb., 1813, and died 20 Dec, 1843. She 
married 31 May, 1832, Isaac Taylor, who was born 30 Nov., 1807, 
to Wm. and Hannah-Stickney Taylor of Sheffield, N. B. He mar- 
ried, second, Sarah Ann-Putnam McNeil, 26 Aug., 1846. Their 
children were born: Thomas Perley, 19 April, 1833, married Sarah 
Barker, 1858, and had Lillian Mary, born 10 April, 1863, and Charles 
Coburn, born 16 Aug., 1868; Martha Perley, 12 Sept., 183--, and 
died 14 Dec, 18 — ; William Egerton, 22 Dec, 1836, married Julia 
Barker, in June, 1866, and died in Feb., 1888, having had Sarah 
Louise, born 1 March, 1877, and Julia Mary, born 19 Aug., 1879; 
Albert Desbrisay, 22 Sept., 1842; Charlotte Gertrude, 26 Aug., 
1848, who was the second wife's child. 

4 Mary' was born 26 April, 182(), and married 9 June, 1848, Charles 
Burpee, who was born 18 June, 1817, to Jeremiah and Betsey-Stickney 
Burpee of Sheffield. She died without issue 16 Dec, 1850. Char- 
lotte H.', born 24 Dec, 1830, became his second wife, 20 March, 
1853, and by him had two children: Charles Sidney, born 5 June, 
1859, and Thomas Perley, born 18 June, 1861. She died 19 June, 1861. 
Mr. Burpee represented his county in the Dominion Parliament, 1869. 
Hon. Charles Burpee is living in Sheffield at the great age of eighty- 
eight years. His son Charles succeeds to the care of the place. 
Thomas, unmarried, resides in Gagetown. 

[This Burpee family went from Rowley, Mass. Hon. Charles 
Burpee says his parents were Jeremiah, born in Rowley in 1760, 
and Betsey-Stickney Burpee. The Rowley- Linebrook church 
records read, that Dea. Jonathan, Jeremiah and his wife, and Hannah 
Burpee were dismissed "to the new settlement on the St. John 
river, 6 May, 1764." By the same record, Jeremiah Burpee married 
Mary Saunders, 28 May, 1751, and had Jeremiah baptised 28 Sept., 
1760. Betsey Stickney may have been a daughter of Isaac of St. 
John, who had a daughter Mehitable, baptised 29 June, 1766. Jere- 
miah Burpee, Jr., was probably a cousin to Esther Burpee, page 164.] 

5 Caroline' was born in Sheffield, 6 Sept., 1829, and 24 May, 
1852, in Sheffield, married Charles Benjamin Barker, a farmer, who 
was born there (J June, 1827, to Benjamin and Mary-Coburn Barker 
of Sheffield. Both are living in Sheffield Academy.' Their children 
are Charles Woodville'^; Thomas Benjamin, born in April, 1855, 
died ni June, 1856; Harriet Atwood Perley, born 19 March, 1856, 
died 12 April, 18-2; Frederick Coburn' and Thomas Perley (who 
was drowned 21 Sept., 1870). twins, born 15 Sept., 1860, Clara 
Louise, born 21 June, 1864, and living in Sheffield Academy. 

6 Charles W.^ was born 9 March, 1853, in Sheffield, where he 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 219 

now resides a farmer. He married 9 Sept., 1878, in Harcourt, N.B., 
Miss Marilla Eliza Dunn, wlio was born in Chipman, N. B., 31 July, 
1854, to Andrew, a merchant, and Jane Paine-Ouint Dunn. They 
have had one child William Harrison, born 12 May, 1880. 

7 Frederick C." was born 15 Sept., 1800, in Sheffield. He mar- 
ried 28 Dec, 1898, in Gibson, N. B., Miss Laura Annie Fradsham, 
who was born in Fairville, St. John, 11 July, 1872, to Horatio, a 
machinist, and Margaret-Stephason Fradsham. Mr. Barker is a 
farmer in Sheflfield Academy. They have no children. 



FAMILY 122: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-1, TIIO.MAS-4, TIIOMAS-16, THOMAS-33, ENOCH-61. 

JOHN PERLEY was born in Bridgton, Me., 5 Jan., 1779. He 
and his brother Thomas-128 inherited the patrimony, which he cul- 
tivated and where he amassed a large property. He was a justice 
of the peace and widely known as Squire Perley. He was a coroner. 
He was for many years a brigadier general in the Massachusetts 
militia, and after Maine became a State, of the Maine militia also. 
He was a man of prominence and influence in his State. He mar- 
ried, 25 Nov., 1805, Sarah Treadwell, who was born 20 Aug., 1782, 
to Thomas and Jane-Jewett Treadwell of Littleton, Mass. He died 
in Bridgton, of consumption, 18 May, 1841. His widow died 30 
Sept., 1860, of gastric fever. 

The Columbian Centinel, Nov. 20, 1819, reads — "A pear plucked 
from a tree belonging to Gen. Perley of Bridgton, Me., this sea- 
son, was found to weigh 24 ounces and a half. It has been exhibited 
at Portland." 

1 Perley children: Susan Hopkin.s^ Mary Malvina*, Anne Flint^, 
Augustus-258, John Putnam', Sarah Ann", Frederic'^ Harriet 
Church'-, Angelina Amelia*. 

2 Anne Flint^ was born 10 July, 1811, and died 27 Sept., 1816. 
Frederic' was born 29 Nov., 1819, and died 11 Dec, 1840. History 
of Bowdoin College, class of 1840, gives: "Frederick Perley was 
from South Bridgton. He was designed for the law, but died a few 
weeks after graduation, of typhus fever. His standing in college 
was in the first rank." Harriet Church' was born 19 March, 1822, 
and died 17 Sept., 1836. Angelina Amelia' was born 6 Jan., 1827, 
and died 23 Aug., 1828. 

3 Susan' was born in Bridgton 28 June, 1807, and married 13 
March, 1828, Dr. Moses Gould, born 5 Nov., 1799, in Bridgton, Me., 
to Ezra and Hepzipah-Stevens Gould. They resided in Bridgton, 
where she died 22 Oct., 1871, and he died 27 Jan., 1874. Child : 
Albert, born 18 Feb., 1830, married 26 July, 1854, Eliza A. Adams, 
and died without issue 1 Feb., 1874. 

4 Mary M.^ was born 5 Sept., 1809. Her first husband, married 
10 Sept., 1829, was Ashbel Cram, born 9 Dec, 1801, to Thomas and 
Sarah-Hasty Cram of Standish, Me. He was a merchant in Bridg- 
ton, where his children were born, and he died,. 8 Jan., 1840. Mary 
M.'s second husband, married 11 Sept., 1849, was her first husband's 
brother, Rensselaer Cram, also a merchant, of Portland, whose first 



220 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

wife was Mary M.'s cousin Huldah Perley-123^ He died of apoplexy 
28 Dec, 1872. His widow, of Portland, died since 1891. Mary M.'s 
children: Albion Perley, born 30 March, 1831, died 21 P'eb., 1842; 
Gardner, born 22 Aug., 1835, died 28 Aug., 1840; Ellen Mary, born 
27 Oct., 1850, is traveling in Europe, (1905). 

5 John Putnam^ was born 31 July, 1815, and married 24 June, 
1840, Clarissa Ingalls, born 27 May, 1817, in Bridgton, to Asa (son 
of Phineas) and Phebe-Berry Ingalls. Phebe was a daughter of 
Elias Berry. Mr. Perley owned his grandfather's farm, on which is 
the oldest house in the town. He had no children, but brought up 
four: Miranda V. Potter, Mary F. Farnham and Annette E. Farn- 
ham, and Martin McNulty. 

The local journal reads: "Col. John Putnam Perley died 9 Nov., 
1890, at his South Bridgton home. He had been colonel of the 
militia, a selectman, town treasurer and member of the Maine 
House, and of the Cumberland County Agricultural Society. He 
was also President of the Bridgton P'armers' and Mechanics' Club, a 
member of the Congregational church, active in reformatory and 
other good work, and was also trustee of Bridgton Academy. In 
politics he was originally a Whig, and then a Republican from the 
organization of the party until his death. He leaves a widow." 

Ridlon's Saco Valley Settlements reads : " Mr. Perley was one of the 
most wealthy farmers in Cumberland county, well and widely known 
for his noble generosity, sterling integrity, and Christian zeal. Mrs. 
Perley was a lady of many virtues and beloved by all who knew her." 

6 Sarah A.^ was born 21 Nov., 1817, and married 11 Sept., 1838, 
Marshall Cram, who was born 16 Jan., 1804, to Thomas and Sarah- 
Hasty Cram.** Marshall was a merchant. and resided in Brunswick. 
Cram children : Nelson Perley, born 24 June, 1839, died in Bruns- 
wick, 18 Sept., 1862; Frances Ellen, born 31 March, 1841, died 28 
March, 1848; Gardner". 

7 Gardner'' born 20 Jan., 1843, married, first, 9 Oct., 1871, in 
Damariscotta, Me., Martha A. Weeks, born in Jefferson, Me., 10 
June, 1840, to Elijah and Aseneth-Barstow Weeks. She died in 
Brunswick, Me., 30 Aug., 1874. He married, second, in Biddeford, 
1 Sept., 1880, Annie A. Sutherland, born in Calais, Me., 27 March, 
1850, to Charles and Margaret - (Jameron Sutherland. He is a 
watchmaker and jeweler, and resides in Brunswick, Me. Issue: 
Martha, born 29 Aug., and died 27 Sept., 1874; Marshall Perley, 
born 1 Jan., 1882; PVederick Sutherland, born 30 March, 1886. 



FAMILY 123: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOMAS-33, ENOCH-61. 

THOMAS PERLEY was born in Bridgton, Me., 21 July, 1783. 
He and his brother John-122, inherited their father's property, and 
made it a model farm. He was much interested in the militia and 
rose to the rank of major. 

He married, 28 Jan., 1808, Betsey P^arnsworth of Bridgton, who 
was born to Dr. Samuel and Betsey-Fitch Farnsworth, 21 July, 1789, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 221 

and died 6 Aug., 1838. He married, second, Charlotte Hale of 
Waterford, in 1839. She was born in 1795. His children were by 
his first wife and born in Bridgton. 

1 Ferley children: Thomas Flint", Enoclr, Elizabeth F.'*, Thomas 
Flint*, Samuel Farnsworth-259, Huldah', Henry Enoch-260, Augusta 
Ann-, George Montgomery-, Frances Amelia-. 

2 Thomas Flint' was born 2 Dec, 1808, and died 22 Jan., 1814; 
Enochs 22 Dec. 1810, and died 7 Sept., 1811; Augusta A.\ 14 Feb., 
1826, and died 20 Sept., 1845; George M.\ 10 Aug., 1828, and died 
26 Aug., 1848; Frances A.' 21 Sept., 1831, married 26 March, 1852, 
Edward W. Anderson, a physician, born in Portland, and died in 
Naples 14 March, 1870. The doctor died in Portland in 1861. 

3 P21izabeth F.^ was born in Naples 4 Aug., 1812, married 16 
Feb.. 1856, Grinfill Blake of Harrison. She died in Princeton, N. J., 
26 Oct., 1902. 

4 Thomas Flint' was born 23 Feb., 1815. He married 13 Jan., 
1843, Sarah Fessenden Barrows, who was born in P'eb., 1815, to Wil- 
liam and Mary Palmer-Fessenden Barrows of Fryeburg, Me. He 
graduated at Bowdoin College in 1837, and studied medicine in Port- 
land. After his marriage he resided in Bridgton, till about 1857, 
when he went to Jacksonville, Florida. In 1860, incident upon the 
approaching Rebellion, they came North and he entered the army 
as a brigade surgeon under Grant. He was also a medical inspector 
general of the U. S. Army in Washington, D. C, about two years. 
Because of the failing health of his wife, he then went to Portland, 
where she died 26 P'eb., 1865. After her death he resided some 
time with his cousin, Mrs. Cram-r22*, in Bridgton and later with his 
brother Samuel F.-259 in Naples. He was some time before his 
death with his wife's nephew in Fryeburg. He died in Portland at 
the home of his cousin, Mrs. Cram, 21 March, 1889, having had no 
children. 

5 Huldah' was born 9 Nov., 1819, married 2 July, 1840, Rensselaer 
Cram-122*, a merchant of Portland, born in Standish, Me., 25 Nov., 
1813, to Thomas and Sarah-Hasty Cram. She died 16 June, 1845, 
of lung fever. Rensselaer married, second, Mary Malvina Perley- 
122\ They had Ellen Mary, born 10 April, 1841, died 22 July, 1842, 
in Bridgton ; Ashbel Henry". 

6 Ashbel H.* was born 28 Nov., 1843, in Bridgton, Me. He 
married 21 Jan., 1871, Harriet L. Woodbury, who was born in Port- 
land, Me., to Wm. W., insurance agent, and died in Baltimore, Md., 
in the autumn, 1873. Her mother's name was Keeler. They had 
no children. Mr. Cram has a fine physique and an attractive pres- 
ence, and has sat as an artist's model. He was a volunteer in the 
Civil War, and was in active cavalry service. He was a leutenant 
in infantry. Since the war he has been at one time and another 
manufacturer, broker and speculator in timberland and shipping 
stocks and bonds. He has always been a close student. He is a 
writer on natural history. He finds in study his pleasure and recre- 
ation, and exclaims, "what else is there in life that does not cost 
more than it comes to!" Study is his pleasure and profit. His 
place of business is New York City. 



FAMILY 124: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCKNT-ALLA.N-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOMAS 33, AARON-62. 

JOHN PERLEY was born in Boxford 26 May, 1788. His boy- 
hood was spent dutifully at home. About thirty he went to New 
Brunswick, by water. He was agile and athletic. While on the 
voyage, to show his daring and muscle, he passed, hand over hand, from 
spar to spar, a considerable distance, fifty or more feet above the 
deck, with success ; but in an attempt to return, he failed and fell. 
He was crippled for life and barely escaped instant death. He was 
many years a retail dealer in boots and shoes in Salem, where now 
stands Perley Block, on I^^ssex street. He was a man of strict integ- 
rity, of high personal character and social standing. 

Mr. Perley had the refined taste of a florist, and cultivated large 
parterres of flowers at the rear of his store. The cultivation of them 
afforded him wholesome exercise, and drew largely the trade of 
ladies who are ever fond of flowers and are delighted with their red- 
olence and beauty. In the Salem Gazette appeared the advertise- 
ment dated 9 June, 18()2, wherein Mr. Perley gives notice of his 
determination "to discontinue his present business at 252 Essex 
street, and offers for cash at greatly reduced prices, his extensive 
stock of boots, shoes and rubbers, consisting principally of Ladies', 
Misses' and Children's wear. The above stock, as. to quality, is 
second to none in this city." 

Mr. Perley's first wife was Sarah Kimball, published 19 Oct., 
1817, and born 5 Jan., 1789, to Enoch and Huldah-Gould Kimball of 
Boxford. She died in Salem 7 Dec, 1826, the mother of two children. 
His second wife, married 23 Feb., 1832, was Mrs. Asenath-Gould 
Perley, widow of his brother Israel Perley-125. She died in Salem, 
19 Feb., 1855, of congestion of the lungs, aged sixty-two years; he 
died 19 Aug., 1874, aged eighty-six years, two months and twenty- 
four days. 

1 Perley children: Sarah-, Elizabeth Kimball", Ellen Augusta'-. 

2 Sarah^ was born in 1819. Elizabeth^ was born 17 July, 1821, 
in Boxford, and died 16 July, 1887, in Brooklyn, N. Y., unmarried. 
Ellen' was born in Salem 7 May, 1838, and 1 Oct., 1862, married, in 
Salem, Charles Frederic Robbins, who was born 21 Jan., 1836, in 
Buffalo, N. Y., to Nathaniel C. and Ann-Wilkins Robbins. Charles 
F. was a merchant. He died in Greatneck, N. Y., in June, 1899. 
They had only one child, Alice, who was born 21 Jan., 1870, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., and married William Clark Roe. 



FAMILY 125: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4. THOMAS-l(5. THOMAS-33. AAKON-62. 

ISRAEL PERLEY was born in Boxford 27 March, 1790. He 
married Asenath Gould I June, 1815, who was born in 1792, to Dan- 
iel and Sarah-Bradstreet Gould of Boxford. He died at St. Andrews, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 223 

N. B., 4 Aug., 1822. His widow married his brother John-124. 

The Eastport Sentinel, dated the 10th of Aug., 1822, has the 
following relating to his death: 

"In St. Andrews jail on Sunday last, Mr. Israel Perley, belonging 
to Salem, Mass., aged 32 years. Mr. P. had been imprisoned the 
last 15 months for debt. His brother, Mr. John Perley, took passage 
a short time since in a vessel from Salem for the purpose of going to 
St. Andrews and liberating his brother. On the passage he fell from 
the mast head, a distance of about 50 feet, and was so much injured 
(though no limbs were broken) that his life was despaired of for 
several days. He is still confined to his bed in this place, but we 
are happy to state that he is fast recovering. — An Inquest was held 
on the body of Mr. Perley, and the following is the verdict, which is 
taken from the St. Andrews Herald. His remains were interred 
on Tuesday last from the boarding house of Mr. Joseph Parker, in 
St. Andrews. 

" 'That the aforesaid Israel Pearley, on the fourth day of August, 
instant, being a prisoner in the gaol at St. Andrews in the County 
aforesaid, then and there died of the visitation of God ; and the 
jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths further say, that they believe his 
death has been hastened, in consequence of his confinement in the 
lower room of the gaol, where he was exposed for three months to a 
pestilential effluvia arising from the vault in said room, which occa- 
sioned insanity and disease, by which he came to his death.' " 

This fatal episode in Perley's life should not be considered a re- 
flection upon his character as a man. If the present national bank- 
rupt law is right and just, the law that confined this man and cut off 
every means of his ever paying the debt was cruel, unreasonable 
and wrong. 

1 Perley children: Augustus-261, Mary Jane, who was born in 
Salem, 4 July, 1818, has never married, and is living in Boxford with 
her niece Adelaidc-2t)l\ 



FAMILY 126: CLEAVELAND. 

LINEAL DESCENT- ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, TH()MAS-16, THOMAS-;i3, AAIION-GJ. 

HARRIET PERLEY was born 14 May, 1803, and 25 May, 
1829, married William Neale Cleaveland, born 6 April, 1798, to Dr. 
Nehemiah and Experience-Lord Cleaveland of Topsfield, the resi- 
dence being now known as the "Church Home." He was educated 
at the Bradford and Atkinson academies. 

"For two or three winters he taught school very acceptably. 
Then he took charge of his father's farm. Called to take an active 
part in town and parish affairs, he early evinced an aptitude for busi- 
ness, combined with a praiseworthy independence of thought and 
action. 

"Very soon after his marriage, he removed to Killingly, Conn. 
There, with a young partner of some experience in the business, he 
reared a small mill for the spinning and weaving of cotton. This 



224 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

mill stood where, a few years later, the Danielsonville Manufacturing 
Company erected their large factory. After two years of hard work 
and of very successful operations, he sold out to his partner and 
returned to Essex County. 

"Mr. Gorham Parsons had, just before, come into possession of 
the small but once famous water power, at the head of tide-water 
in the Parker river, Newbury, and, in conjunction with the in- 
genious and celebrated Paul Moody of Lowell, had rebuilt dam and 
mill. The spot might well be dear to Mr. Moody, for there he was 
born, and there he had served his apprenticeship to the great Jacob 
Perkins, in the rude little shop which produced and sent forth the 
first nails ever made by mechanical power. Of Mr. Parsons' mill, 
Mr. Cleaveland took a seven years' lease, and with a silent partner, 
proceeded to stock it with machinery for the manufacture of cotton 
cloth. In this responsible position, involving the care and control 
of many individuals, and demanding a constant exercise of judgment 
and skill, he was a very efficient superintendent. But though he 
succeeded, so far as production was concerned, he was unable to 
make the business profitable. Under the disastrous influence of the 
'Compromise' (so called) American manufactures were then fast 
declining, and when that lease expired, that influence had culminated 
in universal stagnation, and wide-spread ruin. As nothing to en- 
courage its continuance was visible in prospect, the enterprise was 
given up. 

"In 1842, Mr. Cleaveland returned to his early home, which still 
remained in the family, and which continued to be his place of resi- 
dence for the next thirteen years. Here he was variously occupied. 
He planted orchards and some ornamental trees, and superintended 
those alterations and improvements which soon made the old house 
and its surroundings an object of rare attraction. After the con- 
struction of the Danvers & Georgetown railroad, he was made a 
director of the company, and held for several years the office of 
treasurer. He was a selectman of Topsfield in 1824 and 1845. 

"In 1856, he removed to Boxford, and settled on that large Per- 
ley farm which has come down in the family, unalienated, from the 
first settlers of the town. He undertook the administration and set- 
tlement of estates; and the welfare of the parish early enlisted his 
warm interest and active efforts. 

"He was not, indeed, in the usual sense of the phrase, a public 
man, — neither could his life be regarded as specially eventful. 
Those, however, who knew what he was, will hardly doubt that had 
he been less modest, or more ambitious, he could easily have played 
a part in legislation or in politics, nor can it be doubted that those 
energies of mind and will, which gave to him the leadership in a 
small community, would have made him conspicuously useful on a 
wider stage." 

Mr. Cleaveland died 10 Feb., 1872, at the age of seventy-three 
years; his widow, of pneumonia, 23 Jan., 1879, aged seventy-five. 
They repose in Harmony Cemetery, where an elegant monument 
has been erected to their memory. Mrs. Cleaveland was a woman 
of great worth, of strong intellect and constitution, a friend to human 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 225 

kind, and loved and respected by a wide circle of friends and 
acquaintances. Their children were all born in Killingly, Conn. 

1 Cleaveland children: William Perley'^, Lucy^ Mary Neale^ 
Harriet^ James Putnam^, Ellen Maria^ 

2 William P.^ was born 19 March, 1830, and 28 May, 1861, mar- 
ried Ada Byron Peabody, daughter of Benjamin and Rachel-Hunting 
Peabody of Boxford, where she was born 10 May, 1836. He was 
early engaged in railroading in Ohio, but later settled in Boxford as 
a butcher. He died 26 Oct., 1903. Issue, born in Boxford: Lucy, 
born 5 May, 1862, and died 8 Aug., 1877; Ada Louisa, born 19 Dec, 
1863, educated at Bradford Academy, died a teacher in the Hamp- 
ton Institute in Hampton, Va., 18 April, 1902: Bessie, born 7 Feb., 
1868, is a teacher of music and resides in Boxford; Rebecca Perley, 
born 21 Dec, 1869, and died of cholera infantum, 7 Sept., 1871; 
Alice Peabody, born 11 March, 1872, is a stenographer in Boston; 
and Mary Neale, born 27 April, 1875, is a teacher of music in the 
public schools and resides in Boxford. 

3 Lucy^ was born 4 June, 1833, and died in Topsfield, 19 June, 
1846; Mary N.^ and Harriet^ the former born in Aug., 1835, the 
latter in Jan., 1837, lived on the homestead with their brother James 
P.; Harriet died, unmarried, in Salem, 18 March, 1903; Ellen M.^ was 
born 14 Sept., 1843, and died in Topsfield, 19 June, 1846. 

4 James P.' was born 21 May, 1838, and 26 Nov., 1872, married 
Anna G. Palmer, daughter of Asher and Anne R.-Folsom Palmer of 
Boxford. He possessed his father's estate, and was a progressive 
and independent farmer. He died without issue 24 Dec, 1892. His 
widow married James Milton Loring and lives in St. Louis. 



FAMILY 127: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, DUDLEY-63. 

JOHN PERLEY was born in Winchendon 8 (History of Win- 
chendon says 2) Oct., 1768. He married in 1796, and settled in 
Unity, Me., in 1800. He was a teacher of vocal music, and retained 
his voice to the last. He was somewhat noted as a teacher of the 
violin. In 1799, while of Winchendon, he was chosen on a committee 
with Dr. Israel Whiton, Dea. Samuel Prentice, Mr. Ezra Hyde and 
Capt. David Rice, to confer with Rev. Joseph Brown, on the ques- 
tion of his (Brown's) "usefulness as a teacher of piety, religion and 
morals, in that place." 

Mr. Perley was published 8 P'eb., 1795, and married 4 Jan., 1796, 
Mary Spaulding of Chelmsford, who was born there 5 July, 1769, 
to Benjamin and Mary Spaulding-Spaulding. He died in Unity of 
consumption 15 May, 1843; she died 21 Nov., 1861, aged ninety-two 
years. "She slept and never woke." 

1 Perley children : Benjamin Spaulding-262, Nancy-, Mehitable^ 
Mary*, Dudley^ John-263. 

2 Nancy^ was born in Winchendon, Mass., 17 Dec, 1799, and 
married Cudworth Bryant Clark, a farmer of Unity, Me., born in 
Damariscotta, Me., 27 Aug., 1794. His mother's maiden name was 



226 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Bryant, His father's name was John Clark, ikl. familiarly called 
"Fiddler Clark," or "Ihiclc Johnnie," son of l^lisha Clark, who was 
sonofjosiah Clark, born in Kittory, Me., '20 Feb., 1704. ["Uncle 
Johnnie " was one of twenty own brothers and sisters, each of sepa- 
rate birth. The first was twenty years old, when the twentieth 
was born.] Nancy's husband died i) Nov., 1S57, in Unity; she was 
buried there 27 March, 1S();5. The Clark children were Harriet 
Newell'\ Dudley I'erley", Mary Perley", Benjamin Uussey'', John 
Perley", Rhoda Jane'", Jacob Washington", Charles lulwin'-, Daniel 
Hall, born 21 or 27 Dec, 1842, and died young, unmarried. 

8 Mehitable' was born 20 Feb., 1801, and died 4 Nov., 1802. 
Dudley' was born 25 March, 180(5. He was a student and teacher. 
A trigonometry used by him is in existence. He died about 182ti. 

4 'Mary' was born 15 Oct., 1808, in Unity. She married in 1828 
or 9, Robert Spencer, who died "a long time ago." Mrs. Spencer 
lived a widow in Bangor, spending her summers in the country. 
Her children were Mary Jane Bryant, born 24 July. 1880, married 
Freeman Wentworth, who died "several years ago," and died her- 
self in June or 8 Aug., 1904, leaving a son Wilson ; Nancy Clark, 
born 18 Nov., 1882, married Perry Barnes, and has been "dead some 
years"; Adolizer, born 18 Aug., and died 10 Dec, 1884; PLliza 
Bumps, born 8 Feb., 188(), and married Geo. Henry Baker; James 

Sampson, born 18 Oct., 1888, married, first. Temperance Jane , 

and, second, Ftta Snow; Pamela Spaulding, born 18 May, 1840, and 

married, first, (lould, and second, Benjamin Stevens; Clarissa 

Stevens, born 5 Feb., 1842, and married Orlando DeForrest 
Merchant. 

5 Harriet Newell" was born in Freedom, Me., 21 Oct., 1822. 
She married in Rockland, Me., 8 Oct., 1854, and became the second 
wife of Wm. Yeaton Sawyer, a ship carpenter, who was born at 
North Haven Island, Me., 18 Aug., 1818, to Paul, a sea captain, and 
Diadama-Cooper Sawyer. Mrs. Sawyer died in North Dixmont, 
Me., 8 Aug., 1894; and he in Rockland, 22 March, 1908. Sawyer 
issue: Roscoe Oscar, born 21 Oct., 1848, married Sarah E. Duffey 
of Bangor; Truman Irons'"; Leslie Horace, born 24 June, 1858, unmar- 
ried in Fairbanks, Alaska; Foster Perley, born 16 Oct., 1860, mar- 
ried Agnes May Sharpe; Jennie May, born 25 April, 1862, died 12 
Nov., 1864; Hattie May'-*. 

6 Dudley Perley- was born in Unity, Me., 24 Oct., 1824. He was 
a farmer. He married Lucy Ellen Warren, a school teacher, who 
was born in Freedom, Me., 24 Aug., 1884, to Phineas, farmer, and 
Lucy-Tibbetts Warren. Mr. Clark died 5 Oct., 1879, in Unity 
where his widow now lives. Their children: Judson A., born 24 
April, 1853, married 12 Oct., 1878, died 9 Dec, 1897; Addie B., 
born 14 June, 1855, married 21 Oct., 1879; Lucius T., born 16 Aug., 
1857, married Oct., 1881, died 29 Oct., 1891 ; Etta P. or J., born 23 
Feb., 1858, married 15 Sept., 1887; Phineas W., born 7 Dec, 1860, 
married 4 Feb., 1885; Melvin D., born 28 Feb., 1868; Agnes E., 
born 16 Jan., 1865, married 9 Nov., 1887 ; Carro M., born 6 Sept.,1867 ; 
Alfred M.,born 14 Feb., 1869, married 24 Aug., 1893 ; Therese M., born 
5 July, 1871 ; Ethel F., born 10 Sept., 1878, married 31 Dec, 1897; a 
daughter, born and died 27 Dec, 1876. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



227 



7 Mary F.^ was born 20 Aug., 1827. She married Benjamin 
Glidden and had issue: Melzena, Berbers F., and Percy. She died 
in Bradford, 111., 28 May, 1898. 

8 Benjamin H.^ was born 9 Dec, 1^29. He married 29 Jan., 
1803, in PVeedom, Me., Mi.ss FlavillaWarren who was born 28 Sept., 
1840, in Freedom, to Phineas, a farmer, and Lucy-Tibbitts Warren. 
Mr. Clark was by trade a carpenter. He died 12 Dec, 1900, in Pas- 
adena, Cal., where his widow now resides. Clark issue: F"lorence, 
born 2 April, 1805, married 28 June, 1883, Alfred G. Sweet, died 18 
March, 1886, in Bradford, 111.; Gertrude, born 11 April, 1807, died 
18 Sept., 1807; Clarence B., born 10 May, 1874, now of Pasadena. 

9 John Perley^was born 29 Aug., 1882, in Unity, Me.; he mar- 
ried 18 Nov., 1858, Angle Susannah Perkins, born in Newcastle, Me., 
18 March, 1835, to John, farmer, and Mary-Clarke Perkins. He was 
a merchant in Sierra Madre, Cal., where he died 13 Aug., 1884. 
She is living, Jan., 1905. They had issue: James P2ugene-208"; 
Ernest Perley''; Arthur Foster, born May, 1804, in Unity, Me., 
married Alia Aldrich; Charles Perkins, born 19 May, 1879, in 
Riverside, Me. These three reside in Riverside, Cal. 

10 Rhoda ].'- was born 8 P'eb., 1^84, and died in Cherokee, la. 
She married, first, Lucius Taylor, and, second, Carlos Taylor. 

11 Jacob W.'' was born in Unity, Me., 22 May, 1887. He mar- 
ried in Unity, 25 Dec, 1858, Martha Ann Mosher, born in 
Unity, 23 Aug., 1840, to Joseph, a farmer, and Nancy-Hatch Mosher. 
He enlisted in Co. K, 20th Maine infantry regiment, and was dis- 
charged near the close of the war for disability. He was a life-long 
Christian and excellent citizen. He died in Plymouth, Me., 23 April, 
1891. His widow resides in Detroit, Me. Their children, born in Plym- 
outh, Me., but the first: Carlos Taylor''^; Clarence Irving'"; Georgia 
Anna"; William Henry'''; La\inia Angle, born 18 Feb., 1><70, resides 
in Detroit; Eva Myra'"'. 

12 Charles E.- was born in Unity, Me., 15 May, 1^40. He mar- 
ried 24 Aug., 1802, Harriet Jane Taylor, born in Albion, Me., 12 
Sept., 1844, to Eathan and Artemesia-Tylor Taylor. Mr. Clark is a 
farmer of Unity, Me. Their children: Caro Frances, born in Unity, 
2 June, 1808, married and living in Waterville; Jennie May, born in 
Albion, Me., 8 May, 1><05, married Ernest Patten of West Hampden; 
Calvin Chauncy F"arnham, born in Albion, 4 July, 1807, married in 
Los Angeles, Cal.; Daniel Anderson, born in Albion 8 Nov., 1><09, 
married in Boston; Roscoe Perley^\ 

13 Truman I.' was born in Thomaston, Me., 81 Oct., 1x50. 
He married 5 April, 1884, in Dixmont, Me., Marcia Belle Eldridge, 
born in Etna, Me., 14 Feb., 1><08, to Thompson, a farmer, and Sarah 
Abigail-Eldridge Eldridge. Their home is North Dixmont, Me., 
where Mr. Sawyer is a carpenter. Their children, born in Dixmont : 
Homer Benson, 11 Aug., 18^4; Harriet Merle, 10 Jan., 1880; Wil- 
liam Leslie, 23 -Oct., 1887; Irving Trueman, 18 April, 1894; Casta 
Agnes, 25 March, 1890; Kneeland Arthur, 10 Feb., 1900. 

14 Hattie M.^ was born in Plymouth, Me., 8 Jan., 1865. She 
married, first, in Dixmont, Me., 19 Jan., 1880, James Elmer Garland, 
born in Newburg, Me., 28 Oct., 1803, to James Garland, a farmer. 
Mr. Garland died in North Dixmont, 8 April, 1891. She married. 



228 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

second, in Bangor, 30 Jan., 1895, Isaac Edson Archibald, master 
mariner, born in Guysboro, N. S., 22 Sept., 1861, to Isaac, farmer, 
and Mary-Horton Archibald. Their home is Rockland, Me. 

15 Ernest P.^ was born 13 Dec, 1859, in Alna, Me. He married 
in Los Angeles, Cal., 3 July 1888, Louise M. Harvey, physician, 
born in Athens, Me., 8 Nov., 1859. Mr. Clarke is an editor in 
Riverside, Cal. 

16 Carlos T." was born 19 May, 1861, in Knox, Me. When two 
years old he removed with his parents to Plymouth, Me., where he 
grew to manhood, the while assisting in the grist mill and on the 
farm. He fitted himself for the teachers' vocation and for some 
years practised it with notable success. Then he became station 
agent and telegrapher for railroads and is now located at Carver, 
Mass. Mr. Clark took an active interest in this work and furnished 
material for a large part of his branch. He married 15 Oct., 1890, 
Miss Hattie F. Martin, born in Detroit, Me., 12 Oct., 1862, to Ezra 
Martin, a farmer. She was a professional bookkeeper. She died 
in Nickerson, Kan., 9 Jan., 1894. She left one child, Lamont 
Martin, born in Waldoboro, Me., 24 June, 1892, and now living with 
his father. 

17 Clarence I.^'^ was born 25 Feb., 1864. He married 7 Sept., 

1886, Lizzie Mabel Farwell. She died in Lynn, Mass. Mr. Clark 
is a box-maker in Detroit, Me. They had one child, Florence G. 

18 Georgia A." was born 25 Jan., 1867. She married in Plym- 
outh, Me., 21 Dec, 1884, Nelson W. Norton. She died 16 Feb., 

1887, in Plymouth, leaving one child, Dora A. 

19 William H.^^ was born 16 Oct., 1871. He married in Plym- 
outh, 24 Dec, 1898, Lanora May Curtis of Stetson, Me. Mr. 
Clark is a farmer in Detroit. They have one child, Percy Glenwood, 
born in Plymouth, 23 Dec, 1900. 

20 Eva M.^' was born 21 Feb., 1881. She married in Plym- 
outh, 12 Nov., 1898, Fred John Grant of Winterport, where they 
reside. 

21 Roscoe P.^-' was born in Albion, Me., 27 June, 1876. He mar- 
ried 1 May, 1899, Maude Lillian Crosby, born in Unity, 29 Dec, 1876, 
to Eli Vickery and Emma Randlet-Libbey Crosby. Mr. Clark is a 
miller in Albion. Their child is Ervena Emma, born 1 Oct., 1904, 
in Albion. 



FAMILY 128: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALL AN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, DUDLEY-63. 

ASA PERLEY was born in Winchendon, 9 July, 1772. In 
1793 he owned a potash works. The Town Records have the fol- 
lowing layout of an early road : a road from the Fitzwilliam road, a 
little north of the John Gill house almost due east to Asa Perley's, 
eighty rods. Mr. Perley was a selectman, 1809, 1810, and 1815. 
He was a farmer and a useful citizen and esteemed. 

Asa Perley sold to John Bishop, yeoman, of Medford, 20 Oct., 
1801, land 117^ acres in Winchendon No. 27.— Reg., 156 : 85. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 229 

John Bishop sold the same property 20 Oct., 1801, to Asa Perley. 
—Reg., 156 :8t). 

Moses Hale, Jr., Esq., and Asa Perley. yeoman, for $10, 7 July, 
1812, sold to Abijah Pierce of Winchendon, gentleman, all of 
Winchendon, an undivided third part of John Manning lot No. 192, 
in Winchendon, sold to them at auction for taxes. — Reg., 194 : 97 and 
197 :589. 

Abijah Pierce, gentleman, Asa Perley, yeoman, Moses Hale, 
Esq., all of Winchendon, 16 Nov., 1815, for $175, sold to Nathan 
Raymond of Westminster, gentleman, land in Winchendon. — 
Reg., 213 :350. 

Moses Hale, Jr., Esq., and Mary his wife, for $60, 16 March, 
1818, sold to Asa Perley, both of Winchendon, that part of lot No. 
192, etc., bought of Hannaniah Whitney collector of taxes. — Reg., 
259 :201. 

Joshua Gill, housewright, for $500, 11 March, 1819, sold to Asa 
Perley, yeoman, both of Winchendon, land 80 acres on "north 
branch turnpike." — Reg., 216 : 151. 

Asa Perley, yeoman, for $70, 12 June, 1821, sold to Abijah Pierce, 
gentleman, both of Winchendon, land No. 112, sold for taxes by Mr. 
Pierce, collector of taxes, to Asa Perley and Moses Hale, Jr. It was 
once John Manning's. — Reg., 232 : 468. 

Abijah Pierce, gentleman, and wife Elizabeth, for $500, 21 Feb., 
1822, sold to Joseph Whitney and Asa Perley, yeomen, "the farm on 
which I now live," lot No. 31, south division, with buildings, 100 
acres, bounded by Dea. Moses Hale. — Reg., 227 :351. 

Joseph Whitney, Asa Perley, Mary Perley and Hannah Whitney 
sold for $500, 30 April, 1822, to Abijah Pierce, gentleman, all of 
Winchendon, farm half a mile east of meeting-house. — Reg. ,228 : 552. 

Asa Perley, for $25, 13 Aug., 1824, sold to Joseph Whitney, yeo- 
man of Winchendon, interest in buildings and land formerly Dud- 
ley Perley's, late of Winchendon, same now occupied by Joseph 
Whitney, two miles east of common. — Reg., 238 : 589. 

Asa Perley, for $275, 21 Jan., 1831, sold to Peter Eaton, yeoman, 
of Winchendon, 33 acres of land in the southeastern part of that 
town, with rights of way over Joseph Whitney's land, which is men- 
tioned in the boundary. — Reg., 181 :215. 

He married 12 May, 1803, Mary Hunt, who was baptised 16 
May, 1779, for Nehemiah of Westminster. He died 4 or 10 Oct. ,1831. 

John, Ira, Phebe, children of Asa of Winchendon, over fourteen, 
chose Eben. Butler, guardian, 2 Nov., 1831; Henry chose Dudley 
Perley, 21 Oct., 1834, and Nehemiah Woodbury 21 May, 1835.— 
No. 26027. His administrator, by order of Probate Court, could sell 
land, 3 Jan., 1832. — Reg., 327 :224. His son Asa was his administrator. 

1 Perley children: Hannah'^ Asa'\ Dudley*, Mary'-, Ira^ John"-, 
Phebe'^ Henry''. 

2 Hannah*, born 15 March, 1804, was, with Asa* and Dudley*, 
baptised 27 May, 1810. It may be she who was baptised and re- 
ceived a member of the church 1 Sept., 1822. She married 1 Jan., 
1834, Edward Goddard of Winchendon; she left three daughters. 
Mary* was born 7 July, 1810, and married Perez D. P'rench, of whom 
a son lived in Ashby. John^ born 26 Aug., 1812, died 6 Aug., 1833. 



230 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Phebe^ was baptised 29 March, 1818, and married Nathan Howe, 
said to be related to Dudley Perley Howe of Fitzwilliam, N. H. 

3 Asa^ was born 9 Jan., 180(5. He was a farmer. His wife's 
name was Mary. He died of consumption 24 Jan., 1841. 

"Asa Perley, Jr., administrator of the estate of Asa Perley, late 
of Winchendon, by order of Probate Court, 3 Jan., 1832," for $187.23, 
29 June, 1835, sold to John and William Flint of Winchendon, yeo- 
men, land in Winchendon, 62 acres and 116 poles. — Reg., 327 : 224. 

John and William Flint, yeomen, for $180, 29 June, 1835, sold to 
Asa Perley, both of Winchendon, land in east part of the town. 
"Asa Perley dec*^" is mentioned.— Reg., 320 : 342. 

Asa Perley [Jr. and administrator], yeoman, and Mary my wife, 
for $500, 31 Dec, 1835, sold to Joshua Gill, carpenter, both of Win- 
chendon, land 80 acres and 6 acres meadow, in Winchendon, " north 
branch turnpike." — Reg., 266 : 97. 

Perez D. French, yeoman, and wife Mary, Ashburnham, for 
$400, 24 May, 1837, sold Asa Perley, Winchendon, laborer, land in 
west part of Ashburnham on the Winchendon road. Mentions "My 
mother P21izabeth French." — Reg., 327 : 155. 

4 Dudley^ was born 17 May, 1808. From probate number 
46021, it seems that Dudley died in March or April, 1835, having 
property valued at $454.39; that Ebenezer Butler filed his bond as 
administrator, 23 July, 1835; and these expressed their satisfaction 
with the administrator's account: Nehemiah Woodbury, guardian 
for Henry Perley, Edward Goddard, Ira Perley [probably in his 21*** 
year] Asa Perley, Perez D. PVench, Mary Perley [widow.?]. 
Ebenezer Butler, guardian. 

5 Ira' was baptised 16 July, 1815. Ira Perley, chair maker, 1 
Nov., 1836, for $213, sold to Horace Black, both of Ashburnham, 
land in Winchendon. — Reg., 320 : 667. 

Edward Goddard, and wife Hannah, Winchendon, yeoman, for 
$200, 8 Dec, 1837, deeded to Ira Perley, Ashburnham, chair maker, 
land in northeast part of Winchendon, "Widow Mary Perley's land 
on the north line of Dea. Hale farm," 39 acres, 98 rods. — Reg., 
348 :47. 

Perez D. F"rench, and wife Mary P., Ashburnham, yeoman, for 
$400, 23 Aug., 1838, sold to Ira Perley of Winchendon, yeoman, land 
in west part of Ashbiirnham, on Winchendon road, 28 acres with 
buildings.— Reg., 335 :417. 

Ira Perley, yeoman, for $300, 11 May, 1839, mortgaged to Joseph 
Whitney, yeoman, both of Winchendon, land, 32 acres and 136 rods 
with buildings, in the eastern part of Winchendon, a part of that 
owned by my father Asa, and then sold by deed dated 26 Oct., 1836, 
to my brother Asa. Mentions "Widow Perley." — Reg., 344 : 93. 

The inventory of the estate of Ira Perley, farmer, of Winchendon, 
shows $1325.19 of real and personal, of which $980 was real; but the 
account subsequently rendered shows a balance in the hands of the 
administrator for distribution of $585.10, and a dividend to creditors 
of 19 cents 9 mills on a dollar. The bond and order of notification 
are dated 2 Feb., 1841.— Reg., 460 : 26. 

6 Henry was in early life a school teacher, was a member of the 
school board, 1840 and 1850. He was one of a committee chosen 3 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 231 

April, 1854, to devise a town school system. He owned a farm in 
Kansas, but his home was in Prairie City, 111. He married, first, Mary 
Jane Stacy, born in Stoddard, N. H., to Samuel and Mary, and died 
7 Oct., 1849, aged twenty-five years, nine months, and two days. In 
1854, Oct. 25, he married Emeline Smith, a daughter of Christopher 
Smith of West Boylston, thirty-three years old at the time of this 
her first marriage. 



FAMILY 129: HYDE. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALL AN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, DUDLEY-63. 

BETSEY PERLEY was born 22 Feb., 1776. She was married 
by Levi Pillsbury 17 Sept., 1806, to Ezra Hyde, Jr., of Winchendon, 
where he was born in Sept., 1774. She died 16 June, 1812, in the 
sixth year of her marriage. "Ezra Hyde 14 July, 1830," in Win- 
chendon, probably refers to the death of his father. 

Mr. Hyde was a farmer in Winchendon. He was greatly inter- 
ested in local education. He was a school teacher ten years, and 
served several years on the school board. Hyde's history of Win- 
chendon was his labor. It was a very accurate and creditable work, 
was well appreciated by the public, and the edition was soon ex- 
hausted. He died in Oct., 1849. 

[Mr. Hyde had a second wife, Polly Raymond, and children: 
Maria, James, Daniel, Alfred Warren, John and Susan.] 

1 Hyde children : Ezra'", Ezra'-, and daughter'". 

2 The first Ezra^ was born 7 Aug., 1807, and died young. The 
daughter^ was born in 1811. The second Ezra^ was born 17 Aug., 
1809. He was a manufacturer of woolen goods, till he was forty-five 
years old, when he annexed the manufacture of lumber. He pur- 
sued the double manufacture for twenty years or more. Winchendon 
was his home and he was one of the prominent men of the town. 
His first wife Adeline Everett, married 1 Jan., 1834, by whom he had 
a daughter born in March, 1835, that died soon after. His second 
wife, married 1 Jan., 1851, was Nancy Jane Young of Gardner, by 
whom he had Ezra Warren, born 26 Jan., 1852, and died 18 July, 
1853; Ezra Warren, born 18 June, 1854; Mary Jane, born 29 Aug., 
1857, and married 5 Sept., 1878, 'William A. Beaman of Winchen- 
don; Emma Etta, born 22 July, 1859; Eddy Lincoln, born 7 Aug., 
1861, and died 16 April, 1870. 



FAMILY 130: WHITNEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, DUDLEY-63. 

HANNAH PERLEY was born 8 Dec, 1777, the year of Bur- 
goyne's surrender. She married 12 Dec, 1799, Joseph Whitney, a 
farmer of Winchendon. He was born 20 May, 1775, to William and 
Mary-Mansfield Whitney, and died 21 Oct., 1852. She died 21 Dec, 
1854. 



232 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

1 Whitney children : Joseph"*, Dudley^ Seba-, Thomas-, Hannah", 
Cynthia'^ William'^, Grover SchoUay", Betsey-. 

2 Seba^ was born 22 Feb., 1805. She married George Cum- 
mings, and died without issue, 24 Dec, 1834. Thomas^ was born 4 
March, 1807, and died childless 12 May, 1843. Cynthia' was born 
25 Jan., 1812, and died 6 March, 1838. William' was born 29 July, 
1814, married Mary Glines, and died at Jamaica Plain, "some time 
ago," leaving there a daughter and two sons. Betsey' was born 21 
May, 1821, married Almon Poland, and died 1 July, 1844, with no 
descendants. 

3 Joseph' was born 10 Oct., 1800, married 20 Oct., 1821, Abigail 
Flint, who died 17 Dec, 1837 ; married, second, Mrs. Charlotte 
Nutting 3 Jan., 1842. Their children were Joseph, born 11 Oct., 
1822; Sarah Stone, born 7 May, 1825, with home in Vinton, or La- 
porte City, Iowa; Milton G.''; McLane McClure, born 9 Aug., 
1830; Dudley, born 10 Aug., 1833, who lived at 758 Broadway, 
South Boston. 

4 Dudley' was born 12 July, 1802. His wife was Mary Shaw. 
He died 7 Sept., 1831. His daughter, Georgianna Selina, married 
Edward A. Fenlon of Boston, and their daughter married George 
Smith of Boston. 

5 Hannah' was born i) Aug., 1809. She married, first, Joseph 
B. Adams in 1829, a farmer in Winchendon, by whom she had two 
children. He died from the effects of an accident in 1836, and she 
married, second, Horace Whitcomb. Her children were Dudley 
Whitney^; Maxwell, who died "some years ago"; Angle B.; Stella 
S.; Fannie I. 

6 Grover S.' was born 10 July, 1816, married 30 March, 1851, 
Laura Ann Bowker Roby, born in East Cambridge, to P^benezer 
and Laura-Bowker Roby of Winchendon, where he died of consump- 
tion, 16 April, 1868, leaving Clara Sigourney, born 9 June, 1855, 
and Charles Melville, born 4 Dec, 1862. The Congregationalist, 
Boston, noticed Mr. Whitney's death : "Disease for years had made 
inroads upon his body, but it could not keep down the energy and 
ardor of his earnest soul. Behind his modest brow was a large 
brain, and when he felt a grand truth, its movements were to all 
hearts what the stroke of the engine is to the mill. A large circle 
will miss an earnest Christian, and a bold defender of the truth. 
His end was peace." 

7 Milton G.^ was born 30 Nov., 1827, and married 17 Sept., 1851, 
Harriet Osborn, who was born 6 March, 1832. They resided in Vin- 
ton, Benton County, Iowa. He was a farmer and grain dealer. Issue : 
Edgar D., born 17 May, 1858, dealer in coal, wood and farm machin- 
ery in Reinbeck, and Jay P., born 9 Jan., 1862, and after graduation 
pursued the study of medicine. 

8 Dudley W.' was born 30 Nov., 1831, in Winchendon. In 1856, 
Jan. 31, he married Hannah Huestis, whose mother's name was 
Hannah. His wife was born 17 Sept., 1838, in Yarmouth, N. S. 
They resided in Waukon, Iowa. 

On 26 Sept., 1878, Mr. Adams wrote: "My mother's name is 
Hannah, my grandmother's name was Hannah, my great-grand- 



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233 



mother's name was Hannah, my wife's name is Hannah, my wife's 
mother's name was Hannah, and my wife's grandmother's name was 
Hannah; 'Give my love to Hannah'"; and we are reminded, that 
in his own peculiar way he is the Samuel of them all. 




He says he was named for his uncle Dudley Whitney, who was 
named for their grandfather Lt. Dudley Perley. The estimation of 
the Perleys of Winchendon is shown in the town annals. Dudley 
Perley was a selectman in 1772, his son Asa in 1809, 1810, 1815, his 
grandson G. S. Whitney in 1849. Henry Perley, another grandson, 
was on the school board. 

A fatal accident deprived Mr. Adams of his paternal guardian 
when five years old, and his future was directed by the watchful 
care of "the best of mothers." He was educated in the town 
schools and meanwhile assisted on the farm, one of those rocky New 
England institutions, of which, he said, Winchendon seemed to have 
the lion's share. 

He was passionately fond of all kinds of sports — of fireside, field, 
and brook. He played fox and geese, twelve men morris, dominoes, 



234 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

checkers, and all the old-fashioned Puritan games. Some of his 
mates hid in barns and woods and played cards, and their hiding 
suggested that there was something wrong about it. Always con- 
fiding in his mother implicitly and making her his oracle, he one 
day asked her if card-playing was wicked. She replied, that it was 
not necessarily wicked, but bad men use cards more than any other 
of the indoor games for gambling, and that gambling was wrong. 
She was a wise and judicious mother, and planned to prevent entice- 
ment; and though an active and conscientious Christian woman, 
cards were soon added to the list of games. The boy-promise he 
made her at that time was neither forgotten nor violated. Not even 
a bet has been paid "the fickle goddess," but when visiting his 
mother, with her age at even three score and ten, the old game she 
taught him was part of their pastime. 

He was also fond of hunting and fishing. In this his mother in- 
dulged him, sometimes against the murmur of neighbors. He was 
Isaac Walton's disciple, and as president of the Waukon Shooting 
Club, could easily bring down his share of birds. 

It was his mother's design to give him a classical education, but 
his eyes failed him, and he hired out to E. Murdock as chore boy 
and job teamster at $8 per month for six months. He then at- 
tended school spring and fall, worked on the farm summers, and 
taught school winters, with eminent success, at $15 to $25 per 
month. 

In 1853, a little less than twenty-one, valise in hand, he turned 
his face westward. He went to Buffalo, by steamer to Chicago, then 
by rail to Freeport, the end of railroading at that time. Then he 
journeyed by stage, with a drunken driver, to Galena, a vigorous 
mining town; then on the "Father of Waters" two days and one 
night a steamer stemmed the noble current and landed him on its 
western shore. He was "beyond the Mississippi,'" the uncultivated, 
uncultured West before him, friends, relatives and civilization, "Oh 
so far, far behind." 

The county seat was eighteen miles to the southwest, and through 
a drizzling rain the embryo village was reached — a small court- 
house of aspen logs and the log cabin of the pioneer Shattuck. He 
was heartily welcomed and slept that night between two piles of 
corn in the loft. The next day he made the choice of a lifetime : 
that the beautiful, fertile spot should be his home. He bought of 
the government a small farm of virgin soil. He and a partner built 
the first store in Waukon, which, not suiting his taste, he soon sold 
to his partner. The following winter he was appointed Deputy 
County Recorder of Deeds and Commissioner to locate swamp lands 
donated by the government to Allawakee County. The year follow- 
ing he with a partner built a steam saw-mill which soon after burned. 
He sustained the financial loss with great difificulty. 

At the age of twenty-two he was elected president of the Alle- 
wakee County Agricultural Society, probably the youngest person 
that ever held such a position. 

He married 31 Jan., 1856, Hannah Huestis, a native of Nova 
Scotia, a lady seven years his junior, and the next day began house- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 235 

keeping, where they long lived. Their house was of boards, twenty 
by twelve feet, and so open that on windy evenings they could have 
no light nor fire for warmth. Their furniture was four wood chairs, 
a table, a bedstead and a trunk. Such was pioneer life only forty- 
nine years ago. 

He w as always fond of horticultural pursuits, and a large part of 
his farm ing was growing of fruits and trees. The pecuniary result 
was good, but his work and pen afforded a greater measure of suc- 
cess in official status at home and abroad. At state fairs he frequently 
took first prizes for fruits and the same for wines three successive 
years. At thirty-six years of age he was elected secretary of the 
State Horticultural Society. He was re-elected five times and de- 
clined the seventh nomination. 

He was often in town office, especially of assessor, when the asses- 
sors of the several towns convened at the county seat constituted a 
board of equalization for the county. At the age of twenty-seven 
he was chairman of the latter board. He was deputy county sur- 
veyor for years, whose duties gave him a large acquaintance in the 
county. 

During the war the county finances were "terribly mismanaged," 
and county warrants, in which all county debts were paid, were worth 
less than fifty per centum, and by fraud the county seat had been 
removed to a distant part of the county. At that juncture he was 
elected to the county board of supervisors (a county legislature of a 
number from each town) and for three years was chairman of the 
board. During that time the "warrants" became worth one hun- 
dred per centum, and the county seat was restored. 

In 1865 he was a Republican candidate for State senator, but 
though he ran ahead of his ticket, the Democrats swept everything. 

In 1869 he joined the Patrons of Husbandry — a charter member 
of Waukon Grange, No. 3. He was made secretary and appointed 
general deputy of the National Grange. The State Grange was 
organized 12 Jan., 1871, and he was elected its first master. He 
took the office with twelve sub-granges and in three years left it with 
eight hundred. In January, 1873, he was elected master of the 
National Grange at Washington, D. C. Then in the United States 
there were about 1200 sub-granges and in his official term of three 
years the number became about 24,000, the highest degree of pros- 
perity ever attained. 

In 1875 his community built a railroad, to connect Waukon with 
the Mississippi. It was built in his superintendency and he was for 
many years a president, a superintendent and a director. 

He said, "I am not wealthy as the world goes, but my lands and 
orchards in Iowa, and other lands and orange groves in South 
Florida with other means, place me in a position to laugh at want 
and take life easy as may be in accordance with my taste." 

At the age of forty-seven, he was in robust health, five feet, ten 
and a quarter inches tall, weighing one hundred and seventy-six 
pounds and a blonde of the fairest type. He wore his heavy blonde 
beard full and long. He said, "I am rapidly growing bald, as has 
been the case with all the old Massachusetts stock of Adamses. 
Perhaps the Perleys never get bald or gray. I remember my grand- 



236 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

mother at seventy-seven with a head of abundant, long, beautiful, 
chestnut hair. My mother at sixty-nine has scarcely a gray hair, 
and I have no sign of a gray hair or whisker. My habits are strictly 
temperate; I never use liquor, beer, tobacco, coffee or tea, nor visit 
whisky saloons or churches." His pen was continually at work, 
but always on matter of present need, the paramount objects being 
horticulture and Patrons of Husbandry. That pen signed nearly 
23,000 charters of subordinate granges in the United States and 
Canada. 

"My residence," he says, "is elevated, overlooking the village of 
Waukon and surrounded by the finest grounds in the county. My 
residence in Orange County, Florida, is on a hill seventy feet high, 
overlooking a large territory and surrounded by a young and 
thrifty orange grove of about fifty acres, a small part of my 1200 
acres of Florida soil." 

An Iowa paper said of him : " It will be seen that Mr. Adams 
has led an active, stirring career. While nearly his whole life has 
been identified with the stern, practical and exacting duties of agri- 
culture, he has yet given a fair share of leisure time to the excite- 
ments of public life, thus qualifying him in a marked degree for the 
honorable and laborious duties now devolved upon him. He is, in a 
measure, a self-made man ; and yet his diversity of knowledge on 
current topics — as evidenced by his public addresses — is wide and 
varied ; and entitling him to be ranked as one of the marked men in 
the country. In social life Mr. Adams is popular and entertaining. 
He has an easy and winning address, and is bland and conciliatory 
in his intercourse with friends. In his business relations he exhibits 
strong common sense and a deep sense of justice. In all relations 
of private life Mr. Adams has always shown himself to be a solid 
and sensible man, and in public life a gentleman of deep convictions, 
and an active supporter of whatever he deemed to be just and true." 

Mr. Adams died in his Florida home at Tangerine, 13 Feb., 1897. 
His wife died 6 Aug., 1904. 



FAMILY 131: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, ASA-64. 

AMOS PERLEY was born in Maugerville, N. B., 24 May, 1777; 
he made it his home. In a letter inscribed to a "friend," probably 
in Boxford and dated 23 June, 1807, he says: "I and my little family 
are in perfect health . . . give my best respects to my worthy 
aunt ... I refer you to my uncle Solomon, who is the bearer 
of this, for a more explicit account of my situation." He was a rep- 
resentative for Sunbury County long before the confederation of the 
provinces; a member of Parliament, advocated a common school edu- 
cation for all. He was a good citizen ; a Congregationalist, and 
lived an exemplary life. 

He married, first, Hannah Nevers, who was born in Maugerville, 

12 March, 1785, to Samuel, merchant, and Nevers Nevers, 

and died in Maugerville 29 Dec, 1809. He married, second, 10 Oct., 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



237 



1815, Maria Carman, born in Lancaster, St. John County, N. B., 2 

Jan., 1788, to Samuel, farmer, and Horsfield Carman. He 

died in Maugerville in Aug., 1822; his will is dated 5 April, 1822, 
and was proved the September following. She died in Maugerville. 

1 Perley children born in Maugerville: Sarah Nevers'\ Hannah 
Isabella'", Louisa Ann'-, Susan Elizabeth'-, Thomas Horsfield-2G4, 
Maria Jane\ 

2 Hannah L^ was born 18 Dec, 1809, and died, unmarried, 
about the middle of Sept., 1845. Louisa A.^ was born 29 Jan., 1817, 
and died, unmarried, 15 Oct., 1894. Susan E.^ was born 3 Dec, 
1818, and "died young." 

3 Sarah N.^ was born 26 March, 1808. She married Charles 
Hazen, a farmer and justice of the peace of Oromocto, where he was 
born in May, 1793, to John Hazen, a farmer. She died in Oromocto 

22 March, 1835; and he, in March, 1871. Children born in Oro- 
mocto : Sarah Isabella'' ; Elizabeth Letitia^ 

4 Maria ]} was born 31 Dec, 1821. She married in Maugerville, 
16 Sept., 1847, George Allen Tread well, farmer, born in Oromocto, 
Sunbury County, N. B., 14 March, 1814, to Ephraim and Catherine- 
Preaster Treadwell. Mr. Treadwell received his education in the 
common schools. When a young man he engaged in lumbering 
during the winter seasons. In later years he was a successful 
farmer and acquired quite a large estate. He was a lieutenant'in a 
company of Sunbury militia. For many years he was an honored 
deacon of the Baptist church, to which his family adhered. His chil- 
dren received a fair common school education. He died 19 Sept., 
1889, in Maugerville, where his widow now resides (1905). Their 
children, born in Maugerville: George Archibald, born 13 Oct., 1848, 
took a special course in civil engineering in the New Brunswick 
University, but preferred farming, in which he is engaged in Mau- 
gerville; Arthur Marshman, 18 Dec, 1850, died 18 Feb., 1854; 
Laura Jane"; Alfred Allen, 31 Dec, 1854, is a farmer of Mauger- 
ville; Ella Maria, 7 May, 1859, died 21 Feb., 1875; Harry Havelock, 

23 Dec, 1861, died 6 March, 1875. 

5 Sarah I.*^ was born 19 Jan., 1829. She married in Oromocto 
4 Dec, 1851, James Stewart White, born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, 
30 July, 1827, to William, general dealer, and Mary-Morse White. 
Mr. White was at one time sheriff of Sunbury, then a member of 
the Provincial Parliament, and is now a farmer and secretary and 
treasurer of Sunbury County. Their home is Oromocto. Their 
children, born in Oromocto: Bessie Hazen, Sept. 22, 1852; Mary 
IsabeP; Charles Hazen^. 

6 Elizabeth L.^ was born 15 May, 1833 ("14 May, 1834"). She 
married in Oromocto, 19 May, 1852, and became the second wife of 
Alexander Gilmore, born in Belfast, Ireland, 29 June, 1826. Mr. 
Gilmore was a merchant for many years and died in New York City. 
His widow resides in Oromocto. Their children, born in Calais, 
Me.: Charles Hazen'"; Virginia M.". 

7 Laura J.*, dressmaker, was born 80 Aug., 1852. She married 
in Maugerville 7 Dec, 1881, Charles Henley Sterling, born in St. 
Mary's, York County, N. B., 14 Oct., 1860, to George Archibald, 
M. P. P. and farmer, and Caroline-Tilley Sterling. Mr. Sterling is 



238 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

a conductor, I. C. R. R. Their home is Gibson, formerly St. Mary's, 
York County, N. B., where their children were born. Children: 
Harry, born and died 25 Oct., 1882; George Roy, born 19 Dec, 1884, 
died June 8, 1885; Laura May, born 12 July, 1885, died 18 April, 
1886; Louis Kennedy, born 15 Jan., 1887. 

8 Mary L'^ was born 22 Jan., 1857. She married in Oromocto 
30 April, 1883, John E. Stocker, farmer and hotel keeper, born in 
England 24 May, 1852. Their home is Oromocto. Children : Kath- 
leen, born 23 April, 1886; Dorothy, born 31 July, 1889. 

9 Charles H.^ was born 22 Jan., 1866. He married in Lincoln, 
Sunbury County, 14 June, 1894, Frances Mitchell, born there 6 
Sept., 1865, to Henry B., farmer, and Isabel-True Mitchell. Mr. 
White is a telephone lineman. Their home is Oromocto. White 
child: Frances Isabel, born 10 Oct., 1898. 

10 Charles H.*^ was born 18 May, 1855. He married in Oro- 
mocto "about fifteen years ago" Annie Clowes, born in Oromocto 
15 June, 1854, to Gerardus, farmer, and Sarah-Carman Clowes. Mr. 
Gilmore is a farmer. Their home is Oromocto. No children. 

11 Virginia M." was born 19 June, 1857. She married in Oro- 
mocto, 17 May, 1887, James Peters Bliss, farmer, native of that 
place, born 10 May, 1855, to George Johnston, barrister at law, and 
Susan Mary-Dibblee Bliss. They have three children: Mary, born 
in February, 1890 ; Edith, born in December, 1892; Charles born in 
January, 1895. 



FAMILY 132: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOIVIAS-16, ASA-S."!, ASA-64. 

DUDLP:Y PERLEY was born in Maugerville, N. B., 20 March, 
1779. He settled in Miramichi County, about two miles below the 
present town of Chatham, in 1804. The territory was an almost un- 
broken forest peopled almost entirely with roving Indians. He was 
a blacksmith by trade, but followed, besides, farming, fishing and 
lumbering. He was a captain in the militia from 1826, and a magis- 
trate, both till death. He was a Presbyterian and an elder in the 
church for more than forty years. He was a man of commanding 
presence, well educated, and in prosperous circumstances, till the 
great fire of 1825 reduced him almost to the beginning of life anew. 

Our correspondent writes: "Dudley Perley Walls held this man, 
for whom he was named, and an honorable and Christian man, as a 

pattern through- ^ 

out his life-time; /^ 

and I have often j^ (»<:^^< 

heard him .say, 'If / ^ 

I were only half / 

as good a man as Autograph secured by Miss Abigail W. Pei-ley-428 for this book. 

grandfather, I would be somebody.'" 

He married, in Chatham, in 1808, Anne Gillis, who was born in 
Halifax, N. S., 11 April, 1788, to Alexander, a tailor, and Ellen- 
Bremner Gillis, and went to Miramichi, in 1792. Mr. Perley died in 
Chatham, 20 Jan., 1860; his widow, 8 Dec, 1869. 






HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 239 

1 Perley children : Nathaniel'-, Helenor^, Hannah^ Alexander^, 
Asa-265, Dudley-266, Margaret^ Amos-267, William Bryant-268, 
Phoebe'^ Helenl 

2 Nathaniel', was born 19 and died 29 July, 1807. Alexander^ 
was born 9 April, 1812, and died 28 Oct., 1831. Phoebe^ was born 
5 Dec, 1825, and died 13 Sept., 1830. Helen' was born 1 Nov., 
1828, and died 27 Oct., 1846. 

3 Helenor' was born 16 July, 1808, and married in November, 1827, 
John Porteus of Aberdeen, Scotland. Her tomb inscription reads: 

"Here lies the body of Helenor, eldest daughter of Dudley and 
Anne Perley & wife of John Porteus, who died 1*** August, 1828, 
aged 20 years. 

Ah, me ! bereft of one so good and dear, 

How can I well refrain the bitter tear; 

Yet let me not repine, but seek to know 

That heaven she often sought while here below." 

4 Hannah' was born in Chatham, 9 May, 1810, and married there 
in July, 1830, Charles Brown, a tanner, born 12 May, 1808, in St. 
John. She died 12 April, 1874, the mother of Phoebe Ann, born 11 
March, 1833, and Lucy Ruth, born 8 Feb., 1836, who married J. D. 
Lobban and had children, Elizabeth, Ellis, Hannah Brown, Edward 
Nelson, Margaret Garvie, Henrietta Amanda, and James Earle. 

5 Margaret' was born 3 Oct., 1818, in Chatham. She married 
in Chatham, 29 April, 1839, James Walls, born in Chatham 22 July, 
1816, to John A., cooper, and , ^^^ ^ 
Ellen-Brown Walls. Mr. Walls j^ ^ >^ 
was a pilot. He died 17 Oct., ^/^lZ^r^>6^ ^y^,£4^Ce^ 
1882, in Chatham, and his widow Y/^ ^ 

7 April, 1900. Their children, ^ ^ ^ 

born in Chatham, were John, 8 Autograph secured by miss Abigail W. Per- 

Jan., 1840, died 10 Dec, 1846; iey-428 for this book. 

Dudley Perley*^; Helen Grace'; James Alexander^; Ann Gillis> 
16 May, 1849, residing in Chatham; Robert John^; Hannah Brown'"; 
William"; Asa'l 

6 Dudley P.^ was born 17 June, 1842, in Chatham, where he died 
12 Dec, 1904. He married 8 Jan., 1868, in Chatham, Miss Ann 
Matheson Fenton, who was born there 7 Feb., 1847, to Alexander, a 
farmer, and Christina-McLeod Fenton. His widow is living in 
Chatham. Her parents were born in Scotland and died in Chatham 
— he in March, 1869, aged seventy-one years; she 1 April, 1892, aged 
seventy-eight years. Mr. Walls began as a pilot, but was a captain 
for twenty or more of his last years. The St. John Evening Times 
noticed his death as follows: — 

"Chatham, Dec. 12 : — (Special.) Everybody in the community 
feels they have lost a personal friend by the death of Captain Dudley 
Walls, which occurred of diabetes this morning. The deceased, who 
was about 63 years old, was a son of the late James Walls and leaves 
a wife, two daughters, a son and many other relatives, who have 
much sympathy in their bereavement. 

"A valued member and trustee of St. John's Presbyterian church, 
honorable in business, genial, tender-hearted and generous, he was 



240 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

respected and beloved; and seldom has a death in Northumberland 
County caused such general and genuine sorrow." 

One who knew him well in his home writes: "He did not know 
that the fell disease was upon him. He considered his health fairly- 
good, and being a man who hated to give up, he kept around till 
within two weeks of his death. He was a good son, a good brother, 
a good husband, a good father. He would not countenance any- 
thing mean or dishonorable; he was respected by all who knew him. 
I do not believe he had an enemy." 

The Walls children were born: James, 25 Oct., 1868, married, 
having three children; Christina Fenton, 24 Feb., 1870, at home; 
Margaret Perley, 10 March, 1872, a professional nurse, located in 
Maiden, Mass.; Alexander Fenton, 10 Oct., 1873, died in March, 
1874; Lela Katie, 4 Jan., 1876, died 19 Oct., 1882; Mabel Ethel, 30 
Sept., 1877, died in Feb., 1878. 

7 Helen G.'"' was born 20 June, 1844. She married in Chatham 
12 Nov., 1868, James Carruthers Loggie, a carpenter, born in Black- 
brook, 18 May, 1840, to Alexander, a farmer, and Mary-Carruthers 
Loggie. They live in Chatham, having had two children : Mary 
Carruthers, born 3 May, 1869, married Andrew Mills in Dec, 1902, 
living in Bay du. Vin, N. B., having one child; James Walls, born 
20 April, 1871, married Grace Ross, living in Tabusintac, N. B., 
having three or four children. 

8 James A.^ was born 23 July 1846, and died 2 May, 1880. He 
married 1 April, 1873, Mary Agnes Allen, born in 1844 to Johannah- 
Welch Allen. He was a carpenter in Calais, Me., where he died 2 
May, 1880. She died in Stillwater, Minn., 23 Nov., 1887. Walls 
children, born in Calais: Margaret Perley'^; William, 1876, and 
died in about two and a half years; James Frederick, 23 June, 1879, 
residing in St. Paul, Minn. 

9 Robert J.^ was born 20 May, 1850, in Chatham, where 17 Feb., 
1875, he married Isabella Wilson, who was born 4 Jan., 1853, in 
Chatham, (where they now reside) to John, a sailmaker, who died 
19 May, 1902, and Jane G. -Henderson Wilson, who died 25 Nov., 
1856. Mr. Walls was formerly a pilot, but is now a harbor master. 
Their children all born in Chatham, are John Wilson, 25 March, 1876; 
Margaret Helen, 20 Aug., 1878; Lillian Jane, 31 Oct., 1881; Edna 
Blanche, 14 May, 1883; Linda Clare, 16 Jan., 1885; William Glad- 
stone, 14 Sept., 1889; Hilda Isabella, 1 Jan., 1893; Elizabeth Chis- 
holm, 12 Dec, 1895. 

10 Hannah B.^ was born in Chatham, 15 Sept., 1852. She mar- 
ried there 8 April, 1896, Donald A. Ross, a farmer and a fisherman, 
who was born in Oak Point, Alnwick, N. B., 22 Sept., 1853, to Anion, 
a farmer, and Harriet-Brown Ross. Their home, without children, 
is Oak Point. 

11 William' was born 20 April, 1855. He is a pilot, with home 
in Chatham. He married, in Chelsea, Mass., 28 Aug., 1894, Mar- 
garet Phylinda Bishop, a milliner, who was born in Chatham, 22 
June, 1866, to Robert D., a contractor and builder, and Isabella- 
Walls Bishop. They have had these children, born in Chatham : 
Isabella Hannah, 7 Oct., 1895; William Stanley, 23 Sept., 1897; 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 241 

James Alexander, 20 Sept., 1898; Edgar Allan, 26 June, 1900; Sarah 
Ethel, 30 Sept., 1901 ; Robert Bishop, 17 July, 1903. 

12 Asa^ was born 23 June, 1859, in Chatham, where he now lives, 
a pilot. He married in Chatham, 8 Nov., 1888, Amy Electa McGuire, 
who was born in St. John, 4 March, 1865, to Robert, an engineer, 
and Cordelia-Tourtelotte McGuire. Their children, born in Chatham, 
are Robert Alvan, 15 May, 1891; James Elmer, 3 Oct., 1892; Mar- 
garet Louise, 5 April, 1895; Asa Wilbur, 2 March, 1897; Cordelia 
Tourtelotte, 5 March, and died 1 Sept., 1899; Albert Alexander, 28 
March, 1902. 

13 Margaret P.^ was born in Calais 8 April, 1875. She married 
in Stillwater, Minn., 18 Nov., 1891, William Cox Gannaway, a gro- 
cer's clerk, born 4 Sept., 1868, in Cloverport, Ky., to David, a drug- 
gist, and Cornelia- Peyton Gannaway, Their home is Gordon, Wis. 
Their children: David Francis, born 18 Nov., 1892; Clinton James, 
born 18 Nov., 1894; William Frederic, born 18 Nov., 1896; Homer 
Laurence, born 8 May, 1904. It is a remarkable fact, but "18 Nov." 
is correct in every case. 



FAMILY 133: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLANM, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, ASA-64. 

ASA PERLEY was born in 1781, and resided in Maugerville. 
He had a host of friends. He was fond of hunting, and, in sporting 
parlance, was a remarkably good "shot"; "he could take the small- 
est bird on the wing." He was an active and efficient man at car- 
pentry or farming. He married in 1811 Elizabeth Langan. Admin- 
istration was granted upon his estate 15 June, 1832; its value was 
$1400. 

1 Perley children: Jane Elizabeth'-, Frances Louisa^ Dudley 
Putnam-269, Hannah*, Ann Maria'^. 

2 Jane E.^ was born in 1812 and died in March, 1861, aged forty- 
eight years. Hannah^ was born in 1821, and Ann M.^ in 1825. 

3 Frances L.^ was born 7 April, 1815. She married George Banks, 
17 May, 1842. He was a farmer and lumberman, and a worthy 
Baptist. Their children were: Mary, born 17 Feb., 1842, died in 
1846; James Sanford, born 4 Jan., 1844, farmer and lumberman, with 
home in Lincoln, N. B.; George Frederick, born 6 April, 1848, mar- 
ried 15 July, 1880, Henrietta Elizabeth Perley-264\ a scientific 
farmer and carpenter contractor in Maugerville, N. B.; Sarah Eliza- 
beth^ Emma Isabelle, born 16 March, 1850, died 2 Sept., 1875. 

4 Sarah Elizabeth^ was born in Maugerville 4 Jan., 1848. She 
was a school teacher. She married in Waterville, N. B., 12 Nov., 
1874, Byron Jackson Kimball, a farmer, who was born in Lower 
Waterville 5 June, 1855, to Jedediah, a farmer, and Eliza-Murphy 
Kimball. She died in Waterville 14 Sept., 1888. Mr. Kimball is 
at present in the West (1905). Kimball children, born in Water- 
ville: Lena Isabel'^; Pearl Edith*'; Dow, who died in 1881; Blair 
Chester, born 22 Jan., 1884, a lumberman, residing with his sister, 
Mrs. Mclnnis. 

5 Lena I.^ was born in Aug., 1875. She was a school teacher. 



242 THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

She married in Williamstown 29 Aug., 1894, Charles Patrick GalH- 
van, born in Farmerston in 1854, to Patrick, a farmer, and Isabel- 
Caldwell GalHvan. Mr. Gallivan is a farmer in Deerville, N. B., 
where their children were born: Anita Pauline, o July, 1895; Eileen 
Marie, 27 Nov., 1897; Patrick Norman, 18 March, 1899; Carlton 
Henry, 29 April, 1901; Charles Wilfrid Augustus, in May, 1908. 

6 Pearl E.^* was born 15 Oct., 1877. She was a school teacher. 
She married in Williamstown 12 Jan., 1898, John Henry Mclnnis, 
who was born in St. Thomas, N. B., 80 Aug., 1865, to Andrew, a 
farmer, and Ann-McCafferty Mclnnis. Mr. Mclnnis is a farmer in 
St. Thomas, where their children were born: Annie Elizabeth, 11 
Nov., 1898; James Jerome, 29 June, 1900; Andrew George Blair, 9 
Dec, 1901; Pearl Isabel, 11 Sept., 1908. 



FAMILY 184: LOW. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLA>M, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, ELIPHALET-6(J. 

SUSANNAH PERLEY was born in Fitchburg 20 Oct., 1785, 
and married 3 Nov., 1809, Jonathan Low, Jr., a carpenter and 
farmer, and lived in Pltchburg till about 1821, when they removed 
to Vienna, N. Y., with Putnam-66-. Jonathan's parents were Jona- 
than, born in Ipswich 19 Aug., 1748, and Sarah-Perkins, his own 
cousin, who were married in 1770, settled in Lunenburg, where seven 
of their children were born, between 1778 and 1791, and went to 
Fitchburg probably in 1792 or 3. Jonathan's grandparents bore the 
same name exactly as his parents, Jonathan and SarahT^erkins Low, 
probably both born in Ipswich, and there married, where all their 
eleven children were born, and settled in Lunenburg or Lancaster 
about 17()0 or 08. Jonathan Low, Jr., carpenter, and his wife Susan- 
nah of Lancaster, for $25 sold to Betsey-00' and Clarissa-OO'', spinsters, 
25 March, 1817, a realty in Fitchburg, reserving a life tenancy to 
their father and mother, Eliphalet and Anna. 

1 Low children: Susan Elvira'\ Charles-, Julia Ann'', Harriet 
Newell', Jonathan Porter'-, Isaac Perkins"-, Elizabeth Adelaide^ David 
Perley^ Marian-, Mary Emma. 

2 Charles^ was born in Jan., 1812; Harriet' born 19 May, 1815; 
Jonathan' born 20 April, 1817; Isaac', born 20 June, 1819; Marian', 
born 10 March, 1820. 

3 Susan E.' was born 10 Oct., 1810, in Fitchburg, Mass., and 
died near Mound City, Kansas, 9 Jan., 1898. She married in Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, 24 June, 1880, Augustus Wattles, who was born in 
Lebanon, Ct., 25 Aug., 1807, to Sarah-Thomas and Erastus Wattles. 
He was a farmer, and died 19 Dec, 1867, near Mound City, Kansas, 
having had children: Sarah Grimke, born 7 Dec, 1837, in Mercer 
County, 0.,who was a medical doctor and married 1 June, 1808, Lundy 
Hiatt, M. D., and resided in Mound City, Kansas; Theodore, born 
25 May, 1840, in Ohio, a farmer, who married Malvena Hammond, 
in Jan., 1883, and had Howard and Ruth ; P^mma, born 15 July, 1S42, 
in Mercer County, O., married 18 Oct., 1801, P^aton Morse, a farmer, 
who had Walter Lowe, John Otis, Theodore Wattles, Stuart Tellson, 
OrHn Raymond, and Eleanor Eaton; Mary Ann, born 10 Oct., 1845, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 243 

in Ohio, a medical doctor, who married 4 July, 1882, Carroll Faunce, 
M. D., and had Theodore Wattles, Eugene and Hilda. 

4 Julia A.' was born 28 March, 1813, in Fitchburg, Mass., and 
died 19 March, 1892, in Geneva, Ohio. She married in Yorkville, 
N. Y., 13 Aug., 1835, Benjamin Brainard Weber, who was born in 
Frankfort, N. Y„ 10 Sept., 1811, to Jacob, and died in Ashford,N. Y., 
13 Sept., 1848, leaving children: Harriet Adelaide, born 19 March, 
1840, married E. H. Votan, (and had Mary Theresa who married 
Arthur W. Brett and had Robert Votan and Eldon Fitch ; Clyde 
Weber who married Cora Whitmore and had Claire); Theresa 
Rocelia, born 23 Feb., 1843, married Thomas Bosworth, (and had 
Jacob Clarence Weber who married Lulu Black and had Harold; 
Richard Olin Schanks who married Minnie Lutz and had Cecil; 
Herbert Eugene; Rocelia Maud); Benjamin LeMoyne, born 19 
March, 1845, married Mary Wells (and had Elizabeth Rocelia; Annie 
May, who married Will McLaughlin and had Harrison and Emer- 
son); Julia Lyravine, born 25 June, 1847. 

5 Elizabeth A.^ was born in Vienna, N. Y., 30 Aug., 1821, and 
married, in Oberlin, O., 10 May, 1847, John Huntington Byrd, who 
was born in Vergennes, Vt., 28 Dec, 1816, to Abigail Huntington 
and Thomas Byrd, J. P. and fine stock farmer. He died near Law- 
rence, Kansas, 29 July, 1897, having children born: Abby Elizabeth, 
16 March, 1848; Mary Emma, 15 Nov., 1849; Clara Margaret, 1 Oct., 
1851; Wm. Thomas, 19 Feb., 1854; Charles Henry, 11 July, 1856; 
Alice Huntington, 21 Dec, 1862. 

"John Huntington Byrd's grandfather was a Revolutionary 
soldier and a descendant of a sister of Rev. Jonathan Edwards, the 
Northampton logician and ' greatest American theological thinker of 
his day,' says Dr. Cordley. He was educated at Oljerlin College, 
studied theology, and went to a church in Union, Mich. In 1855, 
he settled on a claim in Kansas, near Leavenworth, and preached at 
several places in and around that town. He experienced all the 
ferocity of the lawless 'Kickapoo Rangers' in the territory's ad- 
mission to statehood, and was arrested by them on suspicion. He 
was a hero; he spoke calmly and fearlessly; he never obtruded, he 
never flinched. His house, sheltering fugitives, was searched in vain, 
and they escaped safely to Canada. After leaving the pulpit he was 
a devout worshiper. At the time of his death two of his children 
had died, Wm., Abbie and Alice were at home, and Mary was in 
charge of the astronomical observatory of Smith College, North- 
ampton, Mass." 

6 David P.^ was born 23 Aug., 1823, in Fitchburg, Mass., and 
was a lawyer. He died in April, 1883, at Fort Scott, Kansas. His 
marriage was in April, 1852, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Tilney Hiatt. 
Their three children were: Ida, born 22 Dec, 1852, in Cincinnati, 
married Charles Graen, had Percy Lowe and Hazel, and died at 
Fort Scott; Eldon, who had two children; and Maud. "David Per- 
ley Lowe was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives for 
two terms, from 1868. Grant appointed him chief justice of Utah, 
which office he resigned after a short time. Returning to Fort 
Scott he was elected judge of the district, which office he held till 
his death. He and Grant were warm friends." 



FAMILY 135: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4. THOMAS-16, ASA-35, ALLEX-67. 

ALLEN PERLEY was born in Winchendon, Mass., 24 Aug., 
1782, and settled in Gardner, Mass. He was a member of the school 
board, 1817. 

Allen Perley, Jr., laborer, Gardner, for $(325, 5 Nov., 1808, sold to 
Ezra Sawyer of Sterling, gentleman, fifteen acres of land in Gardner, 
on old town line of Templeton and Winchendon, lot No. 170. — Reg., 
171 :403. 

Jesse Hill, for $32.85, sold, 21 Nov., 1808, to Allen Perley, yeo- 
man, of Gardner, 4 acres on brook above Allen Perley's sawmill. — 
Reg., 174 : 130. 

Timothy Kneeland and wife Mariah, for $200, sold 1 April, 1809, 
to Allen Perley, yeoman, both of Gardner, 12 acres and 40 rods with 
dwelling house and other buildings. — Reg., 174 : 131. 

Allen Perley, Jr., Gardner, for $40 sold to Thomas Greenwood of 
Winchendon, 5 acres, 100 rods, a part of the Ezra Sawyer land. 
" Said Perley's sawmill on the line of said Gardner," thence S. 39" W., 
54 rods on said town line — on mill pond — to mill dam — reserving 
right to use land as mill yard and gravel to repair the mill dam, 24 
May, 1816. Signed Allen Perley, Jr., and Anna Perley. — Reg., 
206 : 498. 

Allen Perley, Jr., yeoman, and Anne Perley for $300, 12 Nov., 
1825, sold to Joel Richardson of Templeton, yeoman, land in the 
northwest part of Gardner, on the road to Royalston, with sawmill. 
—Reg., 247 : 173. 

Smyrna W. Bancroft and Lucy his wife, for $150, sold 8 June, 
1829, to Allen Perley, Jr., yeoman, of Gardner, 14 acres of land in 
west part of the town. — Reg., 276 : 124. 

John Kneeland, Esq., Chesterfield P^ng., for $148.75, sold, 17 
Nov., 1831, to Allen Perley of Gardner, yeoman, a part of lot No. 172 
in Gardner.— Reg., 298 : 295. 

Cephas M. Phinney, Gardner, yeoman, for $500, mortgaged, 1 
Sept., 1837, to Allen Perley, Gardner, yeoman, land in Gardner, 
third of an acre with house on it, also a part of the Kneeland farm 
conveyed to Miriam Kneeland from John Phinney. — Reg., 327 : 188. 
He gave "peaceable possession," 20 July, 1841. 

He married 23 (published 24— record) Oct., 1808, Miss Anna 
Greenwood, both of Gardner. She was born 7 June, 1791, and died 
6, and he 25, March, 1844, he aged sixty-one years, seven months and 
one day, she fifty-two years, eight months and twenty nine days. 
His daughter Martha, who was the oldest heir-at-law to the estate, 
25 March, 1847, settled his estate which was valued — 

The homestead, 57 acres with buildings, $566.67 

Out lands, 8 acres, .... 32.00 

Personal estate, 456.64 

Doubtful notes, ..... 72.22 

Total, $1127.58 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 245 

1 Perley children : Martha'^ Sylvia^ Elizabeth^ 

2 Martha' was born 16 Jan., 1809, and died, single, 9 Feb., 1881, 
aged seventy-two years and twenty-three days. Her estate, all per- 
sonal, was valued for probate at ^2,218.54, 28 June, 1881.— No. 
46028. 

Mrs. J. S. Sheibly, 22 March, 1886, represented that Elizabeth 
Phinney, late of Minier, Tazewell County, 111., was deceased, and 
was sole heir-at-law of Martha Perley, and that Mrs. J. S. Sheibly 
is sole heir of said Elizabeth Phinney, and is interested in the estate 
of said Martha, and asks that the administrator settle his account. 

3 Sylvia' was born 19 June, 1810, and died "21 June, 1856, of 
cancer, aged forty-six years and two days." She made her will 26 
June, 1854. She mentions in it her sister Elizabeth Phinney, and 
names her sister Martha as executrix. Martha's bond is dated 5 
Aug., 1856. Thomas Kinnicutt, judge. — No. 46032. 

4 Elizabeth' was born 30 Jan., 1814, and married Cephas M. 
Phinney. Children: Murcilous, born 1 July, 1838, married Lucy 
Andrews, and had Orianna, born 10 April, 1862, Lillie May, born 9 
July, 1865, Osceola Henry, born 27 Sept., 1866, Ola Sylvia, born 23 
March, 1871 ; Martha Elizabeth, born 23 Aug., 1840, married Lorren 
Andrews, and had Charles Perley, born 28 June, 1867, and Henry 
Allen, born 13 June, 1871 ; Sylvia Anna, born 13 Aug., 1842, married 
Henry Sturges, and had Walter Henry, born 8 April, 1860, P>anklin 
Phinney, born 11 Nov., 1861, Lewiza Sylvia, born 24 Feb., 1872; 
Mary Orilah, born 25 Dec, 1844, married Wm. Proctor, and had 
Wm. Prichard, born 25 Aug., 1869, Minnie Elizabeth, born 9 Feb., 
1871, Arthur Phinney, born in Sept., 1872, Fred. Everett, born in 
March, 1874; and Mariah Jane, born 23 Dec, 1846. 



FAMILY 136: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, ALLEN-67. 

DAVID PERLEY was born 10 April, 1786, and settled in Gard- 
ner, Mass. 

David Perley, nailer, and wife Miriam, for $50, sold 16 Nov.,1811, 
to Abraham G. Parker, housewright, both of Gardner, 50 poles of 
land on turnpike road 10 rods. — Reg., 181 : 365. 

The same day Abraham G. Parker and his wife Lydia reconveyed 
the property to David Perley. — Reg., 183 :81. 

Ephraim Williams, gentleman, and wife Betsey, for $90, sold, 26 
Dec, 1817, to David Perley, blacksmith, both of Gardner, 27 rods of 
land on turnpike. — Reg., 213 : 50. 

David Perley, blacksmith, for $100, mortgaged, 6 May, 1825, to 
Adam Partridge, yeoman, and David Read, cordwainer, all of Gard- 
ner, 27 rods of land "on turnpike road" in Gardner. Signed David 
Perley and Miriam Perley.— Reg., 243 : 413. 

Abraham G. Parker, Gardner, housewright, for $134, sold to 
Francis Hill, housewright and David Perley, yeoman, both of Gard- 



246 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

ner, two-thirds of a tract of land in Gardner, 4 Aug., 1808. — Reg., 
174 :635. 

Wm. Bickford, gentleman, sold to Francis Hill and Abraham S. Par- 
ker, housewrights, and David Perley, yeoman, all of Gardner, land in 
Gardner, 30 sq. rods, with blacksmith's shop on land. "Bridge at Noyes' 
corner." They to build bridge and road to turnpike. — Reg., 190 : 638. 

David Perley, blacksmith, and wife Miriam, for $300, sold, 1 July, 
1826, to Edward W. Kendall and Luke Sawin, yeomen, all of 
Gardner, land in Gardner, near turnpikegate with house and barn on 
it, where said Perley now lives and which he bought of Ephraim 
Williams.— Reg., 250 :463. 

David Perley's widow, Miriam, was his administratrix; her bond 
is dated 3 Sept., 1833. Miriam's administrator was Asa Perley and 
his bond is dated 1 Nov., 1864. "Her only next of kin were her 
daughters: Elmina Perley, Caroline Rice wife of Edwin, Gardner, 
and Hannah B. Nichols, wife of Fred'k D., West Brookfield, and 
Anna P. Howard wife of Joseph, Westminster; her sons: David of 
Shirley Village, Asa of Gardner, Henry P., N. Y. C., South Read- 
ing, and Asa; and the heirs of Thuseba Bigelow, Cynthia H. Perley 
and Susan Perley. — No. 46030. 

He married 18 Jan., 1809— published 28 Dec, 1808— Miss Miriam 
Partridge of Gardner, where they resided. She was born 13 July, 
1789, and died 15 Oct., 1864, aged seventy-six years, one month, 
twenty-five days. He died 20 July, 1833. 

1 Children: Elmina^ Anna'-, Thuseba'-, Hannah Bigelow'', David- 
270, Mary Ann'-, Hiram'- and Adam'-, Asa'', Henry Partridge-271, 
Caroline'^. 

2 Anna^ was born 20 Aug., 1811, married Joseph Howard, died 3 
Feb., 1876. Thuseba^ was born 21 Nov., 1813, married 1 Oct., 1847, 
John S. Crosby, and Augustus Bigelow the fall of 1858, and died 29 
Feb., 1869. Mary A^, was born 12 April, 1821, died 17 Aug., 1838; 
Hiram and Adam, twins, born 11 and died 12 and 13 of April, 1823. 

3 Elmina^ was born 23 June, 1809, and died, unmarried, in Gard- 
ner, 22 April, 1878. Her real estate was one-eighth interest in home 
place $90 and her personal estate was valued at $456.85. Her 
brother Asa was executor, and her heirs-at-law and next of kin were 
her sisters: Hannah B. Nichols, wife of P"red D. of Ware, and Carrie 
Rice, wife of Edwin, whose children were Edwin D. and Carrie A.; 
her brothers: Asa of Gardner and Henry P. of Brooklyn, N.Y.; her 
nephews and nieces: six of Fitchburg — Walter H. Crosby, Mary 
Harris, wife of Frank, Fanny I. Perley, David E. Perley, Herbert 
Perley, Ada Perley; Charles H. Crosby of Athol, Maria Webb of 
Brockton, and Newell N. Crosby. 

4 Hannah B.^ was born 1 Nov., 1816, married 9 Jan., 1850, 
Frederick D. Nichols, of W^arren, resided in Gardner, and had chil- 
dren born: George F., 16 Aug., 1851; Frank P., 21 Sept., 1853; 
Charles F., 8 June, 1856; Ruth M., 12 Oct., 1858. 

5 Asa^ was born 27 Aug., 1825. He married, 12 Oct., 1854, 
Harriet Elizabeth Smith of Hubbardston, Mass. She was born 11 
Dec, 1823, and survived her husband. He died 10 June, 1888, aged 
sixty-two years, nine months, fourteen days. Their home was South 
Gardner. He made his will 8 Oct., 1 878. He gave all his property to 



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247 



his wife, Harriet E., and if anything remained at her decease, it was 
to be equally divided between Edwin D. Rice and Caroline A. Rice, 
children of Edwin Rice', and Frances I. Perley, daughter of David 
Perley-270. 

6 Caroline' was born 25 June, 1830, married 5 Sept., 1849, Edwin 
Rice, a chair manufacturer, son (twenty-three years old) of Daniel 
W. and Candice of South Gardner, and had Mary A., born 20 June, 
1850; Edwin D., 23 Sept., 1851, a chair manufacturer; and Carrie 
A., 30 July, 1854, a music teacher. 



FAMILY 137: DAVIS. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, ALLEN-(i7. 

ANNA PERLEY was born 19 Aug., 1795, in Gardner. She 
became the first wife of George Washington Davis, born 2 Jan., 
1791, to Silas and Rachel-Gay Davis of Templeton. She died in 
Gardner of consumption 10 Dec, 1821, only twenty-six years old. 
Mr. Davis' second wife, married 19 Dec, 1822, was Betsey Conant, 
born to Josiah and Annis-Derby Conant of Gardner 8 April, 1791. 
She died 21 Oct., 1837, aged forty-six years, and Mr. Davis married 
his third wife, Lilvia Rich, 25 June, 1840. She was born in Phillips- 
ton 29 March, 1798, and died 8 Jan., 1870. Mr, Davis' home was 
Gardner; he was a thrifty farmer; he served his town on the school 
board one year, the board of assessors two years, and the board of 
selectmen fourteen years. He died 22 July, 1857. 

[His children by his second wife were Lyman, born 23 Nov., 
1824, died of consumption in Gardner 5 Oct., 184t). Leander, born 
29 June, 1826, married, 7 Sept., 1863, Jane E. Shurtleff, born in Wil- 
braham 16 May, 1825, resided in Holyoke, where he was a restaura- 
teur, without children. Anna, born 25 Sept., 1827, married 10 
March, 1855, Dexter P. Starkey, born in Troy, N. H., 2 Feb., 1824, 
manufacturer of compressed yeast in Providence, haying Emma 
Isadore, born in Woonsocket 6 Sept., 1856, died in Hudson City, 
N. J., 21 Oct., 1867; Lilla Maria, born in Worcester 4 March, 1859; 
Mary Mahala, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 29 June, 1862, died in Man- 
chester, N. H., 12 Aug., 1874; Anna Pierce, born in Hudson City, 
N. J., 27 Aug., 1867; Byron Gilbert, born in Jersey City, N. ]., 6 
Feb., 1870; George Washington, born in Jersey City 20 Dec, 1872, 
died there 30 June, 1873. Annis Maria, born 30 March, 1829, died 
6 Feb., 1860, in Gardner. Lucy Ann, born 5 June, 1830, died in 
Worcester, 29 Jan., 1858. Silas, born 1 Jan., 1832, died 19 April, 
1842, by sliding down a hay-mow upon a pitchfork in Gardner. 
Charles, born 13 July, 1834, married 24 F"eb., 1857, Lucy Beers, 
born in Shaftsbury, Vt., 2 Dec, 1833, foreman in the Allen Woolen 
Mill, Hanover, Ct., having Geo. Washington, born in Troy, N. Y., 
23 June, 1858; Charles Eugene, born in Worcester 30 April, 1860; 
Otis Hudson, born 23 May, 1863; Leander, born at Leicester 7 
May, 1867; Walter Crawford, born in Worcester 21 Nov-., 1870, and 



248 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

died 24 Oct., 1871; Alvin Silas, born 23 March, 1872; Mary Abby, 
born 1 July, 1874.] 

1 Perley-Davis children : Walter-, George'^ Alonzo^ Betsey^ 

2 Walter^ was born 18 Nov., 1813, and 5 April, 1843, married 
Mary Frances Conant, who was born in Acton, Mass., 20 July, 1822. 
They removed to New Ipswich, N. H., where he was a merchant 
and died without issue 9 Dec, 1845. 

3 George^ was born 17 Nov., 1814, in Gardner, and died 4 Oct., 
1862, in Frederick, Md., from wounds received in the battle of 
Antietam. His wife, married 28 June, 1849, in Lowell, Mass., was 
Mrs. Abbie-Gage Poor, who was born 29 Sept., 1814, in Newbury, 
Vt., to Moses and Mary-Abbott Gage. She died in Lawrence, Mass., 
12 Aug., 1900. Their only child was Franklin Benjamin, who was 
born 4 Aug., 1853, in South Lawrence, where he is a manufacturer; 
and who married 3 May, 1880, in Haverhill, Miss Mary Abbie 
Freethy, born in Brooklin, Me., 17 March, 1861, to Abbie Melissa- 
Herrick, and Augustus Fenno Freethy, a sea captain; and whose 
only child is Fonnie Ethel, born in Lawrence 15 Feb., 1882. 

4 Alonzo^ was born in Gardner, Mass., 15 Nov., 1817, and 21 
May, 1845, married Betsey Tameson Jackson, who was born in 
Gardner 22 Aug., 1822, and died in Fitchburg, Mass., 3 Jan., 1847, 
the mother of one child. His second wife, Mary Susan Buttrick, 
married 6 Dec, 1859, was born in Dracut, Mass., 2 March, 1839, to 
Francis, deputy sheriff, and Mary B.-Bird Buttrick. Mr. Davis died 
23 May, 1888, in Fitchburg, where his widow now resides. 

The early part of Mr. Davis' life was spent in Gardner, where he 
worked on a farm and attended the common school. He afterwards 
learned the chairmaker's trade. He went to Fitchburg, Mass., in 
1845 and with a Mr. Rice and a Mr. Pratt began the manufacture of 
cane-seat chairs. This business he followed until April, 1877, when 
he closed out his business and retired to private life. Immediately 
upon retiring from business he was elected to the City Council of 
Fitchburg, and was successively elected to the city government for 
eight years, serving the last three years as mayor of the city. 

Although having but a common school education in his youth, 
he managed by persistent and careful study and reading, to become 
exceedingly well informed upon all matters pertaining to public 
policy. Naturally of a modest and retiring nature he did not seek 
for the honors of office, but they came to him unsolicited. Of a 
genial, whole-souled nature, strictly honest in all dealings, public and 
private, his advice in civic affairs was often sought for by younger 
men ; and when he passed on to the better life, the people of Fitch- 
burg realized they had lost a good and valuable citizen. His only 
child is Walter Alonzol 

5 Betsey' was born 13 Oct., 1821, and 29 April, 1847, married, 
second, Joseph Hale Coolidge of Gardner, where he was born to 
Joseph and Achsa-Hale Coolidge 28 Feb., 1818, and died 25 March, 
1859. He was a chairmaker. She died in Gardner 22 April, 1883. 
Issue: Henry Alonzo"; George Herbert, born 21 June, l1^ 50, died 
10 June, 1852; and Lucy Annette, born 16 April, 1853. 

6 Walter A." was born in Fitchburg 13 July, 1846. "The first 
thirteen years of his life were spent in Hubbardston. He after- 





HON. ALONZO DAVIS. 




WALTER A. DAVIS, ESQ. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 24^ 

wards returned to Fitchburg and graduated from the high school, 
class of '65, and from Williams College, class of '69. 

" He was associated with his father in the chair business for eight 
years; afterwards he was employed by the Fitchburg Railroad as 
freight and ticket clerk until January, 1887, when he was elected 
city clerk of Fitchburg. He has served in that capacity for eighteen 
years and has just (Jan., 1905,) been unanimously re-elected for 
three years. 

"He has been prominent in the Masonic Fraternity, being past 
master of Aurora Lodge, past commander of Jerusalem Commandery, 
Fitchburg, past worthy patron of Lady Emma Chapter, O. E. S., 
Fitchburg, and also an Encampment Odd Fellow. He is a son of 
the American Revolution, from both the Davis and the Jackson 
ancestry. He is a member of the Universalist church." 

Mr. Davis is a professional accountant. Too much has not been 
said in praise of his method as clerk of Fitchburg. The records, 
old and new, are arranged on a plan at once comprehensive, simple, 
exact. One has said: "The manifold work of his office he has re- 
duced to an exact science, and he is well known in the state as a 
highly efficient public official." 

He married 28 April, 1874, Fannie Adelia Bogart, who was born 
in Fitchburg 3 Feb., 1849, to Cornelius, superintendent of a paper 
mill, and Sarah G.-Lovell Bogart. Mrs. Davis is prominent in social 
circles, and a leading member of the Woman's Club and other so- 
cieties. Mr. and Mrs. Davis celebrated, at their home, the twenty- 
fifth anniversary of their marriage in the presence of a large company 
of officials, relatives and friends. 

Their children, born in Fitchburg: Ethel Lovell, 1 March, 1875, 
a graduate of the local high school and State Normal school — four 
years in each — a student in Tufts College one year, and a teacher for 
live years in the public schools of Athol; Bessie Jackson, 17 Aug., 
1878, a clerk in the office of the city clerk of Fitchburg. 

7 Henry A.^ was born in Gardner 24 Oct., 1848, and 23 Jan., 
1877, married Effie Ann Smith, who was born in SterHng, Mass., 
20 Jan., 1858, to Luther, a carpenter, and Abbie Parmelia-Everett 
Smith. He is a chairmaker in Gardner, where his children were 
born : Ida May* and Ada Annette^ 

8 Ida M.^ was born 8 Sept., 1877. She married in Gardner, 30 
Oct., 1895, Fred Clesson Merritt, grocery clerk, born in Templeton 
2 Oct., 1874, to Charles Clesson and Elvah V.-Wilder. Their home 
is Gardner. Merritt children: Beulah May, born 10 May, 1896; 
Mildred Hazel, born 26 Aug., 1898; Mary Everett, born 15 Nov., 
1901; Henry Charles, born 8 Dec, 1903. 

9 Ada A.'' was born 15 Oct., 1879, and married in Gardner, 28 
June, 1898, Jacob George Britton, carpenter, born in Hinsdale, 
N. H., 12 Sept., 1877, to George and Alice-Bailey Britton. Their 
home is Gardner. Britton child: Doris Alice, born 15 March, 1904. 



FAMILY l:;s: PERL1<:Y. 

LINEAL DESCENT- ALLAN-1, THOMAt^-4, THOMAS-K;, ASA-Sr., ALLAN-liT. 

ASA PERLEY was born 4 Oct., 1797. He was a farmer 
in Gardner, Mass. He was 
of Templeton, Mass., when y ^^iG ^ 

Mar7Kendall"orGl?d::^ ^^^^ e/.t.KMy_ 

born 8 Sept., 1803, to Mar- ^^ 

tin and Prudence-Kendall '^'■'"'^° '"""^ ^^''^^'^ '''''''' ""'' '''''''■ 

Kendall, whom he married 21 Oct., 1821. He was published in 
Templeton 14 Sept., she in Gardner 16 Sept., 1821. He was a 
farmer and pioneer chair manufacturer; and for many years was a 
deacon in the Baptist church. He died 8 Sept., 1867, and his wife 
4 April, 1875. 

Asa Perley and wife Mary, for $128.65, pledged 19 P^eb., 1839, to 
David Parker and William Learned, all of Gardner, 80 acres of land 
and buildings on it, one mile west of Gardner meeting house. — Reg., 
341 : 44. 

Asa Perley, mechanic, and wife Mary, for $110.53, pledged 20 
Feb., 1839, to Wm. Whitney and Noah P^airbanks, 80 acres of land 
in western part of Gardner with buildings on it ; also other land, 
f acre with turning shop. — Reg., 341 : 45. 

Benj. Clark, yeoman, and Martha his wife, for $6.19, sold 31 
Dec, 1834, to Asa Perley, laborer, all of Gardner, 121 rods of land, 
in west part of Gardner. — Reg., 254 : 70. 

Asa Perley and wife Mary borrowed $200 of Ezra Baker and 
George W. Davis, 24 July, 1828, when he owned turning shop, 
water privilege, turning lathe, circular saw, etc., constituting a 
pioneer chair factory. 

He left personal estate valued for probate at $1942.94 — $800 
real estate and $1142.94 personal. All his heirs at law were : his 
widow Mary, eight sons and daughters, Mary E. Nichols wife of 
John, and Ellen Maria. 

"The Perley family is one of the oldest in the town. According 
to Herrick's 'History of Gardner,' Allen Perley came from Auburn 
and settled on what is known as the John Stacy place. At one time 
the family homestead included a large portion of what is known as 
Little Canada, the Crystal lake cemetery and the land to the 
northward, as far as Crystal lake park. On this farm there are 
now standing sixty-four houses and one schoolhouse, and the 
valuation of the property has increased many times." 

The local newspaper of 4 Sept., 1885, had the following: — 
"The Perley family reunion and picnic last week was a rarely de- 
lightful occasion. Would we were a Perley. The happy affair was 
held at the bowling alley of J. M. Perley, the weather being too cold 
to admit of a grove picnic, and one of the principal features was the 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 251 

fish chowder prepared by George and Walter and partaken of by 
about forty Perleys and those connected by marriage. There must 
have been considerable 'pouting' as it took about three hundred 
of them for dinner, with other 'luxuries of the season.' Games, 
music and social conversation were highly enjoyed. This family 
which originally numbered eleven, nine boys and two girls, were the 
sons and daughters of Deacon Asa Perley of Gardner. One of the 
brothers died in the army, the remainder were all present on this 
occasion, meeting for the first time together since the death of their 
mother seven years ago, although they reside but a few miles apart, 
that is, in Templeton and Gardner. But it is our earnest wish that 
they may live to meet on many similar occasions." 

1 Perley children: Mary Klmira'-, Asa Proctor-272, Charles Ad- 
dison-273, William Porter^ George Allen-274, James Monroe-275, 
Francis Walter-27(3, Theophilus Parsons-277, Leander Alonzo\ Lewis 
Sylvester-278, Ellen Maria^ 

2 Mary E.^ was born in Gardner 5 May, 1822, and married there 
24 June, 1847, John Nichols, an inventor, born in Hubbardston, 
Mass., 27 Sept., 182G, to John, a farmer, and Mercy- Woodward 
Nichols. He died in Templeton, Mass., 14 Nov., 1892; and she 15 
Jan., 1900. Nichols children: Charles Addison, born in Gardner, 
Mass., 10 Jan., 1850, married in Gardner, Elva Sophia Upton, a na- 
tive of Gardner; he died 5 July, 1882, in Boston. Ada Annette, 
born in Gardner 29 Aug., 1853, married in Baldwinsville 8 March, 
1882, William Carleton a painter, born in Newton, Mass., 7 Jan., 
1847. He died in Baldwinsville 4 Sept., 1894. 

o William P.^ was born 2 April, 1829, and married 29 Nov., 
1860, Martha Jane Wright, born 21 June, 1839, to Simeon B. and 
Hannah K.-Richardson Wright of Templeton. He was a mechanic. 
He died 11 May, 1894, of paralysis. She died 6 Dec, 1872. Her 
next of kin at her death were: Almira J. Wright, sister-in-law; 
Achsah J. Whitney and Emma J. Clapp, "my dear friends"; Edith 
F. Wright, niece; Joel Richardson, uncle; George S. Wright, be- 
loved brother; Hannah K. Wright, beloved mother; Wm. Porter 
Perley, beloved husband. 

4 Leander A.^ was born 19 June, 1841, and died in the servdce of 
his country, at Mound City, 19 Aug., 1863. 

5 Ellen M.^ was born in Gardner, Mass., 10 Sept., 1846, married 
in Bellows Falls, Vt., 31 July, 1868, John Adin Stearns, born in 
Swanzey, N. H., 7 Feb., 1842, to John, a hat finisher, and Harriet 
Elizabeth-King Stearns. He was a patriot soldier in the Civil War, 
a sergeant in Co. D of the 36th Mass. Regiment, then first ser- 
geant, then first lieutenant. By reason of severe wounds received 
18 June, 1864, near Petersburg, Va., he was unable to report for 
duty, and was discharged for disability 29 Oct., 1864. He is now 
retired. Their home is Baldwinsville. Their children: Mary 
Evelyn, born in Fitchburg, Mass., 13 Nov., 1871, unmarried, at 
home; John Harry^ 

6 John H.^ was born 13 Feb., 1874, in Baldwinsville, Mass., 
married in Milford, Mass., 10 June, 1898, Edith Marion Jenks, born 
in Pawtucket, R. L, 21 Feb., 1877, to Alonzo Jenks, a commercial 



252 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

traveler. Their home is Milford, N. H., where Mr. Stearns is sta- 
tion agent. They have a daughter, Helen, born in Gardner, Mass., 
24 March, 1899. 



FAMILY 139: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT—ALLAN-l, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, DANIEL-G8. 

DANIEL PERLEY was born 14 April, 1794, in Bridgton, Me., 
and became a farmer in South Bridgton. His wife was Miss La- 
vinia Thompson, married 30 Jan., 1835, in Avon, where she was born. 
She died in River Falls, Wis., in Nov., 1886. She was a milliner by 
trade. He died, 13 May, 1857, in South Bridgton. "Mr. Perley's 
success previous to the panic of 1836 was somewhat remarkable. He 
was a typical lumberman and was closely identified with other en- 
terprises of great importance. The collapse of the land speculations 
that had affected the entire United States several years previous to 
1836 nearly dissipated his fortune, and he retired to his farm. The 
family name was at one time a household word in Maine." 

1 Perley children : Helena Thompson'-, Frances Mahala^ John 
Wesley-279. 

2 Helena T.' was born 14 Jan., 1836, and died 28 April, 1858. 

3 P"rances Mahala^ was born in South Bridgton 29 Jan., 1838, 
where she married 20 May, 1860, Albert Greenleaf Berry, born 12 
Oct., 1837, to Albert Greenleaf and Eunice-Carpenter Berry of the 
same place. He is a millwright by trade, as was his father, in South 
Bridgton. She was educated in common and private schools, and 
was a successful teacher when she married. She was a brilliant 
scholar "and occupied for three years the office of superintendent 
of schools in her native town. This was twenty years after her 
marriage." She was an ardent church worker and home maker. 
She died 14 Sept., 1898. Berry issue: Clara Helena*, Frances 
Eliza^ 

4 Clara H." was born 23 June, 1861. She was educated in the 
common and high schools, attended a girls' boarding school in Bos- 
ton, and was special student at Wellesley College two years, 1890-92. 
In 1893 she removed to St. Croix Falls, Wis., and was private sec- 
retary for her uncle John W. Perley-279, and in 1900 removed to 
Beaver, on a farm, for out-of-door life and health. She is now a 
farmer and raiser of Red Short Horn and Durham cattle. 

5 Frances Eliza^ was born 23 Sept., 1863, in South Bridgton. 
She studied in high and normal schools and taught three years be- 
fore her marriage. She married 17 March, 1886, in Bridgton, Aldana 
Theodore Ingalls, civil engineer, born 22 Nov., 1861, to Mary J.- 
Patrick and Darwin Ingalls, a farmer of the same town, and a 
brother of Clarissa who married John P. Perley-122^ They have 
Marian Elizabeth, the only child of the third generation from Daniel 
Perley-139. 




MISS MARIAN E. INGALLS. 



FAMILY 140: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, DANIEL-68. 

FREDERIC PORTER PERLEY was born in Bridgton, Me., 
18 Oct., 1797. When about sixteen years old, he went to Brighton, 
Mass., and after about two years shipped for St. John, N. B., for 
Husons & Co., as second mate and carpenter. He made several 
voyages to the West Indies and the Spanish coast. He then as- 
sisted in building two merchant vessels, on the Salmon river, for the 
same firm. There he found his " first mate," Miss Elizabeth Earle, 
who was born in St. John 24 April, 1800, to Henry and Jerusha- 
Lummeraux PLarle from New Jersey. Her father took part in the 
Revolutionary War under Gen. Anthony Wayne and was severely 
wounded. They married at Grand Lake, N. B., 1 Aug., 182.5. In 
1829, Mr. Perley went to Houlton, Me.; in 1831, into Canada; in 
1839, into Ohio; in 1845, into Indiana, and in 1873 to Springhill, 
Iowa, where he settled down with his brother William, wiser for the 
experience and not on its account impaired in health. He was liv- 
ing in Michigan City, Indiana, in 1874. 

Mr. Perley took part in the War of 1812, for which he received a 
pension. He also took part in the Canadian Rebellion; but, says 
his son Asa, " I do not think John Bull appreciated his services, as 
he gets no pension for it." Asa further says: "Father has led a 
wandering and unsettled life, and has met with many adventures, 
both on sea and land. I think if his whole life were written out, it 
would rival the story of the Wandering Jew or Robinson Crusoe." 
He died 5 April, 1881, and reposes in a little cemetery near Spring- 
hill, Iowa. His widow died there 28 Aug., 1897. 

1 Perley children: William Earl-280, Asa Charles-281, George 
Augustus-282, Jerusha Ann*, David Poor-283. 

2 Jerusha A.^ was born 19 April, 1834, in Toronto, Canada, and 
married 1 Oct., 1854, in Laporte, Indiana, and became the second 
wife of Frederick Charles Knubbe, born in Province of Mecklen- 
burg-Schwerin, Germany, 6 Nov., 1832, to Charles Knubbe. His 
first wife was Annis Clement. He was a merchant tailor in Michi- 
gan City, Ind., and was considered among the wealthiest. They 
were members of the Ej)iscopal church. He died in Des Moines, 
Iowa, 2(i Oct., 1890. His widow resides in Indianapolis, Ind. 
Their children, born in Michigan City: William Albert, born 27 
Feb., 1858, died in Des Moines, Iowa, 5 Jan., 1892; Anna Frances, 
born 8 Dec, 1861, who graduated in 1878 from the Michigan City 
High School, and resides with her mother; Mary Belle'^. 

3 Mary B.^ was born 23 Dec, 1863. She married in Michigan 
City, 25 Nov., 1884, William Fortune, who was born in Booneville, 
Ind., 27 May, 1863, to William H., a jeweler, and Mary-St. Claire 
Fortune. She died 28 Sept., 1898, in Indianapolis, where he now re- 
sides (Feb., 1905). Mr. Fortune is a publisher. A sketch of his 



254 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

life may be found in the Encyclopedia of Biography of Indiana, 
Vol. II, Men of Progress of Indiana, and Memoirs of Indianapolis, 
Their children: Russell, born 12 Sept., 1885; Evelyn, born 30 Sept., 
1887 ; Madeline, born 12 Nov., 1889. 



FAAIILY 141: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN! , THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, HENRY-69. 

HENRY PERLEY was born in Andover 14 Oct., 1784, and 
while an infant his parents removed to Boxford. He lived, after his 
marriage, in the "Henry Perley house," page 136, built by Joseph 
Matthews about 1750. He was a shoemaker. He was surveyor of 
highways 1814, 1820, 1825. He was a man of excellent character 
and esteemed as a citizen. 

He married, in Nov., 1808, Hannah Wood, daughter of Phebe- 
Perley-87^ and Solomon Wood of Boxford, who died 28 Jan., 1887, 
aged fifty-two. Mr. Perley died 13 Nov., 1841. 

1 Perley children: Albert-284, Charles-285, Harriet Augusta- 
286, Phebe-287, Henry Edwin'-, Catherine-288, Osmore-289, Hannah 
PZlizabethl 

2 Henry E.^ was born 19 Feb., 1819. He married 8 May, 1859, 
Lydia Lovett Gould, born 17 Dec, 1827, to Henry Lawrence and 
Lydia-Howe Gould. He is a farmer and owns the Nathan Perley- 
84 place in South Georgetown. She died 11 May, 1882. 

8 Hannah E.' was born 9 Feb., 1828, is a nurse and resided a 
long time, unmarried, with her sister Mrs. Dean Andrews-286. She 
now (1905) lives with her brother Henry E.'-, in Georgetown. 



FAMILY 142: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, HENRY-69. 

SAMUEL PERLEY was born in Boxford 9 Oct., 1790, in the 
house which had just been erected, and where he afterwards resided, 
and where, after his death, his daughters made their home. He was 
two days old when his mother died. He cultivated a large farm, 
besides taking an active part in the militia, wherein he became 
major. He was strong and robust, and retained i his vigor to the 
last. ! 

He married Nancy Peabody of Boxford 9 May, 1816. She was 
born in Boxford 31 Oct., 1790, to Deacon Moses and Hannah-Foster 
Peabody, and died 24 Aug., 1851. Maj. Perley died 1 June, 1874. 
They repose in the cemetery near the First Church edifice. 

1 Perley children, born in Boxford : George-290, Sarah-Peabody-, 
Lucy Ann'-. 

2 Sarah P.^ was born 13 Sept., 1819, and died, unmarried, 18 
March, 1894; Lucy^ was born 3 Jan., 1827, and died, unmarried, 28 
Nov., 1889. They inherited and conducted the parental farm. 
They did less cultivation than their father, but more dairy. They 



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255 



managed with a practical ability, and accumulated wealth. Sarah 
was a school teacher in her young womanhood, and a good one, too. 
The writer remembers her semi-occasional methods, with unfained 
repentance. She was energetic, well equipped for the work and 
successful. She bequeathed to the selectmen a fund of $2000, to 
be called "the Sarah P. Perley fund," whose income is to be used 
for the benefit of needy and worthy widows and single women of the 
East Parish, and to the First Religious Society $1000, whose income 
is to be used as the trustees may judge wise. Her estate was val- 
ued at $20,847.88. 



FAMILY 143: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALL AN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-Kl, ASA-35, HENRY-69. 

LEONARD PERLEY was born in Boxford 2 July, 1800. He 
was a farmer and resided in the present residence of Daniel W. 
Conant. He married Mary Wells, 7 April, 1880, born 5 May, 1810, 
to Nathaniel and Ruth-Town Wells. Mr. Perley died 16 Nov., 1857; 
his widow resided with her daughter, Mrs. Averill, in Topsfield, 
where she died 2 May, 1881. 

1 Perley children : Mary Wells'^, Susan Maria^ Julia Ann', Leon- 
ard Augustus-, Eunice B.\ Catherine Augusta'-. 

2 Leonard A.^ was born 14 Dec, 1888, and died 6 Sept., 1889. 
Catherine A.^ was born 8 July, and died 28 Sept., 1844. 

8 Mary W.^ was born in Boxford 15 Jan., 1881. She was a 
school teacher. She married 11 Dec, 1856, Albert Berry, farmer, 
born 18 Nov., 1880, in North Andover, Mass., to Jacob, a blacksmith, 
and Susannah-Winchester Berry. He died 26 May, 1893. Their 
children, born in North Andover: Anna Wells, born 13 Sept., 1858, 
died 22 Aug., 1871; Mary Annette, born 22 Sept., 1860; Charles 
Albert, born 24 Nov., 1862, married 21 Oct., 1896, a salesman in 
Boston; Samuel Dwight^ 

4 Susan M.^ was born 22 May, 1832, and 18 Nov., 1856, married 
Joseph Averill-888, born 18 Aug., 1824, to Joseph and Elizabeth 
Averill of North Andover. She died 21 June, 1871. Mr. Averill 
married 10 July, 1878, her sister, Eunice B.\ who was born 9 June, 
1840, and died 18 July, 1892. He was a farmer in North Andover, 
and died 24 Sept., 1887. Issue by first wife: George Leonard, 
farmer and milk dealer, born 6 April, 1859, married in Lynn 20 
Dec, 1888, P2lvira Lake Towne, born in Topsfield 22 Sept., 1856, to 
Sewall L. and Mary Ann-Severance Towne; Mary Lizzie, a dress- 
maker, born 31 March, 1862, married 9 April, 1895, Charles Walter 
Paul, born in Gloucester 3 May, 1871, to Henry and Rebecca- 
Counacher Paul, and has Elizabeth Averill, born 5 Feb., 1896; 
P'lorence Maria, born 24 Sept., 1865, residing in North Andover. 

5 Julia A.^ was born 27 Aug., 1883, and married 18 Aug., 1859, 
in North Andover, Samuel Augustus Cummings, born in Middleton, 
Mass., 4 Nov., 1829, to Samuel, a farmer, and Joanna- Andrews Cum- 
mings. He was the manufacturer of the celebrated Cummings shoe 
knife. The date of his death is not known. His widow resides in 
Boxford. They had Julia Augusta, born 26 Nov., I860. 



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256 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

6 Samuel Dwight^ was born 23 Nov., 1867, married in Boxford, 
Mass., 6 June, 1894, Mary Elizabeth Nason, born 5 Jan., 1870, to 
James Henry, farmer, and Phoebe Elizabeth-Barker Nason. He 
is a farmer and resides in North Andover. Berry issue: Phoebe 
Anna, born 22 April, 1895; Katherine Annette, born 25 Nov., 1897; 
Gertrude Wells, born 10 Jan., 1899. 



FAMILY 144: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN! , THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, SAMUEL-70. 

IRA PERLEY was born 9 Nov., 1799, in the house pictured on 
page 138. It stood a few rods from the Boxford-Ipswich town line. 

A portrait of Mr. Perley is the frontispiece of this book. The 
family furnished the "copy", with the remark: " It is taken from a 
crayon portrait done in 

1850, when he was fifty z^^,,-..,,.^ /^// ' >—* /^ / / 
years old. We always /^"^""^ JT^ '^^^^'^■*^^^'-^ l0.UcXy 
thought it a fairly good ^ 

likeness." His autograph ^ yfp ^ 

herewith was subscribed /l-<<.^Vcyj^x.z^ 

to a letter to his daughter, ^ _ ^ 

dated 8 June, 1873, and is cr^^-^^^^-t--^ • ^<^2 P. 
self-explaining. 

His brother Daniel writes, "Ira was a bookworm from child- 
hood." Perley's History of Boxford reads: "When he was eight 
years of age, his father died, and the farm was left to the care of the 
widow and three sons, aged respectively eight, four and three years. 
By the widow's hard labor, with what little help the young children 
could render, the farm was carried on and a part of its income laid 
by. Ira, as well as the doctor, whose biography follows, early 
evinced a desire for knowledge At odd hours of the day, when not 
employed in labor, he would be found with book in hand ; and on the 
long winter evenings, by the light which the fire on the hearth af- 
forded, he pored over his Latin grammar, and other works which 
formed the elements of his after-study. At the age of sixteen he 
entered Bradford Academy, when Benjamin Greenleaf was precep- 
tor. At the age of eighteen, in 1818, he entered Dartmouth Col- 
lege, where he was graduated in 1822. He was a tutor there, 1823- 
25. He then read law with B. J. Gilbert, Esq., of Haverhill, Mass., 
and commenced the practice of the profession in Concord, N. H. 
He also jafterwards practised law with great honor at Hanover, 
N. H. He was a representative to the Legislature of New Hamp- 
shire from Concord and Hanover, respectively; treasurer of Dart- 
mouth College, 1830-35; vice president of the corporation, 1834 and 
1837; vice president of the New England Historic-Genealogical So- 
ciety for a number of years; judge of the Superior Court of New 
Hampshire, 1850-52; chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, 
1855-59, 1864-69. In 1836 he delivered the Phi Beta Kappa oration 
before the Alpha chapter; and in 1866 he delivered, before the 
Association of the Alumni at Dartmouth College, the eulogy on the 



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257 



death of the Hon. Riifiis Choate, and also of the Hon. Daniel Webster, 
Dartmouth's most distmguished sons. He took his master's degree 
in course, and was made LL. D. in 1852. Mr. Perley died in Con- 
cord, N. H., where he resided, of cancer of the throat, Feb. 26, 
1874, aged seventy-four years." 

The following resolutions are self-explanatory: — 
" Resolved, That the New England Historic-Genealogical Society 
have learned with feelings of profound sorrow of the death of the 
Hon. Ira Perley, LL. D., their vice president for the State of New 
Hampshire. 

"Resolved, That our deceased associate merited, in every rela- 
tion, our respect and admiration ; as a citizen of honorable life, en- 
lightened public spirit and useful influence; as a member of a liberal 
profession, in which his acumen and logical power, his scholarly 
training, varied acquirements, mastery of the several departments of 
jurisprudence, with his high standard of professional excellence and 
honor, lifted him to a commanding rank; and as a magistrate, im- 
bued with the very spirit of the law; who, by his dignity, indepen- 
dence and uprightness, his broad views and extended culture, 
realized the traditions of the proudest days of the bench. 

"Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the 
family of the deceased, with the assurance of the deep sympathy of 
this society with them in their bereavement." 

Chiefly from Chapman's Dartmouth Alumni, Perley's History 
of Boxf ord furnishes the following : 

"I entered the sophomore class in Dartmouth College at the 
commencement in the year 1819. I then first became acquainted 
with Ira Perley. He had been in college one year, and had estab- 
lished, beyond all controversy, his title to the first appointment in 
his class, which in number was second only to that of 1811. 
Not only so: I think he was considered, from that time until we fin- 
ished our course in 1822, the best general scholar in the college. 
He had not the brilliancy, the imagination, nor the fascinating 
power of Rufus Choate, who was graduated at the time I entered, 
nor had he, probably, the same extent of classical learning; but, 
after Choate left, no one remained that could compete with Perley 
in all the college studies. 

" Ira Perley was modest and unassuming. Conscious of his own 
abilities, he had no occasion to assume any fictitious importance. 
As he was beyond the reach of rivalry in college, he excited no one's 
envy. The same position he held among his classmates in college, 
he readily obtained at the bar and upon the bench ; I mean as a 
learned lawyer and an accomplished judge. 

" He was an active and an honest man. He passed a long life in 
the discharge of various important duties, — civil, professional, polit- 
ical and judicial. They were all performed with integrity and abil- 
ity, without a stain upon his character. Perley was not a marked 
man, either in his personal appearance, or in his manner of address. 
He was not a natural orator or poet; but, as a lawyer, to collect the 
law of the case, arrange and apply it, he was excelled by few. 

" He was not a politician, according to the common acceptation 
of the word. When the Rebellion broke out, Perley's voice gave no 



258 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

uncertain sound. He sympathized fully with the North, believing 
that the national life should be preserved; and, as he felt and 
believed, so he spoke. 

" In the profession which Judge Perley selected, a good memory 
is of the utmost importance. This faculty he possessed and culti- 
vated to an extent beyond most men. Did a principle of law require 
to be elucidated or established.? He would readily name the case, 
quote the book, and frequently the page, where the authority could 
be found. This faculty made him of great value to the other mem- 
bers of the court. He was, in fact, their legal dictionary. This 
power of recollection was not confined to law. He was an extensive 
reader of miscellaneous works of fiction, travels, and the various pro- 
ductions of modern literature; and he seemed not only to devour, 
but to digest thoroughly, whatever he had read. This faculty was cul- 
tivated to such an extent, that, in summing up his cases to the jury, 
he made little use of his notes of the evidence, and frequently aston- 
ished the bar and the jury at the minuteness, accuracy, and fulness 
of his recollection of the names and testimony of the witnesses. 

"Another trait in Judge Perley's character was independence. 
As he was self-reliant, he was not disposed to accept the results of 
the investigation of others without examination. 

"His literary labors were chiefly confined to law. He indeed 
delivered eulogies upon two of Dartmouth's most distinguished 
sons, Daniel Webster and Rufus Choate; but his reputation as a 
lawyer and jurist must rest finally upon his record in the Reports of 
the Judicial Courts of New Hampshire." 

Judge Perley married 11 June, 1840, Mary Sewall Nelson, who 
was born 25 Jan., 1819, to John and Lois-Leverett Nelson of Haver- 
hill, N. H. She was a lady of culture and refinement, and became 
the tender mother of loving children, and the light of her happy 
home. She died 27 Nov., 1870, of typhoid fever. 

[Her father was a noted lawyer, and her brother, "Judge Thomas 
Leverett Nelson of the U. S. District Court for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, has been one of the leaders of the Worcester County bar, 
where his deep learning and general character is still held in the high- 
est esteem. He was born in Haverhill, N. H., 4 March, 1827. 
He was a descendant of John Leverett, who was governor of 
Massachusetts in 1673. He fitted for college at Haverhill and Meri- 
den, N. H. He entered Dartmouth College in 1842, but two years 
later he gave up his college course on account of the death of his 
father. He soon renewed his studies at the Vermont University 
and was graduated in 1846. He worked as a civil engineer until 
1853, when he began the study of law at Haverhill. In 1855 he 
went to live in Worcester and entered the law ofifice of the late 
Judge Francis H. Dewey. From the ofifice of this learned ex- 
pounder of the law he was admitted to the bar of which he afterward 
became an ornament.] 

1 Children: Mary Nelson'^ Julia'-, Allan'-, Walter'-, Harry'-, Susan'-, 
Edith\ Margarets 

2 These births were in Concord, and these deaths, except Wal- 
ter's, in Chicago: JuHa', 10 Dec, 1842, died 1 July, 1870; Allan^ 26 
Sept., 1844, died 16 March, 1846; Walter', 8 Jan., 1847, died 21 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 259 

Aug., 1870; Harry\ 8 July, 1852, died 14 March, 1858; Susan\ 25 
July, 1849, died 80 Jan., 1853. 

n Mary N.^ was born in Concord, N. H., 18 March, 1841. She 
sojourned in Europe several summer vacations, with other members 
of the family. Her home was in Worcester, where she died 23 Jan., 
1904. 

4 Edith^ was born in Concord, N. H., 9 April, 1855, and 10 Oct., 1878, 
married in Worcester, Mass., Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt, who was 
born in Worcester 14 March, 1849, to Erancis H. and Elizabeth 
Waldo-Parker Kinnicutt. They reside in Worcester where Mr. 
Kinnicutt is^ a banker. Their child : Roger, born in Worcester 
12 Eeb., 1880, is studying medicine. 

5 Margaret' was born in Concord, N. H., 23 May, 1859, and mar- 
ried 16 Sept., 1884, in All Saints Church, Rev. Alexander H, Vinton 
ofificiating, Samuel Bayard Woodward, M. D., who was born in 
Worcester, Mass., 24 Aug., 1853, to Samuel, a merchant, and Lucy 
Elizabeth Rocrers-Treadwell Woodman. Their home is Worcester. 



EAMILY 145: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, SA.AIUEL-70. 

DANIEL PERLEY was born in the Isaac Hale house in East 
Roxford 24 March, 1804. The house is pictured on page 138. By 
the early death of his father, the family was thrown upon its own 
resources. The widow managed the farm and fitted her boys for 
college. Daniel entered Dartmouth in 1824 and was graduated in 
1828, the year when Dr. Nathan Lord became president of the insti- 
tution. He took his medical degree in 1831. 

He first practised his chosen profession five years in New Row- 
ley — now Georgetown. About 1834-6, he established himself in 
Lynn. During the Rebellion, he was surgeon of the Board of En- 
rollment of the Eifth District of Massachusetts. He was many 
years city physician, and served several years on the school board. 
The year following his graduation, he taught the Feoffees' school in 
Ipswich. While teaching at Andover, he compiled "A Grammar of 
the English Language," 16 mo., pp. 79, "Eirst Edition, Andover, 
Mass., 1834." Gould Brown, also of Lynn, in his "The Grammar of 
English Grammars," quotes the doctor approvingly on "the true 
doctrine of three cases"; but while admitting the doctor to be right 
about the use of "but," as a preposition, he would establish the fact 
by a different argument, he thinks. 

Dr. Perley had a paralytic shock in the fall of 1877, which left 
him in a helpless condition. He died 31 Jan., 1881, a man of emi- 
nent usefulness, of strictest integrity, of versatile ability, of excellent 
judgment, who excelled in his profession, was a progressive citizen, 
and a provident, wise and beloved husband and father, whose home, 
as he made it, is a cherished memory. 

The doctor married 15 June, 1837, Caroline Gage Stearns, who 
was born in Middlebury, Vt., 3 April, 1814, to Lewis, a mason, and 



260 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Rebecca-Gage Stearns of Bradford, Boston, and Middlebury, Vt. 
She died 23 June, 1899. 

1 Perley children: Howard-291, Charles Stearns-292, Mary'-, 
Lottie McDonald^ 

2 Mary^ was born in Lynn 8 March, 1847, and there resides, un- 
married. Lottie M.^ was born 27 May, 1851, and died 28 March, 
1859. 



FAMILY 146: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, SCfLOMON-71. 

SOLOMON PERLEY was born in Topsfield 15 Oct., 1792. 
He was a farmer, and lived in peace and plenty, though not rich. 
His house was in Topsfield, near the Boxford town line. His son 
inherited the place and lived there till his death. 

Mr. Perley was published with Clarissa Brown 7 Aug., 1814, and 
married her 23 Aug., 1815. She was daughter of Olive-Gage and 
Samuel Brown of Topsfield, and was born 23 Oct., 1797, in Boxford. 
Mr. Perley died of "old age" 9 Dec, 1866, aged seventy-four years 
and one month; his widow 11 April, 1881. 

1 Perley child: Parker Brown, who was born 2 Sept., 1817. 
"Parker Brown," as he was always called, cultivated the old farm. 
He never married. His mother was his housekeeper till her death. 
After her demise, he lived alone. He was a quiet, unambitious man, 
courted seclusion, and was esteemed a good neighbor and intelligent 
citizen. 

A local newspaper correspondent thus reports Mr. Perley's 
death: "Nov. 13., 1893. On Saturday forenoon last Mr. Daniel 
Bixby called at Mr. Parker Brown Perley's, and was horrified at finding 
Mr. Perley dead in his chair. Mr. Bixby notified Mr. Joseph Janes, 
the nearest neighbor, who harnessed his horse and came to the vil- 
lage to tell his friends. Coroner Root of Georgetown was called 
and pronounced the cause of death heart trouble. He lived alone 
about two miles from the village, in from the road, and kept two 
cows, a horse, dog, and a few hens. Mr. Perley's age was seventy- 
five years, two months and eight days. He had not been in good 
health for a year past, and his friends have felt some anxiety at his 
being alone. He was able to get to the hall to vote Tuesday, and 
seemed as well as for some time past. He was also seen in the vil- 
lage Thursday, Nov. 9. It is probable he died sometime Thursday 
night or Friday morning. He was a good citizen, of a retiring 
nature, and well liked by all who knew him." 



FAMILY 147: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, SOLOMON-71. 

NATHANIEL PERLEY was born in York County, N. B. He 
was a farmer. He married Deborah Coburn, who was a cousin of 
Hannah-249, and born in 1812, in York County, N. B., to Jonathan, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 261 

farmer, and Tyler Coburii. She died in Oct., 1857; and he 

in March, 1851, in York County, N. B. 

1 Perley children: Hannah", Mary Anne", Elizabeth'^ Jane^ 
Phoebe'', Solomon-293. 

2 Hannah' was born in 1831 and died, unmarried, in 1850. 
Mary A.' was born in 1833 and died, unmarried, in 1851'. 

3 Elizabeth^ was born in York County 4 Feb., 1835. She mar- 
ried there 1(3 Oct., 1854, John Wesley Johnston, a farmer, born in 
Shefifield, N. B., in Dec, 1823, to John, a farmer, and Margaret- 
Ikitain Johnston. He died in York County 23 Aug., 1872. She 
resides in Minneapolis, Minn. Their children, all but the first born 
in Keswick Ridge, York County: Frederick Perley, born in Fred- 
ericton, N. B., 15 Sept., 1855, a civil engineer, unmarried, of Kadiak 
Island, Alaska; Annie''; Margaret, 20 Feb., 1800, unmarried, a 
dressmaker in Minneapolis; Alice Mabel, 4 May, 18G2, a teacher, 
unmarried, in Minneapolis; George Arthur, 16 April, 1864, unmar- 
ried, a miner at Helena, Mont.; James Nathaniel, 27 June, 1866, un- 
married, a printer in Minneapolis; Jane, 18 March, 1868, unmarried, 
a dressmaker in Minneapolis; Phoebe Gertrude, 26 Dec, 1870, 
died 2 March, 1892, unmarried; Harriet Cecil, 8 April, 1873, unmar- 
ried, a teacher, in Minneapolis. 

4 Jane' was born in Keswick Ridge, N. B., in 1837, and married 
Andrew Campbell, a farmer, and had a son who died in infancy. 
She died in Keswick Ridge in June, 1863. Mr. Campbell is dead. 

5 Phoebe' was born in Keswick Ridge in 1839, and married in 
Fredericton, Burden Crouse, a farmer, and died in St. John in 1869, 
having had no children. Mr. Crouse is dead. 

6 Annie" was born 25 Dec, 1857. She was a school teacher. 
She married in Minneapolis, Minn., 11 Feb., 1885, John Wood Mc- 
Bean, a lumberman, born in Nashwaak, N. B., in December, 1851, 
to Patrick, lumberman, and Margaret-Casey McBean. He died in 
Helena, Mont., 1 May, 1902. She now resides in Minneapolis. 
Their child, Alan Johnston, was born 4 Aug., 1889, in Helena. 



P-AMILY 148: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, JACOB-73. 

JOSHUA PERLEY* was born in Boxford 2 Aug., 1770. His 
father removed to Chester, N. PL, when he was about a year old, 
and he removed with his father to Tingstown, now Wilton, Me., 
when about "one and twenty." His mother died when he was only 
ten years old, and he was "put out" to grow to manhood and learn 
chiefly to work. Nevertheless, he acquired sufificient knowledge to 
conduct the business of an honest farmer, and sufificient culture to 
make him always a gentleman. 

About the time his father left for Montville, he purchased wild 
land adjoining the estate of a Mr. Blake, in whose house the family 
had lived and with whom Joshua boarded after his father's removal. 



* The history of this interesting family was given us by D. H. Chandler, Esq., but for want 
of space it was abridged to the detriment of his elegant diction. 



262 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

About that time he won the affection of Miss Hannah Eaton, a 
neighbor. Dr. Blake-7o relates an incident of the courtship. Mrs, 
Eaton, the mother of Hannah, Hke a good mother as she was, with a 
watchful care of her daughter, went to the doctor's mother to in- 
quire as to the character of her boarder, Joshua Perley. When 
told that he- was a man of steady, industrious habits and good moral 
character, she replied : "He's a little bait of a creatchure." The doc- 
tor says it was the Irish brogue, which she came honestly by, that 
fixed the incident in his mind. They were married in 1797. She 
was of Farmington and twenty-fiv^e years of age. 

He was small of stature, but possessed a line physique and a 
stout heart. He had already felled the forest and made his portion 
of "the wilderness to blossom as the rose," an outward index of 
what had been accomplished in his inner being by the nestling at 
his own stone fireside in his own log-house, of his young life's better 
self. He soon built a framed barn, the first one, it is said, that was 
built in Wilton. So nice was it regarded that the district school 
was kept in it, and even religious meetings were held within its ca- 
pacious walls, — which showed that the disciples of Him who was 
born in a stable were not above their Master; although for Him it 
was the lowliest, while for them it was the proudest, building of 
their place and time. 

in 1801, Ohio, then the "Far West," seeming to offer great in- 
ducements for speedier gains, attracted his attention, and he was 
induced to sell all he had and with his wife and two boys, Jacob and 
John, wend his way with a covered wagon and two horses, not like 
Joshua of old through blood and carnage, but in peace and cjuiet to 
the "promised land." On the way the wagon was their home; in it 
or by its side they regaled themselves with food, and beneath its 
canvas refreshed themselves with sleep, and fondly dreamed of the 
"better land." But they were doomed to disappointment. While 
the sun rose higher above them, the sun of hope waned continually 
in their hearts ; they were homesick and therefore did not locate. 
In February, 1803, a daughter and sister was given, to be ex- 
changed, in two short days, for a wife and mother. Thus bereaved 
and disconsolate, he thought of his old home and arranged to return. 

With his family were the . families of his sister Apphia, Mrs. 
Eaton-149, and of a Mr. Jennings. Some Indians stole a number of 
their horses and they were obliged to make their return journey 
with one team and one horse for himself. He rode horseback from 
Ohio to Maine carrying the infant on his arm, more than a thousand 
miles. 

On his return to Wilton, bereft, not only of the sharer of his 
fortune, but of the fortune itself, he purchased the farm adjoining 
his old" one. In March, 1805, he married a widow Libby. In 1811, 
he removed to Temple, Me., and followed farming till he sold hfs 
farm to Mr. Libby, his stepson, by whose name the farm is now 
known. His declining years he spent with his children. He died 
at the home of his daughter Martha. 

He was a man of great energy. It is said that one spring he had 
a "cut down" of ten acres which he felled with his own hands. The 
spring offered no favorable opportunity to "burn" till too late for 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 263 

spring planting. The first of June, however, it was accidentally 
"burned," and he immediately planted the whole area with corn, — 
for which he was bountifully rewarded in the fall — a monster field 
of corn for that country. 

He was also a man of fortitude and great presence of mind. 
When in Ohio, he was bitten or struck upon the calf of his leg, by a 
rattlesnake, and immediately squeezing the part between his thumb 
and forefinger hewed out the poison with his pocket knife. At 
another time, his thumb was horribly mangled between two stones 
while he was laying wall on his farm, and concluding, upon a glance, 
that the member could not be saved, he forestalled the surgeon and 
severed it with an axe. 

His religion was practical rather than theoretical ; his right living 
was parent of his right behaving ; it was more in the spirit than in the 
letter. Hence he gravitated naturally to that worthy society called 
Friends, which he joined after his second marriage, never having 
been identified with any religious movement before. He was op- 
posed to both legal and profane swearing, holding the latter to be 
an outgrowth of the former. 

In politics he was a Federalist. He opposed the War of 1812, 
on religious and political grounds. With such belief, he did not feel 
at liberty to engage in military parades and "trainings." He was, 
however, a law-abiding citizen and always sent the commanding 
officer, at each May training, his exemption certificate, stating 
that he was a Friend in good standing; and Mr. Libby relates that 
when himself arrived at the age of enrollment, Mr. Perley furnished 
him with arms and equipment, "as the law directs." 

Mr, Perley was a man of character and acknowledged ability. 
He was often a referee to adjust matters between neighbors. He 
was a pillar among the Friends, whose services he was particular 
to attend on "First Day" and "Fifth Day" of each week. He had 
self control, was moderately tempered, was not addicted to the 
use of stimulants, so prevalent in his day, was chaste in speech, and 
a sterling man. 

He married Hannah Eaton of Farmington, Me., 4 May, 1797. 
She was born 8 April, 1772, to Jacob and Elizabeth-Thorn Eaton, 
and died in Ohio 20 Feb., 1803. His second wife was Mrs. Ruth 
Libby of Wilton, married in March, 1805. She was born 26 Dec, 
1780, and died 28 Oct., 1848. He died 1 Jan., 1859. 

1 Perley children : Jacob-294, John-295, Martha-296, Hannahl 

2 Hannah^ was born 8 Jan., 1808, in Wilton, and 17 July, 1827, 
married Joseph Huse, bywhom she had four sons and six daughters. 
They resided in Bath, Me. 



FAMILY 149: EATON. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, ,TACOB-17, JACOB-37, JACOB-73. 

APPHIA PERLEY was born 26 Aug., 1772, in Boxford. She 
married 21 Nov., 1792, Ebenezer Eaton, Esq., of Candia, part of old 
Chester, N. H., where he was born 13 Feb., 1768, to James and 



264 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Abigail- Wood Eaton. In 1796 or 7 they removed to Wilton, Me., 
and were of the first settlers there. 

Squire Eaton was a justice of the peace, a man of ability and 
accomplishments, though he made no pretensions. A specimen of 
his verse has been handed us. It was written of his wife: 

IN MEiMORIAM. 

Appbia, my dear, why hast thou fled Cease theu to weep, assuage thy tears. 

My arms, my house, my home, my bed, Trust iu the Lord, who sees aud hears, — 

Aud left me now to moan Thou need uo longer mourn. 

In anguish deep aud achiug heart, His presence heals the wounded heart. 

Bursting with grief aud inward smart, Uemoves those sighs, gives ease the smart, — 

These pangs I feel alone. He'll leave thee not alone, 

'Twas Heaven's high mandate called me hence Eternal love surrounds His throne; 

From earth's dull scenes of flesh and sense, He claims all nations as His own, — 

To quit this earthly sod; The price of Jesus' blood. 

With wings of love on wheels of fire He gives His grace our souls to win; 

To Heaven's high arch my soul retires Removes our guilt, saves us from sin. 

To meet my gracious God. And brings us home to God. 

To join that vast angelic throng. Sure theu, great God, to Thee I give 

And sing that loud triumphant song My heart, my soul, 'tis all I have,~ 

Of praise to God's dear Son, Father, they both are Thine. 

Who takes away our guilt and sin, Iteigu thmugh wide earth, govern the whole, 

Clothes us in garments while and clean.— Salvation give to every soul. 

The victory Is won. .■\(coni|)lish Thy design! 

Mr. Eaton was a member of the society of Friends, for about 
eighteen years before his death. His wife was strongly attached to 
the religious belief of her own society, but charitable in her views 
respecting others. She lived an example of piety, and gave good 
evidence of hope through the merits of a bleeding Savior. Her cir- 
cumstances were moderate; she possessed many virtues; her heart 
was sympathetic, she was humane in distress; obliging, as a neigh- 
bor; faithful, as a friend; kind and affectionate, as a parent and a 
companion. She died of dropsy of the chest, at Wilton 15 March, 
1828, aged fifty-five years, having given birth to thirteen children. 
He survived his wife ten years, and died of bleeding at the stomach 
and general debility 19 Oct., 1838, at seventy years. His first two 
children were born in Candia, the rest in Wilton. 

1 Eaton children : Sophia'^ Toppan'^, Jacob Perley^ Eben'^ Joshua 
Perley'', Apphia'-, DanieP, Ruhamah"^, a son", a daughter'", Sally^ 
Abigail'-, Eben". 

2 These all died young: Sophia\ born 17 May, 1794; Jacob Per- 
ley\ born 15 Jan., 1798; Eben^ born 14 May, 1800; Apphia\ born 
12 Oct., 1803 ; Ruhamah\ born 24 May, 1807 ; probably a son\ born 
24 Dec, 1808; probably a daughter', born 29 Dec, 1809; Sally\ 
born 22 Jan., 1811; AbigaiP, born 18 P^eb., 1813. 

3 Toppan^ was born 7 Dec, 1795. Though the school advan- 
tages of his youth were meagre, he acquired a good education. He 
taught twenty winters and ranked among the first of school teachers. 
He was a mechanic and farmer, was engaged in town business from 
the age of twenty-one, and was a justice of the peace. He was a 
military captain, and was drafted for a service of ninety days, at the 
age of eighteen, near the close of the War of 1812. He took a lively 
interest in the Civil War. He was a great reader and kept fully 
abreast of the times, on all the leading questions. His bearing was 
dignified, his social abilities were largely developed, and he believed 
in the final holiness and happiness of all mankind. 

His wife was Betsey Brown, daughter of Rev. Ebenezer and 
Hannah-Billings Brown of Wilton, born 23 May, 1800, married 6 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 265 

March, 1823, died 9 July, 1867. He died of- lung fever in Wilton 16 
Feb., 1869, aged seventy-three. Issue: Sophia Ann''; Betsey Bil- 
lings'*; Toppan James''; Harriet Brown'"; Joshua Byron"; Ebenezer 
Curtis, born 23 Nov., 1889, married Emily A. Pratt 16 Sept., 1878, 
resided in New York City and was clerk in the post-office ; Apphia 
Randalah, born 4 April, 1843, unmarried, and operator in Western 
Union Telegraph Office, New York City. 

4 Joshua Perley' was born 4 Feb., 1802. He was graduated at 
Bangor Theological Seminary, 1839, and entered the Orthodox Con- 
gregational ministry, preaching in Bangor and Dexter, Me., Granby, 
Vt., and Isle au Haut, Me., — in all about forty years. His personal 
bearing was ministerial, and his life was in keeping with his profes- 
sion. He married his first wife, Sybil Holt of Weld, Me., 15 Sept., 
1829, who died there 21 Nov., 1830. His second wife, 1 Sept., 1841, 
was Isabella Dutton of Bangor. He died in Bangor 9 Dec, 1875, 
aged seventy-three years. Issue : Samuel Edward, born 24 Feb., 
1843; Isabella Graham, born 6 April, 1845; and Mary Apphia, born 
10 Oct., 1847. 

5 DanieP was born 27 June, 1805. He married Edee Webster 
of Wilton, Me., a relative of the Hon. Daniel Webster. She gradu- 
ated at a Boston medical college, acquired a large practice, and was 
considered among the first female physicians of the city. She died 
about 1871. He died of consumption, about 1859. Issue: Apphia 
Perley, Abigail, Ruth Wood, Daniel Emerson, Ebenezer W., Top- 
pan Sargent, Edee A. R. 

6 Eben^ was born 27 Sept., 1814; married Cynthia Miles in 
Lowell, Mass., and had one daughter. 

7 Sophia Ann** was born 28 Jan., 1824, and Dec, 18 — (about 
1854) married John Burbank of Readfield, Me. He was a farmer in 
Wilton, Me., and died in the Rebellion, at New Orleans. He was 
buried in the soldiers' cemetery near the battle ground, by the 
levee, about four miles from the city. Issue: Byron Emery, born 
1855; Mary Ellen, born 1857; James Eugene, born 1858; Hattie 
Esther, born 1860. 

8 Betsey Billings'* was born 16 June, 1825; and married 5 Dec, 
1848, Asa Jennings of Wilton, Me., who was born 24 Nov., 1819. 
He was a farmer. Issue: B. Emmogene, born 1850, died 1878; A. 
Byron, born 1851; Mary F., born 1856; Albert Eaton, born 1862. 

9 Toppan James^ was born 26 May, 1827, and married about 1856, 
Mrs. Susan Butler (Buttes.?) and resided in Flagstaff, Me., where he 
was a farmer and a justice of the peace. 

10 Harriet Brown^ was born 27 July, 1829, and 23 Sept., 1865, 
married Captain William S. Hall, who was a sea captain and a 
carpenter and resided in New York City. Issue: Willie Curtis, 
born 1868; Louis Anderson, born 1871. 

11 Joshua Byron' was born 23 Jan., 1832, and 23 Jan., 1860, mar- 
ried Esther E. Hall. They resided in Nashua, N. H. He was a 
railroad employe, and died in Lowell 23 June, 1860, from injuries 
received from the cars. 



FAMILY 150: SWEET. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, JACOB-73. 

IRENE PERLEY was born 27 Nov., 1774. She once lived in 
a log house, yet she was gentle in her manners, refined in her tastes, 
and skillful in performing womanly duties. She married, 26 Oct., 
1796, Abel Sweet, born to Ebenezer and Naomi-Daggett Sweet, 
Attleboro, Mass., 20 Sept., 1772. They settled in Wilton, the part 
now Farmington. He and his father built the first frame house in 
the town, and made it their home.. Shortly after her marriage she 
joined the Baptist church, of which her husband had been some time 
a member. He died 8 June, 1817, aged forty-four; she, of consump- 
tion, 2 Jan., 1826, aged fifty-one. She was a model woman, and 
every way a "helpmate" — affable, neat and industrious. She was 
patient in her last sickness and suffering, which was great ; cheerful 
in the near prospect of dissolution, and left a memory worthy to be 
cherished by her children's children for many generations. Their 
children were all born in Farmington. 

1 Sweet children: Sarah Perley-, Desire Daggett^ Naomi Dag- 
gett\ Sophia Eaton''. 

2 Sarah Perley' was born T) June, 1798. She married 15 April, 
1822, Loyal Lovejoy, born in Anson, Me., to Thomas and Nancy- 
Burgess Lovejoy of Farmington. They removed to and remained 
about ten years in Industry, Me.; they set up their last home in 
Augusta. He was a stone mason, and owned and worked a granite 
quarry in Augusta. He died o Sept., 1861. His widow survived 
him. Issue, born in Industry: Irene Perley, born 5 March, 1825, 
died Jan., 1834, aged eight. Loyal Palmer, born 2 'Nov., 1827, and 
died, unmarried, in Augusta, 26 Jan., 1854, aged twenty-six. Sarah 
Sophia, born 7 July, 1S29, and died 17 Sept., 18;:i2, aged three years. 
Desire Sweet, born 1 April, 1881, married Samuel Worcester, a 
grocer's clerk, and lived, without issue, in Augusta. Dana Board- 
man" and Adoniram Judson". 

3 Desire Daggett' was born 5 Aug., 1801. She married, in 
Houlton, Me., in 1835, John Abbott, a homeopathic physician. In 
five years they removed to South China, Me., where both died in 
1872. They both belonged to the community of Friends, and she 
became a public speaker of considerable note. 

4 Naomi Daggett' was born 7 Aug., 1805, She married Joshua 
Allen of Farmington, where they lived about fifteen years, and then 
removed to Augusta, where she died in 1852. He was living in 
April, 1879. 

5 Sophia Eaton' was born 20 Oct., 1808. She married George 
Kaler in South China, Me., in 1853. April, 1879, they were living 
in Augusta. 

6 Dana Boardman'- was born 1 July, 1833, in Industry. He 
married, in Farmington, 1868, Fannie Lovejoy, daughter of Bartlett* 



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267 



Lovejoy, Esq., of Salem, Mc. Issue: Dana Winfield, born 1869; 
Edward Sweet, born 1871; Erank Perley, born 1878; Charles Her- 
man, born 1876, and another born 1880. 

7 Adoniram Jiidson^ was born 14 April, 1838. He married, in 
Liberty, 1868, Elvira L. Prescott, daughter of Ezekiel Prescott, Esq. 
Issue: Mabel Irene, born 1869; Sarah Alice, born 1871; Elvira 
Prescott, born 1878; Minnie Estelle, born 1876. 



FAMILY 151: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, .TACOB-17, JACOB-37, JACOB-73. 

MOSES PERLEY was born 8 March, 1777, in Chester, N. H. 
His wife died in Eaton, Canada, or Montville, Me., without issue. 
In 1808 they removed to Wilton, Me., thence probably to Canada. 
A few years later he returned to Wilton, and resided with his 
brother Joshua Perley. He died in Wilton, or Houlton, 12 Nov., 
1848. 

He was at one time largely engaged in the lumber trade in Mont- 
ville with his brother Aaron. He became involved and left for 
Canada. In those days there was no insolvency court, nor com- 
promising with creditors. It was duress or payment; the jail loomed 
in the distance, and its portals would have "grated harsh thunder" 
on the sensitive nerves of their victim. 

Failure in business is not necessarily criminal ; the purpose of a 
man may be as high, his integrity as great, his pursuit as laborious, 
as those are that crown another man with success; nay, in the exer- 
tions that fail there may be more merit. 

Mr, Perley had lost the fruit of years of hard labor; his earnest of 
the future had vanished, his ambition was disappointed; discourag- 
ment possessed him ; and these heart burnings, entombed in his 
bosom, silent as the grave, shadowed his life with gloom. He rests 
with his fathers and family, on the lap of Mother Earth, really as 
noble a Roman as any of her children. 



FAMILY 152: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, JACOB-73. 

AARON PERLEY was born in Chester, N. H., 11 March, 
1779. At fifteen years of age his father removed to Tingstown — now 
Wilton — Me. His first venture, lumbering, failed. Then he, with 
his brother Moses, went lumbering in Canada and was successful. 
In 1821 he had in cash and credits $2500, and went to Temple, Me., 
with his brother Joshua, and soon bought a farm in Dexter, paying 
cash with a mortgage, but failing to collect his credits in Canada, 
he lost all. 

He married, in 1832, Dorothy Rowell of Monmouth, Me., who 
died about 1864. He died in Hodgdon, Me., 18 June, 1848. 

1 Perley children : Aaron DonnoH', Charles Edwin'l 



268 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

2 Aaron^ was born about 1835 and died 1887. Charles^ was born 
about 1838, and was drafted from Hodgdon, Me., and mustered into 
service 12 Oct., 1864. He died at Petersburg, Va., of disease, 19 
April, 1865. 



FAMILY 153: BURPEE. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, P.ENJAMIN-74. 

MARY PERLEY, called "Molly," was born 2 Jan., 1760, and 
married, in Boxford 22 Nov., 1781, Asa Burpee of Ipswich, who was 
born in 1760. They lived first in Rowley, Mass., and removed to 
New London, N. H., about 1785 or 6. She died 27 July, 1833, he 15 
Oct., 1843, aged eighty-three years. 

"Mr. Burpee was a farmer, and owned a farm at the foot of 'Bur- 
pee Hill,' so called because there were several families of that name 
scattered along over the hill. The family were rather looked down 
upon at one time by some of the neighbors who possessed more of 
this world's goods; and on one occasion one of the children of the 
neighborhood came in as Mrs. Burpee was taking her bread out of 
the oven. She took a small loaf of brown bread, and broke it into 
small pieces, giving some to the children, and the little stranger with 
the rest; and as they went out of doors, he said, 'This is real good 
bread for such poor folks to have.' 

"They were remarkably a musical family, all of them being 
singers; and the choir of the Baptist church at New London has 
had members of this family for four generations among its members. 
The present leader, a grandson of Mrs. Burpee, has been [1880] at 
its head for nearly thirty-five years. 

"For many years the family lived in a log house, but as years 
went on, a new house was built, which remained, until this, too, was 
taken down, being too old to be comfortable. 

"The sons and daughters of Mrs. Burpee grew up to be strictly 
honest and upright men and women ; their word could be depended 
on. None of them ever became rich, but all were in comfortable 
circumstances and respected. Thomas, the oldest, having built and 
occupied another house near the site of the old one, took care of the 
aged parents in their last days. After his death the place passed 
into the hands of strangers. His children all removed with their 
widowed mother to Stoneham, Mass., only one, the brother, Benja- 
min Emery, remaining in New London." 

1 Burpee children (all but Rebecca lived and died in New 
London): Thomas-, Rebecca'^ Dolly^ Perley^ Deliverance'', Apphia', 
Azubeth^ Sally^ AbiaP. 

2 Thomas^ was born 13 Dec, 1782, in Rowley. He married, in 
1809, Miss Mary Emery Woodman of New London, who was born 13 
Nov., 1788. He was a farmer and shoemaker. He learned the 
latter trade in Dedham, Mass., and taught his brothers. He died 3 
Dec, 1848; his widow 23 April, 1868. Issue: Benjamin Emery^; 
Sally, born 6 Nov., and died 25 Nov., 1811; Mary Jane'*^; Apphia 



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269 



Everett"; Elizabeth Woodman, born 7 Sept., 1828, lived in Stone- 
ham, Mass., for some years, and died unmarried in New London 
17 Sept., 18<S5. 

3 Rebecca^ was born 28 June, 1784, in Rowley, and died 10 Dec, 
1868. She married 10 June, 1818, William Loverin of Exeter, N. H. 
He was born 26 Oct., 1786, and died 16 March, 1865. Their home 
was Springfield, N. H., where they had issue: Perley Burpee, born 
5 Feb., 1822; Sarah Buswell, born 24 April, 1819; Edwin E., born 

30 Jan , 1824, married 12 Jan., 1878, Mrs. Ella Heath of Springfield; 
Elizabeth Ann, born 22 Jan., 1826, and died young; Dolly Ann, born 

31 July, 1831, died 14 March, 1870, married 26 July, 1850, Oliver 
Nichols of Springfield, and had Harry, born 8 Sept., 1861, and Jus- 
tin, born 16 Dec, 1866. 

4 Dolly^ was born 28 June, 1787, in New London, and Azubeth*, 

27 Jan., 1797. They never married; were tailoresses and dress- 
makers, and .very skillful with the needle, and better than all, were 
held in great esteem. Dolly died 1 April, 1835, and Azubeth 15 
March, 1856. Sally^ was born 14 and died 21 Aug., 1799. 

5 Perley^ was born 4 June, 1790, in New London, and married 
31 Dec, 1816, Miss Judith Colby of that place, who was born 17 
Nov., 1796. [Her parents were Joseph Colby, born in Plaistow, 
N. H., 24 March, 1762, and Anne Heath of Hampstead, N. H., who 
were married 21 Dec, 1785. They moved to New London, 10 
March, 1786, and in 1800 moved to the house now occupied by the 
Colby family. He died 9 April, 1848. Their son, Anthony Colby, 
born 13 Nov., 1792, was governer in 1846.] 

Mr. Burpee was a farmer and shoemaker. He died 21 Aug., 
1865, and she 29 March, 1884, aged eighty-seven. Burpee issue, 
who all lived in New London: Anthony Colby, born 16 Dec, 1817; 
p:dwin Erastus, born 20 May, 1819, died 16 Aug., 1823; Abial, born 

28 Oct., 1821, died 4 March, 1822; Sarah Anna, born 16 Aug., 1823, 
and died 13 Dec, 1893; Judith Maria^"; Edwin Perley^l Anthony 
and Sarah remained unmarried in the old homestead, erected by 
their father in the year 1816, with their mother and brother Edwin. 

6 Deliverance^ (upon the town records, but always known as 
Delia) was born 11 May, 1792, in New London, and 4 Dec, 1816, 
married James Pillsbury, a farmer of New London, who was born 11 
May, 1792, and died 17 March, 1848. She died 15 July, 1878. 
Lssue: Asa Burpee'^ Martha Jane^^ Lorenzo, born in Oct., 1824, 
and died 22 Aug., 1825, and William James, born 2 Jan., 1829, and 
died 19 Feb., 1854. 

7 Apphia^ was born 13 May, 1795, in New London. She was 
married 15 Nov., 1815, by Rev. Job Seamans, to Jonathan Everett, 
a saddler of New London, who was born 21 June, 1789, and died 28 
July, 1856. She died 15 P^eb., 1869. Issue: Martha Ann, born 25 
Oct., 1816, and died very young; Horace Simpson Messenger, born 
10 Oct., 1817, and died very young; George Washington'*'; Herbert 
Foster, born 6 April, 1822, and died very young; Abial Burpee'"; 
Mary Ann'**; Walter Powers Flanders, born 4 Dec, 1829, and died 
very young; Jonathan Robert, born 21 Dec, 1832. 

8 AbiaP was born in New London 1 Oct., 1800. He married 
8 May, 1828, Mary Messenger Woodbury, born in New London 19 



270 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Feb., 1806, to Daniel, a farmer, and Rapseima-Messenger Wood- 
bury. Mr. Burpee was a farmer. He died in New London 7 Sept., 
1842. His widow married Dea. Micaiah Morgan. She died in New 
London in Feb., 1880. Issue: Martha Adelaide, born 5 Nov., 1829, 
died in Oct., 1902, married 3 July, 1849, James Chase Greenwood, a 
merchant of New London, who was born 23 April, 1824, and died 12 
May, 1873, without children; Rapseima Louise^^; James Henry^". 

9 Benjamin E.- was born in New London 7 Oct., 1810. He was a 
farmer. In fencing in farms in those primitive days, "it is probable that 
he laid more wall than any other man in the State." He was strictly 
upright in every sense of the word. He married, in Cornish, N. H., 
19 March, 1839, Miss Almira Huldah Vinton of New London, who 
was born in Cornish 19 Feb., 1811. She died in New London 20 
Aug., 1888; he 29 March, 1890, Burpee issue: Adelaide Esther'-'; 
Helen Sylvia, born 18 Oct., 1840, and died 23 Feb., 1854. 

10 Mary J.- was born in New London 9 April, 1813, and 1 May, 
1838, married Abijah Sanborn, a farmer and mechanic of Sanborn- 
ton, N. H., who was born 4 Jan., 1809, to Joseph, a farmer, and 
Mary-Sanborn Sanborn. She died 7 April, 1877, at their home in 
Stoneham, Mass., and he 22 Feb., 1895. Sanborn issue: Herschel 
Almeron", Mary Apphia-'\ Eleanora-'. 

11 Apphia Everett- was born 19 Aug., 1817, in New London, 
and married there 12 Nov., 1840, William Griffin Fuller, tanner and 
currier, of Stoneham, Mass. He was born in West Newton,- Mass.,, 
2 May, 1810, to Josiah and Sarah-Greenough Fuller. He was a cur- 
rier in New London and retired from business in 1857, returning to 
Stoneham. [He married, first, Mary Richardson, and had Mary 
Frances, born 183(5, and died 185G; Cornelia Ellen, born and died 
1839.] Mr. Fuller died in Stoneham 13 Nov., 1893; she 5 March, 
1897. Fuller issue: William Almeron, born 2 June, 1842, and died 
19 Sept., 1843; Georgianna Eva, born 14 July, 1845; Williamine 
Cordelia, born 5 April, 1858; both reside, unmarried, in Stoneham. 

12 Judith M.° was born in New London, N. H., 28 March, 
1827. She married 11 June, 1850, Nahum Trayne Greenwood, a 
merchant, born in New ^^ 
London 24 Jan., 1827, to '^ / 

Samuel, a merchant, and y^/^d/ / //^ ^^tC'C^^'^^t^^^'^^'^^ 
Martha -Train Greenwood. y 

They lived a while in Na- y 

tick, Mass. Three years ^^ >*'"' «>'''*^'ri'"^'> a i''tt*-r "s assistant lora- 

r 11 • „ i.i_ • • pilcM' of tliis work, about 18S0. 

tollowmg their marriage 

they returned to New London. Their home now ( Feb., 1905) is Provi- 
dence, R. I. Issue: Gepevieve, born 30 July, 1855, and died 6 May, 
1876; Harry-^; Alice Trayne, born in New London 17 Oct., 1860, 
residing with her parents; Robert Byng-*'. 

13 Edwin P.^ was born 10 Jan., 1829, and married 15 Feb., 1859, 
Miss Rosaline Parasine Todd of New London, born 27 Dec, 1838. 
He was a farmer in New London, where he died 5 Feb., 1897. 
Burpee issue: Wilfred Ernest, born 7 Feb., 1860; Mary Elsie, born 
6 June, 1863; Susan Colgate, born 19 Nov., 1865; Eliza Colby, 
born 14 Dec, 1867; Hattie Todd, born 12 July, 1873. 

14 Asa B.'^ was born 28 April, 1819. He was a farmer. He 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 271 

married 17 Nov., 1846, Sarah A. Woodward, born in Sutton, N. H., 
9 June, 1877, to David and Ruth-Wells Woodward. They lived in 
New London, where she died 19 Aug., 1884. He died in Warner, 
N. H., 18 Dec, 1900. Pillsbury issue: Charles Edgar, born 25 
June, 1852, died, unmarried, in Manchester, N. H., 11 Nov., 1879; 
Martha Harriman'-'. 

15 Martha J.*^ was born in New London 26 March, 1822, and 5 
March, 1846, married Elhanan Harriman, a farmer of Warner, who 
was born 8 Jan., 1823, and died 24 June, 1851. She then married 
his brother Augustine, who was born 15 April, 1825. She died in 
Warner 6 July, 1904. 

16 George Washington'' was born 28 Nov., 1819. He was a law- 
yer, and married 30 Oct., 1849, Miss Ellen Frances Lane of Glouces- 
ter, Mass., who was born 16 Sept., 1827. He served as major in the 
9th N. H. Regiment, and died at Cincinnati, Ohio, 18 Aug., 1863. 
The widow was long time cashier for M. V. B. Perley, merchant, in 
Gloucester. Everett issue: Bertha Ada, born 4 April, 1850, and 
died 7 Oct., 1868; George Washington, born 22 Nov., 1853; Mary 
Lane, born 30 Sept., 1855; Ellex Frances, born 6 April, 1858, and 
married Morris Peabody, having home in Danvers. Jonathan Rob- 
ert, born 5 Nov., 1861. 

17 Abial Burpee^was born 24 April, 1824. He was a farmer in 
New London, and 24 Oct., 1848, married Miss Harriet Elizabeth 
Spaulding of Chelmsford, Mass., who was born 5 July, 1876. Everett 
issue: F"rank Lelnyn, born 28 May, 1853; Mary Eugenia, born 18 
Jan., 1862, in Chelmsford and died 26 Aug., 1874; Edward Lane, 
born 28 June, and died 11 Oct., 1865. 

18 Mary Ann'' was born 4 Oct., 1826, and married 8 Sept., 1846, 
Capt. George Edward Lane, a sea captain of Gloucester, Mass., who 
was born 19 Feb., 1822. She died at Yokohama, Japan, 17 Nov., 
1869. Lane issue: George Edward, born 8 Sept., 1847, in Glouces- 
ter, married 17 Nov., 1875, Miss Lillian Leota Saladee, born in 
Columbus, Ohio, 3 Nov., 1856, living in Marlin, Texas, having 
Ernest, born 31 July, 1876, and Edward, born 9 Sept., 1878. 

19 Rapseima L.** was born 20 Sept., 1836, in New London, where 
she married, 22 Oct., 1855, Horatio Marshall Fales, who was born in 
the same town 31 Dec, 1833, to Annie Chapin-Burpee and Horatio 
Fales, a carpenter. He is one of the independent farmers of his 
native town. They have had no children. Mrs. Fales has been a 
member of the First" Baptist church choir from the time she was 
fourteen years old. 

20 James H.^ was born in New London, N. H., 23 March, 1839. 
He married in Chester, Vt., 8 Sept., 1864, Stella P. Weston, born in 
Springfield, Vt., 30 Oct., 1844, to Samuel A., a farmer of Chester, 
and Permilla-Lee Weston. Mr. Burpee served in the Civil War in 
Co. K., 9th Regt. N. H. Volunteers. In 1865 he was assistant sec- 
retary of state of New Hampshire. From 1869 to 1880, he was a 
merchant and postmaster of Scytheville, New London. His wife 
died 4 Sept., 1898, in Medford, Mass., where he now resides. He is 
a merchant and manufacturer. Burpee issue, born in New London: 
Helen Lee'"**; Charles Woodbury'-^^; George Weston*'. 

21 Adelaide E.-' was born in New London, N. H., 23 July, 1842, 



272 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

and married there 18 March, 1871, George Lorenzo Melendy, a mer- 
chant of Milford, N. H., who was born in Brookline, N. H., 12 Feb., 

1845, to Lorenzo P., a farmer, and- Williams Melendy. She 

died 23 June, 1883. She was a school teacher before her marriage. 
Melendy issue: Jesse George, who was born in Milford 30 Sept., 1877, 
fitted for college at Colby Academy, New London, and graduated at 
Brown University, 1901, with the degree of Ph. B. He was a Sigma 
Chi and a Phi Delta Theta; received honors in football and track 
athletics, and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society. He 
taught a year in St. George's School, Newport, R. L, and since then 
has been chemist with the General Chemical Company of New York, 
entering in June, 1904, upon duties as assistant superintendent of 
their works in Camden, N. J. He married, in Trinity Church, Bos- 
ton, Mass., 20 April, 1904, Jessie May Cofrau, born in Boston 3 
Aug., 1873, to Smith Wadleigh, dealer in real estate, and Marcelene- 
VVanzer Cofrau. Their home is Camden. 

22 Herschel A.^° was born in Sanbornton, N. H., IG July, 1839. 
He married in Harrisburg, Penn., 2 March, 1863, Elizabeth Rebecca 
Anderson, born in Harrisburg 18 April, 1838. The home of his 
youth was Woburn, near the Stoneham line. He attended school 
in Woburn and was much beloved by teachers and schoolmates. 
After leaving school he worked at home on the farm or in a Stoneham 
shoe factory. He enlisted for the war in April, 1861, in a Stoneham 
company. He was killed in the battle of Gettysburg 1 July, 1863. 
Both towns, Woburn and Stoneham, claimed him and his name is on 
the soldiers' monument of each town. His widow, married, second, 
in 1868, Dr. Robert Long. Their home is Middletown, Dauphin 
Co., Penn. 

23 Mary A.'" was born in Sanbornton, N. H., 16 Nov., 1840. 
She married in North Reading, Mass., 2 Oct., 1860, William Henry 
Orne, a shoe cutter, born in North Reading 10 June, 1835, to Eben 
Orne, a blacksmith. He died in Woburn, Mass., 13 May, 1876, 
leaving child: Herschel Almeron, born 20 Aug., 1871, and died, un- 
married, 19 Aug., 1902. She married, second, in Woburn, 30 Nov., 

1880, and became the second wife of John Wesley Nichols, clock and 
goldsmith, born in Reading 2 Nov., 1837, to Samuel and Achsah- 
I^arden Nichols. She died in Woburn 15 Nov., 1893. He is of 
South Boston. [His first wife was Marion Susan Williams.] 
Nichols child : Mary P^lizabeth, born in Winchester, Mass., 9 Nov., 

1881, now residing, unmarried, in Cambridge, Mass. 

24 Eleanora^" was born in New Loiidon N. H., 13 Nov., 1843. 
She married, in Stoneham, Mass., 26 June, 1888, and became the 
second wife of Charles Hazeltine Cowdry, born in Plymouth, N.H., 
IS March, 1832, to Amos, a blacksmith, and Ruth-Centre Cowdry. 
Mr. Cowdry is a housewright and stair builder; their home is Elm- 
hurst, N. Y. 

25 Harry^'^ was born in New London 27 Nov., 1857. He married 
in Littleton, Mass., 21 Oct., 1886, Emma Frances Parker, born in 
Littleton 4 Jan., 1864, to James Augustus, a farmer, and Sarah 
Maria-Wright Parker. Mr. Greenwood is a bookkeeper. Their 
home is Worcester, Mass. Greenwood child: Wallace Wright, 
born in Concord, N, H., 13 Sept., 1892. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 273 

26 Robert Byng^- was born in New London 21 July, 1862. He 
married in Newton Center, Mass., 28 June, 1900, Alice Mabel Ma- 
comber, born in Boston, Mass., 14 April, 1866, to William, a mer- 
chant, and Mary Stedman Tileston-Leeds Macomber. Mr. Greenwood 
is a cashier. Their home is Providence, R. I. 

27 Martha H." was born in New London 26 Sept., 1855. She 
was a teacher. She married in Warner, N. H.. 15 Feb., 1905, and 
became the second wife of Almeron B. Abbott, a machinist, born in 
Springfield, N. H., 13 Feb., 1845, to Stephen and Sarah-Kidder 
Abbott. Their home is Sunapee, N. H. Mr. Abbott's first wife 
was Alzina L. Felch. 

28 Helen L.-'^ was born 16 Oct., 1866. She married in Mont- 
pelier, Vt., 24 Jan., 1893, Henry Alanson Cobb, born in Fall River, 
Mass., 28 July, 1862, to Henry, dealer in granite and marble, and 
Augusta- Walker Cobb. Mr. Cobb is a salesman. Their home is 
Medford, Mass. Child: Harold Burpee, born in Burlington, Vt., 1 
Jan., 1894. 

29 Charles W.'-" was born 8 Dec, 1874. He married in Medford, 
Mass., 2 Nov., 1899, Mabel G. Mclntire, born in Medford 15 Sept., 
1875, to Dana L, a merchant of Boston, and Mary C.-Browne 
Mclntire, Mr. Burpee is a salesman. They reside in Medford. 
Child: Dana James, born 6 Oct., 1901, and died 28 April, 1902. 

30 George W."^ was born 19 Jan., 1879. He married in Boston, 
Mass., 8 July, 1901, Kathryn Fox, born in Jamaica Plain, Mass., to 
Peter Fox, a florist. Mr. Burpee is a salesman. Their home is 
Everett, Mass. 



FAMH^Y 154: GOULD. 

LINEAL DKSCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74. 

REBECCA PERLEY was born 2 Sept., 1763, and when of 
Topsfield, 14 June, 1786, married Amos Gould, who was born in 
Boxford 12 Dec, 1761, to Amos and Huldah-Foster Gould. He 
served in the Revolutionary War and at West Point when Arnold's 
treason was discovered. He received a j^ension of $12 a year. 
He was a fine singer. He was a very devout Christian, and was a 
deacon of the church in Canaan, N. H. He was greatly beloved 
by his children and grandchildren. 

He located in Boxford, and in 1789 removed to Warner, N. H. 
Thence they removed to Canaan, in 1801. While visiting their son 
Aaron in Piermont, N. H., she died 17 Dec, 1836, aged seventy-two 
years. After her death he lived with their son, where he died 28 
Dec, 1853, aged ninety-two years. 

1 Gould children : Phebe'-, Dolly P.-, Amos'-, Susan% David'-, Re- 
becca", John'-, Huldah'^, Benjamin Perley'^, Clark C.'-^, Hannah'-, Aaron 
Pressey'^, Sophronia'^ 

2 Born in Boxford, Phebe\ 30 March, 1787, and Dolly F.\ 19 
June, 1788. Born in Warner, Amos\ 4 April, 1790; Susan\ 23 
April, 1792; David', 5 March, 1794; Rebecca\ 8 May, 1796; John\ 2 
May, 1798; Huldah\ 19 July, 1800. Born in Canaan, Benj. F.\ 24 



274 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

May, 1802; Clark C/, 12 March, 1S04; HannalV, 1(J March, 1806; 
and Sophronia\ 11 Dec, 1810. 

3 Aaron P.* was born in Canaan 29 March, 1808, and married 1 
Jan., 1838, Hannah Bennett Jackson, born in Augusta, Me., 9 May, 
1811, to Jeremiah, a farmer who was "practically interested in 
education and schools," and Annie-Niles Jackson. She died of 
heart disease in Piermont 9 May, 1881, leaving a cherished memory 
as a home maker and mother. 

He was a successful business man. He served faithfully in the 
chief offices of his town. He was a deacon of the Congregational 
church, and for many years was leader of its choir. His oldest 
daughter was the leading soprano and his second daughter was or- 
ganist; his wife sang alto for many years. He served in the 
93d Regiment N. H. State Militia and bore the title of colonel. 
At the time of his death he had retired from business, except his 
service as president of the Bradford bank, Vermont. He died in 
Piermont 25 June, 1882. Gould children, born in Piermont: Har- 
riet, 14 April, 1837, died 11 Aug., 1886, (married Edward Ford 
and had three children. Dr. Inez Ford Nason of Dover, N, H., 
Luella Bell Bickford of Bradford, Vt., and Edward Gould Ford of 
Piermont); Luella Bell, 18 April, 1839, married 7 May, 1863, 
Augustus F. Smith, who died of typhoid fever 22 Oct., 1864, leaving 
one child, Kate Luella, a music teacher and organist, who resides 
with her mother. She married, second, S. S. Marden and lives in 
Manchester, N. H. 



FAMILY 155: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JAC01M7, JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74. 

BENJAMIN PERLEY was born in Boxford 6 June, 1765. He 
went to Dunbarton, N. H., with his father in 1791, and settled in 
the southeast part of the town, a farmer. 

He married 7 July, 1791, Lois Gould, born 1 Nov., 1766, to 
Capt. Jacob and Elizabeth-Towne Gould of Boxford. She was a sis- 
ter of Ruth Perley-84. She died 14 May, 1824. 

His second wife (reads the Hammond Genealogy) "was Huldah 
Hammond, born in Dunbarton 1 July, 1785, and died 3 May, 1853. 
By her he had a daughter Salome who married Asa Kimball of An- 
dover, Mass., and had by Kimball, Amanda, Emeline, and Sarah." 
Mr. Perley died 6 Feb., 1838. 

1 Perley children : Benjamin and Lois^ Martha Gould-297, Ben- 
jamin-298, Hannah^ Humphrey C.^ Warren-299, Gilman-300, Eliza*, 
Anna^ Charles^ John-301, Elbridge-302. 

2 Benjamin and Lois^ were twins, born 18 Jan., 1792. He died 
young. She married 29 Dec, 1813, Jeremiah Hardy of Groveland, 
Mass. He died 28 May, 1847, a man of eminently moral and 
Christian character. 

'3 Hannah^ was born 12 Oct., 1796, married James Morrison, a 
farmer in Bedford, N. H., where he died 10 Oct., 1877, aged eighty- 
one. Humphrey C was born 31 March, 1798, and married Lydia 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 275 

Jones. He was a farmer in Dunbarton, selectman and State legisla- 
tor several years, and died 5 Sept., 185(i. See Family-cSi'^ 

4 Anna^ was born 26 Nov., 1804, married Josiah Gillis Hadley, 
a landlord in Portsmouth, N. H., where she died 9 June, 1875. 
Charles^ was still-born, 1806; Eliza* was born 22 Dec., 1802, and 
married Samuel Morrison, a farmer of Bedford, N. H., where she 
died 16 Sept., 1845 or 7, having had at least one child, Elbridge Gil- 
bert, born in Bedford, who, when a clerk, twenty-nine years old, 
married in Salem, Mass., 25 Aug., 1866, Annie Eliza McDermott, a 
native of Dover, N. H., twenty-three years old and daughter of 
Roger and Anna-Sullivan McDermott. 



FAMILY 156: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JAC01M7, JACOK -37, HENJAMIN-74. 

PAUL PERLEY was born in Boxford 17 Dec, 1769. He re- 
moved to Dunbarton, N. H., with his father in 1797, and settled 
upon a farm in New London, N. H. He married, 1797, Sally Story 
of Dunbarton, born 21 March, 1776, and died 11 Feb., 1861. He 
died 27 March, 1839. 

1 Perley children : Sarah'% Elizabeth Story^, Benjamin-303, Dolly 
Ann\ Daniel Story-304, Jacob^ Mary Ann*'. 

2 Sarah* was born in Springfield, N. H., 24 Aug., 1798. She 
married there 8 March, 1820, David Story Perkins, a blacksmith, 
born in Dunbarton 11 May, 1797, to Israel, a farmer, and Mary- 
Burnham Perkins. His blacksmith shop in Washington is still 
standing. They were highly esteemed by the townspeople. Mrs. 
Perkins was nurse for the whole village and much loved by all. He 
died 7 May, 1852, in Washington, N. H., and she 31 May, 1878. 
Perkins children, born in Washington but the first : Sylvester Story, 
in Dunbarton 24 March, 1821, died in Goffstown, N. H., 22 June, 
1822; Mary Elizabeth^; Sylvester Story, 1 Feb., 1826, and died in 
Washington 28 Aug., 1827; Sylvia Jane**; Sarah Augusta''. 

3 Elizabeth S.', "Betsey" the name then, was born 25 March, 
1800. She married Benjamin Bunker, a farmer, born in Pembroke 
or New London 8 Jan., 1796, to Benjamin, a farmer, and Betsey- 
Daniels Bunker. Their home was New London. She died 13 June, 
1877, in Wilmot, N. H., where he also died. Bunker issue: Sarah 
Elizabeth*"; Alfred P., born 20 March, 1834, is buried in New Lon- 
don; Henry; Susan Maria, a dressmaker, born in New London, 
7 March, 1839, and died 10 March, 1888, in Wilmot; Perley**; Syl- 
vester*-. 

4 Dolly A.* was born in West Springfield, N. H., 24 May, 1805. 
She was a tailoress by trade. She married in Boston, Mass., 13 
Feb., 1834, Thompson Baxter, born in Ouincy, Mass., 27 June, 1809, 
to Jonathan, Jr., and Polly Doble-Hayward Baxter. Mr. Baxter was 
engaged in the boot and shoe business. He died 22 Aug., 1876, in 
Ouincy; his widow 2 April, 1882. Baxter children, born in Ouincy: 
Paul Perley, 21 April, 1835, married, and lives in Ketchum, Idaho; 



276 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Daniel Story, 7 Aug., 1836, died in Nov., 1903, leaving two children 
living; Rebecca Blanchard, 5 July, 1838, died 27 Sept., 1849; Caro- 
line Jerusha^''; Thompson, 25 Oct., 1842, died 27 April, 1866; Charles 
Newcomb, 18 Sept., 1844, died 30 Oct., 1882, leaving two children 
living; Mary Ann Hayward". 

5 Jacob^ was born 28 March, 1811, and died in 1814. 

6 Mary A.^ was born in Springfield, N. H., 2 March, 1815. and 
married there 15 Jan., 1835, Samuel Ouimby, a ship builder and 
farmer, who was born there 2 Sept., 1800, to Gen. John, a farmer, 
and Mary-Bean Ouimby. He died 7 Jan., 1872, in Springfield, and 
she 16 Aug., 1888. Ouimby issue: Amanda M.^*^; Daniel P., born 
10 Aug., 1839, died 23 Feb., 1891; Warren S., born 3 Dec, 1847. 
He lived in Warren, N. H. 

7 Mary E.^ was born 31 July, 1823. She was sometime employed 
as weaver in a woolen mill. She married in Washington, N. H., 
10 Jan., 1887, and became the second wife of Dexter Ball, a farmer, 
brother of Nehemiah^ who was born in Antrim, N. H., 31 Dec, 
1818. [His first wife was Hannah Brockway.] While on a visit to 
her sister in Marlboro, Mass., she died, 22 Jan., 1899; and he the 
following day. They were buried in one grave in Washington 27 
Jan., 1899. 

8 Sylvia J." was born 14 Dec, 1828. She was a weaver in a 
woolen mill. She married first, in Washington, 22 Sept., 1847, 
Nehemiah Ball, a farmer, born in Antrim, N. H., 1 Feb., 1823, to 
John and Rebecca-Proctor Ball. He was killed by accident 6 Nov., 
1853, in Washington. She married, second, in Washington 5 Aug., 
1858, Harris Robinson, born 17 June, 1816. She died 7 July, 1878. 
Ball child: Almira Eliott, born in Washington 9 July, 1848, died un- 
married, in Nashua, N. H., 4 Dec, 1866. 

9 Sarah A.^ was born 21 Sept., 1832. She was a school teacher. 
She married in Washington, N. H., 27 Jan., 1853, Albert Davis, a 
shoemaker, who was born in Washington 1 July, 1825, to Ephraim, 
a stone cutter, and Nancy-Davis Davis. Albert removed to Marl- 
boro, Mass., and was foreman of the dressing department of a shoe 
shop there. He died 5 Dec, 1887, in Marlboro, where his widow 
now resides (March, 1905). Davis children, born in Marlboro: 
Emily Augusta, 20 June, 1854, who is State Council Secretary of 
the Daughters of Liberty, and resides with her mother in Marlboro; 
Charles Albert, 14 Oct., 1856, died, unmarried, in Marlboro, 29 Jan., 
1875; Clarence Perkins, 20 May, 1859, and died, unmarried, 24 Dec, 
1887; Carrie Florence^''; Nancy Maria'"; Sarah Almira Crosby'**. 
P^mily A. says: "Jan. 27 in our family is remarkable — the dates of 
mother's and sister Carrie's marriage, birth of sister Sarah, death- 
stroke of brother Charles, and the burial of Aunt Lizzie and Uncle 
Dexter Ball." 

10 Sarah E.^ was born in New London 8 Feb., 1832, and married 
John Woodward, son of John Woodward, a farmer, born in Wash- 
ington, N. H., 17 Aug., 1823. He was a last block manufacturer. 
She died in Wilmot 24 Oct., 1880; and he 4 June, 1888. Woodward 
children, born in Wilmot: George Eliot, 9 Oct., 1847, died when 
17 months old; Clark Burton, 25 Feb., 1849, of Warren, N. H.; John 
Frank, 27 June, 1850, of West Andover, N. H.; Charles Henry, 30 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 277 

June, 1852, of West Andover ; Caleb, 20 July, 1855, died soon after 
birth; Fred Perlsy, 16 May, 1856, died 23 Aug., 1881; Arthur Ben- 
ton, 1 March 1858, of Franklin, N. H.; Sarah Bunker, 10 Feb., 
1860, married M. T. Pressey of East Thetford, N. H.; Hattie Pres- 
cott, 15 July, 1861, married A. L. Waldron and resides in Meriden, 
Iowa; Ellen Maria, 24 Feb., 1863, died 22 March, 1893; Sherman, 3 
Feb., 1865, died 28 May, 1885; Sumner, 11 Aug., 1866, married, liv- 
ing in West Andover, N. H.; Mary Elizabeth, 10 Oct., 1868, married 
a Show, and living in West Andover; Everline, 2 Nov., 1872, lived 
twenty-eight days. 

11 Perley^was born in New London 10 Oct., 1840, and married in 
East Boxford, Mass., 29 Jan., 1863, Alvira Sawyer, born in East 
Bradford, Mass., 21 Jan., 1839, to William, a shoemaker, and Joanna- 
Pickett Sawyer. He was a boot freer in Georgetown, Mass., where 
he died 19 Feb., 1878. His widow resides in Menomonie, Wis. 
(1905). Bunker child: Lura Susan, born 8 Sept., 1863, in George- 
town, where she died 3 Feb., 1886. 

12 Sylvester^ was born in Wilmot 4 June, 1844. He was a 
farmer. He married, first, Almeda Fisk, born to Benjamin and 
Rachel- Plint Plsk. He married, second, in Claremont, N. H., 1 
June, 1879, Sylvia Josephine Fisk, a milliner, his first wife's cousin, 
born in Sutton, N. H., 18 April, 1855, to Levi, a farmer, and Susan- 
Rogers Fisk. Mr. Bunker died in Wilmot 13 June, 1902, and his 
widow married a Morgan, who died in 1905. She resides in Dor- 
chester, Mass. Bunker child: Susie Genevia, born 5 Sept., 1886. 

13 Caroline J.^ was born 2 Nov., 1840. She was a school teacher. 
She married in Quincy 25 Oct., 1870, Joseph Henry Hobart, a book- 
keeper, born in Milton, Mass., 1 Nov., 1837. He died 4 P^eb., 1896, 
in South Braintree, Mass., where his widow now resides. Hobart 
issue: Mary Baxter^^; William Francis, born 18 Nov., 1873, and died 
20 June, 1880. 

14 Mary A. H.* was born in Ouincy, Mass., 26 July, 1847, and 
married there 25 Oct., 1871, George Crane, a carpenter, born in 
Quincy 18 Feb., 1847, to Benjamin L., a bootmaker, and Emmeline 
B. W.-Veazie Crane. Their home is Ouincy. Issue : Thompson 
Baxter, born 16 Nov., 1872, graduated from Thayer Academy, South 
Braintree, then attended the Institute of Technology. He belonged 
to the state militia and at the breaking out of the war with Spain, 
enlisted in the service, in which he remained a year, but saw no 
fighting. 

15 Amanda M.*^ was born in Springfield, N. H., 10 Jan., 1837, 
and married in Ouincy, Mass., 31 May, 1862, Charles McDaniel, born 
in Springfield 22 July, 1835, to James, a farmer, and Hitty L.-Phil- 
brick McDaniel. Mr. and Mrs. McDaniel were school teachers. 
He later engaged in farming. Their home is Enfield, N. H. Mc- 
Daniel issue: Carrie, born 16 Aug., 1863, died 18 March, 1879; 
Cora, born 27 Dec, 1864; Carl, born 10 Jan., 1870, died 20 April, 
1871; Catie, born 8 Dec, 1872, died 13 Feb., 1879; Arthur, born 21 
Jan., 1874, died 17 Feb., 1879. 

16 Carrie F.^ was born in Marlboro, Mass., 4 Sept., 1861, and 
married there 27 Jan., 1883, Wilfred Everett Gassett, born in 
Marlboro 15 June, 1861, to P'oster and Sarah Jane-Pratt Gassett. 



278 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

He was early a shoemaker and later was employed in a meat mar- 
ket. He died in Marlboro 5 Sept., 1894. His widow resides in 
Brockton, Mass., and is engaged in chiropody, hairwork, manicuring 
and facial massage. Gassett issue, born in Marlboro: Merton 
Albert, 2() Aug., 1891; Erlon Lovell, 2 May, 1893. 

17 Nancy M.^ was born 14 Aug., 18(55, and married Frank E. 
Jackson, and resides in Marlboro. 

18 Sarah A. C.'-* was born in Marlboro, Mass., '27 Jan., lS7o. She 
is a milliner. She married in Marlboro 15 Nov., 1904, John William 
Wood, a farmer, born in East Washington, N. H., *29 July, 1868, to 
John, a mason, and Julia A.-Crane Wood. They reside in Wash- 
ington, N. H. 

19 Mary B.^^ was born in Braintree, Mass., 25 March, 1872. She 
is an artist. She married in Braintree 28 June, 1899, Frederick 
Goff Pennock, a machinist, born in Rutland, Vt., 2 Aug., 18(57, to 
Artemus and Augusta-Goff Pennock. They reside in South Brain- 
tree. Pennock issue: Marion Hobart, born 10 May, 1900; Ralph 
Baxter, born 31 Jan., 1904. 



FAMILY 157: LOW. 

LIXEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOiMAS-4, JACOB-IT, JACOU-37, P.EN,IAJ\IIN-74. 

APPHIA PERLEY was born 10 Sept., 1774. Her husband 
was Joseph Low of Dunbarton, who was a native of Essex, Mass. 
Their children were born in Dunbarton. 

1 Low children: Joseph Perley-, Jonathan Gove^ Isaac S., Ben- 
jamin^ John'', Seth'', William Stinson^ 

2 Joseph Perley^ was born 31 Dec, 1800. He was a cooper. He 
married Eliza Dole of Georgetown, Mass., where he died of con- 
sumption 8 July, 1845, and was interred in Union Cemetery. Issue: 
Maria, Louisa, Apphia, Charles Perley-215^ Carrie. A daughter of 
Jos. P. Low died in Georgetown 4 Dec, 1838, aged eleven. XVilliam 
S.^ died aged two years. 

3 Jonathan Gove^ was born 31 Oct., 1803. His first wife was 
Mary Ann Norris; his second Elizabeth R. Perley P"arnum-173\ 
married by Rev. H. H. Baker in Georgetown. He was postmaster 
there about 1846. He died of consumption 27 June, 185(5. His 
widow, "Aunt Lizzie," died (5 Sept., 187(5, when sixty-five. Issue by 
first wife: William Stinson, who resided in Hayward, Almeda 
County, Cal.; Lewis N., born 4 Oct., 1846, in Georgetown. John^ 
married Mary Chaplin of Georgetown, published 30 Aug., 1833, and 

had Mary . These two brothers were landlords in Methuen, 

Mass., and the Transcript of that place thus refers to them: 

"I wish also to recall other good citizens of that time, men who 
are deserving of grateful remembrance for their public spirit and 
energy. Many can remember the smiling face of Mr. John Low, 
once the landlord of the hotel, and a better one never occupied the 
premises. The firm was John & Gove Low and I think it would be 
difficult to find a combination of four people more worthy than were 



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279 



the brothers Low and their wives, three of whom have passed the 
river. One remains, to whom all honor is due for a Christian and well 
ordered life ; may she long live to enjoy its fruits. Mr. Low was 
kind to the sick and charitable to the poor, ever ready with a horse 
and carriage to give such a little jaunt about the country, and it was 
a pleasure to sit beside him and be cheered by his sunny looks and 
mirth provoking talk. About Christmas time none of the boys were 
afraid to ask brother Low for a team to go to the woods and 
gather the lovely green wreaths that nature has so abundantly pro- 
vided, it would almost seem, to celebrate the birth of Christ." 

4 Benjamin' was born 30 Jan., LS07, and died of heart failure 29 
April, 1894, aged eighty-six years, three months. He married 17 
Jan., 1833, his cousin Amy Snowdon Sargent-160^ who was born 24 
Dec, 180G. He was a currier, and lived in Georgetown. Issue: 
Sarah Ann, born 24 March, 1834, school teacher; John, born 23 and 
died 27 Nov., 1835; Matilda, born 11 Aug., 1837, and died 2 March, 
1841; Charles M., born 17 Sept., 1839; Matilda C, born 2 March, 
1842; Benjamin P., born 26 June, 1843. 

5 Seth's^ first wife was Nira Davis of Warner, N. H., by whom 
he had issue: Marshall and Mary Dana. His second wife was 
Flora Eastman of Boxford, by whom he had issue: John, George, 
Charles, Clara, Helen. 



FAMILY 158: BURNHAM. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOH-37, BENJAMIN-74. 

ANNA PERLEY was born 16 March, 1777. She married 16 
May, 1808, in Dunbarton, Rev. Abraham Burnham, D. D., who was 
born 18 Nov., 1775, to Dea. Samuel and Mary-Perkins Burnham of 
that place. Dr. Burnham studied divinity with Rev. Dr. Parish of 
Byfield Parish, Newbury, Mass.; he preached in Pembroke, N. H. 
She was consumptive ; three months after marriage she visited her 
parents at Dunbarton, and took a severe cold; she failed rapidly, 
and never left her parents' home alive, dying there 28 Dec, 1808, 
only thirty-one years of age. He died in Pembroke of paralysis, 21 
Sept., 1852, aged seventy-six years. Dr. Burnham married four 
times but had issue by the second wife only — Mary Anna and Eliz- 
abeth White. 

An excellent biography of him is contained in the discourse at 
his funeral, (23 Sept., 1852), by Rev. Prof. Daniel J. Noyes of 
Dartmouth College. He was one of the leading clergyman of New 
Hampshire for a generation. 



FAMILY 159: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JAC01M7, JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74. 

JOHN PERLEY was born 29 May, 1779. He went with his 
father to Dunbarton in 1791. He married and returned to Salem, 
Mass., where he was hotel proprietor at the corner of Essex and 



280 THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

Beckford streets. He was lieutenant in the Salem artillery. He 
was chosen lieutenant in the militia in April, 1810. 

He was married by Rev. Samuel Meed, Danvers, G Dec., 1801, to 
Mehitable Proctor, born 19 Dec, 1775, to Sylvester and Mehitable- 
Porter Proctor of Danvers. Lieut. Perley died 16 Oct., 1815; his 
widow died in Peabody — then South Danvers — 31 Aug., 1852, where 
she was interred. The Salem Gazette of 6 Oct., 1815, announces his 
death and speaks of him as "late lieutenant in the U. S. Army." 

1 Perley children: Proctor Jefferson-305, John Andrews'", Mehit- 
able-806, Elbridge Gerry'-, Eliza Anna^, Elbridge Gerry^, Jacob-307. 

2 John A.^ was born 1 June, 1804, went to Florida in the naval 
service, and died there of fever 16 Feb., 1838. Elbridge G.^ was born 
9 Feb., and died 6 May, 1808. 

3 Eliza A.Hvas born in Salem, Mass., 17 Mar., 18u9, and was married 
in Peabody, Mass., by Rev. G. Cowles of Danvers, Mass., 25 May, 1830, 
to Jefferson Taylor, a carpenter, born in Stoddard, N. H., 30 Nov., 
1802, to Danforth Taylor. His mother's maiden name was P'letcher. 
He died 20 Sept., 1882, in Peabody, where his widow resides (April, 
1905). Taylor children : Sylvester Proctor"; Mary Proctor". 

4 Elbridge G.' was born 29 June, 1810, and 30 Oct., 1851, married 
Sarah E. Erskine, born 28 July, 1821, in Whitefield, Me. — No issue. 
He entered the navy in 1840 and served five years. He fought in 
the Rebellion as quarter gunner on the iron-clad monitor Canonicus, 
and as captain of the forecastle on the bark Gemsbok and the steam 
frigate Vanderbilt. On account of seasickness, 20 May, 1861, he 
received an honorable discharge, and afterwarHs a pension. His 
home was Salem, though he spent most of his time at sea. His 
nautical name was "John E. Perley." His widow died in Salem 2 
Feb., 1892. 

5 Sylvester P.^ was born in Peabody 27 April, 1834. He is a 
commercial traveler. He married in Jamaica Plain, Mass., 19 Nov. 
1859, Mary Bartlett Patterson, who was born in Amherst, N. H., 17 
July, 1836, to Jesse Clement, a mason, and Atarah-Burnham Patter- 
son. Taylor children, born in Jamaica Plain: Marion, 3 May, 1864, 
now of Peabody; Frank". 

6 Mary P.** was born in Peabody 25 Aug., 1838, and married in 
Cambridge, Mass., 8 June, 1863, P"rancis Aaron Low, a l3-anker for 
fifty years, but now in insurance business, who was born in Salem, 
Mass., 18 Nov., 1836, to Aaron Thomas and Ann Tucker-Briggs 
Low. Their home is Peabody. Low children : George P'rancis'^; 
Annie T., born 16 Dec, 1878. 

7 Frank'^ was born 17 May, 1867. He is doing an insurance busi- 
ness. He married in Salem 7 Sept., 1892, Fannie Greene Hart, 
who was born in Peabody 28 July, 1872, to John Austin and Ellen- 
Greene Hart. Their home is Peabody. Taylor children, born in 
Peabody: Leland Hart, 29 April, 1893; Helen Perley, 16 Dec, 1894; 
Roswell Clemont, 22 May, 1900; Marjory Dascom, 6 Feb., 1902. 

8 George F.'^ was born in Peabody, 17 Jan., 1869. He is a bank 
clerk. He married in Peabody 28 April, 1897, Grace Mabel Petty, 
born in Peabody 31 Aug., 1874, to John Loraine, an engineer, and 
Sarah Ellen-Barnes Petty. Their home is Peabody. Low children : 
Mabel Frances, born 3 Feb., 1898 ; Eleanor Louise, born 16 Nov.,1900. 



FAMILY IGO: SARGENT. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74. 

SARAH PERLEY was born, a twin with John-159, 29 May, 
1779. She married 22 Oct., 1799, Capt. Stephen Sargent, born 3 
March, 1776, to Peter Sargent of New London, where he died 19 
Feb., 1856, aged seventy-nine. She died 2 Oct., 1862, aged eighty- 

^three.^ije was a cabinet maker. 

>-/i.i'''i*'^rl£y children: Sally", Marcus Everett^ Dolly'-, Amy Snow- 
don-157^ Charles Seamans'*. 

2 Sallyi and Dolly^ were born 11 May, 1800, and 19 May, 1803, 
and died young. 

3 Marcus Everett' was born 30 May, 1801, and 27 Dec, 1829, 
married Ann Severance of Andover, N. H., where she was born 11 
May, 1806. He was a cabinet maker and resided in New London. 
He was a good musician; his favorite instrument was the bass viol. 
Issue: Proctor Perley^; Amy Ann*^; Story Low"; James Severance, 
born 8 Nov., 1839, and died in Kansas 2 July, 1877 ; and Anthony 
Burpee, born 29 Nov., 1846, and lived in Lynn. 

4 Charles Seamans' was born 19 March, 1817, and 30 Dec, 1842, 
married Judith Severance of Andover, N. H., where (.'') she was 
born 2 March, 1818. His trade was merchant tailor; his business 
later was merchant in dry goods in New London. They had no 
children. 

5 Proctor Perley^ was born 7 Oct., 1830, and married in Bradford, 
N. H., 11 Nov., 1858, Olivia Ann Mead of New London, who was 
born in Northfield, N. H., 15 Oct., 1830. He traveled in California 
and other States, and died in New Orleans 28 Feb., 1865, aged 
thirty-four. Issue : Mary Ann, born in 1859, and died in 1860. 

6 Amy Ann'* was born 12 April, 1833, and married 5 June, 1855, 
Franklin Prentice Nichols of Springfield, N. H., where he was born 
2 July, 1832. They lived in the West, till she came home and died, 
without issue, 13 Aug., 1857, aged twenty-four. 

7 Story Low^ was born 24 Feb., 1837. He married 28 Feb., 

1865, Mary M , of Virginia, who was born 12 P^eb., 1842. They 

resided in Amicus, Kansas. Issue: Anthony Colby, born 1866; 
Curtis H., born 1870; Eddie, born 1871; Robert M., born 1873; 
John Gibson, born 1875; Frank Nichols, born 1877. 

The reference "160" in Family 84' should read "161." 



FAMILY 161: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74. 

JACOB PERLEY was born 17 Sept., 1783. He went to Dun- 
barton, N. H., with his father, but removed to Georgetown, Mass., 
as it appears, just before his death. He married 1 Feb., 1814, 



282 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Sarah Perley-84\ who was born in Georgetown, then New Rowley, 
27 May, 1790. He died 14 Jan., 1821 ; his widow 11 Feb., 1864 or 5. 
Her epitaph reads "'Tis well with her "; his. 

Hear what the voice from Heavens Proclaims, 

For all the pious dead ; 
Sweet is the savior of their names 

And soft their sleeping heads. 

1 Perley children: Harriet Newell-849, Sophia Ann-308. 



FAMILY 102: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, .TACOB-37, JOHN-75. 

JOHN PERLEY was born in Haverhill 4 March, 1772. He 
was an orphan at nine years, and his uncle, Benjamin Perley, was 
appointed his guardian. He was "put out" till fourteen, then went 
to learn the tanner's trade. Attaining his majority he spent several 
years in New York and Vermont, but settled permanently in 
Enfield, N. H., in 1798. 

His habits of industry and perseverance enabled him to accumu- 
late a handsome property. He was a man of integrity and exem- 
plary moral character. He served his town in many important 
offices of trust and honor. 

He married in 1799 or 1801, Susannah Goodhue of Enfield, born 
in 1781 to Joseph and Abigail-Choate Goodhue, on Hog Island, (now 
by act of the legislature Choate Island), Ipswich, now Essex, Mass. 
He died 6 July, and his widow 25 Dec, 18G8. 

1 Perley children: Abigail Goodhue-o09, Uri-310, Mary Davis'", 
John-', Hannah Hutchins'\ Joseph Goodhue-311, David Goodhue-312, 
Moses Payson-313, William Goodhue-314, Edwin Allen-315. 

2 Mary D.' was born 7 Sept., 1805. She married 9 Oct., 1831, 
Benjamin F. Sanborn, M. D., of Whitefield, N. H., who died leaving 
one child. She married, second, 23 Dec, 1837, Benjamin K. 
Swazy, M. D., of Canton, Me., and died about 1872, leaving two chil- 
dren by her second husband, John Perley and Benjamin of Canton, Me. 

.3 John^ was born 21 Aug., 1807, and died 15 May, 1833; Hannah 
H.i 14 March, 1810, and died 19 Aug., 1827. 



FAMILY 163: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4. JACOB-17, JACOB-37, JOHN-75. 

NATHANIEL PERLEY was born in Haverhill 31 March, 1775, 
and "weighed fourteen pounds." He was an orphan at three years, 
and his uncle, Benjamin Perley, became his guardian. He married 
in 1801, lived in Newbury till 1806, when he removed to Canaan, 
N. H., whence he removed in 1808 and settled, a farmer, in San born- 
ton, N. H. 

His wife was Dorothy Bartlett, born 12 Nov., 1777, to Joseph 
and Sarah-Morse Bartlett of Newbury, and married 24 Nov., 1801, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 283 

(published 7 Nov., ISOO.) He died 1 Dec, 1859, aged eighty-four 
years; she '21 June, iStJo, aged eighty-five years and seven months. 

1 Perley children: Joseph'-, Lydia Bartlett^ Stephen Bartlett-316, 
Hannah^ John", Moses Payson^ Charles Bartlett-ol7, George-318. 

2 Joseph^ was born in Newbury 1 Sept., 1802, and married, first, 
5 June, 1828, Rhoda Eastman of Meredith, N. H., who was born 11 
May, 1802, to Thomas and Sally-Brown Eastman. She died in Han- 
nibal, N. Y., 28 March, 1864. He married, second, Sarah Woodman 
liastman, born 7 Oct., 18o5, to Abel Brown and Eliza-Woodman 
Eastman. He was a cabinet maker. He died in Gilmanton 14 
July, 1871, and was buried in Meredith. She died in Sanbornton 10 
June, 1873. They had no issue, but had an adopted daughter Julia, 
who married in Hannibal, N. Y., 19 March, 1866, and became the 
third wife of D. R. Van Patten, a farmer of Sterling, N. Y., their 
home. 

3 Lydia B.^ was born in Newbury 19 Feb., 1804, and married in 
Sanbornton 8 May, 1827, Ede Taylor, a farmer born in Sanborn- 
ton 19 Nov., 1803, to Thomas and Sarah E.-Jewett Taylor. She 
died in Sanbornton 16 June, 1866; and he in Tilton, N. H., 23 Aug., 
1872. Taylor children : Charles Chase''; Hannah Parley''. 

4 Hannah^ was born in Sanbornton 7 Nov., 1810, and married 27 
Feb., 1834, Josiah Dearborn Piper, a farmer, born in Sanbornton 
19 Aug., 1807, to Nathaniel, a farmer, and Hannah-Smith Piper. It 
is said: "She could spin more yarn when a girl than any one else in 
the county." Mr. Piper died in Sanbornton 24 Nov., 1865. Piper 
children, all born in Sanbornton: Stephen S., 17 Dec, 1835, married 
and living in Manchester, N. H.; John Perley 20 July, 1842, who 
died in Sanbornton 23 P'eb., 1873, married 6 Dec, 1864, Eveana S. 
Taylor, daughter of Eben E., and had children : Joseph Bartlett, 
born 21 Aug., 1866; Katie Taylor, born 4 Dec, 1867. 

5 John^ was born 21 July, 1812, and died, unmarried, in Gaines- 
ville, Ala., 7 Sept., 1843. Moses P.^ was born 14 Sept., 1815. He 
was a cabinet maker in New York City, where he died, unmarried, 
1 April, 1882. 

6 Charles C.^ was born in Sanbornton 28 Oct., 1828. He mar- 
ried, first, 19 Jan., 1851, Sarah C. Cawley. born 20 April, 1829, to Dea. 
Jonathan and Abigail-Marston Cawley. She died in Sanbornton 20 
Feb., 1866. He married, second, 2 Feb., 1879, Eliza Ann Philbrook, 
a dressmaker, born 10 June, 1844, to Alpheus C. and Eliza-Moore 
Philbrook. He died in Tilton, N. H., 30 Oct., 1880. Early in life 
he was a farmer and later a merchant. He was highly esteemed. 
His widow resides in East Tilton. Taylor children: Charles Mar- 
shalF"; Laura Ella, born 29 May, 1858, died 30 Oct., 1864. 

7 Hannah P.'^ was born 13 Sept., 1833. She married 7 Sept., 
1858, Samuel Taylor, a farmer, born 10 Nov., 1836, to Dearborn and 
Mahala-Colby Taylor of Sanbornton. Taylor issue : Mahala E., born 
15 Jan., 1860, (married in Sanbornton 23 March, 1881, John W. Til- 
ton); Kirk, born 24 July, 1867. 

8 Charles M.'' was born in Sanbornton 19 Feb., 1854. He mar- 
ried 26 Nov., 1874, Julia Ann Sargent, born in Warner, N. H., 1 
April, 1855, to Arthur J., a mechanic, and Julia Ann-Hadley Sar- 
gent. Their home is Tilton. Mr. Taylor is a surveyor. Their 



284 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

children, born in East Tilton: Ivan Marshall, born 13 Aug., 1876, 
a salesman in Boston; Eva Blanche, born 4 Oct., 1882, and married 
in Northfield, N. H., George M. Smith, born in Chester, N. H., 13 
March, 1882, to George Elvin, a shoemaker, and Carrie-Emmerick 
Smith. They reside in Tilton. Mr. Smith is engaged in an optical 
business. 



FAMILY 164: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT- ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOBn, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-76. 

JOHN PERLEY was born in Methuen 5 Aug., 1763. He and 
his brother James were soldiers in their teens. He enlisted in 1780, 
when he was eighteen years old, of a light complexion and five feet 
and six inches tall. 

Early in 1791 he removed to Berlin, Vt.; he was three weeks on 
the journey, carrying his wife and four children and personal effects 
upon an ox -sled. In 1806 he ex- 
changed his farm of eighty acres in /) I ^ /^ a -v^jii^ 
Berlin for three hundred acres in ^ O h^ ( J ^ // 
Enosburg, and with his wife and thir- ^ ^ (/ 

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Lcen Luiiuien ana an tneir wonaiy oc Mrs. aiu1wsou-45i, an assistant com- 
goods on an ox-sled drawn by one yoke i'"'''" "'^ ^'''^ '^"'■'^'' "^""^ ^**^^- 
of oxen and a horse, followed by another horse, a cow and some 
sheep, journeyed to their new home, sixty miles, in five days. He 
built a log house and planted a small clearing. In 1807 he built 
a framed house, lately (1880) occupied by his son Anson. The 
sketch of the house here given was made by Mary Perley Anderson- 
451, when fourteen years old. They raised flax and wool and spun 
thread and yarn and wove cloth. By an old account book, which 
exhibits the superior neatness and exact method of the man who 
kept it, he sold each year considerable quantities of apples, cider, 
corn, wheat, butter, cheese, wool, flax, pork, etc. His son Edward 
wrote, "His wealth came by industry and economy. People those 
days were not so extravagant as now, and did not spend their earn- 
ings beforehand." 

"The seven sons of John Perley," wrote Mrs. Ira S. Anderson- 
451, "with one exception, lived in or near Berkshire, Vt., and were 
farmers. They were dignified in personal appearance, above medium 
height, inclined to corpulency, were rather light complexioned 
though not very light, graced themselves with a natural suavity of 
manners known as 'Perley politeness,' which was not very manifest 
in the next generation, which might come under the head of 'young 
America.' They were fine singers, were brotherly in their relations 
to each other, possessed a good common school education, were not 
wealthy, but had enough for all their needs, and in religion were 
Episcopalians." 

Mr. Perley married 29 Dec, 1782, Sarah Merrill of Haverhill, 
Mass., who was born 14 Aug., 1764, and died 19 June, 1827. He 
died "29 Feb., 1830." 

1 Perley children : Ruth% David-319, Sarah'^ Mehitable-, John-320, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



285 



Nathan-321, Hezekiah-, Jesse-322, Jerry^ Anson-323, Loren^ Edward- 
324, William-325, Cynthia'-, Sophial 

2 Ruth^ was born 23 April, 1783, in Haverhill, and died 8 Jan., 




JOHN PERLEY HOUSE. 



1864; Sarah\ in Haverhill, 8 Aug., 1787, and died 9 March, 1867; 
Mehitable\ in Haverhill, 1 May, 1790, and died 28 March, 1873; 
Hezekiah^ in Berlin, 13 Feb., 1796, died in 1880 ; Cynthia\ in Enos- 



burc 



Oct., 1806, and died 17 Oct., 1853. These five children 



never married and lived, at home with "the old folks." Hezekiah 
and Anson-323 owned the farm. 

3 Jerry^ was born a twin with Jesse^ 24 April, 1798, in Berlin and 
died the next month. Loren^ was born in May, 1800, and died in 
May, 1802. Sophia^ was born in Jan., 1809, and died in Feb., 1810. 



FAMILY 165: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DKSCENT-ALLA^M, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-76. 

JAMES PERLEY was born in Methuen 15 July, 1765 (Bible 
record, 1764). While living in Plaverhill he married 17 Nov., 1788, 
Abigail Corliss, who was born 2 April, 1766, to John Swaddock and 
Elizabeth-Annice Corliss of Haverhill, and died 26 July, 1831. They 
settled in Berlin, Vt., in 1791. His second wife was Prudence 
Kneeland, who died 9 Oct., 1856, aged eighty. 

The following is quoted from the History of Washington 
County, Vt.: 

"Capt. James Perley, born in Methuen, Mass., in 1760, at the age 
of sixteen years enlisted as a soldier in the war of the Revolution 



286 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

under Gen. Knox and served three years. The next eight years of 
his hfe he spent upon the ocean as captain's mate, visiting different 
places in both hemispheres. He came here in 1791 and settled on a 
farm near the center of the town, which he occupied the remainder 
of his life. Capt. Perley and his son Samuel Perley were both at the 
battle of Plattsburg, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1814. He died in Berlin in 
1850, aged ninety years." The Vermont Historical Magazine says 
he was eighty-six in 1851; the Pension List of 1831 says seventy-one 
years, and of 1840 seventy-five years. Half of these authorities only 
is right : his age at death was eighty-five years. 

1 Perley children, born in Berlin, but the first two in Haverhill : 
Abigail'^, James'-^, Samuel-o26, Moses'-, Thomas'-, Betsey^ Patty'-, Cor- 
liss'-, Moses Goodrich-327, Elvira Maria"", James Varnum-o'28. 

2 James^ was born in Hav'erhill 15 Aug., 1791, died in Berlin, 
from the kick of a horse, 19 Sept., 1809; Moses\ born in Berlin 3 
May, 1795, died 12 Aug., 1803: Thomas\ born 25 and died 31 
Dec, 1797; Patty\ born 8 March, 1801, died 17 Oct., 1804; Corhss^ 
born 25 April, 1803, died 7 Nov., 1805. 

3 AbigaiP was born 24 March, 1788. She married Valentine 
Sargent, a farmer. They had a son James, who became a farmer, 
and two daughters, one of whom married a Parker of P^ast Coventry, 
Vt., where she (Abigail) died 10 July, 18(54, and he (Valentine) 15 
April, 1865. 

4 l^etsey' was born 29 Dec, 1798, married 1 March, 1821, Osmond 
Dewey (uncle of the admiral), son of Simeon, born 16 Oct., 1799, at 
Berlin, Vt. He was a farmer at Berlin and at Barre, from which 
latter place he went to the Legislature in 1843-4. He removed to 
Montpelier, where he died 5 Feb., 1863. Mrs. Dewey died 6 June, 
1831. [He married, second, 22 Jan., 1832, Mrs. Rebecca-Davis Far- 
well, daughter of Jacob and Katy-Taplin Davis, by whom he had : 
Betsey Ann, born 10 June, 1834; Marion Rebecca, born 3 June, 
1837; Orville, born 24 April, 1840.] Perley-Dewey issue born in 
Berlin: Francis Osmond"; Dennison'^; and Simeon, born 27 March, 
1829, married 19 Jan., 1861, Nancy Eaton, daughter of Daniel and 
Alice A.-Bemis Eaton. He was traveling salesman for his brother 
Francis of Boston. He died 18 P'eb., 1883, in Montpelier, where his 
wife was living in 1898. 

5 Elvira Maria^ was born in Berlin, Vt., 2 March, 1807, married in 
Berlin, Vt., 6 June, 1830, Augustus Childs, farmer and surveyor, 
(brother of Dr. Moses Perley's vvife-327), who was born in Caven- 
dish, Vt., 10 Aug., 1804. She died in VVaterville, Vt., 11 April, 
1885; and he 8 Jan., 1892. Childs issue: Charles, born in Bakersfield 
18 July, 1833; Salhe, born 1 June, 1838; Thomas, born 6 May, 1831, 
died, unmarried, 5 March, 1865; James Perley, born 3 June, 1840, 
died 9 May, 1857. The first two are living in Waterville. 

6 Francis Osmond^ was born 20 June, 1823. He was educated 
at the Montpelier Academy. He married 5 Aug., 1845, at Brighton, 
Mass., Elizabeth Ann Farnum, born 4 June, 1825, at Mt. Vernon, 
N, H., to John and Elizabeth-Robbins Farnum. She died 15 Jan., 
1889, in Reading, Mass., and he 16 P^eb., 1897. Their children, born 
at Brighton, Mass.: Edgar Osmond^; Francis Henry^; Charles Her- 
bert, born 26 July, 1853, died, unmarried, 15 June, 1892; Sarah 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 287 

Livermore, born 21 Aug., 1855, married 20 June, 1877, G. H. 
Barnes; Belle Perley, born 3 Dec, 1857, married 20 June, 1877, 
William O. Hewes. 

7 Dennison^ was born 1 June, 1825. He is a merchant in Mont- 
pelier. He married 23 July, 1848, Adelia Amy Chandler, born 17 
May, 1825, at Berlin to Ezra and Tabitha-Johnson Chandler. She 
died in Montpelier in Feb., 1891. Their children: Jennie Adelia, 
born 30 June, 18-49, at Reading, Mass., (married, first, 4 Nov., 1873, 
Charles F. Poland, who died 22 April, 1875, second, 2(i July, 
1886, Gen. Perley P. Pitkin, who died 30 July, 1890); Frank Denni- 
son, born 7 May, 1855, (married 15 Dec, 1875, Mary Hodgdon, 
daughter of Andrew Hodgdon, and had in Montpelier: Arthur 
Hodgdon, born 24 Feb., 1882; Philip Andrew, born 30 May, 1888; 
Howard Dennison, born 30 July, 1890); Arthur Benjamin, born 2 
Jan., 1858, died 22 Feb., 1875; Varnum Perley, born IG Oct., 18.59, 
at Bethel, Vt., died 26 Dec, 1884. 

8 Edgar Osmond" was born 9 May, 1846. He married 12 March, 

1866, Lizzie D. Kemp, born 14 Feb., 1844, at Boston to Robert and 
Elizabeth Jane-Alden Kemp. He was a merchant in Boston and 
resided in Reading. He died 10 May, 1890. His widow was living 
in Reading in 1905. Their children : Minnie Evelyn, born 14 Jan., 

1867, (married 14 Jan., 1891, Philip Emerson, born 7 May, 1865, to 
Silas Gasset and P'rutilla-Wakefield Emerson, and had Dorothy, 
born 30 July, 1893, at Waltham, and removed to Lynn, Mass.); 
Marion Kemp, born 2 Nov., 1875; Francis Osmond^**; Edgar 
Osmond, Jr." 

9 Francis Henry*^ was born 8 March, 1850. He is a merchant 
in Boston and resides in Reading. He married 25 Oct., 1871, 
Augusta T. Hawes, born 5 June, 1849, in Wellfleet, Mass., to Wil- 
liam and Temperance Hawes. Their children: Annie Augusta^'", 
Bessie Livermore^^; PVancis H." 

10 P'rancis Osmond** was born 13 July, 1877, and married Cath- 
erine Skeffington of Lowell. Children: Elizabeth and Geo. Franklin. 

11 Edgar Osmond, Jr.,^ was born 10 Aug., 1878, and married 14 
Oct., 1903, Bertha Ursula Brooks, daughter of Edward F. Brooks 
and Mary L. Penny of Reading, Mass. 

12 Annie Augusta" was born 30 Nov., 1873, and married LeRoy 
Todd of Owasso, Mich. 

13 Bessie Livermore" was born 14 May, 1875, and married 
Ernest Dalton Richmond, M. D., of Reading, Mass. Child: Ernest 
Dalton, Jr. 

14 Francis H." was born 11 Nov., 1880, and married in 1904 Mary 
T. Humphrey, milliner, of Wakefield, Mass. 



FAMILY 166: BROWN, METCALF, FOSTER. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-76. 

LYDIA PERLEY married Capt. Nathaniel Brown, a sea cap- 
tain of Salem, Mass., 29 March, 1809. He took his bride to his 
home, and being in feeble health he planned a voyage for recupera- 



288 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

tion and sailed not long after his marriage. As the weary months 
wore away, she waited patiently for his return. At last he came. 
From her dwelling which stood in full view of the harbor, she de- 
scried his ship at the distance. She placed the tea-kettle over the 
fire and made preparations for her husband's entertainment, tokens 
of dutiful love. While the kettle weirdly sang as the water boiled, 
she looked again toward the nearing vessel. Alas! What sorrow! 
what grief ! Her joy was turned to mourning; a flag at half-mast 
told only too truly, too sadly, her dear one's fate. He had died only 
some three days before, about the year 1810. 

Mrs. Brown afterward married Harvey Metcalf of Lempster, 
N. H., proprietor of a store and hotel. After Mr. Metcalf's death, 
she married Frank Foster of Bridgton, Me., a mill sawyer, exten- 
sively engaged in the lumber trade. 



FAMILY 167: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, .TACOB-17, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-TC. 

EDMUND PERLEY was born in Danvers 9 Feb., 1778. He 
was of Haverhill in 1798, when he removed to Methuen, where he 
resided until he went to Lempster, N. H., later than 1806, and there 
settled as a farmer. He was a captain in the militia. 

His first wife was Abigail Bailey of Haverhill, married 31 May, 
1798. She dying, he married second, her sister, Sarah Bailey of 
Haverhill 27 Nov., 1806, when he was of Methuen. She was born 
'29 Jan., 1786; she died at Lempster 2 May, 1846. Mr. Perley died 
2 Aug., 1846. In religion these parents were Methodists, and 
brought up their children under that governing principle to be in- 
telligent and eminently useful citizens. 

r Perley children : Abigail-329, P^ranklin-, Emily^ Mehitable-880, 
ELdmund P^ranklin'-, Susannah Maria-381, Sarah Louisa^ Marietta- 
332, Asbury Fisk-333, Orpha Cornelia- — only one by first wife. 

2 Frankhn^ was born 3 March, 1808, and died 17 Feb., 1811; 
Edmund F.^ 23 June, 1813, and died 6 July, 1830; Orpha C.\ 26 
Jan., 1828, married Henry Willard Fales, died in Boston 13 Oct., 
1870, leaving a son Willard Henry. 

3 Emily^ was born 5 Sept., 1809. She married in Lempster 
14 March, 1833, Peter Tuttle Fox, who was born in Hancock, N. H., 
17 May, 1811, to Peter and Mette-Symonds Fox of Marlow, N. H. 
He was a farmer in Marlow. Fox children: Edmund Perley'; As- 
bury Tuttle, born 28 May, 1844, died 22 April, 1853; and Frank 
Elmer, born 9 Aug., 1848, died 8 Oct., 1858. 

4 Sarah L.^ was born 19 Jan., 1819, married in Lowell, Mass., 
Aug., 1847, Joseph Swasey, son of Mary and Joseph Swasey, sea 
captain. He was secretary of Commodore Wadsworth in U. S. 
Navy, and died in July, 1869, in South Boston. She was a teacher 
before her marriage. Their children: Helen Louisa, born July 28, 
1848, who graduated from Massachusetts Metaphysical College, Bos- 
ton, in 1901 with the title of C. S. B., and is a practitioner and teacher 
of Christian Science; Josephine Fannie Maria, born 14 Sept., 1849, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 289 

died in Concord, N. H.; Florence, who died in Taunton, Mass.; Joseph 
Wadsworth, born "20 March, 1860, a clerk in the Pension Office, 
Washington, D, C. 

5 Edmund Perley^ (afterwards changed to Perley E.) was born 
17 Dec, 1833, married 11 Nov., 1860, Catherine Fiske of Marlow, 
born 6 Feb., 1840, to Eliza-Stone and Amos F. Fiske, merchant. 
Mr. Fox was a teacher by profession for several years, then engaged 
in mercantile business, from which he has retired. He served six 
years on the board of county commissioners, and was a member of 
the House in the Legislature of 1903. Their child: Charles Henry, 
born 8 Jan., 1865, in Marlow, died 1 Jan., 1866. 



FAMILY 168: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-76. 

ASA PERLEY was born 23 Sept., 1787. He settled on the 
parental homestead in Methuen. His sons Nathan and Edmund 
were living there in 1880. He married 17 June, 1817, Judith Corn- 
ing of Methuen, sometime of Londonderry, N. H., who was born 28 
March, 1796, to John and Sally Corning, and died 28 Sept., 1880. 
Mr. Perley died of consumption in Haverhill 18 Aug., 1854. 

1 Perley children : Sarah", Louisa-334, John*, Nathan'^ Edmund 
Franklin-335, James-336, Harvey Metcalfl 

2 John^ was born 23 Jan., 1822, and died of erysipelas 24 Oct., 
1845, unmarried. Harvey M.^ was born 18 Nov., 1830, was a clerk 
in Boston, 1855, became a farmer about half a mile from his birth- 
place, and died unmarried some years ago. Nathan' was born 23 
April, 1824, was clerk in the customhouse, Boston, 1861-7, with 
home ia Haverhill; he was married 11 June, 1859, by Rev. Henry 
M. Lord of Lowell, to Sarah M, Young, born in 1832 to Benjamin 
and Elizabeth Young of Fayette, Me. He lived some time with his 
brother Edmund. 

3 Sarah' was born 13 April, 1818, and 27 Sept., 1838, married 
Alfred Page of Salem, N. H., where he was a farmer and a grocer, 
and their children were born: Alson Leon, born 18 Nov., 1832, 
died of hemorrhage of the lungs in Salem 28 April, 1881; Hermon 
Francis, died in infancy; Alfred Milton, born 24 Sept., 1842, and 
died in Sept., 1876; Ellen Louisa, born in 1843 and died in Feb., 
1845; Emma Savory, born 11 March, 1850, married William Kelly, 
a shoe manufacturer of Salem, son of Col. John Kelly, and had no 
children; Etta Florence, born 15 April, 1856, and died 13 April, 1861. 



FAMILY 169: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAK-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, WILLIAM-77. 

HUMPHREY CLARK PERLEY was born 24 Dec, 1761. 
His parental home belongs now to the town of Boxford and is the 
Boxford almshouse. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1791, 
with Nathaniel-97, and received the master's degree in course. 



290 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



He studied divinity with Rev. Ebenezer Bradford of Rowley and 
Rev. Ebenezer Dutch of Bradford. He was approbated to preach 
by the Essex North Association 10 July, 1794. Rev. Samuel Spring 
was a scribe and signed his license for the Association. He became 
a member of the Haverhill association of ministers 7 June, 1796. 
The year before, 2 December, he was ordained, and the same day 
was installed over the First Church in Methuen, Mass. He served 
the Master twenty-two years, and was dismissed 24 May, 1815. His 
farewell sermon and two others were printed by request : 



FAREWELL SERMON 

Preached to the First Church and Con- 
gregational Society in Methuen 

On the Lord's Day, June 4, 1815, 

By Humphrey Claris Perley, A. M., 

Their Late Pastor. 



Published by Request. 



Haverhill, Mass. 

Printed by Burrill and Tileston. 

1815. 



TWO 

SERMONS 

By the Rev. Hiuiiphrey C. Perley, A. M., 

Pastor of the First Church of Christ in 
Methuen. 

Delivered first at Haverhill, West Parish, 
Jan. 6, 1811, 

And the Sabbath but one following. 
To His Own People, 

And Printed by Request. 



Haverhill, (Mass.) 

Printed and Sold by William B. Allen. 

1811. 



Texts of the "Two Sermons" were (1) 2 Cor., ii, 17, and (2) James, i, 5. 

The farewell sermon was an octavo of sixteen pages, an extract 
from which follows: — 

"While I have ever considered myself very imperfect in all my 
labors, I can truly say I now feel a conscious rectitude of having 
studiously endeavored to do the will of my divine Lord and Master. 
I have had an unshaken faith in the truths I have preached to others, 
and now have a comforting expectation of receiving eternal life 
through the merits of the great Redeemer." 

An old memorandum-book of his reads: — "We moved our goods 
and family from Methuen on Wednesday, 22 Nov., 1815, lodged at 
Boxford that night and arrived in Salem the afternoon of the next day. 
We had a very fine and comfortable day, and met with nothing dis- 
couraging. We took half a 3-story house, belonging to the Salem 
Bank company in Liberty street, at $120 per year. There we lived 
till the morning of the 22d of Aug., 1816, when we were burned out, 
together with twelve other families that lived in the neighborhood of 
John Dabnies, upon Liberty and Water streets." 

An unusual stamping of the horse in the barn about twenty feet 
from the house, awoke him, and turning in bed to listen, he sighted 
flames issuing from his barn windows. He rushed out screaming 
fire, and liberated his horse, cows and hogs, and removed the chaises. 
Then returning to the house, he dressed and secured the children 
just as the flames began to crackle the glass windows. In the con- 
flagration were consumed eight dwellings, a bakery, a rigging loft, 
two stores and a joiner's shop. 

His family stayed with Dea. William Safford till the 27th, when 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



291 



they removed to Jacob Rust's house back of Salem Courthouse, on 
the bank of North River. They occupied Rev. Joseph Spaulding's 
house, Summer street, 2 Dec, 1816. He was re-installed 2 Dec, 
1818, and 25 Jan., 1819, removed to the North Parish, Beverly, and 
occupied the ancient residence of their first settled minister. Rev. 
John Chipman, who was ordained there 28 Dec, 1715. He occupied, 
6 April, 1819, Isaac Woodbury's house, where Rev. Moses Dow 
formerly lived. Thence he removed 28 May, 1821, to Salem, into 
Thomas March Woodbridge's house, in March street, running from 
Bridge west, and butting on North river. The price per annum 
was ^80, for house, garden, and barn room for horse, chaises, cow, 
and wood. 

At length Mr. Perley settled upon a farm on Spofford's Hill, in 
Georgetown, Mass , and adopted the triple service of teaching, farm- 
ing and preaching. His farm has been some time in the possession 
of Moody Spofford. 

While teaching in Parker River Village, Newbury, in the spring 
of 1829, he began to preach, at the solicitation of the people, in the 
schoolhouse. Soon a religious society was formed, and he continued 
to teach and preach till April, 1832. He was succeeded by neigh- 
boring clergymen and Andover Seminary students. There were 
numerous conversions and a church of twenty-seven members was 
organized ; but owing to the sparseness of the population it lived but 
seven years. 

Mr. Perley was an old-fashioned preacher, having fair ability and 
moderated earnestness, which, coupled with good judgment and hon- 
esty of purpose, made him more successful as an "all around man" 
than as a specialist. He never won laurels, but received the meed 
of "well done." A sketch of him is in "American Biography." 

He was married 30 Nov., 1797, by Rev. Isaac Braman, to Eliza- 
beth Mighill, born 24 Oct., 1776, to Lt. David and Huldah-Dole 
Mighill of Georgetown. She died in Georgetown 1 July, 1830, of 
cancer. 

The Salem Gazette of 6 July, 1830, records of Mrs. Perley: "As she 
lived much respected, so she died sincerely lamented by all her 
friends. In every relation of life she constantly exhibited a bright 
example of female worth and purity, and died full in the faith of the 
gospel." Mr. Perley died in 

Georgetown 9 May, 1838. Their :' 

children were born in Methuen. : Elizabeth mighill 

1 Perley children : Elizabeth : ^''^ i« ^^^^' ^^^^ 
MighilP, Humphrey Clark-337, i Died is Feb., noe 

David MighilP, Charles Cotes- ] Aged 22 years and O mouths 

worth Pinckney'^ Mary MighilP, '■. intended consort of 

William Putnam-338. : "'^^- H-.mpbrey C. Perley of Methuen. 

2 Elizabeth M.^ was born 11 

April, 1801, and died in Jan., she was daughter of 

^r,\.. • /-^ , -1 Jeremiah and Sarah-Lambert Mighill. 

1875, in Georgetown, unmarried. 

Charles C. P.^ was born 18 Feb., 1808, and was published 23 July, 
1855, with Margaret Dempsey of Salmon Falls, N. H. He never 
married. He was a farmer in Georgetown, where he died in Jan., 
1875. The local journal thus noticed his death: "He was a kind 



292 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

and much respected citizen, always having a witty saying or a kindly 
word for all he met. He is missed, but his memory will be kept 
green by the recollection of his many kindly virtues." 

3 David M.^ was born 11 Sept., 1804, and died on board a packet 
ship between Philadelphia and Boston 4 May, 1829. A local news- 
paper of 22 May thus notices his death : — 

"Leaves have their time to fall and flowers to wither at the north 
wind's breath, the stars to set — but ah! Thou hast all seasons for 
thine own, O Death ! 

"When the aged drop into the grave, however dear they seem 
to us we meet the stroke with a kind of preparation common to us 
at the consummation of an anticipated event. But when the youth- 
ful become victims to 'man's common foe' how different are our 
sensations! Gloom and melancholy steal unconsciously over us, and 
cloudlike, obscure the brightness of the sun and throw a pensive 
shade over the face of nature. Such is the effect produced on a 
large portion of the community by the death of Mr. Perley. 

"Possessed of an uncommonly amiable disposition, engaging man- 
ners, and a heart alive to every virtuous feeling, he could not fail of 
securing to himself a very large number of friends. But far stronger 
ties bound him to earth : — to the firm friend he added the kind and 
dutiful son and the affectionate brother. It is in the family circle 
his loss is irretrievable. The shaft flew only once — but once when 
aimed at one who was the object of the tenderest affection, of the 
parents' expectation, has sufficed to do its errand — and peace is 
slain. 

"He graduated at Harvard College in 1827. Since that time he 
has distinguished himself as an able and successful instructor of 
youth in Philadelphia; in that character his loss is deeply felt. Dur- 
mg his sickness of eight months' duration, he exhibited a degree of 
patience almost unexampled. In his death we are strongly re- 
minded of the uncertainty of life — of the danger of leaning on what 
so often proves a 'spear on which peace bleeds and hope expires.' " 

4 Mary M.^ was born 12 Dec, 1809, and 10 Nov., 1833, married 
Leander Spofford, who was born 8 Jan., 1807, to William and Eunice- 
Lincoln Spofford of Georgetown. He died 7 Sept., 1853. Their 
children: Mary Mighill, born 23 Dec, 1833, and died, unmarried, 7 
March, 1900; Catherine S.-187^ 



FAMILY 170: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, WILLIAM-77. 

WILLIAM PERLEY was born 8 April, 1763, in the house that 
is now the Boxford almshouse. He began life in Georgetown, near 
the Pingree farm, where he had a tannery. He ultimately removed 
to and settled in Haverhill. 

He was published in Boxford 1 Jan., 1789, with Sarah Spofford, 
born 11 Feb., 1768, to Col. Daniel and Judith-Follansbee Spofford 
of Georgetown. He died in Haverhill 10 Jan., 1833; she, 6 Feb., 1849. 

1 Perley children: William'-, Humphrey-, Sarah", Daniel Spof- 
ford-340, Amos Spofford-341, Mary Ann-342, Elvira^ Francis A'^ 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 293 

2 William^ was born in 1792, of whom Mrs. Ames^ says: "Uncle 
William, son of Capt. William, died in Norfolk, Va., 18 Oct., 1822, 
and was never married"; Humphrey^ born in 179G, died 2 June, 
1820; Sarahs born in 1798, died 19 Nov., 1820; Francis Addison\ 
born in April, 1811, baptised 28 June, 1812, died in 1834. 

3 Elvira' was born in Georgetown 29 April, 1809, and married in 
Haverhill 11 June, 1840, Moses Kimball Tyler, a shoe manufacturer, 
born in Haverhill 2 Feb., 1814, to Dudley and Betsey-Kimball 
Tyler. She died in Haverhill 14 July, 1867; and he, 24 April, 1902. 
Tyler child : Ellen\ 

4 Ellen'^ was born in Haverhill 20 April, 1842, and married there 
8 Aug., 1866, James S. Ames, an expert accountant, born in Haver- 
hill 19 Nov., 1842, to Charles, a teacher, and Jeannette-Sergeant 
Ames. He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, 18 Nov., 1866. His widow re- 
sides in Haverhill. Ames child: Alice Tyler, born in Haverhill 10 
July, 1867, died in Newton Center, Mass., 22 Aug., 1879. 



FAMILY 171: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, JACOH-17, FRANCIS-39, WILLIAM-77. 

PHINEAS PERLEY was born in Boxford 16 May, 1766. He 
purchased of John Hale a farm, where he spent his life. Hotel 
"Placidia" stands near the venerable mansion. 

Mr. Perley was widely known in his "day and generation." In 
any matter of arbitration, he was the arbiter, or one of them. He 
held many town ofifices. He was surveyor of highways, 1804, 11, 
18,23; constable, 1807, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15; tax collector, 1807 to 
1810, and one of the school board 1802, 10, 14, 16. 

Michael Brown advertised to sell, on Saturday 1 May, 1817, "the 
right in equity of redeem.ing the mortgaged real estate, in Boxford — 
the farm about thirty acres with the buildings thereon, where 
Phineas Perley now lives." The right of redemption was the prop- 
erty of said Perley. 

He was more than six feet tall, symmetrical in form, lithe, vig- 
orous, handsome. After middle life his head was bald. 

He married 15 April, 1794, Sally Gould, who was born 5 Feb., 
1769, to Joseph and Elizabeth-Emerson Gould of Topsfield. Her 
grandson. Dr. Albert Lambert of Springfield, Mass., has pewter 
plate that was imported for her and marked "S[ally] G[ould.]" 

While rowing his gondola of thatch on Rowley river, probably in 
one of the numerous contests of those days, to see who should first 
reach the landing, he ruptured a blood vessel and died almost im- 
mediately, 22 (two other records say "21" and "28") Sept., 
1832. His widow died in Lynn 28 March, 1843. Nathaniel said his 
father died in 1829; his mother in 1838. They repose in Harmony 
Cemetery, near the home of their active life. His epitaph reads: 



Retire my friends: di-y up your tears; 
I must lie bere till Cbrist appears. 



294 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

1 Perley children : Phineas^ Sally-343, Mary-344, Phineas.345, 
William-346, Joseph Gould-347, Nathaniel-348. 

2 Phineas^was born 31 Dec, 1795, and died 23 May, or 17 July, 1796. 



FAMILY 172: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, WILLTAM-77. 

OLIVER PERLEY was born in Boxford 24 Jan., 1774. In 
1805 he removed to Methuen, and the spring of 1807 settled in South 
Georgetown, on the Pingree road, as tiller of the soil. He married 
28 May, 1803, Miss Abigail Kinsman Wells of Methuen, born 25 
Dec., 1775. Her mother's maiden name was Eunice Bachelder. 
His death was sudden — he fell at his own door, and expired almost 
instantly, 20 Dec, 1834. His widow died 22 Oct., 1866, aged ninety- 
one years less two months. 

1 Perley children: Oliver Wells-349, Huldah Atty^ Sarah Abi- 
gaiP, Sarah Spofford^ Daniel W.'^, Luther Dana-350, Abraham 
Adams-351, Rodney Gove -352. 

2 Sarah Abigail^ was born 3 Aug., 1807, and was baptised 26 
May, 1822. She never married. She died at the home of her niece, 
Mrs. M. G. Spofford, 11 Jan., 1889. Daniel W.^ was born 4 Sept., 
1812, and was drowned 5 July, 1827. 

3 Huldah A.^ was born 1 Sept., 1805. She married in George- 
town, Mass., 1 Dec, 1831, Sewell Woodman, Jr., a stone mason, born 
in Newbury-Byfield 8 April, 1804, to Sewell, a stone mason, and 
Lydia-Thurlow Woodman, who were married 22 March, 1797. Mrs. 
Woodman in her younger days was a tailoress for her neighborhood. 
Mr. Woodman died in Byfield 31 Jan., 1888; and she 19 Feb. of the 
same year. Their children : SewellAugustus''; Daniel Perley"; Ed- 
ward, born 11 July, 1843, a bookkeeper in California. 

4 Sarah S.' was born 7 July, 1809, and married 28 Aug., 1835, 
William Jewett Gage, born in Rowley in 1810 to Thomas and Mary- 
Dole Gage. They lived a while in Georgetown, then Columbia, 111., 
then St. Louis, Mo., and in 1880 in Litchfield, 111. It is understood 
he was a mill sawyer and lumberman. Gage issue : Elvira Perley, 
born 26 Oct., 1836, in Georgetown, married Prof. M. L. Brock, re- 
siding in Jacksonville, 111.; Thomas P., born 15 July, 1840, in Colum- 
bia, 111., and died in Edwardsville, 111., 27 Jan., 1874; Cecilia, born in 
Columbia 13 Aug., 1842, married T. S. Wells 16 Feb., 1880, with 
home in Leadville, Col., where he owned a gold and silver mine, hav- 
ing now her home in Jacksonville, 111.; Elizabeth Gage''; Ophelia, 
born and died in St. Louis. 

5 Sewell A.' was born in Newbury-Byfield 29 Oct., 1832. He 
married in Oakland, Cal., 25 Dec, 1859, Ann Eliza Blood, born in 
Bucksport, Me., 13 Aug., 1837, to Alfred Putnam, farmer, and Mary 
Rice-Bowden Blood. Mr.. Woodman is a carpenter by trade. Mrs. 
Woodman died in Newbury-Byfield 19 Oct., 1891. Their children, 
born in Haywards, Cal.: Almira, born 10 March, 1862, died 5 May, 
1863; Adelaide^ 

6 Daniel P.^ was born in Byfield, Mass., 11 Sept., 1834. He mar- 
ried in Bunker Hill, 111., 22 Dec, 1869, Sarah Minerva Knowlton, 



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born in Bunker Hill, 111., 2G Nov., 1842, to Samuel, farmer, and 
Elizabeth Fay- Wood ward Knowlton. Mr. Woodman was a lumber 
merchant of Litchfield, 111., where he died 11 Feb., 1898, and where 
his widow still resides. Woodman issue, born in Litchfield : Nellie 
Knowlton, born 4 Nov., 1872, died 16 Aug., 1873 ; Mary Perley, 
born 6 Dec, 1879, resides, unmarried, in Litchfield. 

7 Elizabeth G.* was born in Columbia, 111., 18 Dec, 1845. She 
married in Terre Haute, Ind., 8 Aug., 186(5, Henry Harrison Beach, 
a banker and manufacturer, born in New York 12 Aug., 1830, to 
Samuel and Aurilla-Comstock Beach. Their home is Litchfield, 
111. Child : Helen Estellel 

8 Adelaide'^ was born 2 Feb., 1865. She married in Newbury - 
Byfield 11 Nov., 1885, Benjamin Pearson, born in Newbury-Byfield 
2 Jan., 1857, to Benjamin, manufacturer, and Elizabeth-Jackman 
Pearson. Mr. Pearson is a snuff manufacturer of Byfield. Their 
children, born in Byfield : Dorothy, born 7 Oct., 1895, died 29 May, 
1896; Benjamin, the eighth in direct line, born 3 July, 1898. When 
this lad becomes of age he will own the old Pearson homestead 
where his ancestors, the seven Benjamins, owned and lived. 

9 Helen E.'' was born in Litchfield 11 June, 1861. She is a mu- 
sician. She married there 11 Feb., 1893, Capt. David Davis, secre- 
tary and manager of Electric Light and Gas Co., born in Litchfield 
12 Sept., 1868, to David, a banker and merchant, and Blanche-Keat- 
ins Davis. Their home is Litchfield. 



FAMILY 173: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, WILLIAM-77. 

ABRAHAM PERLEY was born in Boxford 30 Nov., 1779. He 
remained upon and cultivated the parental farm after his father's 
death. Sometime he removed to North Andover. He was actuated 
by the military spirit of his time, and was captain of the East Box- 
ford " company of foot." He exercised numerous town offices with 
credit. He was a selectman, 1818, 1819, 1820. 

He married Betsey Robinson, published 7 Jan., 1808, born about 
1778 to Lt. Col. John and Huldah-Perley Robinson-78^ of Westford, 
Mass. He died in North Andover 4 Dec, 1836; she, 6 Feb., 1855. 

1 Perley children: A son'*, Elizabeth Robinson'^, Abraham Wil- 
liams", Louisa'\ Alexander Hamilton^ Leverett Saltonstall-353. 

2 A son^ was born 8 May, 1809, and died in infancy. Elizabeth 
R.^ was born in Boxford 24 Oct.^lSlO, was married, first, in the fall 
of 1843, to a Mr. Farnham by Rev. Mr. Coggin. Mr. Farnham 
died in West Boxford. She married, second, Jonathan Gove Lowe- 
157^ 17 March, 1850. She died in Georgetown 6 Sept., 1876. 
Abraham W.^ was born 8 Nov., 1814, and died young (?). Alexander 
H.^ was born 26 July, and died 7 Aug., 1844. 

3 Louisa^ was born 23 Nov., 1816, and married 21 Oct., 1841, 
David Colby Smith, born 22 April, 1815, to John of Kingston, N. H. 
Their home was Georgetown. She died 11 Aug., 1869. [Mr. Smith's 
second wife, married 16 Aug., 1870, was Mrs. Margaret A.-Johnson 
Bailey of Rowley, born 25 June, 1832. Bailey children: LaForres- 



296 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

ter, teamster of Georgetown, and Lizzie who married in 1880, Frank 
Folsom of Georgetown.] Perley-Smith children, born in Georgetown : 
Mary EHzabeth*; George Irving^; Frank David, born 19 July, 1848, 
unmarried, is of Georgetown in the shoe business; Frederic Perley, 
born 6 May, 1855, unmarried, a carpenter of Haverhill, Mass. 

4 Mary E.** was born 3 Aug., 1842, and married in Georgetown 
21 Jan., 18(39, Moses Frank Carter, born in same town 29 Nov., 1842, 
to Moses and Elmira-Platts Carter. They reside in Georgetown. 

5 George I.^ was born G Feb., 1846, and married in Lawrence, 
Mass., 10 June, 1869, Laura A. Stevens, born in North Andover, 
Mass., to Isaac Stevens. Their home is North Andover. Child: Fred 
Stevens, born m North Andover 6 May, 1870, graduate of Harvard 
Medical School and is practising physician of North Andover Depot. 



FAMILY 174: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, FRANCIS-79. 

EBENEZER PUTNAM PERLEY was born in Boxford 12 
Oct., 1782. He was a sea captain and his home was in Rowley. He 
married 5 June, 1808, Sarah Perley-53^ of Rowley, born 13 Aug., 
1783. He died in Port au Prince 

8 Nov., 1819. His widow married /j// ^o. y'^y^ y^'y^^yp 

29 April, 1830, Nathaniel Brad- -O^^t^-^^ ^ C^c^^iL 
street of Ipswich, and died 30 s:::^>^ 

Sept., 1859. So he potlllouod the Probate Court 6 Feb., 

Ebenezer P. Perley mariner, ^^^^' 

James Perley yeoman, Ruth P. Perley singlewoman, all of Row- 
ley ; Francis Perley of Ipswich, Dennison Bowers, physician, and 
wife Fannie of Boscawen, N. H., sold six one-eighth parts of land in 
Boxford.— Probate, 205 : 2. 

Mr. Perley was made guardian of Deborah age eighteen and 
Edward Payson age sixteen, his half-sister and half-brother, 7 Feb., 
1814. He sold, per order of Probate Court, upon advice of Francis 
Perley of Ipswich, victualer, John Perley, Rowley, yeoman, and 
James Perley, his wards' property in First Parish, Rowley, bounded 
westerly by land of Moses Payson, southerly by the road, easterly 
by land of Nehemiah Johnson, northerly on a brook, 6 P'eb., 1816. 
This property was located opposite a point just a little east of the 
present Congregational meeting house. 

Daniel Todd, Jr., 17 June, 1819, sold for $1100, by quit-claim 
deed, to Ebenezer P. Perley, mariner, a dwelling house and land 
adjoining situated in Rowley, First Parish, on the southeasterly side 
of the Common so called [See map page 204], bounded northerly by 
the county road, northeasterly by land of John Lambert, and on all 
other parts by land of John Perley, Jr. — Reg., 220 : 125. 

The above premises he immediately (17 June, 1819) sold to Wil- 
liam Pulsifer of Dublin, N. H., for $1200.— Ibid. 

1 Perley children : Ruth Ann'-, Nathaniel MighilP. 

2 Ruth A.' was born 1 Dec, 1808, and married 27 Nov., 1832, 
John Lambert41* of Rowley, who was born 21 March, 1808. Their 



History and genealogy 29t 

home was their parental home, one of the most picturesque in the 
town. She died 31 Jan., 1890. They had no children. Nathaniel 
M.^ was born 6 Feb., 1812, and died of quinsy 2(5 April, 1819. 



FAMILY 175: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOH-17, FRANCIS-39, FRANCIS-79. 

JAMES PERLEY was born in Boxford 24 July, 1787. He was 
a volunteer in military service 3 Aug., 1807, when of Rowley. He 
was of Rowley 6 April, 1814, when he became executor of his 
mother Hannah's will, in which she 

mentions her daughters Hannah, '^^^i'^yy^^ <v^-^5?r^y 

Ruth and Deborah, giving them "my // ^ /7^ 

cow to be equally divided betwixt i ,, • , a ,v, „*■ , ,. 

,, „, T^ -' _^ As he indorsed the petition of his 

them. She gave "mV son Edward brother Ebenezer to sell, as guardian, 

Ti 1 1 T-> 1- 1 Tt 1 ^ real estate of his ward, 6 Feb., 1816. 

Perley and Deborah Perley a quarter 

of a pew to be equally divided betwixt them." — Probate, 385 : 110. 

He married Mary Barnaby of Liverpool, N. S. They resided in 
Boston. It is said he was lost at sea. 

1 Their children: James Edward"^, Ann Maria, born 1 Jan., 1829, 
and died in 1850. 

2 James E.^ was born 15 Oct., 1826, in Boston. He married 16 
Sept., 1856, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Emma Elmina Letson, who was 
born in Halifax 23 Sept., 1829, and died there 8 May, 1887, daughter of 

Philip and Farnham Letson. He was a merchant in Liverpool, 

where his children were born. He died in Halifax 26 Nov., 1862. 
Their children: Annie Emma'; Mary Helen, born 9 June, 1858, and 
died in Halifax 23 Aug., 1880; Lillian Sarah, born 3 Oct., 1859, and 
died in Halifax 11 Jan., 1901; James Edward, born 17 March, 1861, 
and died in Liverpool 26 Dec, 1861. 

3 Annie E.'^ was born 6 June, 1857. She married in Andover, 
Mass., 25 June, 1895, Wm. Herbert Terrill, who was born 30 July, 
1858, in Morrisville, Vt., to Mary Stevens-Cheney and Newton A. 
Terrill, a farmer. William is a teacher and resides in Wolfboro, 
N. H. They have only one child, Ralph Perley, born in Andover, 
Mass., 10 July, 1897. 



FAMILY 176: STEVENS. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JAC01M7, FRANCIS-39, FRANCIS-79. 

HANNAH PERLEY was born 31 May, 1789, and died 19 
March, 1835. She married in Rowley, Aaron Stevens, 31 Oct., 
1814, when both were of that place. He was born 11 July, 1788, 
and died 27 Dec, 1848, aged sixty years. They lived in Rowley 
awhile; one of their children was born there. They removed to 
Bridgton, Me. 

1 Stevens children : Margaret*, James Francis^ Ruth Putnam'^, 
Edward Payson^ 
2 Ruth Putnam^ was born 1 June, 1820, and 13 Jan., 1862, mar- 



298 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

ried James Kimball of Salem, Mass. He was born 14 Oct., 1808; 
was chair manufacturer for eighteen years; was representative to 
General Court, and for twenty years county commissioner and sev- 
eral years chairman of the board. She died 8 June, 1888. They 
had no issue. 

3 Margaret^ was born 29 Aug., 1815; she married a Preston 1(5 
Sept., 1840, and died 28 April, 1859. Issue: Margaret Stevens, 
born 6 Sept., 1841, married Feb., 18(30, Reuben Haskell of Marble- 
head, Mass., and resided in New York City; Francis Perley, born 
30 June, 184(5; a third that died in infancy. 

4 James Francis^ was born 20 Jan., 1818, and married 18 Feb., 
1850, Ellen Marsh, daughter of Levi of Boston. She rests in Mount 
Auburn. Edward Payson' was born 24 July, 1822, and died un- 
married. 



F'AMILY 177: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, AiMOS-80. 

AMOS PERLEY was born in Boxford 8 Oct., 1779. When about 
eleven years old, he removed with his parents to Winthrop, and at 
length settled as a farmer in West Robinson neighborhood, or 
Livermore, Me. He married (published 10 Dec, 1803, when both 
were of Winthrop) Joanna Ranson, who was born 1 June, 1771, to 
Thaddeus and Martha-Drew Ranson of Kingston, Mass. He died 
in Canton, Me., 22 Oct., 1844; his widow 22 Jan., 1885, in Milo, 
Me. 

1 Perley children: Zenas", Mary Ann'', Amos^ Martha Drew®, 
Sarah Smith'-. 

2 Sarah S.' was born 28 Nov., 1815, and died 14 April, 1816. 

3 Zenas^ was born 18 March, 1805. He married in Fairfield, 
Me., in Dec, 1830, Jennette Wilkins Gullifer, milliner and dress- 
maker, born in P'airfield to David Gullifer, a 
lumberman. She followed her trade for three 
years circum 1854, in New York City. She 
lost her entire stock of goods, millinery, etc., in 
the great fire in Augusta, Me., 17 Sept., 1865. 
Mr. Perley died at the home of David Gullifer 
about 1843. His widow died in Augusta, Me., 
where she was living as late as 21 Jan., 1877. 
Their child was Clara Augusta, who married in 
Boston, Mass., 30 March, 1858, when he was 
twenty-three and she was twenty-two years of 
age, William B. Hunt, merchant in boots and 
shoes in Augusta, Me., son of William, a tailor, 
and Hannah-Hodges Hunt, and had issue: Grace 
Mabel Perley", and Ann who died when about ten 

ZENAS PERLEY. ycars of age. 

4 Mary A.' was born 24 May, 1806, in Canton, 
and 15 Oct., 1836, became the second wife of Allan Monroe of Milo, 
who was born 30 Dec, 1806, to John and Polly-Keene Monroe of 
Livermore, where he was a merchant for many years. [By his first 




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AMOS PERLEY. 



wife, Mary Furber, he had two children : Mary E. and Richard A. — 
His third wife was Mary Howard, by whom he had Charles Fred, 
and George Herbert.] His second wife died in Milo, of consump- 
tion, 24 April, 1857. He died 17 June, 1893. Perley-Monroe chil- 
dren: Sarah Smith Perley^ Ann Maria", John Warren^'^, Albert 
Perley, born 19 Jan., 1847, in Milo, and died in North Carohna, a 
prisoner of war, in 18G5. 

6 Amos' was born 15 Jan., 1808, and died 
a heroic, brave, and patriotic soldier in the 
cause of civil liberty and human rights, in the 
Canadian Rebellion, 6 Feb. 1839. The following 
letter was probated in due form as his will: — 

London Gaol, Condemned Cell, Feb. 5th, 1839. 

Friend Thomas — When you see this I shall 
be cold in death. My execution takes place to- 
morrow morning at 8 o'clock. Capt. Charles Per- 
ley has kindly complied with my request and 
come from Burford to attend my funeral and see 
me decently buried; for which trouble and ex- 
pense I wish you to forward him thirty dollars, 
and the remainder of my property in your hands 
I wish you to save for your youngest son. I have 
left a few lines to have published in the Cleveland 
Herald and Gazette, as I shall not be permitted 
to say anything on the scaffold. I have suffered 
much since I was taken prisoner, and now death comes like a friend 
to release me from the tyrant's power. 

I should have written to you, but the letters are examined and 
not forwarded except the contents please them. I will say to you 
that I disapprove entirely of the method pursued by the leaders 
of the present revolution in Canada, and the reports of the ref- 
ugees are base falsehoods, and it is the duty of every lover of 
freedom and humanity to treat them with the contempt they so 
justly merit. It is totally useless to think of making a stand in 
Canada with less than 5000 men well organized and drilled. Under 
the present organization there can be no dependence placed in the 
Canadians. They are false and unprincipled generally and more 
treacherous than the savage. 

I must now bid you farewell as my hours are few and prepare to 
meet my fate. May health and prosperity attend you through life, 
and may you not neglect to prepare for death, as I assure you as a 
dying man this is all important. I have greatly neglected it through 
life and it has caused me much pain, but I am perfectly resigned to 
my fate and have full faith in the blood of Christ to atone and 
cleanse from all sin. Give my love to all the friends of human Lib- 
erty and religious freedom and may the time soon come when its 
standard shall be planted on every hill on this continent and its in- 
habitants unitedly worship under its sacred banner and partake of 
its blessings. 

My hours are few and I will say farewell, a long farewell, and 
when we meet again, may it be where public liberty, fraternity and 
brotherly love exist and are the attributes of all that enjoy the place. 



300 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

I again enjoin you to prepare for your last change and bring up your 
children in the ways of religion and truth. A. P. 

God prosper the cause of Liberty, Fraternity and Brotherly 
Love! 
To Thomas Paddock, Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. 

The above is a true copy of the will — B. Birdsall. 

Oct. 21, 1858. 

A true copy — Attest: Charles J. Prescott. 

The settlement of his estate has no mention of any widow or 
child and he was probably never married. 

Mr. Perley was one of that long line — that brilliant galaxy of heroic 
defenders of civil and religious freedom. The Canadian Insurrec- 
tion was the fruit of unjust taxation — the expenditure of public 
money without the direction of the people's assembly. Note a like 
injustice referred to on pages 21 and 41, and this same on page 253. 
The Canadian leaders were Messrs. Papineau and O'Connell, French 
and Irish and Catholic. The elements were religion, nationality — 
French, English, Scotch and Irish — politics, pro and contra, and 
general distrust. Men might easily be found who represented an- 
tagonistic elements and were in conflict with themselves. 

Newspapers bandied epithets, the parliament of France was 
aroused, the British parliament was moved to crimination and re- 
crimination, the action of a new Canadian assembly was called "a 
kind of proclamation of war. The Imperial parliament recom- 
mended expenditures of the public income without the concurrence 
of the assembly; and if the latter refused to submit, that the mem- 
bers should be coerced." Imperial soldiers, including a regiment 
from New Brunswick, paraded the streets to intimidate, but proved 
to menace. An insurrectional standard was raised on Navy Island, 
and "a declaration of independence was published." 

The Gazette of France said: — "What are the rights now con- 
tended for in Quebec and at Montreal .'' Of directing the outlays 
of public money by those who have furnished it (surely the right of 
all men) and representation in the legislature, in accordance with 
the principles of that nationality which emigrants took with them to 
America; even as /Eneas is fabled to have taken with him into Italy, 
the laws and customs of Ilion, as well as the penates of the exiles he 
led." 

Lord Brougham, in the upper house of parliament, said: — "We 
loudly censure the Canadians, but which is the country, who are the 
people, who gave them the example of insurrection .-' You exclaim 
against them for revolting; you, who have disposed of their money 
without their consent; you, who have violated those rights which 
you made a merit of having accorded to them. Then you enumerate 
their other advantages, how that they have no taxes to pay, that 
they receive considerable aid from this country, that they enjoy gra- 
tuitously precious trading privileges which it cost us dear to obtain, 
and then you wind up all with the scornful observation: 'The whole 
dispute between us and them resolves itself into the fact, that we 
have appropriated some ^20,000 without the permission of their 
assembly!' Why, it was for resisting the illegal exaction of a poor 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 301 

pound sterling, that Hampton gained an undying name as an English 
patriot ; a name for which the Plantagenets and the Guelphs would 
have given all the blood that flowed in their veins ! If it be a crime 
to resist oppression, to rise up against a usurping power, and defend 
public freedom when it is assailed, which are the greatest criminals? 
Was it not ourselves who set the example to our American breth- 
ren? Blame them not too harshly for following it." 

The principle of "no taxation without representation" is funda- 
mental; it is the corner stone of all good and stable government; 
and the man who cordially embraces it and is actuated by it, is a 
true worker with God in the cause of humanity. Virgil imbued his 
hero with the sentiment; contending for it John Hampton wrote his 
name first on the roll of honor ; the Ipswich ofificials suffered ; and 
Perley Putnam poured the warm blood of his young manhood. 

What now was the difference between Perley Putnam for ex- 
ample and Amos Perley? Both contended for the same principle 
and in the same way, both by their comrades were patriots and by 
their enemies rebels, and both fell by methods of their enemies. 
The difference seems to be in this: Putnam merited and received a 
monument to his memory; Perley merited it but never received it. 

Though Perley and fourscore of his compatriots were silenced, 
the insurrection was not cured. It was entombed in the hearts of 
the populace and was to have an early resurrection. About two 
years later, when the Upper and Lower provinces were united, the 
constitution provided, says historian Hodgins, that the Council 
might originate any bill but a money one, which it might not amend 
but might reject; and that the Assembly, the popular branch, might 
originate any bill and should have the exclusive control of the reve- 
nue and expenditure of the Province. Thus like wrestling Jacob, 
the restless spirit of the insurgents overwhelmingly prevailed. 

Many a laborer in the vineyard has gone to his rest, through 
seeming ignominy and dire straits. Herein is that saying true, "One 
soweth and another reapeth." Mr. Perley labored, and others en- 
tered into his labors and reaped the fruits. 

Amos Perley was cut off in young and vigorous manhood. He 
appears a man of promise: he had a common education, a good 
ability, a true citizenship, was a Stirling patriot, an active spirit, a 
Christian gentleman, a man of thrift, a faithful friend, and beloved 
in his neighborhood and his home. 

6 Martha D.^ was born 8 Dec, 1810, and married 18 Nov., 1830, 
George Bartlett Bradford, who was born 24 Aug., 1805, to EUis and 
Dorothy-Bartlett Bradford of Kingston. Mr. Bradford was the sev- 
enth generation from Gov. William Bradford of Pilgrim fame. He 
was a custom bootmaker by trade. His wife died in Kingston 13 
Nov., 1845, and he in 1889, aged eighty-four years. Bradford issue: 
Amos Perley born 20 Feb., 1832, and died 2 Nov., 1840; Martha 
Drew, born 14 April, 183(5, who was of Kingston, unmarried; and 
Amos Perley, born 6 Nov., 1845, who was a pressman by trade, un- 
married, in Kingston. 

7 Grace M. P.*^ was born in Augusta, Me., 24 Feb., 1870. She 
married in Augusta 30 Oct., 1897, Elden Whitten Hanks, born in 
Augusta 21 Sept., 1865, to William Pope, carpenter, and Ann-Whit- 



302 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

ten Hanks. Mr. Hanks is a manufacturer of suspenders and belts 
in Augusta. Their children: Ruel Clinton, born 2 Aug., 1898; Ar- 
morel, born 24 Sept., 1899; William Pope, born 27 Jan., 1901; Stew- 
art McKenney, born 4 June, 1902; Audrey, born 15 Dec, 1903. 

8 Sarah S. P.^ was born in Guilford, Me., 15 May, 1837. She 
married in Milo, Me., 21 Aug., 1858, Isaiah Lewis Ryder, born in 
Brownville, Me., (5 July, 1837, to Isaiah, a farmer, and Phoebe-Ken- 
nison Ryder. Mr. Ryder was a lumberman and farmer in Brown- 
ville, where he died 4 Nov., 1888, and where his widow has her 
home. Their issue were Anna Eliza, born in Brownville 11 Dec, 
1860, and died 15 April, 1878; Lewis Henry, born 21 July, 1862, 
married, with residence at Katahdin Iron Works, Me. 

9 Ann Maria* was born in Guilford, Me., 13 March, 1840. She 
married 16 Oct., 1860, Charles Nathaniel Mooers, born in Parish 
Blissfield, Northumberland County, N. B.,21 Dec, 1835, to Nathaniel, 
lumberman, and Rebecca-Mitchell Mooers. Their home is Milo 
Junction, Me. Mooers issue: Richard Allen, born 30 May, 1861, 
who is a surveyor in Milo and married 16 April, 1887, Minnie 
Gilbert Mooers; Lena Mayland^^; Mary Annie, born 27 June, 1865, 
and died 18 Jan., 1867; Mary Annie^^; Tessa Lillian, born 14 
Sept., 1872, who married, first, 9 Feb., 1891, Charles Proctor, 
and second, 21 Oct., 1902, James Barden Whyte; John Albert, born 
in Orneville, Me., 14 Nov., 1875, a baggage master, married in Milo 
Junction 15 May, 1904, Mary Matilda Barrett, born in Alberton, P. 
E. I., 8 Nov., 1886, to Dr. Angus McLean and Mary A. Barrett, 
residing in Milo Junction. 

10 John W.-* was born in Milo, Me., 16 March, 1843. He 
married there 5 May, 1867, Etta Leavitt Hobbs, a milliner, born 
1 Dec, 1845, to Samuel Hidden, farmer and merchant, and Caroline 
Frances-Barker Hobbs of the same place. He served three years in 
the Civil War; was mustered into Co. C, Eighth Maine Infantry, in 
Aug., 1863. He served a part of the time with sharpshooters. He 
was in ten regular engagements, and was at Hatches Run when the 
lines were broken and followed Lee until he surrendered at Ap- 
pomattox Court House. Mr. Monroe is a farmer of Milo, Me. 
Their children, born in Milo: Herbert Albert, 2 May, 1868, died 14 
April, 1892; Carrie Emma^l 

11 Lena Mayland' was born in Milo, Me., 7 April, 1863. She 
married in Orneville, Me., 11 Oct., 1880, Charles Henry Drink- 
water, American Express route agent, who was born in Bangor, 
Me., 23 Oct., 1856, to Jefferson and Myria-Frazier Drinkwater. 
Their home is Bangor, Me. Their child is Frances Myria, born in 
Orneville, Me., 22 Jan., 1881, who graduated from the grammar 
school 19 June, 1896, and from the Bangor high school 16 June, 
1900. She then began the study of music, with a fine voice, a 
correct ear, and an art naive. She is now singing in the Third 
Congregational Church m Bangor with entire acceptance. A local 
journal thus reported her at "the Maine festival" in June, 1904: 
"The ovation accorded Miss Drinkwater, who appeared for the first 
time in such ambitious company, was extremely gratifying. Brightly 
endowed by an indulgent nature with good looks, a graceful person- 
ality and other very necessary attributes, she has been endowed as 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 3O3 

well with the most important attribute of them all, — a beautifully- 
rich, mellow, true and clear contralto voice, exquisite of texture and 
appealing in sympathy." These things predicate her ultimate 
success. 

12 Mary Annie'-* was born in Milo, Me., 4 May, 1867. She mar- 
ried in Orneville, Me., 11 Aug., 18S8, Ernest Albion HamHn, born 
in Sebec Village, Me., 1-4 March, 1858, to Eben, laborer, and Susan- 
Ladd Hamlin. Mr. Hamlin is a roof slater. Their home is Brown- 
ville. Me. 

18 Carrie Emma^'* was born (i June, 1872. She married in Milo 
2 Nov., 1895, Willis Pliny Soule, an expert millman, scaler and sur- 
veyor of lumber, born in La Grange, Me., 30 Oct., 1874, to Augustus 
Carrol, surveyor and scaler of lumber, and Mary-Heal Soule. Their 
home is Milo. Soule child : Edna: Marion, born in Milo 6 Jan., 
1897. 



FAMILY 178: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, JAC0IM7, FRANCIS-39, AMOS-80. 

ISRAEL PERLEY was* born m Boxford 18 June, 1781. He 
went with his parents to Winthrop, Me., and settled in Vassalboro, 
where he died 4 or 8 Dec, 1848. He married Hannah Chandler of 
the same town 3 Nov., 1817. She was born 21 Oct., 1793, to John 
and Hannah-Sweetser Chandler, and died 8 Feb., 1873. Mr. Perley 
was a Baptist. His estate on his probate inventory was valued at 
^2903.73. 

1 Perley children: Hannah Maria^ Israel Putnam^ John Chan- 
dler-354, George Henry^ 

2 Hannah M.^ was born 10 Aug., 1818, and 18 Nov., 1846, 
married Augustus Crowell of China, Me., who was born 15 Aug., 
1821. Their home was Waterville. He died in 1887; she in June, 
1898. Crowell issue: Helen Maria'''; P2mma Lavinia, born in Water- 
ville 27 Sept., 1854, who married 4 Nov., 1877, Charles O. Farnham, 
born in Readville, Me., 7 Sept., 1853, to Orrin, lived in Boston in 
1898. They had a child, Alice Louise. 

3 Israel P.^ was born in Winthrop 7 June, 1820. For three years 
prior to the Rebellion he was a wholesale grocer in Mobile, Ala. He 
continued the business in Boston, Mass., where later he was broker 
or banker. He wrote his given name Putnam only. He died, un- 
married, in Boston, 27 Dec, 1898. 

4 George H.^ was born 13 Dec, 1830. He married Carrie 
Whiting of Parsonsfield and settled in Winthrop. He died in 
Mobile, Ala., 25 Nov., 1858, where he was the proprietor of a hotel. 
She died in 1867. 

5 Helen M.-^ was born in East Vassalboro, Me., 11 Jan., 1852. 
She married 1 Sept., 1875, Fred Judson Bicknell, manager of 
Livingston Manufacturing Company, born in La Grange, Me., 
6 July, 1850, to Benjamin, a farmer, and Loantha-Coburn Bicknell. 
Their home is Rockland, Me., where their children were born: 



304 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Edith Lena, 10 Sept., 1882, who is a graduate of Colby College in 
1902, and teaching in Thomaston, Me.; Helen Coburn, 12 May, 
1887; Putnam Perley, 16 Sept., 1891. 



FAMILY 179: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, AMOS-80. 

FREDERIC PERLEY was born in Boxford 11 June, 1783, and 
died in Washington, D. C. 13 May, 1829. His wife was Sarah Ann, 
born 23 Nov., 1792. 

Mrs. Perley wrote from Washington, D. C, under date of 1 8 March, 
1847. "We moved from Virginia to Washington City, where we 
had everything that could be desired to make one happy, but 
lo! there was to be an end to this. There is a certain set of 
men here who get men's money into their hands and never in- 
tend to return it. So it was with Mr. Perley — he never suspected 
for a moment but what others were as honest as himself, until the 
fatal truth proved too true. He had taken his money from the bank 
and put it out on interest and never could get it again. In 
this distressing situation, his spirit failed him and finally he sank 
into a deep consumption and died 13 May, 1829, leaving four chil- 
dren — the oldest seven years and the youngest ten months and sick 
from his birth. Mary Malvenia and John P'rederick had died some 
years before. . . . He was a devoted father and a kind husband. 
. . . I found it was necessary to make every exertion in my 
power to provide for my children and myself. . . . Thank God ! 
I am enabled to praise Him for all that he has done for me. . . . 
My four children are Juliana, Sarah P'rances, George Smith and 
James Putnam." After inquiring after her late husband's parents, 
brothers and sisters, she says : " The children would be enraptured 
to see you and my greatest desire gratified." 

I excerpt from her letter dated at Schoolcraft, Mich., June 8, 
1854, the following: — "I received a letter from Sister Sarah Perley 
five or six months ago stating the death of her sisters. . . . My 
oldest son George Smith was absent at the time and had been for 
several months. He has since returned and again left the 10th of 
April. He is now in Callao, Peru. James Putnam, out of health, 
went 26th last July to Michigan, and the climate agreeing with him 
he returned 2.5th May and took us all to Michigan. We are on a 
farm 12 miles from Kalamazoo and 1^ from Schoolcraft. I should 
have been very happy to have called on my niece, in New York, 
Brother Amos son's widow. . . , My children are all still un- 
married, and all with me except George Smith, whom I expect home 
in the course of a year. . . . Any person in Kalamazoo could 
inform you where Mr. Henry Breese's residence is. There you will 
find me." Mrs. Perley died in Schoolcraft "sometime in 1869 or 70." 

1 Perley children : Mary Malvenia'-, Juliana'^, Sarah Frances', 
John PVederick'^, George Smith*, James Putnam^ 

2 Mary^ was born 5 April, 1819, and died 2 Nov., 1823; John' 
was born 30 June, 1824, and died 25 July, 1826. 



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3 Juliana' was born 11 July, 1820, and Sarah\ 20 March, 1822, 
and are now (1905) living in Washington, D. C; George' was born 
28 May, 1826; James', 8 July, 1828, and died in Schoolcraft "about 
Dec, 1876." It is said that he left at least a son, J. P. Perley, 
who is said (1905) to be in the Treasury Building, Washington, D. 
C, but a letter addressed to him there has been returned. 

Since the above was in type, Mr. Albert Cornell of Schoolcraft, 
under date 3 July, 1905, has kindly favored us with the following : 
"George Smith never came here. I have heard J. P. say his father 
was a contractor and builder in Washington and that he and his 
brother worked with him. The old lady died about 1869, and shortly 
after that Frances went back to Washington and worked in the 
Treasury Department. Some two years later Juliana went to Wash- 
ington, and the last I ever heard she was living in some Woman's 
Home — a charitable institution. James P. was a contractor and 
builder till his death. He died in November, 1876, and was buried 
beside his mother in Schoolcraft. I know nothing of his being mar- 
ried. After his death letters from Frances were found mentioning 
a child, etc. I have a spirit-level that belonged to him. Any one 
wishing it can have it." 



FAMILY 180: PP:RLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, JACOB-81. 

JACOB PERLEY was born in Boxford 5 April, 1776. He 
removed to Hanover, N. H., before 1801, and engaged in farming. 
He married Dorothy Hale-5^ 22 Jan., 1801, in Boxford, Rev. Peter 
Eaton officiating. She was born 1 March, 1780, to Dr. William and 
Anna-Porter Hale of Boxford in the Say ward house, which was built 
about 1770 by her father, who was a "skillful, faithful and success- 
ful" physician there for many years. Administration was granted 
his widow 28 June, 1820. The estate was valued at ^2781.66 — real, 
$1750, and personal, $1031.66. He left a widow and five children. 
Mr. Perley died in Hanover 4 June, 1820; his widow, 29 Feb., 1871, 
aged ninety. 

1 Perley children: Anna Porter^, Lucy^, Jacob', Lucy Eliza*^, 
Emeline Hale^ Maria Dolly^ Jacob Samuel-355. 

2 Anna' was born 21 Sept., 1803, married before 11 July, 1825, 
Isaac Fellows of Hanover, and died 26 Oct., 1848; Lucy' was 
born 28 Oct., 1805, died 4 April, 1806; Jacob' was born 12 Oct., 
1808, and died 27 Jan., 1812; Lucy E.' was born 22 March, 1810, 
and married Benjamin Wood; Maria D.' was born 15 Aug., 1815, 
died 25 April, 1845. 

3 Emeline' was born 22 Oct., 1813, and in Dec, 1834, mar- 
ried Adna Tenney, who was born in Hanover 26 Feb., 1810, to 
Lucinda-Eaton and Capt. John Tenney. She died 16 Feb., 1837, 
and he married 21 Oct., 1838, Susan C. Weld, born 28 Aug., 1809. 
Mr. Tenney was the well-known portrait-painter; many specimens 
of his skill in the art can be seen at Dartmouth College. 



FAMILY 181: PERLEY. 



LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JAC01M7, FRANCIS-39, JACOB-81. 

JONATHAN PERLEY was born in Reading U July, 1778. 
He removed, when quite young, with his parents, to Byfield Parish, 
Newbury, and studied in Dummer Academy. He chose Salem for 
his home, and there led a long, faithful serviceable life. He was an 
assessor of the town and city thirty-five years, and during the early 
part of the service, he was secretary of the board. 

He oftentimes penned impromptu sentiments on blank leaves of 
his record-book, with no pretension to literary merit, but as a spon- 
taneity of an active mind and Christian heart. This is one of them, 
from the book of 1840: "As a good conscience without a good name 

is better than a good name without 
a good conscience, so in making a 
tax we will do what we can to keep 
a conscience pure towards God and 
towards man." This sentiment 
was the guiding principle of all his 
dealings with men, as those who 
knew him best were ready to testify. 
He was a member of the Active 
Fire Club from its organization 
in 1806, and its clerk from 1823, 
till his death. For many years, 
he was a worthy member of the 
Tabernacle Church, and was the 
oldest deacon after the death of 
Deacon John Punchard. A few 
months before his death he at- 
tended the centennial celebration 
of Dummer Academy, as one of" 
the latest survivors of the famous 
Master Moody's pupils. The Tuesday before his death, he was able 
though feeble, to go to the polls and deposit his ballot for Gover- 
nor Andrew-11. The following tells about itself all we know of it: 
;^8.75 Salem January 3, 1849 

To Henry Whipple Esqr, one of the Treasurers of the 
Salem and Danvers Association for the Detection of 
Thieves &C Pay to Jon^ Perley — Eight dollars & Seventy 
five cents out of the funds of Said Society. 
Deacon Perley married 20 June, 1808, Sally Smith of Salem, who 
was born to Thomas and Hannah- Goodhue Smith 17 May, 1781. 
He died 7 Nov., 1863, of pneumonia; his widow, 31 March, 18(54. 
Dr. Worcester preached his funeral sermon. 

1 Perley children : Jonathan-35G, William Henry'-, William Henry- 
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2 William H.' was born 12 and died 2o Nov., 1811; Caro- 
line', 5 Aug., 1815, and died, unmarried, in East Hartford, 
Ct., 19 Oct., 1896; Lucy A.\ 

21 Oct., 1818, and died, un- '"-"* ^^^^ ^- i'ermsy 

married, 22 Aug., 1856. Her Wlnt^\^::^e^li\^"^. T%Zt 

crrnupt:t-nnf> rfnrl«;- "Arrp^rl '^« "!'.7>\ ^^? lutends canyinsj; ou the MILI.IN- 
gravesionc reaas. /\gea dO kky busim-ss, in all its branches. Has on 

years." This advertisement, ^'fl't ",S<"in'''w""J1n"* f ,Bo°°ets, and 

J 1 r^ 1 T-> • oriit'i- articJos in her line or business; and 

from the Salem Register, April, ''"Pe^- ^>y punctuality and attention, to re- 
_,,-,,, 1 •! •, 1 •, ceive a share of patronage. 

1842, exhibits her mercantile saiem. March 27. 3w 

enterprise. 

On the grounds at the " Perley Gathering" 20 June, 1877 
Caroline' penciled this 

IMPROMPTU. 

Two centuries and near a half 

Have dotted down their years 
Since the first Perley trod these shores 

With mingled hopes and fears. 

With hopes, no doubt, that future time 

Would bring success in life — 
That God would give him needful strength 

For any coming strife. 

With fears, that hope might prove a dream, 

And this wild Indian land 
Would tax his power of strength and wit 

Beyond his willing hand. 

But hope and her twin sister faith 

Subdued the cry of fear. 
And as an evidence of it 

His family 's gathered here. 

3 Eliza' was born 26 April, 1822, and 23 June, 1851, married 
Oilman Webster, who was born in Salem, N. H., 2 April, 1821, 
to Lt. James and Anna-Poor Webster, later of Salem, Mass. He 
was a shoe cutter in South Danvers, now Peabody. He died 
21 Jan., 1866; she, 29 Nov., 1873. Their children were Horace 
Oilman, born 8 Nov., 1852, and died in March, 1859; Carrie Perley*. 

4 Carrie^ was born 11 Dec, 1858, in Peabody. She was a type- 
•compositor and compositor-in-chief on the Poor Oenealogy. She 
married 25 April, 1882, in Salem, C. H. Blake, an engineer, who 
was born 31 Aug., 1855, in Salem, to Jethro and Almira Blake. 
Her death occurred in East Hartford, Ct., 25 April, 1905. Their 
children were Almira Elizabeth, born in Hartford, 4 Dec, 1884, and 
died 15 March, 1887, and Carrie Webster, born 25 March, 1887, who 
is livinsr in East Hartford. 



FAMILY 182: SAVORY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, JACOB-81. 

DEBORAH PERLEY was born 10 June, 1782, in Newbury, 
and 10 Oct., 1804, married Thomas Savory, who was born 4 Jan., 
1781, to William, of Bradford, and died 23 July, 1838. She died 30 
Jan., 1835. Their home was in Oroveland. 



308 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

1 Savory children: Moses^ Betsey Balch"^, Lucy Perley^ Thomas^ 
Mary Stevens'^, Ellen Maria^ Priscilla Parker'^ Thomas William^, 
Priscilla Parker'^, Moses Putnam'^, Hannah Holton^ Charles Putnam^ 

2 Moses^ was born 10 and died 22 Aug., 1805. Betsey B.^ was 
born 27 July, 1806, and died 29 June, 1859. Thomas^ was born 11 
and died 27 May, 1810. Mary S.' was born 13 May, 1811. Priscilla 
P.^ was born 13 Feb. and died 17 Sept., 1816. Thomas W.^ was 
born 11 Sept., 1817. Priscilla P.^ was born 20 March, 1820. Moses 
P.i was born 30 Aug., 1822, and died 2 Jan., 1825. 

3 Ellen M.^ was born 12 Nov., 1813. She married Thomas 
Greenough, a trader, born in 1814 to Bailey and Betsey-Parker 
Greenough. Hannah H.^ was born 19 March, 1825, and marrying 
Samuel Balch, removed to Byfield Parish. 

4 Charles Putnam^ was born 20 May, 1828, in Haverhill. He 
married Sarah H. Balch, who was born in 1830 to Jonathan and Sally- 
Hopkinson Balch. He was a shoemaker; his issue was William P., 
born 1853. 

5 Lucy ¥} was born 5 June, 1808, married 24 May, 1831, Col. 
Frederic Jones Coffin of Newburyport, and had Lucy Perley, born 
13 March, 1832, died in childhood, and Lucy Adelaide, who married 
Gen. Benj. F. Peach of Lynn. 



FAMILY 183: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DEbCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4. JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39. JACOB-81. 

JEREMIAH PERLEY was born in "Newbury-Byfield," [By- 
field Parish is parts of two towns, Newbury and Rowley] 11 March, 
1784. He studied in Dummer Academy and graduated at Dart- 
mouth College, 1803, where in course he received the master's 
degree. In 1804 he went to Hallowell, Me., where he read law, and 
in 1807 was admitted to the bar. In 1816 he removed to Gray, 
Me., and succeeded to the practice of Rev. Samuel Perley-52. He 
later removed to Orono, where he died, 1834. 

Esquire Perley was the author of "The Maine Justice," 8vo. 
published at Hallowell, 1823, and he edited a 12mo. volume of 301 
pages — "The Debates, Resolutions and other proceedings of the 
Convention of Delegates, assembled at Portland, on the 11th and 
continued until the 29th day of October, 1819, for the purpose of 
forming a Constitution for the State of Maine. To which is added 
the Constitution. Taken in Convention, by Jeremiah Perley, coun- 
sellor-at-law. Portland: A. Shirley, Printer, 1820." 

Mr. Greenleaf of Portland, reporter of the Maine Court Deci- 
sions, paid Mr. Perley this merited compliment: — He had a clear 
head, was logical in his reasoning, and arrived at just conclusions, 
and but for his modesty, or want of self-confidence and enfeebled 
constitution, he would have made a distinguished advocate, an 
eminently successful pleader. 

He married 3 Sept., 1811, Maria Dummer, who was born 17 
Feb., 1787, in Providence, R. I., to Hon. Nathaniel and Mrs. Mary- 
Kilton Dummer of Hallowell, Me. They had eight or nine children, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 309 

and she lived to bury them all — six in their infancy or youth. 
Presumably Mrs. Perley was the "Maria D. Perley," who was, by 
the Boston directory of 1852, "matron of the N. E. F. M. Reform 
Society, at 66 Warren street." She died 22 Jan., 1865. 

1 Perley children: Helen Maria^ Mary Dummer^ Nathaniel 
Dummer-, Theophilus Parsons'^ et als. 

2 Helen M.^ was born 29 June, 1812; Mary D.\ 16 Sept., 1814; 
Nathaniel D.\ 9 April, 1817; Theophilus F.\ 27 Dec, 1819, in Grey. 



FAMILY 184: PERLEY. 

LINKAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-IT, FRANCIS-39, JACOB-81. 

NATHAN PERLEY was born in Newbury 17 Aug., 1786. 
He was a tanner and currier by trade, and he settled in Groveland 
in business. He married 28 April, 1813, Delia Hills, who was born 
22 Nov., 1789, to Benjamin and Anna of West Newbury. He died 
22, (Nathan, Jr., says 27) April, 1857; his widow died at the house 
of his son in Haverhill of old age 7 or 8 Nov., 1871. 

1 Perley children: Delia Ann'^, Moody Hills^ James'^ Samuel- 
358, Nathan-359, Susan Ayerl 

2 Delia A.^ was born 2 April, 1814, and died 19 Jan., 1824, Moody 
H.^ was born 24 Nov., 1816, and died 13 Sept., 1842. James^ was 
born twin with Samuel-358, 13 Dec, 1818. 

3 Susan A.^ was born 28 May, 1827, and was adopted by her 
aunt in Haverhill. 



FAMILY 185: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCI8-39, JACOB-81. 

FRANCIS PERLEY was born in Newbury 9 March, 1791. 
In March, 1814, he went to Winthrop, Me. He was a natural 
farmer, loved the work and the scenes of nature. He was modest 
to diffidence, was a great reader, possessed a wonderful memory, 
and was a walking cyclopaedia of general intelligence. 

Articles by Dr. Quimby in the Gospel Banner and by "Jo- 
annes," a lawyer and neighbor of Mr. Perley, have been digested 
below to suit our space. 

Mr. Perley was a firm and positive Universalist from young 
manhood, and few laymen had a better knowledge of Scripture, 
which he delighted to exemplify and recommend. He loved the 
church and the Sunday School, and was always in his place in both 
when able to be there. He often attended his denominational 
conventions and associations. He was one of the organizers of the 
Winthrop Universalist Society. Rev. George W. Quimby, once his 
pastor, says, " Mr. Perley was one of my dearest personal friends 
and faithful supporters." 

Mr. Perley was an exemplary citizen and a careful business man. 
The people often elected him a selectman, and we believe more than 



310 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

once their State representative. He was a kind husband, father, 
friend. As he loved his work, he exercised it till the day of his 
death. 

Of no distemper, of no blast he died, 
But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long, 
Even wondered at because it fell no sooner. 
Pate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years, 
Yet fi-eshly ran he on eight winters more. 
Till, like a clock worn out with eating time, 
The wheels of weai-y life at last stood still. 

Mr. Perley married, first, 30 March, ISl.S, Mary L. Titcomb, 
who was born 15 Jan., 1794, to Caleb and Judith of Newburyport, 
and died of consumption 8 Jan., 1848. His second wife was Mrs. 
Sarah- Piper Adams, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Piper of . 
Augusta, Me., whom he married 8 March, 1849. He 'died in Lowell 
28 Oct., 1877, aged eighty-six years. Their children were all born 
in Winthrop but the first, and are all by the first wife but the last. 
Dr. Quimby concludes his obituary of Mr. Perley with this sentiment : 

His youth was innocent; his riper age 

Marked with some act of goodness every day. 

And, watched by eyes that loved him, calm and sage. 

Faded his late declining years away. 

Cheerful he gave his being up, and went 

To share the holy rest that waits a life well spent. 

His widow died 27 March, 1899, aged eighty-seven years. 

1 Perley children: Harriett Jacob Putnam", Mary Titcomb'', 
Enoch-300, Judith Ann*, Francis-3G1, Samuel'^ Martha Foster-362, 
Betsey Wood'', Lucy\ George Henry'^ 

2 Harriet^ was born 12 Sept., 1813, in Newbury-Byfield Parish, 
and 6 Sept., 1838, married Samuel Northend, who was born 5 April, 
1811, to John and Nancy-Titcomb Northend of the same parish. Of 
Mr. Northend 's sisters, Mary Ann married Hon. Moses Tenney-2(j*; 
Sarah Adams, a Clark of Peabody; Maria, a Deacon Forbes of New- 
buryport. Of his brothers, Enoch, Charles and Samuel were widely 
and favorably known in business circles, and William Dummer was 
a leading lawyer in the Essex Bar. Mrs. Northend died in By field 
3 March, 1840, aged twenty-six years, leaving one child, George, 
who died a patriot soldier in the Civil War. [Mr. Northend mar- 
ried, second, 2G Nov. 1841, Mary H. Currier of Newburyport, who 
died in Byfield in 1869. Their children were: William Edmund, 
who was born 14 Feb., 1843, served three years or more in the Civil 
War, Company C, 19th Regiment, was at Gettysburg and in Libby 
Prison, has a pension, married 25 Dec, 1866, Mary Elizabeth 
Roberts, born 24 March, 1849, to Peter Wakefield and Sarah- 
Mussey Roberts, and resides in Beverly, Mass.; Harriet Perley-203 ; 
Ann Elizabeth, born 7 Sept., 1846, married 9 Oct., 1869, John B. 
Edwards of Haverhill, now of Georgetown, and had Fred N., born 
19 Jan., 1871; Thomas Edward, born 3 Jan., 1850, and died 11 May, 
1854; Susan Brown, born 19 Oct., 1851, and died 22 Feb., 1864; 
Edward Tenney, born 1 Feb., 1856; and Mary Ellen, born in By- 
field 23 May, 1859, and married 23 July, 1881, in Wenham, Mass., 
John Ellsworth Roberts, motorman, who was born in Danvers, 12 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



311 



April, 1857, brother to Mary Elizabeth above, and resides in Law- 
rence, where their three children were born : Annie Alfretta, 20 
Nov., 1881; John Ellsworth, 21 Sept., 1885; Elmer Perley, 24 April, 
1894.] 

3 Jacob P.\ born 6 Sept., 1815, went to California and died, 
unmarried, 10 Jan., 1883. Mary T.\ born 8 March, 1817, married 
19 June, 1844, James Jenness, and died 26 Jan., 1858. SamueP, 
twin with Francis, was born 17 Dec, 1822, and died same day, or 
4 Jan., 1823. Betsey W.', born 15 Nov., 1827, died 21 June, 1840. 
George H.\ born 1(3 Jan., 1850, married in Winthrop, 15 March, 
1882, Nancie Muzzy Woodward, teacher, born 15 March, 1849, in 
Bangor, Me., to Franklin Muzzy, a farmer, and Prudentia Farwell- 
Mills Woodward, and has no children. 

4 Judith A.^ born 20 Aug., 1820, married Gardner A. Brown, son 
of Joseph of Ipswich. She died 13 Jan., 1858, a wife of fifteen 
months. 





MRS. H'CY MITCnELL. 



MIJ. FRANKLIN MITCniOLL. 



5 Lucy^ was born in Winthrop 2 July, 1830, married in Winthrop 
24 Nov., 1859, Franklin Mitchell, a manufacturer of sashes, blinds 
and doors, who was born in Richmond, Me., 25 June, 1834, to Sewell, 
a farmer, and Deborah-Dennett Mitchell, and resides in Gardiner, Me. 



FAMILY 186: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, ,TACOB-81. 

PUTNAM PERLEY was born 1 March, 1794, in Newbury- 
Byfield, where he spent his life a farmer. He was, with Rev. Joseph 
Emerson, pastor of the Byfield Church, Dr. Cleveland and Solomon 
Stickney, a committee appointed 28 April, 1819, by the church to 



312 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Open a Sabbath School and appoint its instructors. The school 
began 2.3 May. He was chosen a deacon in that church in June, 
1824. "Putnam Perley was baptised 27 July, 1817." Deacon Perley 
was a deputy to the General Court in 1835. 

His first wife, published 8, married 31 Dec, 1821, was Mary 
Thurston, born to Benjamin and Jane of Byfield in Aug., 1792. She 
died 24 Nov., 1829. Her epitaph reads: 

Her dying address to her friends was 

"(J, love tlie Savior, while In health, 

every one of you!" 

Reader, she spealiS to you. 

She was probably mother of his first child. His second wife, 
published 18 Feb., married 22 March, 1831, was widow Belinda 
Cheever of Saugus, born 15 June, 1798, to Abner and Mary-Farmer 
(Medford records read Martha-Newhall) Cheever. After her hus- 
band's death she removed to Medford, where she bought, about 
1856, "The Richardson House," and resided till her death, 14 Sept., 
1880, aged eighty-two years and three months. She was buried in 
Byfield. He died 30 June, 1835, and his epitaph is 

Be ye also ready. 

1 Perley children : John Putnam'^, Mary Thurston^ Sarah Ellen"^ 
Putnam''. 

2 John P.'s^ birth and death may have been at the time of his 
mother's death. Mary T.^ was born 5 Feb., 1832. Sarah E.' was 
born 5 Aug., 1838, and died 3 Aug., 1835. Her epitaph: 

Of such is the kingdom of Heaven. 

3 Putnam^ was posthumous 5 or 8 July, 1835. He was clerk and 
bookkeeper in Boston for seven or eight years with home in Med- 
ford. He died 14 Aug., 1875, in St. Paul, Minn. He was interred 
at the side of his father, and his epitaph reads: 

steadfast and faithful. 

I am the Resiirrection and the Life, 

saith the Lord. 



FAMILY 187: NELSON. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, M0SES-4(), NATHAN-84. 

RUTH PERLEY was born 23 Feb., 1795. She married 3 July, 
1814, Maj. Asa Nelson, who was born 8 March, 1790, to David and 
Eunice-Searle Nelson of New Rowley, now Georgetown. He was a 
tanner and shoe manufacturer. He was a man trusted and 
respected. He resided in South Georgetown, where his widow died 
17 April, 1881. He died 11 Dec, 1855. 

The first years of Mrs. Nelson's marriage were spent upon the 
estate now known as the "Larkin Place," where her husband estab- 
lished and carried on his tannery; but the growth of the center of 
the town attracted them, and they moved their residence and busi- 
ness to the place on Elm street, where for sixty years as wife and 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 3 13 

widow the deceased has lived, and with one or two exceptions has 
never spent a night away from it. She was a woman possessed of a 
very even temperament, never excited or depressed, nor enthusiastic 
over new things, but tenacious of old friendships. She early became 
a member of the First Church, was constant in her attendance upon 
divine worship in the old and until within a year in the new church. 
After her infirmities had grown so numerous as to prevent her at- 
tending church, she displayed more interest, if possible, in its pros- 
perity, and made frequent inquiries concerning it. Not five minutes 
before she died, on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, she inquired of her 
youngest son, who had just returned from church, about the new 
minister and the subject of the day's discourse. He answered her 
and she seemed pleased at the report. He left the room for a mo- 
ment and when he returned she had passed on from the church tem- 
poral to the church eternal, from the militant to the triumphant. 
Smiling with the knowledge of a united people in the sanctuary of 
her youth, she fell asleep to awake in more glorious Easter service 
before the great white throne. She has risen indeed. For two 
years Mrs. Nelson had been failing, not the result of disease, but the 
gradual decay of the forces of vitality; the machinery of life gradually 
ran down and finally stopped running. 

1 Nelson children : Harriet At wood', Caroline Matilda'^ Maria 
Harriet'^, Solomon'', Sherman''. 

2 Harriet A.^ was born 6 Sept., 1815, and died 20 Sept., 1820. 
Caroline M.^ was born 20 July, 1817, married 6 Dec, 1842, George 
Dole of Georgetown, and had Greenleaf N., born 3 April, 1843. M. 
Harriet' was born 4 Aug., 1822, and died 27 Oct., 1848. 

3 Solomon' was born 5 Oct., 1826. He married 6 Dec, 1848, 
Elizabeth Hobson of Rowley. They resided in Georgetown. He 
was a livery stabler ; he was also a deputy sheriff for many years. 
His wife died of cancer 12 Oct., 1880. The Georgetown Advocate 
thus speaks of his demise : 

"Solomon has occupied the position of selectman of the town, 
auditor and constable. His services as constable have covered 
many years, and he has been the man on whom all relied to quell 
disturbances. His army record is honorable and brave. He en- 
listed as private in Co. K. 50th Regiment of Mass. Volunteers, Sept. 
19th, 1862, was promoted to 1st sergeant, and served with credit in 
the army of the Gulf until his discharge Aug. 24, 1863. He partic- 
ipated in all the marches of his brigade, and was at the siege and 
surrender of Port Hudson. Of his army life, his comrades speak in 
the highest terms: brave without rashness, considerate of the health 
of his men, never requiring one to advance where he would not lead, 
and with them always, sharing their privations, dangers and tri- 
umphs. In consideration of his services, at the close of his term of 
enlistment the glorious old war Governor, John A. Andrew-11, ten- 
dered him a captain's commission. Of this he was justly proud. 
His honorary military titles deserved a much more exalted rank, as 
he could with propriety wear the eagles of a colonel, yet he preferred 
to rest upon his fairly earned laurels worn in battle, and conferred 
by the distinguished statesman. Said he to the writer once, ' when- 
ever you have occasion to use my military title, call me captain, as 



314 THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

I regard the parchment with Gov. Andrew's signature of more value 
than all other honors.' He was an active member of the Grand 
Army of the Republic, one of its first commanders, and its last. He 
loved the Post and declared it should be maintained, and it was. He 
insisted that no soldier should rest beneath the sod of our burying 
grounds without a stone suitably inscribed to record his name and 
service. Every year thus far his plans have been accomplished. 

" His career as a civil officer is equally worthy of commendation. 
As sheriff he was courageous, careful, prompt and efficient. He had 
the confidence of the bench and bar, and caused his bondsmen no 
embarrassment. 

"He was a consistent and active member of Charles C. Dame 
Lodge, F. and A. M., its first marshal, and progressed in rank as 
far as he cared to, retiring from the chair of junior warden. His 
voice was frequently heard in its debates, and he always spoke with 
power, to the point, and in genial humor. His wit was of the finest, 
and appeared under all circumstances, and was not unlike that of 
President Lincoln. He always had some grotesque story or circum- 
stance which illustrated his point. He was a great reader and ad- 
mired the humor of Dickens, Thackeray and Tom Hood. He was 
authority on the former, and could locate a character or quotation 
upon an instant's reflection. He used to say, 'a book that was worth 
reading once was worth reading repeatedly.' He never wasted time 
with works of no merit, was thoroughly acquainted with standard 
literature, ancient and modern. He was a vigorous and pleasing 
writer. All will remember his series of papers or 'Journal' of a 
member of Co. K, published in these columns in 1874-5, how they 
sparkled with true, genuine humor, yet were vivid pictures of the 
campaign. His few papers on 'An Old School House,' possessed the 
same characteristics, and were gems in literature. 

"His life was pure, and conscience governed every action. He 
was honorable and accommodating in his business, a friend to good 
citizens everywhere, and a terror to evil doers. His loss is a general 
bereavement to the county. His wife, one of the best, died about 
two years ago, and an only son, Fred W. Nelson of Amesbury, is 
the only representative of his line." 

Their children: Lizzie M., born 19 and died 22 Dec, 1851 ; Fred 
Walter, born 9 May, 1853, and was at one time a grocer with Moses 
N. Boardman in Georgetown. 

4 Sherman^ was born 28 June, 1834, and married 19 Sept., 1866, 
Catherine S. Spofford-169\ who was born 13 May, 1836, to Leander 
and Mary Mighill-Perley Spofford of Georgetown. Mr. Nelson re- 
sides in Georgetown. He has been a selectman many years and 
several years chairman of the board. He is a practical farmer and 
conducts a large livery stable business. To him the Perley family is 
greatly indebted for their gatherings and especially for their success. 
He has been secretary of the family from the first, in 1877. He has 
been president of the local savings bank and a member of its invest- 
ing committee. They have no children. 



FAMILY 188: PERKINS. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, ,TACOB-17, MOSES-40, MOODY-8G. 

BETSEY GOULD PERLEY was born 27 March, 179(3. She 
married 5 Dec, 1822, Daniel Washington Perkins, who was born 18 
Dec, 1799, to Daniel of Topsfield. He was a nephew of the 
"wealthy" Thomas Perkins, and was of Danvers at the date of his 
marriage. In his youth he was his childless uncle's favorite, and 
was offered a college education, a desk in a great mercantile house, 
or a trade. He chose the latter, and learned the trade of black- 
smith of Moses Wildes of Topsfield. He at first, after marriage, oc- 
cupied "the Pingree Farm," Georgetown, but subsequently pur- 
chased a house on Haverhill street, and worked at his craft upon 
the ringing anvil opposite. He pursued his chosen occupation till 
the infirmities of age forbade him. 

He was somewhat dissipated in his younger years, and even once 
experienced delirium ; but the Washingtonian movement about the 
year 1840, caught him in its embrace. He threw away his cups and 
never after allowed a drop of intoxicants to pass his lips. He connected 
himself with the Baptist church, and was honored with the office of 
deacon. He led an exemplary Christian life, furnishing a bright 
example of the value of temperance labor and afterwards of temper- 
ance principles. He was a man of more than ordinary strength of 
character; his attachment to his convictions was "firm as the ever- 
lasting hills"; he was steadfast in his friendships. He was honora- 
ble in all his business transactions, charitable toward the destitute 
and erring, ardent in his likes and dislikes. He died 27 Jan., 1880, 
aged eighty years. His widow, Thursday 11 March following, re- 
ceived a shock of palsy. The next day her condition was somewhat 
improved, but she remained unconscious till the next Wednesday, 
when her death ensued, 17 March, 1880, when she was eighty-three 
years of age. Both rest in Harmony Cemetery, Georgetown. 

1 Perkins children: Abigail Balch'-, Augusta W.'^, Mary Eliza'\ 
Catherine Elizabeth^ Edwin Perley^ 

• 2 Abigail B.^ was born 18 April, 1824. She became the second 
wife — published 24 Jan., 1851 — of Alfred P. Bateman of Georgetown. 
[His first wife was Rosamond L. Tenney, married 27 Aug., 1843, 
and died 16 Sept., 1848, aged twenty-four.] He was a dry and fancy 
goods merchant. Issue: Rosa Amandal 

3 Augusta W.^ was born 8 Oct., 1826, and died, unmarried, 1.5 
June, 1855. Mary Eliza^ was born 12 July, 1829, and died, by chok- 
ing, 23 Aug., 1830. 

4 Catherine E.^ was born 16 June, 1832. She married 5 or 23 
Oct., 1848, William B. Richards, son of John and Jane Richards. 
She died in Georgetown of consumption 7 Sept., 1851, at the age of 
nineteen, without issue. Her epitaph is in Harmony Cemetery, 
Georgetown, thus: 

Tread lightly here! This littlfi earthly mound 
Wraps a loved form, to memory ever dear; 
Tread lightly here! This spot is hallowed ground. 
Devote to friendship's and affection's tear. 



316 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

[Mr. Richards married, second, 27 Feb., 1853, Julia Amanda Nelson, 
born 30 April, 1829, to Albert and Julia G. -Saunders Nelson of Boxford. 
They reside in Haverhill, where he is proprietor of a livery stable. 
Issue: Frederick; Benjamin; Oscar Williard, born 27 May, 1859, 
died 19 Jan., 1861; Harry Milton, born 20 May, 1861, died 3 Jan., 
1865; these last two repose also in Harmony Cemetery.] 

5 Edwin P.^ was born 19 June, 1836. He married 3 Dec, 1860, 
Elizabeth Gardner Harriman, who was born 11 Aug., 1836, to Sam- 
uel Harriman of Groveland. Their home is Georgetown, where he 
is deacon in the Memorial Church. Issue: Carrie Augusta, born 29 
Oct., 1864 and died of scarlet fever 20 Aug., 1871; Harry Edwin^ 

6 Rosa A."'^ was born in Georgetown, Mass., 1 March, 1858, and 
married in Haverhill, Mass., in Sept., 1877, Walter R. Pickering, a 
shoemaker, who was born in Newburyport, Mass., 10 Jan., 1857, to 
Paul R. and Prudence D.-Noyes Pickering. She died in George- 
town in December, 1880. [Mr. Pickering married, second, in Ha- 
verhill, Mass., 30 May, 1884, Grace Donnel of Auburn, Me.] Perley- 
Pickering issue: Florence B., born 27 Jan., 1878, died 13 Nov., 
1904; Charles S., born 23 Dec, 1880, residing in Georgetown. 

7 Harry E.^ was born 8 Dec, 1873, and was a graduate of the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. He married in 
Providence, R. I., 23 P'eb., 1905, Lettie Louise Tilley, born in Provi- 
dence, R. I., 1 Dec, 1880, to William John, in United States postal 
service, and Adelaide-Holmes Tilley. Mr. Perkins is a lawyer of 
Georgetown. 



FAMILY 189: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-6, STEPHEN-t9, ALLEN-42, ALLEN-90. 

ALLEN PERLEY was born on the old Perley place just north 
of the Old Linebrook Cemetery, Ipswich, 5 Sept., 1789. He settled 
as a farmer in Rowley. He was chosen captain of the Old Rowley 
militia company, and commanded it several years. He was a man 
of integrity and was esteemed by his people. He married Martha 
Hale Cressey 12 or 15 May. 1816. She was born in Rowley, (in the 
old Cressey house that was destroyed by fire), 27 April, 1792, to Mark 
and Elizabeth-Edwards Cressey. She died of pneumonia 24 Feb., 
1871; he died of palsy and pneumonia 22 P'eb., 1876. 

1 Perley children: Mark Cressey-363, Martha Hale-364, Eme- 
line'^ Edna Jewett^ Elizabeth Mary^ Eliza-Mary^ Allen-365, Charles 
Henry^ William-366. 

2 Emeline^ was born 8 April, 1821, and married 9 July, 1856, 
Henry Bixby of Natick, born in Ho})kinton to Cromwell and Lydia 
Bixby. She died, probably in Stoneham, 12 Sept., 1859. 

3 Edna J.^ was born in Rowley 6 Sept., 1823, and 27 Dec, 1852, 
became the second wife of Thomas William Davis, born in Oswes- 
try, Shropshire (Salop), England, 22 April, 1818. He was counted 
among the finest musicians of Boston, followed the profession thirty- 
seven years and was well known and esteemed by the musical fra- 
ternity in Boston and New York. He died 11 April, 1877, in 
Everett, his widow in Somerville in October, 1901. Frank Mark, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 317 

their son, was born 8 Jan., 1855, graduated from Boston University 
Law School with the degree of LL. B., and practised law in Boston. 
Mr. Davis (father and son.'') married twice. It appears that one of 
the three "died Aug. 2, 1902." 

4 Elizabeth M.^ was born 1 Jan., 1826, and died of quincy 11 
Aug., same year. 

5 Eliza M.^ was born in Rowley 28 Feb., 1828, and married there 
31 Dec, 1852, Edwin Bainbridge Lane, a flour merchant, who was 
born in Hampton, N. H., 3 Jan., 1826, to Ebenezer, a farmer, and 
Sarah-Emery Lane. Mr. Lane was postmaster at Hampton, 1852- 
56. During his life in Arlington, Mass, his present home, he has 
been closely associated with the Arlington Orthodox Congregational 
Church — a deacon for many years, superintendent of the Sunday 
School and leader of the choir. Mrs. Lane died in Arlington 23 
April, 1899. Lane issue: Walter Perley''; Frank Edwin'*, 

6 Charles H.^ was born 1 Sept., 1832, married in Charlestown, 

Hester C. . Their business was boarding and lodging. He went 

West and located at Boise City, to which place he invited his wife, 
but she declined to go. It is understood that Mr. Perley died after 
a few years' sojourn at Boise City. "Charles H. Perley," a veteran 
of the Civil War, late a dealer in fruits in Spokane, Wash., now an 
inmate of the Confederate Soldiers' Home, Higginsville, Mo., may 
be this man, for all we have learned from six letters, neither an- 
swered nor returned. The last we knew of Mrs. Perley's career was 
read in the Boston Post newspaper of 3 Sept., 1893. She was located 
near the East Somerville railway station, and died not many years 
ago. 

7 Walter P.*^ was born in South Reading — now Wakefield — 29 
March, 1856. He married in Westerly, R. I., 9 Aug., 1877, Anna 
Lawrence, born in West Cambridge, — now Arlington, — Mass., 9 
May, 1857, to Henry Lafayette, dealer in provisions, and Lucy 
Maria-Ham Lawrence. Mr. Lane is a manager. Their home is 
Arlington, Mass. Issue: Edwin Lawrence, born in Arlington 24 
Nov., 1878, a Harvard graduate, class 1903, now with the Isaac 
Prouty Shoe Co., Spencer, Mass., and unmarried. 

8 Frank E.*^ was born in Arlington, Mass., 19 Jan., 1867. He 
received the degree A. B. from Harvard in 1889. He has taught 
mathematics at Milton Academy for thirteen years and now holds 
the position of bursar. He is treasurer of the Arlington Orthodox 
Congregational Church. He married in Arlington 10 July, 1900, 
Annie May Baston, of the same town, who was born 24 July, 1872, 
to James, a carpenter and builder, and Mary Hammond-Bacon 
Baston. Their home is Milton. Their child: Elizabeth Lane, born 
7 Dec, 1903. 



FAMILY 190: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-6, STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42, ALLEN-90. 

JOSEPH BURPEE PERLEY was born in Ipswich-Linebrook 
28 Sept., 1791. He built his home near the new cemetery, lately 
the property of Ezekiel P. Potter, and destroyed by fire 29 Dec, 



318 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

1886. Upon the sale to Potter, he occupied his parental farm. 
Later he purchased for his son Charles M. the ancestral estate of the 
Perley family, which, except a few years, has been in the Perley 
name since 3 July, 1651, when it was granted Allan-1. 

The local newspaper thus noticed his death: "He was in his 
usual health on the morning of his demise. He ate his breakfast as 
usual and removed himself from the table, when he began to talk in- 
coherently, and then seemed to be fainting. His son, Charles M., 
caught him as he was about to fall, when one frightful shriek sig- 
naled the end, which came a few minutes later quietly and peace- 
fully as 'balmy sleep.' 

Of no distemper, of no blast he died, 

But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long, 

Even wondered at, because he dropt no sooner. 

Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years. 

Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, 

Till like a clock worn out by eating time, 

The wheels of weary life at last stood still." 

He was a farmer, a man who never overworked and was never 
idle. He was diligent, careful, frugal, and many years before his 
death had laid up in store a competence. He was a good illustration 
of that steady, quiet, persevering purpose which is rare to see. So 
far removed from the town center, he was never vested with civic 
authority; he never sought it. He had a desire to owe no man 
aught ; and to pay the worth of what he had, that what he possessed 
might be his own. His generous disposition showed itself more es- 
pecially in his later years. He was kind, generous, and fatherly 
provident to his children. 

He married 11 Sept., 1837, Hannah Pearson Tappan, a lady of 
culture, born 22 Feb., 1809, to Capt. Sewell and Hannah Tappan of 
Newburyport. She was the widow of Joseph Johnson, son of James 
and Charlotte-204, of that city. She died of consumption 2.5 July, 
1870, at the age of sixty-one years, and was buried in Newburyport. 
He died 10 March, 1885, aged ninety-three years, five months and ten 
days. He was at the first Perley Reunion, the oldest Perley on the 
ground. 

1 Perley children: Elizabeth Green-367, Hannah Sewell-368, 
Louis Richmond", Charles Melville-369, Laura Annette-370. 

2 Louis Richmond^ born 24 Oct., 1843, is unmarried and lives in 
Danvers. 



FAMILY 191: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-6, STEPHE^M9, ALLEN-42, ALLEN-90. 

ABRAHAM PERLEY was born 23 Oct., 1793. He lived at 
first on the "Lavalette place" on the hill north of the present 
Lavalette place in Ipswich-Linebrook. Here his son David was 
born. He settled in life upon the farm that was once Taverner John 
Smith's. The old tavern or garrison house with its brick-inlaid, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



319 






bullet-proof walls was a noticeable feature of the premises for many 

years. It stood right opjoosite 

the north end of the mammoth 

barn of today. Mr. Perley's 

house stood just east of the 

tavern and his barn just 

north of his house. There he 

established an extensive trade 

in cattle. Often he had a 

hundred or more cows let out in various. parts of the country while 

he held a considerable herd at home for exchange. 

He married his cousin Mary Periey-94 1 June, 1820. She was 
born 26 Dec, 1800. Their tomb records are as follows: 




i subscribed a letter to bei- sister at 
Bradford Academy 23 Aug., 1816. 



ERECTED 

To the Memory of 

MRS. MARY PERLEY 

wife of 

Mr. Abraham Pcrlcy 

Who died Nov. 16, 1824, 

^t. 24 

Early in life— few were her years, 
licr friends lament— were bathed in tears; 
r.nt all was right— God took her home; 
Rut left her body in this tomb. 
Here to remain in this cold groimd 
Till Christ shall give the solemn sound: 
Come forth ye dead! Come at my call! 
My grace redeemed you from the fall. 

Fair well, my partner and infant dear. 
If aught on earth would keep me hear 
T^ould be my love for you; 
But Jesus calls my soul away, 
Josus forbids my longer stay: 
My dearest friends, adieu. 



ABRAHAM PERLEY 

DIED 

Nov. 25, 1861, 

Aged 68. 



1 Their only child: David Tullar-371. 



FAMILY 192: PERLEY. 



LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-6, STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42, ALLEN-90. 

DANIEL JEWETT PERLEY was born 23 Jan., 1797. At 
the age of six years he went to live with his uncle Daniel Jewett of 
Rowley, for whom he was named. He attended school in Hopkin- 
ton, N. H., where he joined the Congregational church there. He 
fitted for college at Dummer Academy, Newbury-Byfield, and in 
1819 graduated at Harvard College. He studied medicine with 
Dr. Joseph Kittridge of Andover. He began practice in Sedgewick 



320 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



and Bluefield, Me. He taught school in Bangor, and finally settled 
in Orono, now Oldtown. 

His rides were long and tedious. The roads were narrow and 
poor, often drifted with snow or muddy from rain. His fees were 
small and often amounted to zero. He was assiduous, charitable, 
skillful. He amassed a good property, but it had wings. Neverthe- 
less, he left a handsome estate. His skill, experience and good 
judgment carried him long distances frequently for consultation. 




DR. DANIEL J. PERLEY. 



He spent his last years writing books of medicine and history which 
he intended to publish. He wrote nights into the "wee sma' hours," 
and then retired to plan the writing of the next day. 

His eye-sight and memory were good to the last. Owing to a 
heart trouble, he took excellent care of himself, but once he was 
careless : he went riding in a strong wind without adequate clothing. 
He was chilled. After a day's struggle he took his bed, and passed 
quietly away. 

Dr. Perley attended the Centennial in 1876, and the Perley con- 
vention in 1877 in Georgetown, and hoped to meet the Perleys in 
convention again in 1880. He died 3 July, 1879. 

His first wife, married 28 Jan., 1828, was Mary Brown Lovejoy, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



321 



born 30 June, 1806, to Col. Stephen, a mill owner, and Hannah- 
Hastings Lovejoy of Gardiner, Me. She was a teacher in Oldtovvn, 
a lady of great amiability and purity of character. Her father, Col. 
Lovejoy, declined a general's commission; her mother was of Vassal- 
boro. Me. She died after three days' sickness of pneumonia, 29 
Sept., 1863. He married, second, 31 Jan., 1869, widow Elizabeth 
Scott of Houlton, Me., born in 1835. She was burned to death at 
her home in Great Works, Me., in 1878. She occupied an upper 
tenement in a house which she rented to three families. A defec- 
tive flue next her room caused the fire. She stopped too long to 
gather her valuables. When she opened her door the hall was 
aflame. She had a daughter who lived with her and a son who 
lived in Savannah, Ga. 

1 Perley children: Emma Jane Gardner-372, Van Rensselaer'-, 
Daniel Webster\ Aura Martha'-, Eliza Howe-373, Allen Putnam-374. 




SITE UK 1»U. L'KUl.Ki ■•> lUKilU'LAt K. 

This house stands on the site of Dr. Daniel J. Perley's birthplace, and is built almost 
entirely of the old house in which he was born. 

2 Van R.i was born 16 Feb., 1832, and died 18 Aug., 1839. Aura 
M.' was born S June, 1838, and died 10 Sept., 1855. 

3 Daniel W.' was born 4 July, 1835. His father wrote of him: 
''The outline of his face and his expression bore striking indications 
of mental genius. He had a large head, black hair, large, coal-black 
eyes, keenly penetrating as with significant design, aquiline nose, 
ruddy complexion, height six feet, naturally well built, square and 
erect, but was somewhat stunted in breadth and expansion of chest 
and shoulders by a corroding habit. He was unsurpassed in scholar- 
ship, in English composition and forensic display. At the age of 
thirteen he was reading 'Cicero on Oratory' and the Greek Testa- 
ment." He died 14 Aug., 18.54. 



FAMILY 193: HOWE. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-6. STEPHEN-19, ALLKN-42, ALLEN-90. 

ELIZA PERLEY was born 12 April, 1799. She married 28 
June, 1818, Aaron Howe, who was born 10 April, 1768, to Nathaniel 
and Hannah-Emerson-20 Howe, a neighbor. At marriage, he was 
fifty and she nineteen. They resided in the second "old Howe 




THE HOW HOUSE. 



house" — a house that stood nearly opposite the first "old How 
house," that was built by and sheltered the immigrant ancestor of 
this branch of the Howe family. The latter was built about 1692 
and was taken down in 1840. It was in the same style as the 
former which is shown in the picture above. The picture and the 
well near Mrs. Eliza H. Perley's barn will fix the site very nearly. 
The house was built probably not far this side of the year 1700. It 
was razed and the barn removed there about 1858. It stood within 
a score of rods (see map in family-203) of the house of Mrs. Eliza- 



AARON HOWE, 

DIED 

Nov. 11, 1S55, 

iEt. 87 y's. & 7 m's. 



"Be ye also ready." 



liLIZA P. 

wife of 

AARON HOWE, 

DIED 

Apr. 27, 1882, 

^t. 83 yrs. 15 dys. 

Faithful In all the relations of life, 
seeking others' good rather than her own, 
she always made home happy. 



beth Howe-6, who was condemned as a witch and hanged 19 July, 
1692, though Rev. Samuel Phillips and Rev. Edward Payson and 
nine other persons testified in court to her exemplary Christian 
character. Rev. Benjamin Howe (1807-1883), a beloved pastor 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



823 



(1871-83), of the church of that parish, was born there. Rev. Na- 
thaniel Howe (1764-1837), the celebrated minister of Hopkinton, 
whose "Century Sermon" was noticed by the North American Re- 
view, passed through several editions, and was translated in foreign 
languages, was born there. 

Referring again to the picture, "the old oaken bucket" is how 
supplanted by a cucumber - wood pump. The timbers^? the 
barn that occupies the site of the old house are thos^^^^Q^^iLGorigind^' 
barn. . ., ■'—"< — TS — 



Mr. Howe's widow removed, a score of rods, to the residence of 
her daughter, Mrs. William P. Perley, and occupied a part of the 
house. They are buried in the Linebrook Cemetery. 

Their only child is Eliza-203. 



FAMILY 194: DODGE. 



LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-6, STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42, JOHNyi. <: 

MARIA PERLEY was born 10 March, 1799, and married 28 
Nov., 1822, Samuel Dane Dodge, who was born on the site of the 
first house west of Scott's Hill, Linebrook Parish, to Andrew and 
p:iizabeth-Dane Dodge 3 (Bible record) or 23 March, 1799. They 
resided in Hamilton till 1830, when he bought, near his birthplace, 
the Metcalf farm of one hundred acres for $.575. After his death, it 
became the Lavalette farm. The last years of his life he was a 
member of the Linebrook church. He was a good neighbor and an 
extensive and thrifty farmer. 

Their tomb records read as follows: 



SAMUEL D. DODGE 



May 24, I860 



2Et. 61 y'rs. 2 mo's. 



Bless I ed are 
the dead | who die 
in the I Lord 

MARIA PERLEY, 

wife of 
Samuel D. Dodge 

Died Sept. 1, 1852, 
Aged 53 



Our Mother 

Prompt to perform the duties of her sphere 
Her hand industrious and her heart sincere 
By all who knew her and her virtues proved 
She died lamented as she lived beloved 



1 Dodge children : Lucinda"^, Eliza Ann^ Andrew^ Maria Perleyl 

2 Lucinda^ was born 8 Aug., 1823, in Hamilton, and 15 Oct., 
1840, married Edward Millett, a trader and butcher, of Rowley, who 
was born 27 March, 1821, to Joshua and Deborah-Howe Millett-51^1 
They lived on the Newburyport Turnpike in Rowley. Mrs. Millett 
was continually in poor health. She died of consumption 25 July, 
1861. His second wife, married 9 Dec, 1862, was Mrs. Allethea 
Huntington-Wells Meed, who was born 4 Sept., 1828, to Daniel and 



324 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Betsey M. -Smith Wells, and was widow of Thomas J. Meed, a native 
of Candia, N. H., whom she married 23 Dec, 1849, and who died 29 
Aug., 1856, aged thirty. Mr. and Mrs. Millett died— she 15 Sept., 
1890, he 27 Dec., 1890. Millett issue: Lizzie Ellen, who died in in- 
fancy 14 Jan., 1841; Eliza Ann"; Sarah Maria, born 29 Oct., 1843, 
and died 17 April, 1856; George Dane, born 5 Nov., 1846, and died 
12 Oct., 1869; Edward Andrew^; Emily Augusta^; Samuel Dane, 
born 12 Jan., 1853, and died, a butcher, 12 Feb., 1874; Alphonzo, 
born in June, 1857, and died 16 Oct., 1858; Lizzie Ellen, born 23 
Dec, 1864, and died 1 Jan., 1874. 

3 Eliza A.^ was born 14 March, 1827, and died 21 April, 1829. 

4 Andrew^ was born 19 Sept., 1834. (His father's Bible reads 
1835, and another record reads 1833.) He married 3 June, 1852, 
Ruth Emily Brown-51'^ who was born 9 April, 1833. She died in 
Peabody, his present home, 24 Sept., 1903. He was by trade a 
butcher and meat cutter. In 1873 he was the landlord of the Custer 
House in Salem and later a landlord in Peabody. He was em- 
ployed in a managing capacity by Josiah B. Thomas, the mil- 
lioniare, of Peabody, in the butchering and provision business, more 
than thirty-nine years. Dodge issue: Maria Jane^; Luke, born 29 
Sept. and died 9 or 10 Dec, 1853; Cornelia, born 17 July, 1855, and 
died 17 Sept., 1856; Abbie Lavinia, born 8 or 12 Nov., 1859, and 
died 27 March, 1860; Loretta Story, born 25 or 28 P^eb., 1861, and 
died 17 or 25 April, 1863, choked with a date stone; Samuel Dane, 
born 17 Feb., 1876, who is living, unmarried, in Rowley, a railroad 
coachman for Boynton's stable. 

5 Maria P.^ was born 16 Nov., 1839, and 27 Sept., 1855, married 
P3dward Daniel Saunders, born 12 Oct., 1834, to Amos N. and Eliza- 
beth-Clark Saunders of Rowley. She died of fever in Rowley 23 
Nov., 1860, aged (sic) "twenty-one years, three months, ten days." 
[Saunders married, second, a Widow Tibbetts of Rowley, and by 
her had one child, a daughter Bertie.] Dodge-Saunders issue: Ella 
Maria, born 16 June and died 27 Dec, 1856; Edward, born 16 Oct., 
1857, removed to Maine; Harrington, born 16 Oct., 1859, and he 
"has one son living, but we do not know his address." These 
"16's" are correct as given. 

6 Eliza A.^ was born 14 Nov., 1841, and 27 Aug., 1862, married 
Moses S. Saunders, son of Amos N. and Elizabeth-Pickard Saun- 
ders, and died without issue 26 April, 1863, while her husband was 
in the war. He died 30 May, 1895. 

7 Edward A.'- was born in Ipswich 19 Oct., 1849, and married 30 
Sept., 1871, Elizabeth Blanchard Rundlett, born in Newburyport 21 
March, 1850, to Oliver and Mehitable-Plummer Rundlett of Rowley, 
a native of Newburyport. Mr. Millett is a contractor and builder in 
Rowley. Millett issue: Edward Oliver^"; Ralph Arnold"; Fred 
Bartlett, born 19 Aug., 1882, who is unmarried and in business in 
Kearney, Neb. 

8 Emily A.'^ was born 15 Sept., 1851. She married Horace M. 
Scott, a stone mason and contractor. She died 27 Jan., 1875, leav- 
ing a child, Mabel L., born in Lynn, and died in Dan vers 4 July, 
1877, aged four years and. (Dan vers) seven and (Rowley) four 
months. [Mr. Scott has his third wife. His wife Hannah M. Pear- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 325 

son, born in Gloucester, bore him two children : Harold Madison, 
born 8 Aug , 1885, and Mary H., born 5 Sept., 1889.] 

9 Maria J. •* was born 11 Sept., 1852, and 19 July, 1873, married 
Lyman Blanchard Daniels, born 19 Sept., 1857, to Amos Klanchard 
and Lucy Mary-Kneeland Daniels of Rowley. He resides in Row- 
ley and is by trade a shoemaker. She married, second, George 
Albert Peabody, a shoemaker by trade, 21 March, 1883, when she 
was thirty, and he was thirty-two, having been born in Georgetown 
31 Dec, 1850, to Francis Dana and Almira-Kneeland Peabody. She 
resides in Rowley. Daniels issue: Minnie Dodge''^. Peabody issue: 
George Albert, born 24 June, and died 5 Aug., 188(3; George Albert, 
born 21 Aug., 1887, and died 22 Feb., 1888; a son stillborn 7 April, 
1889. 

10 Edward O." was born 21 May, 1876. He was an advertising 
manager. He married Lillian M. Crowdis of Salem and had Lelia 
Marion, born 5 Dec, 1897. He drowned 6 Oct., 1904. 

11 Ralph A.'' was born 4 Feb., 1878, married and lives in Rowley. 

12 Minnie D.'* was born in Peabody 9 Dec, 1873. She married 
in New York City 14 P"eb., 1904, Christian Bambach, who was born 
there (i July, 1878, to John Henry and Laura Virginia-Hinton Bam- 
bach. Mrs. Bambach was a stenographer, her husband is an insur- 
ance broker and his father a court crier. 



FAMILY 195: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-6, STEt'HEN-19, ALLEN-42, JOHN-92. 

SILAS PERLEY was born 24 Oct., 1800, in Ipswich-Line- 
brook, in the house now standing at the junction of the roads next 
west of the old cemetery, and pictured on page IGt). He was a 
strong-built muscular man. He was a peer of the best in the pas- 
times of his day, in wrestling and other athletic sports, and could 
swing the emblem of "ruthless time" through the heaviest grass 
with equal skill and ease, or lift weight. 

He was a man of versatile talent, of varied business ability and 
excellent judgment and could conduct with success any yeoman en- 
terprise. As a farmer, he dug profit from sterile soil and employed 
his winters in timbering, furnishing large quantities of material for 
the shipyards of Essex. He built some six or eight gondolas for 
boating salt hay or grass on Rowley river. He had three afloat at 
one time. These fiat-bottomed boats, of fifteen to twenty-five tons, 
were constructed on the triangle between the roads in front of his 
residence, and were drawn by eight to a dozen yoke of oxen to the 
Warehouse landing in Rowley-Ill. This may have given rise to the 
sobriquet of "Linebrook Long Wharf." 

In middle life he was butcher and boot and shoe manufacturer. 
The latter he pursued winters mostly, and as a means by which 
he might more easily collect in work the trust of the butcher 
business. 

He was a Democrat in warp and woof, and woe to the man who 
assailed the doctrine. His political faith was in Jefferson and Jack- 



g26 THE perley family 

son, and his array of facts was as "Thick as autumn leaves that strow 
the brooks in Vallombrosa." 

He was fond of the militia; he was a member of a company of 
cavalry in the Second Brigade and Second Division of the State 
troops. He was appointed sergeant at Essex 2 June, 1820, and re- 
appointed at Andover 30 Sept., 1824. He was also clerk of the 
company. He was elected cornet 26 Aug., 1828, and 15 Sept. the 
same year was commissioned by Gov. Levi Lincoln, This troop of 
horse was called " The Washington Huzzas." His ensign, epaulettes 
and spurs are a treasure of his son. The banner's obverse pictures 
an eagle clutching the national escutcheon in his talons, surmounted 
with the motto: "We aim to protect what our fathers obtained," 
and subscribed "The Washington Huzzas," The reverse pictures 
the State seal, surmounted with "I wave in triumph or fall in death," 
subscribed with the name. The company trained but a few times 
before the general disbandment of the militia 30 May, 1831, 

He went boating 28 Aug,, 18(51, as he had been hundreds of times 
before. In "towing up," he must cross a creek, and clad as he was 
with heavy overcoat and heavy marsh boots, he thought better, no 
doubt, to go above and cross in shallow water, than to attempt to 
swim ; so throwing the tow rope to one who had already swam the 
fast making tide, he sought to cross above. Strange enough he 
chose the only fatal spot within rods of that one. He walked into a 
gully, became entangled in eel-grass and perished. 

Mr. Perley married, Rev. Moses Welch of the local church offi- 
ciating, 11 April, 1832, his cousin Elizabeth Perley-94\ She was 
born 19 April, 1798, the anniversary of a patriotism that changed 
history, geography, economics, politics and social life. She studied 
in Bradford Academy, under the famous preceptor Benjamin Green- 
leaf. She excelled in penmanship and sketching. A few specimens 
of her art and taste in India-ink are treasured by her son. Studying 
in the academy at the same time were Humphrey C. Cogswell and 
John Dexter, Jr., of Ipswich, Ira, Sally and Mary Perley of Boxford, 
Wm. G. Lambert of Rowley, Mehitable Gould, Elizabeth Averill 
and Elizabeth P. Emerson of Topsfield. 



In memory of 

ANDREW JACKSON 

Son of Silas and 

Elizabeth Perley 

who died 

May 11, 1S40, 

Aged 7 years. 

Thy long and patient sorrows are all past. 
Thy suffering clay has found repose at last. 
The quiet stone that covers now thy tomb. 
Awhile may shroud thy slumbers with its gloom ; 
But faith's kind hand shall roll that stone away, 
And hie thy presence to immortal day. 



She taught the school in her home district, where she was taught 
in her girlhood, A mother of tender memory, she died at the home 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



827 



of her son in Gloucester 5 Jan., 1873. She was interred in the Line- 
brook cemetery by the side of her husband and son Andrew. Their 
tomb records are as follows : 







SILAS 


PERLFA', 










DIED 










Aug. 


28, ISGl, 










^t. 60 


v'rs 10 mo's. 






Be 

: think 


ye ready, for 
not the Son 


in such an hour 
of Man Cometh. 


as 


ye 



ELIZABETH PERLEY, 

widow of Silas 

DIED 

Jan. 5, 1ST3 

;Et. 74 yi-s. 8 mos. 16 dys. 

A worthy woman, devoted to her own, 
cliaritalile to all: her memory is dear. 



1 Perley children : Andrew Jackson"^, Martin Van Buren-375. 

2 Andrew^ was born 24 March, 1833. 



FAMILY 19(J: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-f, TIMOTHY-6. STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42, JOHN-92. 

JOHN PERLEY was born in Ipswich-Linebrook 24 April, 1804. 
His brother Humphrey said that John moved twenty-seven times. 
He lived in Boxford, Topsfield and Ipswich. He once kept a small 
grocery in "the old garrison," or tavern of John Smith-191. He 
bought of Israel Conant, 5 April, 1837, a house standing far back of 
the present residence of James Kinnear and then leased it to his father 
John for $175 during his natural life. The house was later removed 
and became the fourth house west of Bull brook in Linebrook 
Parish. Selling, he finally built a house in Topsfield, about a mile 
from his birthplace. He there cultivated a small farm and worked 
with his boys at shoemaking. His family dropped off, one by one, 
till he was left alone, and continued so to live. 

Sunday evening, 4 Jan., 1880, some of his neighbors dropped 
in to chat with him awhile. That was the last time he was 
seen alive. Thursday following the neighbors bethought them they 
had not seen him for several days and effecting an entrance into his 
house found him dead in bed. The room was found as it was left 
Sunday night and it was believed he died that night. His cows and 
horse were almost famished in their stalls. He appeared as if the 
end came without a struggle. 

Mr. Perley was an industrious, genial, kind-hearted man. He 
lived easy and comfortable, and though not rich was not poor. He 
dreaded the experience of boarding ; he loved the independence of 
his home. He was a good neighbor and citizen, and esteemed. The 
Georgetown Advocate concludes an extended notice of him thus : 

"The sad death of Mr. Perley has cast a gloom upon the neigh- 
borhood. Mr. Perley was an honest, upright and esteemed citizen, 
possessing many virtues, and as a neighbor genial and willing to aid. 
He leaves a considerable property. Sudden deaths have been com- 
mon to his family. His mother and his wife being both found dead 



328 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



and his eldest son havdng fallen out of his chair in an appoplectic 
fit." 

His wife, married 1 May, 1827, was Lydia Town, born 3 Aug., 
1822, to Ebenezer and Lydia-Averell Town of Topsfield. She was 
found dead in her bed 22 May, 1873. They and their sons repose 
in the North Cemetery, Topsfield. 

1 Perley children: Lydia Ann-376, John Sylvester*, Hosea 
Bailout 

2 J. Sylvester^ was born 21 March, 1830. He never married. 
He was by trade a shoemaker; he was a quick and good workman 
and laid up money, which the long time of his sickness consumed. 
He was a paralytic. He fell from his chair and died instantly 11 
Feb., 1874, at his home with Joseph N. Pope of Boxford. It was 
thought he experienced another shock. 

3 Hosea^ (named for Hosea Ballou, D.D.-24'',) was born 9 July, 
1834. He never married. He was a general trader. In the winter 
of 1874-5 he fractured his leg; inflammatory rheumatism succeeded 
and terminated his life, 4 Jan., 1875. 



FAMILY. 197: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DKSCEXT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTIiyo, STEPHEN-19. ALLEN-4J, JOnN-!12. 

HUMPHREY PERLEY was born 30 Jan., 1808, in Ipswich, 
Mass., in the house pictured on page 166. He married Eunice, 
daughter of Thomas and Lydia -Guilford Peabody of Topsfield, 




THE HUMPHREY PERLEY HOMESTEAD. 



16 Sept., 1844. She was born in Topsfield 19 Nov., 1824. Mr. Per- 
ley was always a farmer. In 1843 he bought a lot of land lying in 
Ipswich and Topsfield, near Hood's pond, the line of the two towns 
running through the house which he built upon the lot in 1843 and 1844. 
In 1857 he removed to his late farm in Boxford, to the house pictured 
on page 171, and a year later took the old house down, and built a 
new house here shown. At this place, Mr. and Mrs. Perley spent 
the remainder of their lives. Mrs. Perley died 4 Sept., 1898, at the 
age of seventy-three; and Mr. Perley died 4 Nov., 1901, at the age of 
ninety-three years and nine months, being at the time of his death 




HUMPHREY PERLEY 







MRS. EUNICE PERLEY 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



329 



the oldest man in the town. Their house is now owned and occupied 
by their daughter, Mrs. Emily J. Chase. 

1 Perley children: Elbridge-377, Emily Jane-B78, Humphrey- 
379, Sidney-380. 



FAMILY 198: PERLEY. 

LINEiVX, DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTIIY-C. STErHEX-19, ALLEN-4'2, STEPHEX-93. 

JOHN LANGDON PERLEY was born in Laconia, N. H., 10 
June, 1805. He was many years a physician in his native town. As 
years advanced, he turned his attention more and more to farming. 




THE PERLEY APPLE. 



He and his son Lewis were among the leading farmers of his County. 
The County Agricultural Society's fair grounds were near their res- 
idence. When visiting Dr. Perley one fall at the time of the Cattle Show 
and Fair, Mrs. Perley presented the writer with the apples pictured 
above, saying "they would have taken a premium if they'd had a name — 
will you name them.''" He replied that "Perley" was a good enough 
name for the best of fruit. 

Mr. Perley was appointed postmaster 21 May, 1829, vice Stephen 
Perley resigned. He died in Laconia 18 Sept., 1888. He married 
at Meredith Bridge 20 Feb., 1839, Dora Prescott Rundlett, born 13 
Dec, 1819, to Josiah, a farmer and stone mason, and Betsey-Potter 
Rundlett of Gilmanton, now Belmont. She died in Laconia in 
May, 1897. 

1 Perley children: John Langdon-, Dora Augusta^ and Mary 
Anne"*, Lewis Stephen'', Clara Elizabeth*', Marie Huntress". 

2 John^ was born 10 Dec, 1839. The first answer received in our 



330 "THE PERLEY FAMILY 

voluminous correspondence in compiling this history was dated 20 
June, 1S67, and contained the following: "John Langdon enlisted in 
the United States Cavalry, 19 Aug., 18tU, was at Carlisle, Pa., about 
four months, then was Lieut, in the New England Cavalry, which 
was afterwards called First Rhode Island Cavalry, was located near 
Warrenton, Fa., sometime skirmishing, etc., and near Catlett's Sta- 
tion he was taken sick, and died 9 June, 1802, 
respected and beloved by all who knew him." (^j~/ /3 y 

A Boston newspaper says: "The veterans ^^'^^-^fCy^r-^uiC^ 
of the late war named their Post 'John L. Per- •'^ 

lev Post' in honor of this young man. The signature to the first let- 

_--' ..... - T • T) 1 i. *''!■ received in the <'otupl- 

Post has a jurisdiction oi Laconia, lielmont, latum of this genealogy, 2g 
and parts of Gilmanton, Gilford, and Sanborn- ■'"""• ^^°^- 
ton. Col. Thomas Cogswell department commander for 1890 and 
some time candidate for governor of the State (a graduate of Dart- 
mouth in 1803) is, and Col. Thomas. J. Whipple of Laconia, a vet- 
eran of the wars of 1812 and the Rebellion, was a member of the 
Post. The Post disburses about $150 yearly, and in 1890, decorated 
the graves of one hundred and forty-five soldiers." A Boston news- 
paper said: "Lt. Perley was a member of the 1st Battalion, New 
Hampshire Cavalry, Troop M, and enlisted in August, 1801. He 
was attacked with malarial fever at Camp Mudd, Warrington, Va., 
in May, 1802, and returned home shortly after, and died in June fol- 
lowing from the result of exposure." 

8 Dora A.^ was born twin with Mary A.^ 18 Sept., 1841. She 
married in Laconia, where they reside, 3 Oct., 1877, Jacob Sanborn, 
a farmer, who was born 13 Jan., 1843, to William Hunt, a farmer, 
and Sally-Dame Sanborn of Moultonboro, N, H. Sanborn child: 
Pearl Smith, born 19 Dec, 1879, is a graduate of Smith College, 
class of 1904. 

4 Mary A.' was born twin with Dora A.' 18 Sept., 1841, and mar- 
ried in Laconia 19 Sept., 1871, Josiah P^owle Sturtevant, a druggist, 
who was born in Center Harbor, N. H., 22 June, 1827, to Ward C., 
a farmer, and Lucetta-Dalton Sturtevant. Their home is Laconia. 
They have no children. 

5 Lewis S.' was born in Meredith, the part now Laconia, 22 
Aug., 1845. He is a civil engineer and one of the leading agricul- 
turists of the County and an officer in the County society. He is 
also largely engaged in manufacturing as a member of the Laconia 
Woolen Company. His home is the parental estate, ''beautiful for 
situation," having a fine view of Lake Winnipiseogee. He married 
in Laconia Dec, 1888, Clara Louise Knowlton, who was born in 
Meredith 25 June, 1809, to Rachel-Batchelder and John Knowlton, a 
farmer. Their children are Lew Knowlton, born 27 July, 1890; 
Marian Louise, born 10 Jan., 1893; John Russell, born 25 Nov., 
1900. These in the public schools took excellent rank in their re- 
spective grades. 

Clara E.^ was born 3 July, 1848, in Laconia. She married 29 
May, 1873, Albert Lane Norris, who was born in Epping, N. H., 4 
March, 1839. His father was Greenleaf Rufus Norris, a tanner, 
shoemaker and farmer; his mother was Lucinda Lane. Greenleaf 
died 15 April, 1840; and Lucinda, 20 Jan., 1899; and both at Epp- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY g3l 

ing. Mr. Norris was educated at Phillips-Exeter Academy 1855-5G- 
57. He received his medical degree at Harvard College in 1865. He 
was a surgeon in the army 1864-65-66, is a member of the Loyal 
Legion, U. S. A. He studied in Europe in 1S69 and 1870 and prac- 
tised in hospitals in Berlin, Vienna, London and Edinburgh. Wiley 
University honored him with the degree of A. M. in 1890. He trav- 
eled abroad with his family in 1873 and 1890. He is a member of 
several medical and literary societies, and has been a physician of 
large practice for thirty-five years in Cambridge, Mass. Norris chil- 
dren, born in Cambridge, Mass. : Albert Perley, 29 Sept., 1 874, a grad- 
uate of Mass. Inst, of Technology in 1897, and of Harvard Medical 
College in 1903, physician residing in Cambridge; Clara Maud, 21 
Sept., 1877, received degree of A. B. at Smith College in 1901, A. M. 
at Boston University in 1902, teacher in Newburyport High School 
since 1903; Grace May, 11 June, 1881, received degree of A. B. at 
Smith College in 1904, residing with her parents. 

7 Marie H.^ was born in Lowell, Mass., 14 Feb., 1862, to John, 
machinist, and Marianna-Gordon Huntress. When a little child her 
mother died and she was taken and cared for by the family of Dr. 
Perley. They educated her. She graduated from the N. H. State 
Normal School in 1884. She was never adopted, 3'et her name was 
legally changed to Perley. She graduated from the manual training 
department of Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York, 
in 1903. She has taught twelve years in public schools in California, 
two years in a missionary school of Honolulu, H. T., and is now 
teaching manual training in the Central State Normal School, Mt. 
Pleasant, Mich. 



FAMILY 199: ATKINSON. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-C. STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42, STEPHEN-93. 

MARTHA MARIA PERLEY was born in Laconia, N. H., 19 
Nov., 1815. She married Rev. Joseph Plummer Atkinson 22 Oct., 
1835, while he was preaching in her native town. Mr. Atkinson was 
born in Gloucester, Mass., 17 Oct., 1810. He studied with Rev. 
Thomas Whittemore, a noted expounder of the universal doctrine. 
His first pulpit was at Hingham. He went to Laconia early in the 
summer of 1835 to preach and teach school. He had settlements at 
Marblehead, Orleans and Orange, Mass., and Westbrook, Me. He 
entered upon his work at Marblehead in April, 1842, and resigned 3 
Aug., 1845. He died 27 Dec, 1888; she 27 Feb., 1904. 

An extended notice of Mrs. Atkinson's life and death appeared 
in the Laconia Democrat, 4 March, 1904, from which we copy to 
suit our space: "Her life and character were so faultless, sweet and 
beautiful ! Everywhere and always she was a lady. In manner she 
was dignified and reserved, yet at the same time she was genial and 
affable, easy of approach, and had the rare gift of making every one 
with whom she came in contact feel at ease. Her courtesy and 
refinement of manner were the reflection of her rare and beautiful 
qualities of mind and soul. In mental acumen, by both education 



332 ' THE PERLEY FAMILY 

and nature, she was far above the average. She took a comprehen- 
sive view of all subjects with which she had to deal. By nature she 
was happily free from any spirit of malice; the happiness and well- 
being of every one was her earnest wish and fervent prayer. 

"In all the relations of life she was unselfish ; it was her purpose 
to live and act in the spirit of the 'Golden Rule.' Although she 
had well defined and settled opinions on all moral and religious 
questions, yet she never dogmatized and was ever ready to accord to 
others the same right to have and enjoy their beliefs and faiths that 
she claimed for herself, always providing they were honest and 
sincere. 

"Early in life she recognized God the Father as the object of 
true worship, love and obedience, and united with the Universalist 
church of Meredith Bridge, and was ever afterwards a devout fol- 
lower of that faith. 

"When deprived of her own church service, she was found wor- 
shiping at some of the other churches. She was an ardent believer 
in the churches and the good work they are trying to accomplish; 
she thought the churches constituted the most potent and uplifting 
influence in the world. 

"As a neighbor she was always ready to help in time of need, and 
was loved and respected by all who knew her. Her mental and 
spiritual faculties were clear and strong to the end." 

1 Atkinson children: Josephine Perley-, Joseph Plummer^ Or- 
ville Augustus''. 

2 Josephine P.' was born in Weare, N. H., 11 Sept., 1840, and 
27 Feb., 1861, in Orange, Mass., married John Murray Whittemore, 
who was born in Sept., 1835, in Cambridge, to Rev. Thomas Whitte- 
more. He died 7 Nov., 18(31, in the service of his country on board 
the United States Steam Sloop, Mohican, during the battle of "Hil- 
ton Head," Port Royal, S. C. She married, second, in Laconia 20 
Nov., 1863, Charles Hall Thwing, who was born in Ossipee, N. H., 
9 Aug., 1823. He was a merchant in Boston, where he died 9 Mar., 
1881. Her only child, Charles Harry, born 8 Oct., 1804, is a travel- 
ing salesman, and resides with his mother in Roxbury, Mass. Mrs. 
Thwing, as Josephine Perley was "the star" of "The Perley Com- 
edy Company," which had its birth Nov., 1878, and was for a 
number of years very popular in the Eastern States. 

3 Joseph P.' was born 1 March, 1844, in Marblehead. He 
served in 53d Massachusetts Regiment in the Civil War. He has 
been a grocer in Laconia for many years. His wife is Mary Lu- 
cretia Terrill, married in Nashua, N. H., 8 Dec, 1874, born in Lyme, 
N. H., 14 Sept., 1842, to Caleb, a farmer, and Samantha-Wilmarth 
Terrill. Their children are Martha Louise, born 23 Jan., 1877, who 
took the degree of A. B. at Tufts College in 1900, and is a teacher of 
Greek and Enghsh; Frederic Perley, born 15 Jan., 1878, who is un- 
married in Laconia, and a popular member of the city government ; 
Eleanor Locke, born 5 May, 1880, who graduated from the Lucy 
Wheelock Kindergarten Training School, Boston, 1901. 

4 Orville A.' was born in Westbrook, Me., 30 Jan., 1846. He 
is unmarried, and a merchant tailor in Boston of the firm Thwing & 
Co., Bromfield street. 



FAMILY 200: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. TIMOTIIY-G. STEPIIEN-19, ALLEN-42, JACOB-94. 

JACOB PERLEY was born on the ancestral estate of the Per- 
leys, where Charles M. Perley-369 now resides in Ipswich-Linebrook, 
18 March, 1803. He bought land in Rowley, built on it and became 
an independent farmer. He married 15 March, 1836, Mary Jewett 
Pickard, born 1 Oct., 1818, to David and Hannah-Spiller Pickard, 
He died of lung and pleurisy fever 19 Oct., 1859. After her hus- 
band's death, she and the boys carried on, the farm, with good judg- 
ment and profit. She died 10 April, 1891, of pneumonia. 

1 Perley children: Jacob", Mary Jewett 381, Orrin Weston-382, 
PZliza-Ann'-. 

2 Jacob^ was born (i April, 1838, and lived at home, a farmer, 
unmarried. He died 7 April, 1891, of typhoid pneumonia. Eliza' 
was born 25 March, 1853. She has led a domestic life, unmarried, 
is said to be a good housekeeper and superior cook. She lived at 
one place in Salem many years. 



FAMILY 201: PERLE:Y. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTIIY-O. STEl'IIEN-19, ALLEN-42, JACOB-'J4. 

STEPHEN PERLEY was born in Ipswich-Linebrook 22 Oct., 
1807. He was a stone mason by trade, a master workman and con- 
tractor. He did a good business. His home was some years in 
Watertown and a number of years in Medford. Later he owned a 
residence on Mill street in Charlestown. He was many years em- 
ployed as master workman in the United States Navy Yard there. 

He married 14 Jan., 1840, Mrs. Margaret-Flemming Lucas of 
Watertown, who was born in Newtown-Limavady, Londonderry, Ire. 
She was a fine woman, an earnest Christian, and member of the 
Baptist church. She died in Charlestown 14 April, 1895. In her 
will sire mentions her "only heirs at law and next of kin," Margaret 
A. Jones, Martha E. Garno, both 
of Boston, and Sarah E. Oakley •• ^r^^^rr^.. ^^r..r..r 

f u 11 AT -VT- t:- ■ \ ■ STEPHEN PERLEY 

or Brooklyn, N. Y., hrancis A., a : 

son, and Charles L. Perry, a grand- ; ^^'^^ ^^ ^^^^" ^^'^ 

son. Mrs. Garno was devisee and : ^^^'^ ^^ ^'■'^" ^^ ™°^' 

Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Oaklyresid- '■ D.-ar wife grieve no more for me. 

-' r- 1 1 1 • • Dear children, grieve no more, 

Uary legatees. Stephen and his : BeUeve that I am happier far, 

•'(-1 • .1 11 : Than when with vou before. 

son Samuel repose in the old cem- : 
etery in Linebrook. 

1 Perley children: Samuel", Stephen^ Margaret Anna^ Mary 
P^lizabeth^ Francis Augustus", Martha Eliza^ Sarah Eleanor^, Har- 
riet Freeman^. 



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THE PERLEY FAMILY 



2 SamueP and Stephen^ were twins, born 27 Sept., 1841. Har- 
iet F.^ was born 27 May, and died 8 June, 1854. 

3 Stephen^ was born as above, 

and married 9 Feb., 1873, Amelia 
Mason, born in New York City 
2(5 April, 1853, to John Howe and 
Ann Elizabeth-Woodruff Mason. 
Mr. Perley was engaged in the 
flour and grain trade. He died 
20 April, 1889, in Brooklyn. His 
widow became Mrs. Robinson. Perley children : Ella Louise, born 
11 April, 1875; Stephen Monroe, born 14 Nov., 1877; Clarence, born 
3 April, 1879, died 13 July, 1899; Mary Elizabeth, born 8 Nov., 
1885, graduated from the Girl's High School 15 June, 1904, prepared 
to enter the Teachers' Training School. 



SAMUEL PERLEY 

Diod Sopt. 5, 1S63 

,^3. 21 yrs & 11 mos. 

And lo, a voice from Iieaveu saying. 
This is my lieloved sou, iu \vlioiu I 
am well jiloased. 




EUGENE SAMUEL JONES. 



4 Margaret A.^ was born in Watertown 27 July, 1842, and 11 
Sept., 1861, married in Charlestown Charles Stanwood Jones, who 
was born in Brunswick, Me., 27 April, 1820, and died in Charlestown 
3 June, 1888. He was a locomotive engineer. Their only child is 
Eugene Samuel'-*, pictured above. 



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HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



335 



5 Mary E.' was born 21 May, 1844, and 17 Aug., 1862, married 
John Lowell Perry, a funeral undertaker and embalmer in Charles- 
town. He was born 19 Feb., 1840 in Brighton. She died very sud- 
denly at the home of her sister in New York City, in 1889, leaving 
one child, who is mentioned in his grandmother's will : Charles 
Lowell, born 18 May, 1863, in Charlestown. 

6 Francis A.^ was born in Watertown 15 Feb., 1847. He is en- 
gaged in the coal business. His first wife was Frances Theresa 
Dunning, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., to Richard Dunning, and died in 
New York City 19 Jan., 1899, and was cremated. She traveled 
much — was finely educated and excelled as a linguist. She had no 
children. His second wife, married 10 May, 1904, was Selma M. 
Moraly, born 21 March, 1874, in New York City to Gustav and 
Lomie-Hows Moraly. They have no children, and they reside in 
that city. 

7 Martha E.^ was born in Watertown 10 March, 1850, and mar- 
ried in Charlestown 14 Jan., 1881, George Henry Garno of Boston, a 
railroad conductor, at that time twenty-seven years old. He was 
born in Quebec, P. Q., to Modest and Elizabeth, and died in Little- 
ton, Mass., 8 Feb., 1888. 

8 Sarah E.^ was born in Somerville 1 April, 1852.' She married 
in Charlestown 10 June, 1885, Solomon Oakley, born in Aug., 1844, 
to Whitson Oakley of Brooklyn, N. Y. They have no children. 

9 Eugene S.'* was born 8 Jan., 1865. He is photographer in the 
law department of the Boston & Maine Railroad Company. He 
married 16 May, 1904, Miss Fannie Isabella Crosby of Wakefield, 
where she was born, daughter of Abial, 12 July, 1871. 



FAMILY 202: CONANT. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-6. STEl'lIEN-19, ALLEN-42, JACOH-94. 

MARTHA PERLEY was born Tuesday, 18 June, 1811, and 
21 Aug., 1832, became the second wife of Deacon Wm. Foster Con- 
ant, who was born in Linebrook Parish, Ipswich, 17 July, 1802, to Wil- 
liam, Esq., and Ruth-P'oster-51 Conant. He was 
elected to the deaconry of the Linebrook church 
in 1831, and continued in the ofifice till his death. 
A local journal thus spoke of Mrs. Conant: 
"She was an exemplary woman in her family 
and the society; she was loved and highly es- 
teemed for her excellent worth, and her Chris- 
tian virtues." The same paper spoke at length 
of her husband : "Deacon Conant inherited the 
sterling business ability of his father and the 
fervent active Christian qualities of his mother. 
He was never idle: the sun rose and found 
him at his work, and setting left him toiling. 
He took contracts for building roads, was first 
on the building committee of his church, for conant arm 
years was leader in all parish affairs, and his counsels and labors were 




336 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

always intelligent and efficient. His business was farming and lum- 
bering. He was of full medium height, was endowed with a com- 
pact physique and surprising muscular strength. 

" When a boy in his teens he was hired out for the season each 
year, as was the custom in those days ; but his mother — a true 
mother in Israel — never lost spiritual sight of her children, and his 
Sunday presence at home was fraught with blessing. He joined the 
church 7 March, 1830. He was elected to the deaconry, 30 Sept., 
1831. His walk was exemplary, and his natural activity eminently 
helpful. He never, while in health, was absent from the communion, 
and but twice from the preparatory lectures. He was a most ex- 
emplary and efficient deacon in the church for more than half a cen- 
tury; he was at intervals the superintendent of the Sunday School 
for about forty years; and 
labored with a true filial de- ^~. g 

votion, in season and out of l^jy^/ ' ^ S^'-^'^^-'^ ^ 

season, for the permanent // ' ^ * ^^v-w^ , 

good of the society and the subscription to a letter circum 18S0. 

cause. 

"He was an intelligent worshiper; he appreciated a good ser- 
mon, and readily noted variation in doctrine. He loved the sanctu- 
ary, and especially the prayer room, to which even in decrepit age, 
lame and leaning upon his staff, he went in conscious duty, for its 
healthful influence. . . . We all mourn the departure of the 
spirit of piety, of Christian charity and liberality, and of an active, 
useful life." 

[Mr. Conant married, first, 30 April, 1828, Martha Potter, born 9 
Feb., 1802, to Deacon Isaac, a farmer, and Johanna-Jewett Potter. 
She died in Linebrook, Ipswich 5 Jan., 1830. Their child, William 
Potter, died 17 Jan., 1830, ten weeks old.] 

1 Perley-Conant children : Martha Mary-3(i5, Cyrus William-, 
Charles Augustus'^ Jacob Cogging Abbie Elizabeth". 

2 Cyrus^ was born 10 July, 1837. He married 22 F"eb., 1860, 
Sarah Carrol Lavalette, born 6 May, 1844, to Nathaniel of Linebrook. 
He was a brave and efficient soldier in the Rebellion War, and re- 
ceived a pension. He is said to have been the strongest man in the 
town, and has cut and piled four cords of four foot wood in a day, 
many, though not successive days. During the period of the Civil 
War, Mr. Conant's muscular activities were phenomenal. None ex- 
celled him in the recreations of the camp — running, leaping, jump- 
ing or lifting 

A mass enormous, such in modern days 

No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise. 

His great strength found ample scope in civil life upon the farm. 
He was genial, hospitable, kind, and a generous and worthy mem- 
ber of the Linebrook church. He died 26 May, 190.5. The local 
journal thus spoke of his death and burial: 

"The death of Mr. Conant came as a shock to everyone in town. 
He was always looked upon as one of the strongest and healthiest 
of men. His death was the result of a cold contracted a week ago. 
Mr. Conant and a friend went fishing and in some manner both 
were thrown into the water. Both men were soaked and both were 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 337 

taken sick. Mr. Conant's cold rapidly developed into pneumonia 
and although he has been quite ill, the end was not expected so sud- 
denly. He was a Grand Army veteran and saw some of the hardest 
fights in the Civil War. One of his greatest pleasures in civil life 
was to relate his experiences during the war. Mr. Conant will be 
sincerely missed by everyone who knew him." 

"Funeral services for Comrade Cyrus William Conant were held 
on Sunday afternoon from the little village church in Linebrook. It 
was an ideal scene ; the quiet hush of the country being broken only 
by bird song and the subdued voice of the minister as he spoke 
words of comfort and cheer. The church was filled almost to over- 
flowing, forty members of the local Post and sixteen of the Rowley 
council, Order United American Mechanics, being present in a body, 
with a large company of friends and neighbors. The service was 
conducted by the Rev. William Penn Alcott, who has been pastor 
at Linebrook a score and more of years. The choir sang the hymns, 
'Rock of Ages' and 'Asleep in Jesus.' The burial services of the 
Post and the Mechanics were read at the cemetery. A profusion of 
beautiful flowers covered the casket. Comrades fiale, Jellison and 
Foster of the veterans, with three members from the Mechanics, 
acted as pall bearers." The interment was at Linebrook 

Under the sod and the dew 
Waiting the Judgment day. 

Conant issue : Alton Lawrence*"' and William Herbert". 

3 Charles^ was born 7 Jan., 184L He was a smart, bright boy 
and excelled at school. By an accident while coasting, in his teens, 
he received an injury to his brain, and was not his former self 
after. He lived with his brother Cyrus many years, and died 13 
June, 1905. 

4 Coggin' was born 4 Feb., 1845, and 7 Feb., 1871, married 
Rosella Charles of P'ryeburg, Me., born 29 April, 1845. Mrs. Conant's 
grandmother was a niece of Ex-President Cleveland's grandmother 
Grover, nee Wiley. Mr. Grover had other grandsons whose given 
names were Grover. The President took the Grover name, but the 
Wiley physique. Mrs. Conant's parents were Osborne and Hannah- 
Ballard Charles of Fryeburg, Me. Mr. Charles was sixteen years a 
carpenter, thirteen years a miller and nineteen years a farmer. 

They live in Linebrook on the ancient Fowler farm, which has 
descended from his grandfather, William Conant. Mr. Conant is a 
farmer. For many years he was engaged in teaming and putting 
large quantities of wood on the market. His farming is not exten- 
sive, but is abreast of the times. He plants scientifically approved 
seeds and his fields are second to none in the section. He is a very 
industrious man, and most excellent and obliging neighbor, a sincere 
friend, a substantial citizen. Conant children: Lin wood Chester^ 
William Osborne^ Florence Abbie^"^. 

5 Abbie E.^ was born 30 March, 1848, and 24 Feb., 1886, married 
Rev. Otis O. Ordway, a Baptist clergyman. They have no children. 

6 Alton L.^ was born in Linebrook 6 Nov., 1868. He was a tele- 
graph operator at Vernon, Ct., where he was located a dozen or more 
years. He is now with Boston Elevated road and located at the Dudley 
St. station. He married 6 Oct., 1891, in Brooklyn, N. Y., Adeline 



338 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Gary, who was born 26 Oct., 1872, to Claudia and Frank Gary, who 
is assistant superintendent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Gom- 
pany in New York Gity. She is a milliner. Their only child is 
Edna Gheever, born in Willimantic, Gt., 11 Nov., 1893. 

7 William H.'-^ was born 11 June, 1881, and 4 Nov., 1902, married 
Miss Jennie Grace Proper of Millwood, Rowley, at the residence of 
Deacon John H. Tenney, where she had made her home for several 
years. She was born in Gloversville, N. Y., 4 June, 1884, to Arthur 
Eugene and Josephine-Raymond Proper. He is a farmer and 
occupies the parental home. Their children are Ruth Foster, 
born 30 May, 1903, and Arthur Herbert, born 17 Nov., 1904. 

8 Linwood G.* was born 18 July, 1873. He is a registered phar- 
macist and chief clerk for the Woodbury Gompany, druggists and 
apothecaries, P2ast Boston. He married in Boston 23 Aug., 1897, 
Mae Etta Worcester, who was born in Warwick, Mass., to John and 
Almira Worcester, 2 July, 1869. They have no children. 

9 Osborne'' was born 8 April, 1877. He is not married, lives 
with "the old folks at home." He is largely engaged in teaming 
and moving timber for the vessel-building of Essex. 

10 Florence" was born 24 April, 1879. She is a graduate of Man- 
ning High School, Ipswich, and of Bryant & Stratton's Gommercial 
Gollege, Boston, and is now, as she has been for several years, book- 
keeper, stenographer and typewriter to the Boston Dental Laboratory 
Co., Boston. She resides with her brother Linwood in East Boston. 



FAMILY 203: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-O. STEPHEN-10, ALLEN-42, JAC015-94. 

WILLIAM PERKINS PERLEY was born in Ipswich-Line- 
brook 7 Jan., 1814. After his marriage he built a residence upon a 
portion of his father-in-law's farm, and succeeded to the manage- 
ment of the farm. Their - 

home was "beautiful for sit- y^xXvy ' ^^ /-l^^^""'^ 

nation"; many remarked of Jl'^^oC^Ccyi i x^__ j . J C^^<^ 
its picturesqueness; minis- '^ 

. r i-i. • 1 1 1 A letter subsoription about 188-1. 

ters of the parish church 

made their home there; it was the abode of clerical refinement and 

taste, of prayer, and peace and happiness. 

Mr. Perley was many times a juryman, was many years con- 
stable, and held at different times various parish offices. Their 
home was known, far and wide, through minister and layman, as 
exemplary; but for some inscrutable cause, which ripened in 
divorce, they separated. The question of property was amicably 
adjusted; Mrs. Perley remained upon the farm, and he sought' an- 
other home. He lived for some time with his brother in Boxford, 
then with Deacon Jacob Symonds Potter, (page 88) an old pa- 
rishioner, then of Georgetown. In 1875 he bought a farm in Hamp- 
stead, N. H., which he greatly improved, and where he died sud- 
denly of fever. 

Mr. Perley married Miss Eliza Howe-193\ 28 Nov., 1839. She 
was born 15 May, 1819, in the house pictured on page 322. Her 




WM. PERKINS PERLKY. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



339 



home has continued to be the home of the local clergy, except Mr. 
Howe and the present pastor, who have families of their own. She 
is managing her farm with the knowledge and skill of experienced 
judgment. She is a lady cherished in her community and society 
for her pleasing affability, her ladylike presence, and her kindly, 
charitable disposition. She is a member of the Linebrook Congre- 
gational Church, where her kindred for generations have worshiped. 




Mr. Perley's second wife, married 23 Nov., 1876, was Miss Har- 
riet Perley Northend-185, born 15 June, 1845. She is a lady of 
excellent character, a careful housekeeper and was a devoted wife. 
She is a member of the Methodist church. She resides in Bradford. 

A Haverhill paper published the following obituary of Mr. Per- 
ley: "William P. Perley of Hampstead, N. H., died December 27th, 
1885, aged 72 years less 11 days, and his funeral occurred at his late 
home in that town on the Wednesday following, at which time his 
remains were placed in the Hampstead receiving tomb. On Mon- 
day the 3d of May, 1886, his body was taken to (Linebrook Parish) 
Ipswich, Mass., his native town, in which all but the last few years 
of his life were spent. He chose the exact spot for his last resting 
place some six months previous to his death, believing the end of 
this life, for him, had well nigh come. His clear and calm expres- 
sions for the last few months of his life showed an unusually intelli- 
gent resignation with respect to that which we call death. Know- 
ing him as we did, intimately and well, we deplore his loss as that of 
a manly man. His life blossomed with justice, honesty and truth, 
and his careful yet superior judgment is remembered today by those 
to whom it was given, with the kindest interest. Few men were 



340 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

more justly popular — in his business matters and in his intercourse 
with people he was conservative and just — in his private life he was 
pure, noble and a true gentleman — to his friends he was kind, ten- 
der and attached. 

And, oh I bless'<! spirit v hoiisoevor thy fliKht 
Through rolling worlds, or fields of litiuid light, 
May cherubs welcome their expected guest. 
May saints with songs receive thee to their rest ; 
May peace, that claini'd while here tliy warmest love ; 
May blissful, endless peace, be thine above ! 

Another paper said: "He was a man of strictest probity and 
integrity, gentlemanly and affable, and exercised an intelligent judg- 
ment and discretion — a valuable citizen. His death has occasioned 
a permanent loss to church and neighborhood. After locating in 
Hampstead, his natural affability easily made many acquaintances 
which ripened into lasting friendships. A year or more ago he 
embraced Christ, and joined the Methodist denomination. He car- 
ried his religion into his family, his business and daily life, and 
though young in his profession, he was considered one of the most 
valuable pillars in the church." 

1 Child: Lyman Howe.'^ 

2 Lyman^ was born 20 July, 1862. He was adopted when an 
infant, and his parents have cared for him as their own. He was 
unfortunate in the loss, through sickness in his infancy, of his 
speech and hearing. He was educated at the Deaf and Dumb 
School at Northampton and proved an apt scholar. He reads much 
and works well and exercises an intelligent judgment. 



FAMILY 204: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTlIV-6. STKPIIEN-19, ALLENM2. JACOH-'J4. 

AUGUSTUS MONROE PERLEY was born 30 Dec, 1816, 
on the immigrant-ancestral farm in Linebrook. In the settlement 
of his father's estate the farm became his. He married 10 Nov., 
1846, Miss Almira Johnson of Newburyport, born 16 March, 1819, 
to James and Charlotte-190. She is an excellent woman; she was a 
good wife and mother; she made her home cheerful and happy. 
P'or helpful hospitality and kindness of heart, among a thousand, 
she is to be commended. She lives with her daughter in Haverhill. 
Serus in coelum redeas. 

Mr. Perley died in ^^^ ^ 

server recorded his 

death in these words: "After three days illness, Augustus Monroe 
Perley died at the age of seventy-four years, three months, twenty- 
two days, having been born Dec. 30, 1816. His nativity was the old 
Perley farm continuously from 1651, situated in Linebrook Parish, 
Ipswich. Mr. Perley was a practical farmer, and coming into pos- 
session of the parental estate made it one of the best around, giving 
it his earhest and ripest manhood. Selling that, he bought the 




.M0NU01-: 1'. I'KKI.EY. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 34I 

Cummings farm in Boxford, which he greatly improved, and sold at 
a handsome advance. He then bought in Hampstead, N. H., a farm 
which grew in worth from year to year, till in turn he sold that, and 
bought the Dr. Warren estate in West Newbury, his late home. 
Besides these extensive trades, he often exchanged horses, cattle, 
carriages and other concomitants of husbandry. He was a judicious 
trader, exercised an excellent judgment, and was a man of sterling 
integrity. 

"During his later years his general health was much impaired. 
Before removing to West Newbury his eyesight quite failed him from 
cataract. The obstruction was removed, while at his last home, but he 
never fully recovered sight. During the last few years of his life his 
health was completely broken. He died of congestion of the lungs. 

"Mr. Perley was a man of great reserve. He never fully valued 
or appreciated his worth or ability. He was a good man in a neigh- 
borhood, strictly temperate, always kindly disposed, and of a gener- 
ous, sympathetic nature. He hated a sham, a pretence, and nig- 
gardly dealings, but was generous to a fault toward the deserving. 

"His home was the abode of love, and he gave it patient watching 
and serving in sickness and in health. As a husband and a father 
he was exemplary, and 'the sojourner within the gate' bespoke his 
worth and attested his geniality and noble manhood." 

1 Perley children : Monroe Proctor'-, Winfield Augustus^, Lucy 
Nellie^ 

2 Monroe P.^ was born 24 Nov., 1847, and died in Lawrence of 
heart-failure Sunday, 29 March, 1903. He married 22 Oct., 1872, 
Miss Anna Elizabeth Rich, who was born .31 Aug., 1840, to Robert 
and Hannah-Evans Rich of Salisbury. Her mother was sister to 
Hon. Benjamin Evans. She resides in Newburyport. 

Mr. Perley was educated in the Ips- 
wich High School and the Danville, 
P. Q., Academy. He chose for his 
life-work the dry goods business. He 
was employed at the counter in Boston 

about three years and as manager for ^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^^ ,^ ^^^ 
his cousin m Gloucester about one 

year. He then bought in Newburyport a stock of goods of the ad- 
ministrator of Charles W. Peabody's estate, and began trade on his 
own account. He prospered. He occupied in that city three dif- 
ferent stores, each larger than the one next before, and several real- 
ties on Tremont street there are the exponents of his thrift. 

While in Newburyport he served two years as a member of the 
common council; he was at one time extensively interested in one 
of the local daily newspapers, and he several years published a 
monthly journal of his own. He had no particular taste for public 
office ; it was enough for him, and he was content, to mind his own 
business. He lost no opportunity to advance its interests; he ad- 
vertised liberally in the newspapers and his own journal, while rocks 
and trees, barn-gables and fences were emblazoned with the eco- 
nomic legend: "Trade at Perley's." 

His experience, ambition, ability and popular methods now com- 
mended him to a larger field and ampler accommodations. He was 




342 THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

three years at Taunton where he pubhshed the Taunton News; but 
seeing a golden opportunity at Lawrence, a much larger field and 
satisfying promise, he settled there. He toiled up, and about 1892 
bought out the store contiguous and opened a "department store," — 
we believe the first in that city. He never did a larger or more lu- 
crative business than he was doing at the time of his death, — 
wherein the city lost one of her ablest and most enterprising business 
men, a man whose business growth was phenomenal and who was 
naturally adapted to control large interests. 

Mr. Perley's religious sentiments and business principles were 
one and inseparable. He saw the ever present deity in the growth 
of the oak and the blade of grass ; he saw a community of interests 
in the various forms of vegetation drawing their nourishment from 
the same soil ; in the grand exchange of vital elements in the vege- 
table and animal economy was ideal human barter; the deity in 
human heart-throbs commended to him alike the proletaire and 
millionaire. 

Mr. Perley's religious belief has been greatly misunderstood. 
While working in Boston he worshiped with Dr. Fulton's people, 
and imbibed a deep and lasting religious sentiment; but the doc- 
tor's Baptist creed was not adapted to his ideas of a universal deity, 
and he vibrated to the other extreme, or rather, to the creed he 
added reason to nature. In after years he joined the Unitarian 
church. He read the best thoughts of modern philosophic thinkers. 
No man devoted to a large business, it is thought, has given a more 
reverential study to ethical and vital religion than he gave. All his 
leisure, and more, he employed in serious investigation and medita- 
tion. He employed his pen in prose, and not a little in verse, among 
his friends and relatives, in discussion and commendation of his re- 
ligious tenets. His own words, in the poem "Real Wealth," written 
6 Aug., 1902, and read at his funeral, will set him right, and show 
what made the man and his business. 

Not the most goods, but the most good, Treasures of gold and precious stones, 
Makes life the happiest and best, At the cost of integrity, 

High ideals and good works should Become the poorest of our loans 
Be the standard of life's test. To the great world's society. 

Let honor and manhood and truth It's lofty thought, though means be poor; 

Be the principles to engage; It's purest life and kindest heart. 

The guards and the shields of our youth. And things like these that must endure, 

The benedictions of our age. If lives may play their noblest part. 



Now I lay me down to sleep, 
I trust the Lord his vigils keep, 
For I know his loving care 
Keeps me in sleep as everywhere. 

Mr. Perley was a member of the order of Masons. In social life 
he was good company. He was complaisant, well-read, affable, 
witty. He was well and favorably known among the best citizens. 
He enjoyed a large circle of acquaintance, and cemented to himself 
many enduring friendships. He admired nobility of character — a 
noble mind, easy manners, and correct method. The wasteful man 
had noplace in his economy; the unfortunate incited his pity and 
generosity. His home, his mother, now in her eighty-seventh year,his 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 343 

sister and brother were all the world to him, and among them he 
wisely distributed his large estate. He had no children. 

The funeral was at the home of his sister, and was largely at- 
tended by relatives, friends and business men. Beautiful floral 
pieces attested their love and esteem. The wholesale houses of 
Providence, R. I., Boston and Lawrence were represented by dele- 
gates, and also the Lawrence Board of Trade. His clerks attended 
in a body. The Arlington Quartet of Haverhill sang in sweet har- 
mony with the occasion. The body was cremated, and interment 
made in the family lot at Ipswich. His business passed into the 
hands of the M. P. Perley Company. 

3 Winfield A.^ was born ti June, 1850. He married in January, 
1888, in Lowell, Octavia Henry, who was borr to Charles Henry, 
merchant in fish, of Portland, Me. They settled in Lowell where 
he was a successful merchant in dry goods for several years. Upon 
the death of his brother, in 1903, he became a member of the firm 
and^ store manager of the M. P. Perley Company, Lawrence, and 
there removed his home. 

4 L. Nellie^ was born 3 Jan., 1859, and 23 Nov., 1884, married in 
Hampstead, N. H., George Freeman Carlton, who was born in Lower 
Bartlett, N. H., 28 Jan., 1863, to Freeman, a farmer, and Victoria 
Crooker-Holmes Carlton of Haverhill. He is a shoe manufacturer, 
with office in Boston and factory and home in Haverhill. He is also 
a member of the M. P. Perley Company of Lawrence. They have 
two children: Perley Alwyn, born 28 Aug., 1885, and Annie Maud, 
born 27 Oct., 1889. Perley was educated in New London Academy 
and is a clerk for the M. P. Perley Company of Lawrence. 



SIXTH GENERATION. 



FAMILY 205: MERRIAM. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOHN-2, THOMAS-S, AMOS-20, NATHANIEL-46, AMOS-95. 

HANNAH PERLEY was born 27 Dec, 1791, published 26 
Nov., 1814, married 1 June, 1815, Frederic Jonas Merriam, born in 
Topsfield 8 Dec, 1788, to Dr. John and Hannah-Jones Merriam. 
His home was in Topsfield, late the residence of Deacon Samuel 
Todd. Hannah was the mother of five of his children. She died 23 
Oct., 1830; he 25 March, 1843. 

Mr. Merriam was a butcher and cattle broker and did an exten- 
sive business. He made frequent trading expeditions into New 
Hampshire, and on one of them he became acquainted with his sec- 
ond wife. Shortly after his death his slaughter house was destroyed 
by fire. 

[His second wife, published 9 Oct., 1831, was Martha Eastman, 
born 27 April, 1805, to Thomas and Hannah Eastman of Sanborn- 
ton, N. H. They had one child, Nathaniel Perley, who was born 20 
April, 1834, was general merchant in Dan vers, where he died 17 



344 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

Nov., 1888, and married 5 April, 1855, Sarah F. Sidmore, born in 
Beverly 16 March, 1S88, to Mary and Stephen Felton Sidmore, a 
mariner. After Mr. Merriam's death his widow married 14 May, 
1849, Gen. Solomon Lowe, whose further notice may be found in 
Perley's History of Boxford. She died in Boxford 24 July, 1855.] 

1 Perley-Merriam children: Henry Augustus'-, John'\ John^, 
Frederic Perley^ Charles Greenleaf'. 

2 Henry A.' was born 26 July, 1816, and falling down an elevator 
well, about 1850, was instantly killed. JohnSvas born 29 Feb., 1820, 
and died 26 July, 1822. Cliarles G.^ was born 24 July, 1829, and 
died in San Francisco, about 1850. 

3 John^ was born 27 Dec, 1822. He married in Syracuse, N. Y., 
21 Aug., 1855, Sabra Anna Allen, born in Lebanon, N. H., 2 March, 
1826, to Isaac and Sophronia-Allen Allen. Mr. Merriam was a mer- 
chant for many years and later a broker. His wife died in Cleveland, 
Ohio, 30 Oct., 1890; and he 25 Dec, 1896. Merriam issue: Carl 
Proctor'^; Cora Alices 

4 Frederic P.^ was born 17 June, 1825, married 15 May, 1852, 
Hannah L Towne, born in Topsfield 30 Dec, 1823, to Joseph and 
Hannan-Perkins Towne. Mr. Merriam was the station agent for 
the Boston & Maine Railroad Company in Topsfield for a good 
many years. He died 24 Nov., 1896; she 9 Oct., 1902. Their only 
issue, Henry Greenleaf, born 16 Nov., 1855. 

5 Carl Proctor^, born in Syracuse, N. Y., 29 Nov., 1859, married 
in Emporia, Kan., 7 June, 1893, Frances Carrie McLain, born in 
Tiffin, Ohio, 26 Nov., 1862, to John, a clergyman, and Sarah-Reed 
McLain. Mr. Merriam is a commercial traveler. Their home is 
Toledo, Ohio, where their children were born. Merriam children: 
Martha McLain, born 11 Jan., 1895; Marjorie Allen, born 10 Nov., 
1899. 

6 Cora Alice^ born in Honeoye Falls, N. Y., 22 Feb., 1869, mar- 
ried in Cleveland, Ohio, 24 Nov., 1892, George Henry Beaumont, 
dealer in iron ore, born in Cleveland 16 June, 1865, to William H., 
a physician, and Cornelia Pease-Erwin Beaumont, and has children 
born in Cleveland: Sabra Merriam, born 6 March, 1897, and Cor- 
nelia Merriam, born 7 June, 1898. 



FAMILY 206: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOnN-2, THOMAS-S, AMOS-'20, NATHANIEL-46, AMOS-95. 

CHARLES PERLEY was born 19 Nov., 1793 or 1794, in the 

old house (page 171), that stood on the site of the residence of the 
late Humphrey Perley-197. About the time of his marriage he 
built a new house next south, in which he lived and cultivated the 
parental farm, renting the old house to various tenants. After Mr. 
Perley the new house became the property and home of Capt. John 
Peabody. 

Mr. Perley was published 3 May, 1829, and 25 Feb., 1830, mar- 
ried Esther Andrews Gould, born 30 Dec, 1804, to Nathaniel and 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



845 



Betsey-Andrews Gould of Topsfield. He died 30 Oct., 1837; she 8 
Feb., 1838. 

1 Perley children: Thomas Wood-383, Ellen Maria^, and a child 
that died in infancy, 13 July, 1835. 

2 Ellen Maria\ born in Boxford, Mass., 22 July, 1836, was mar- 
ried in Danvers, by Rev. Anson McLoud of Topsfield, 16 Aug., 
1860, to Ezra Warren Eaton, grocer, born in North Reading, Mass., 




THK CAl'T. JOHN I'EABODY HOUSE. 



10 March, 1835, to Moses, a farmer, and Hannah-Emerson Eaton. 
He died 7 June, 1893, in Danvers, where his widow resides. Issue: 
Harvey Waters, born 31 May, 1861, is a clerk; William Perley, born 
13 March, 1874, died 10 Jan., 1875. 



FAMILY 207: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOIiN-2, TIIOMAS-8, AMOS-20, NATHANIEL-4f., AMOS-95. 

NATHANIEL PERLEY was born in Boxford 16 April, 1800. 
The house is pictured on page 171. At his majority he engaged as 
a clerk with Jonas Warren, general merchant, Danvers. About 
1830 he removed to Topsfield, where himself, his brother Frederick 
and a Mr. Currier became merchants in general merchandise. At 
length he built the present grocery of Joseph Bailey Poor, many years 
occupied by Benjamin Perley Adams-98, where he and Frederick 
continued the business. He represented his town in the State 
Legislature in 1838. Subsequently he removed to Danvers. He 
was a captain, then colonel, then major, and finally in 1840, brigadier 
general in the State Militia. The Boston Directory says that Na- 
thaniel Perley was in the drv goods trade at 227 and 293 Washington 
street in 1835, and at 227 in 1836. 

Mr. Perley married 23 June, 1840, Elizabeth Waite, who was 
born 15 March, 1815, to William and Elizabeth- Wildes Waite-389 of 
Topsfield, who were married 24 Dec, 1809. He died 21 Nov., 1842, 
in Boston. His widow returned to Topsfield and made her home 
with her brother William, where she died 15 Oct., 1897, aged eighty- 
two years, seven months. 



346 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Mrs. Perley observed the seventy-seventh anniversary of her 
birth very pleasantly with a large number of relatives and friends. 

The Topsfield Townsman said about her eightieth anniversary: 
"She is one of our best known citizens and one whom her neighbors 
delight to honor. She carries her four score years with a most 
charming grace, and she is as sprightly as many very much younger. 
Many beautiful floral tributes came with relatives and friends from 
Boston, Lynn and other cities, and from neighbors and friends in 
town. A dainty lunch was served. The occasion was a refreshing 
and cheering oasis in her long life." 

1 Their only child, Ruth Proctor, was born 28 Sept., 1840. She 
graduated at Topsfield Academy, under the celebrated principal. 
Rev. Joseph Warren Healy, D. D. She resided with her mother 
till the latter's death, and now unmarried occupies the old home in 
Topsfield. 



FAMILY 208: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOHN-2, THOMAS-8, AMOS-20, NATHANIEL-46, AMOS-95. 

FREDERICK PERLEY was born in Boxford 1 July, 1802. He 
was with his brother Nathaniel at Topsfield. Between 1838 and 
1840, he was a shoe manufacturer of Peabody, but being unsuccess- 
ful he removed to Danvers, and became a general trader. 

Mr. Perley advertised in the Salem Gazette 18 March, 1839, to 
sell "his dwelling house, store, two stables, and other out Ijuildings 
convenient for a store or tavern, situated in Topsfield on the post 
road — one of the best stands for business to be found in any coun- 
try town in this State"; also a large two-storyhouse convenient for four 
families, a house lot opposite, a house in Boxford near the South 
meeting house, all not ten years old. — Also 53 acres of woodland and 
peat meadow in Bradford, a farm with buildings in Boxford — 75 
acres, 20 acres of salt marsh in Rowley, 10 shares in Village Bank, 
Danvers, a baggage wagon suitable for four or six horses, etc. 

By the Boston Directories for 1866 and 1867, he conducted a shoe 
business in that city. Perhaps, however, he had there a sales offlce, 
where by sample he sold at wholesale the products of his shoe fac- 
tory at Danvers. 

Mr. Perley was much interested in the Perley name, and gave 
time and influence and work towards making the first Perley con- 
vention a success. 

Mr. Perley was married by Rev. Milton P. Braman 4 Dec, 1826, 
to Almira Putnam Batchelder, who was born 5 or 6 Oct., 1802, to 
Andrew and Ruth-Putnam Batchelder of Danvers. She was a de- 
scendant of Gov. Endicott, as follows, the figures referring to gen- 
erations : 

1 Gov. John Endicott, born In Dorchester, married, second. Elizabeth Winthrop, dauphtor 
Eng., 15S8; died 15 March. 1G65; married, first, of Gov., and widow of Rev. Antipas Newman; 
Anna Gouer, who died 102',l; married, second, married, first, 1654, Mary, who died Hi77. leav- 
17 Aug., 16.30, Elizabeth Gibson, who had Ing five daughters and five sons, of wliom was 
John, who died sine prole, and ^ Samuel Endicott, who lived on the Or- 

2 Zarubbabell Endicott, born 1632; died 1684; chard farm; born 1659; died 1694, baptised, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



347 



G Susannah Ilprrick, born 30 June, 1750; died 
lfS25; iiiaiiii'il Sleplicn Putnam, born 1742 (a 
son of Stci'bcn and .Miriam I'utnam — Stephen, a 
grandson of iJenjaniin Putnam, who was born 
l(iG4, and settled on the northeast side of 
Putnam Hill, Danvers; Miriam, who died aged 
ninety-two years, a daughter of John Putnam 
and mother of ten children), settled on the 
south part of the homestead, and had four 
sons and four daughters, of whom was 

7 Ruth Putnam, born 1770; died 2 Dec., 1805; 
married Andrew Batchclder, and left Almira, 
born 5 Oct., 1S02, and John, born26Nov., ISOIS. 



Salem First Church, 19 Sept., 1C66; married 
Hannah Felton, who had two sons and two 
daughters, of whom was 

4 Ruth Eudieott, born 16S9, married 17 July, 
1710, Martyu Hernck, baptised 26 Jan., 1679-80, 
twin son of Joseph, Esq., of Cherry Hill, 
Salem, and grandson of Henry, the founder of 
the Herrick family. Martyn settled in Lynn- 
fleld, died 1739, leaving two daughters and two 
sons, of whom was 

5 Samuel Herrick, Esq., of Reading; died 
1792, aged seventy-nine years; married, first, 
1742, Elizalietii Jones of Wilmington, wlio died 
17.19, having had four sons and live daughters, 
of whom wa3 

She died 4 Feb., 1875. He was only four hours sick, and died 13 
Jan., 1879. Their children were born in Topsfield, except the last 
two in Peabody. 

1 Perley children : Almira Putnam-.S84, Susan Maria^, P>ederic 
Wallace'-, Greenleaf Proctor-385, Edwin Sanborn^, Susan Marinda^ 
and Sarah Maria", Susan Ellen*, Caroline Augusta"*, Maria Adelia^ 

2 Susan M.^ was born 30 Aug., 1829, and died 29 Feb., 1832. 
Fred W.^ was born 30 March, 1831, and died in Danvers 25 Jan., 
1850. Edwin S.^ was born 11 July, 1834, and died in Topsfield 18 
March, 1835. Susan M.^ and Sarah M.^ were born 29 Nov., 1835, 
and died 9 Oct., 1837, and 11 March, 183G. 

3 Susan E.* was born 14 Nov., 1837; she was among the first 
graduates of the Holten High School to receive the Peabody medal ; 
she married in Danvers 14 Oct., 1863, Rev. Charles Henry Learoyd, 
born in Danvers 7 June, 1834, 
to John Andrew, a currier, and 
Sarah-Sylvester Learoyd. He 
is an Episcopal clergyman. He 
fitted for college at Williston 
Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., 
and 1858 graduated at Harvard 
College. He tutored a year in 
the West; graduated at Ando- 
ver Theological Seminary, 1862; 
was ordained deacon in the 
Protestant Episcopal Church in 
1862, and priest in 1863. He 
was rector of Grace Church, 
Medford, nine years, till 1872; 
rector of St. Thomas' Church, 
Taunton, twenty-three years, 
till 1895; rector of Emmanuel 
Church, Wakefield, nine years, 
till his resignation on account 
of ill-health, 5 May, 1905. Mr. 
Learoyd was for several years, 
dean of the Southern Convoca- 
tion of the diocese of Massachu- 
setts; was secretary of the 
Board of Missions of the same diocese for about ten years; and has 
been treasurer of the same diocese since 1874. He now resides in 
Wakefield. They had issue : John, born 13 and died 18 July, 1867, 
in Medford; Manton, born in Medford 4 June, 1871, where he died 




REV. CHARLES HENRY LEAROYD. 



348 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

4 Feb., 1872; Arthur Sowdon-; Grace"; Charles Henry, born 30 
April, 1878, resides in Wakefield. 

4 Caroline A.' was born Wednesday, 22 Sept., 1841, in South 
Dan vers, now Peabody. She married, Rev. Charles H. Learoyd of- 
ficiating, in Taunton, Mass., Dr. James Edward DeWolf of Welmont, 
N. S., who was born 19 June, 1842, to Ebenezer and Maria-Lovett 
DeWolf. Dr. DeWolf entered Harvard College in 1862. In 1864, 
he was chosen as one of the three from his class to serve as a sur- 
geon in the Union Army. After the war he returned to Harvard 
and graduated in his chosen profession of physician and surgeon, in 
1866. For twenty-five years he practised medicine in Englewood, 
Chicago, and was also for eighteen years surgeon for the Pittsburg 
and Pennsylvania Railroad. He retired from his profession in 1897, 
on account of illness, making a home in Baraboo, Wis., where he 
died Monday, 5 Jan., 1903. His widow resides in Glen Ellyn, 111. 
Their children : Frederic, born 28 July, and died 21 Aug.. 1876; 
Susan Perley, born 10 Feb., 1879, died 7 April, 1880. 

5 Maria A.^ was born 19 Nov., 1843, and married in Dan vers, 
26 Nov., 1868, Charles Mason Buffum, born in Salem 17 Jan., 1841, 
to Caleb, a grocer, and Mary Eliza-Barr Buffum. Mr. Buffum was 
for many years a merchant in hardware in Salem, where he died 20 
May, 188.5. Child: Laura Peirce, born 2.5 May, 1873, is (1904) a 
teacher in the Pickering School, Salem, and resides with her mother. 

6 Arthur S.^ was born in Taunton, Mass., 14 Aug., 1873. He 
married 10 Jan., 1897, in Jersey City, N. J., Carolyn Belle Williams, 
born in Ripon, Wis., 17 May, 1873, to Henry Newton, a general fire 
insurance broker, and Fanny Ailmatrien- Murray Newton. Mr. 
Learoyd graduated from Harvard College in 1895. The same year 
he entered railroad service and is now division freight agent of the 
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad at Easton, Penn. 

7 Grace'\ born in Taunton 13 Dec, 1874, married in Wakefield 
14 Nov., 1900, Samuel Hammond, born in Nahant, Mass., 28 July, 
1859, to Samuel and Mary Crowninshield- Warren Hammond. Mr. 
Hammond is a graduate of Harvard, 1881. He is president of the 
New England Kennel Club, Braintree, Mass., and is secretary of the 
Somerset Club, Boston. He served as ensign in the U. S. Navy in 
the late Spanish-American War. Their home is Boston. Ham- 
mond issue: Samuel, born in Nahant 29 Aug., 1901; Mason, born 
in Boston 14 Feb., 1903. 



FAMILY 209: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOHX-2, THOMAS-S, AMOS-20, NATHANIEL-46, AMOS-95. 

AMOS PROCTOR PERLEY was born in Boxford 15 Jan., 
1807. He was with his brothers in Topsfield as clerk, and when the 
style of the firm changed he went with Mr. Currier to Danvers and 
entered upon the grocery business. His son Charles N. (page 184) 
occupies the same premises now. He died 17 Aug., 1881. 

Mr. Perley married 12 Oct., 1847, in Windham, N. H., Rev. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 349 

Loring Thayer ofificiating, Mrs. Sarah F. Martin, born 12 Feb., 1812, 
to Andrew and Sarah-Felton Batchelder of Dan vers. [She married 
17 Sept., 1838, Lucius D. Martin, born in Stanstead, P. O., and died 
24 Sept., 1839. Their child, Annie, married Henry C. Hewett, mer- 
chant in clothing and gents' furnishings in Portsmouth, N. H., who 
died there Oct., 1904, leaving a daughter, a graduate of Wellesley, 
and a son.] Mrs. Perley observed her seventy-ninth birthday, and 
"was called upon by many friends who wished her many returns of 
the day. She was enjoying excellent health and was very smart for 
one of her age." She died, after several months of enfeebled health, 
8 Feb., 1900, aged eighty-seven years, eleven months and twenty- 
live days, leaving one sister, Mrs. Ira P. Pope, the last of her family. 

1 Perley children : Emma", Henry-, Charles Nathaniel-386. 

2 Emma' was born 22 July and died 13 Sept., 1848. Henry^, 
born 13 and died 17 July, 1849. 



FAMILY 210: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JolIX-2, TIIOMAS-8, AMOS-20, NATHANIEL-46, JESSE-96. 

FRANCIS PERLEY was born in Boxford 19 Oct., 1792, in the 
first house on the road leading from the railroad depot to Topsfield, 
now owned by Henry Janes. He and his brother Jesse succeeded 
their father upon the farm, and worked it together. 

Mr. Perley married 18 May, 1815, Louisa Gould, who was born to 
Nathaniel and Hannah-Killam Gould of Topsfield 25 June, 1790. 
Mr. Perley died 15 Sept., 1836; his widow survived till 9 Dec, 1843. 

1 Perley children : Osgood-387, Louisa-388, Charlotte-389, twins^ 
Caroline Augusta^ John Franklin-390, Nathaniel-391, Dean Andrews- 
392. 

2 The twins' were born 11 May, 1819, and died the same year. 

3 Caroline A.' was born 21 Sept., 1822, and 7 April, 1844, be- 
came the second wife of Burleigh Orne of Topsfield, where they 
made their home. He was born in Wolfboro, N. H., where he died 
1850 or 1852. He was a seafaring man and went on whaling voy- 
ages. She died in Dan vers at the home of her brother Dean, 18 June, 
1870. They had a son that died in infancy and Cecilia, born 15 
Sept., 1845, who was published 2 June, 1866, at the age of twenty, 
to John F. Averill, a shoemaker, aged twenty-three, born in Tops- 
field to Cyrus and Louisa-Dickinson Averill. [Mr. Orne had a 
brother Benj. Crosby Orne, who married about 1830 Lois Moore, 
and had in Topsfield Benj. Albert, Lois Eliza, Mary Hazen.] 



FAMILY 211: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOIIX-2, TIIOMAS-8, AMOS-20, NATHANIEL-46, JESSE-96. 

JESSE PERLEY was born in Boxford on the Henry Janes 
place 29 Oct., 1795. He and his brother Francis carried on the 
parental farm. He married 18 June, 1824, Sally Gould, who was 
born 26 May, 1800, to Simon and Sally-White Gould of Topsfield. 



350 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

She was a lineal descendant of Peregrine White of the Pilgrims, and 
had a silver spoon that was once Peregrine's, which being broken 
she sold to the silversmith with other silver. 

Mr. Perley died 19 Nov., 1851. His widow thereafter built a 
home in Boxford on the road between Boxford and Topsfield, later 
the residence of Ancill Dorman, Esq., and now in the possession of 
Daniel Webster Con ant, where she died 29 Dec, 1857. 

1 Perley children : Elizabeth White", Sarah Jane^ Edward Pay- 
son-393. 

2 Elizabeth W.^ was born 8 Sept., 1825, and 4 July, 18(J4, mar- 
ried George Woods, who was born in Hollis, N. H., to Ephraim and 
Eunice- Wright Woods, 30 July, 1821. He was a furniture dealer in 
Springfield. Mrs. Woods advertised herself as an " independent 
clairvoyant." She has been an invalid for years. In May, 1876, she 
was relieved of ^ water snake, since which time several have been 
taken from her. Her case was very peculiar. They had no issue. 
In 1877 he had retired from trade. They died in Springfield — he of 
apoplexy 27 July, 1898; she of pleuro-pneumonia 8 March, 1905. 

3 Sarah Jane^ was born 9 Sept., 1829, and married 11 March, 
1855, George Washington Adams-98^ He was born 29 Jan., 1816, 
and became a farmer in South Georgetown. Child: Charles Piper, 
born 8 Nov., 1859. The Georgetown Advocate thus chronicled Mr. 
Adams' decease: 

"We have this week to record the death of a member of one of 
our first and oldest families and the last of his generation, George 
Washington Adams. He unlike some of his brothers was attached 
to the quiet home. He never aspired for ofifice, although eminently 
q ualified for any within the gift of his town. He was an old-fash- 
ioned, courtly gentleman, one of the most polite men we ever knew. 
His bow, his salutations, and his replies were the most courteous. 
He never indulged in profane or coarse language; his most- em- 
phatic oath was 'by Judas.' We saw him upon the square this fall, 
carrying a long cane such as was used two generations ago, and 
grasped six inches below the top. We recalled the gentleman of an 
earlier generation. His urbanity of manners was carried into all his 
intercourse with his fellow-citizens. His language and his manners 
were courtly and refined. 

"Mr, Adams has been in feeble health for several years, and he 
retired from activities of business twenty years ago. He began to 
fail rapidly about the first of December, but kept about the house 
until the day but one before his death. He was happy in the as- 
sistance of his estimable wife and only son, Mr. Charles Piper 
Adams of Cambridge, who made frequent visits, and was with him 
when his life went out. At the funeral his old friend. Rev. O. S. 
Butler, spoke eloquent words in eulogy of his many virtues." 



FAMILY 212: GOULD. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, J()IIN-2, TIIOMAS-8, AMOS-20, NATHANIEL-46, JESSE-96. 

IRENE PERLEY was born 29 Jan., 180L She was published 
26 Aug., and married 9 Oct., 1822, Francis Gould, who was born in 
Topsfield 5 Sept., 1798, to Nathaniel and Betty-Andrews Gould. 
Mr. Gould, after the death of his wife 28 July, 1837, married 30 
June, 1840, Mrs. Catherine B. -Parker Gould, widow of Joseph and 
daughter of Edmund Parker. She died 12 Nov., 1848. Mr. Gould 
married, third, Eliza Almira Dudley, widow of Cyrus. 

Mr. Gould began life in Topsfield, but after a few years removed 
to his wife's father's. After her death he returned to Topsfield. He 
had no issue by his second wife, but by his third he had Thomas, 
Esther, and another son. He died 13 Oct., 1870. 

1 Perley-Gould children: Nathaniel Frankhn^ Irene"*, Catherine^ 
Jesse Perley", Catherine A."^ 

2 Catherine\ born 19 Feb., 1826, died 10 Jan., 1833. Jesse P.^ 
born 17 Aug., 1833, died unmarried 28 Aug., 1857. Catherme A.^ 
born 28 May, died 18 Sept., 1837. ' 

3 Nathaniel F.^ was born 14 June, 1824, and married 23 Sept., 
1847, Irene C. Kent. He lived in Danvers, where he died 10 April, 
1857. 

4 Irene\ born 7 March, 1823, married 12 June, 1850, Allen 
Gould Hood of Boxford, born 12 April, 1816. They lived in George- 
town, where he died 21 April, 1878. Issue: Mary Catherine Pin- 
gree, born 9 July, 1851, died 25 Feb., 1864; Irene Belsova Allen, 
born 3 Sept., 1869. 



FAMILY 213: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOIIN-2, TUOMAS-8,AMOS-20,NATHANIEL-46,NATHANIEL-97 

RICHARD PERLEY was born 24 May, 1809, and died in 
Waterville, Me. He married Hannah Parker. 

1 Perley children : Nathaniel-394, Frank^, Richard"^, Henry Par- 
ker', Carrie'", Mary-. 

2 Frank^ "died when a little boy"; Richard* was killed in the 
Civil War; Carrie* died in 1861 or 2; Mary* died in Waterville at the 
age of seventeen or eighteen years. 

3 Henry P.* was born 6 July, 1842. He began his life work in the 
Portland & Knox railroad shops in Augusta, Me., as engine fireman. 
He wrote 21 April, 1902, to a friend: "I have run an engine con- 
stantly since 1867. I retired on the first day of March, 1902, and 
will live a retired life. I have selected this small town [of Salis- 
bury, Mo.] as my home." His first wife died in April, 1882, the 
mother of all his children. He married his second wife in Sept., 



352 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

1884. He had six children, four sons and two daughters — two engi- 
neers, two farmers, one the wife of a physician, and one the wife of 
a farmer. The physician's wife is Frances, and has four children, 
with home in Albion, Idaho. His children are living in Missouri, 
Kansas, Texas, Idaho, California. His letter further states: "My 
wife brought up my children and they love her very much ; the two 
youngest know no other mother,* and love her as their own. I will 
say to you she is highly educated, genteel and refined." 



FAMILY 214: DODGE. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOIIN-2, TIIOMAS-8, AMOS-20, NATHANIEL-46, 
ARTEMAS WARD-99. 

JULIA ANN PERLEY was born 24 July, 1804, and married 
25 Aug., 1829, Adoniram Judson Dodge of Wenham, Mass., son of 
Jacob and (Mary.?)-Corning Dodge. He was born 1 March, 1808; 
he resided in his native town till 1847, when he removed to Hamil- 
ton for one year. In the fall of 1848 he removed to Francestown, 
N. H., where he made his home and became a prosperous farmer. 
His wife died in Wenham 17 March, 1838. She was the mother of 
four of his children. 

[Mr. Dodge's second wife, married 28 June, 1841, was Lucinda 
Bixby, born in Francestown 6 Sept., 1820, to Daniel and Sarah- 
Town Bixby of Boxford. Their children: Albert, born 27 Nov., 
1842; Isabella, born 30 Nov., 1847, died 4 Sept., 1848, in Hamilton; 
Julia Ann, born 1(5 June, 1850, was a school teacher in New Boston, 
N. H., 1879; Clara Frances, born 27 May, 1853; Ella Maria, born 
30 Aug., 1856.] 

Mr. Dodge died 11 March, 1889. 

1 Perley-Dodge children : Ellen Maria"^, Judson Ward-367, Hor- 
ace Seaver'^, Addison Seaver^ 

2 Ellen M.^ was born 21 Aug. and died 5 Sept., 1830. Horace 
S.' was born in 183(5 and died 6 Aug., 1837. 

3 Addison S.^ was born 5 June, 1837. He enlisted in the service 
against the Rebellion, upon President Lincoln's call for troops in 
1861. He was in the skirmish at Port Royal, and was soon after 
taken down with fever. He died in the hospital at Morris Island, 
S. C, 1 Oct., 1863, a member of regiment No. 4, N. H. Volunteer 
Militia. 



FAMILY 215: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOHN-2, THOMAS-8, AMOS-20, NATHANIEL-46, 
ARTEMAS WARD-99. 

HASKELL PERLEY was born upon the present T. P. Killam 
place in Boxford 30 May, 1806. Before marriage he engaged as 
farm-hand, by the season, with parties in his own or adjoining towns. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 353 

After marriage he settled as a farmer in Georgetown, and also did a 
business of general team-jobbing. 

Mr. Perley was many years a deacon of the Memorial Church, 
and his life was exemplary. " He was greatly interested in the Per- 
ley Family. About thirty years since, he spent considerable time 
and money in gathering genealogical items. From the time the 
first Convention of the Family was held he was the leader of the 
executive committee of the Convention and not only conceived va- 
rious plans, but interestedly assisted in carrying them out. Of the 
committee chosen by the Convention of 1877 to see that a proper 
history and genealogy of the Family was published he was chair- 
man. He was president of the day of the Convention of 1880." 

Mr. Perley's first marriage was 28 Nov., 1833, with Abigail Nel- 
son, who was born 27 Sept., 1811, to Lt, Jonathan and Hannah- 
March Nelson, where her brother Sylvanus Nelson resided, 1880, in 
Georgetown. She had two children. She died 4 Oct., 1850, Mr, 
Perley's second wife, married 13 Jan., 1853, was Almira A. Putnam, 
born 3 April, 1823, to Samuel and Polly-Herrick Putnam of Dan- 
vers. She had three children. She died 21 Jan., 1875. Deacon Per- 
ley died 24 Oct., 1882. They repose in the family lot. Harmony 
Cemetery. His second wife's epitaph reads : 

Our separation is temporal 
Our reunion everlasting. 

1 Perley children : Susan Maria-, Sylvanus Ward^, Eleanor Put- 
nam^, Mary Herrick'\ Julia Ann^ 

2 Susan M.^ was born in Georgetown, Mass., 9 April, 1835, and 
16 July, 1856, married Charles Perley Low-157-, who was born 15 
March, 1830, in Georgetown. He was a boot maker. They removed 
to Chicago. He becoming unable to work they returned to their 
nativity. He was the caterer of the Perley Family Convention of 
1880. He died in Worcester, Mass., 27 Oct., 1884. His widow re- 
sides in Salem, Mass. Their child : Grace HaskelP. 

3 Sylvanus W.^ was born 9 March and died 7 Oct., 1840. Mary 
H.^ was born 2 July, 1858. She spent a year in travel in Great 
Britain. She is now in stationery business in Newton Center, 
Mass. Julia A.^ was born 22 Dec, 1861, graduated at the high 
school, and is now a clerk in the Capitol and resides in Boston. The 
local newspaper reads : 

"Miss Julia Perley has a very interesting relic of ye olden time in 
an old account book begun by her great-grandfather, Nathaniel Per- 
ley, about 1750, and continued down to about 1836 by his son A.rte- 
mas Ward Perley. The elder was a cooper, butcher, tanner, trader 
and farmer. He was also a maltster, as he sold malt all through his 
life. At one time he was a manufacturer of potash, and it was prob- 
ably a failure, for he makes a note of his outsets for ashes, lime, fur- 
nace, iron kettle, etc, but does not mention selling any goods, 
Messrs, Perley resided at Boxford and had dealings with a large 
number of people in that and neighboring towns. He was a splen- 
did writer and kept a good clean account of all his transactions. 
Some of the charges appear strange in these days, for instance 
'Sheepskin for breeches,' deerskin for the same. He had a large 



354 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

amount of 'syder' for sale and charged as high as £l 16 per bar- 
rel. He made barrels for beer, cider and pork, also kegs for the 
'mash'; he sells home-made shovel, rake, hoe and fork handles and 
scythe snaths. He made plows and repaired them when called 
upon. He charges 16 shillings for 'bottoming two chairs,' for 'fill- 
ing a snow shoe and one chair £l 01 0.' He charges for a pitch- 
fork which a neighbor lost ;(^1 00 02. He charges William Perley, 
Oct. 6th, ;^11 0.5 00 for a beaver hat. Besides a great many curious 
charges and prices which show the depreciation of the currency and 
the adoption of the decimal system of money, the old book contains 
a large number of autographs of the old settlers of this section, 
which were procured in the settlement of accounts with the people 
he did business with. The book is bound in hog skin parchment, 
and with the exception of a few entries in poor ink which faded out, 
is perfectly legible and very interesting." 

4 Eleanor P.' was born in Georgetown 21 April, 1854. She 
married in Georgetown 25 Dec, 1882, Newell Homer Tilton, a heel 
maker, who was born in Haverhill, Mass., 28 March, 1849, to Daniel, 
a shoemaker, and Susan D. -Sleeper Tilton. Their home is Salem 
Village, N. H. Tilton issue: John Haskell, born 28 Dec, 1883; 
Newton Perley, born 11 Aug., 1886; Roy Newell, born 13 Aug., 1890. 

5 Grace H.* was born in Georgetown 26 June, 1857. She mar- 
ried in Lowell, Mass., 24 June, 1903, Charles Warren Cole, born in 
Winterport, Me., 13 Oct., 1855, to Nehemiah Rich, a sea captain, 
and Abby Dyer-Paine Cole. Mr. Cole is a marine engineer. 



FAMILY 216: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, J()iIX-2. TIIOMAS-8, AMOS-20, NATHAXIEL-46, 
ARTE.MAS WARD-9!>. 

ARTEMAS WARD PERLEY was born in Boxford, Mass., 19 
July, 1808. Early in life he was a shoemaker. In 1841 he taught 
school in Lynn. He then went west, locating in Columbus. Later 
he located in Zanesville, O, where he established a flourishing book- 
store. He returned to Columbus in 1864, and "accepted a clerkship 
in the .state auditor's office from whence he entered the office of 
Gen. C. C. W^alcutt, revenue collector, as a United States ganger, 
where he had been for the past eight years." July 25, 1881, he was 
sent to Cleveland to perform the duties of a gauger who was sick. 
He expected to be absent only a few weeks. The night of 3d Aug. 
was fatal ; he died from over-heat and exhaustion. He was found 
the morning of the 4th with his head resting on his arm like a tired 
child and with a peaceful look upon his face. 

He was temperate almost to asceticism in his personal habits; 
his mental and moral powers were unimpaired, but his physical 
strength had been failing for the past year, and a violent cold which 
settled upon his lungs during the winter greatly weakened his deli- 
cate frame. 

His character was spotless — gentleness, purity, patience and 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 355 

love were the elements of his nature. He was almost idolized by 
his wife and children. Pleasure shared with him was doubled — 
grief faded away before his tender smile. Gentle and firm was his 
government of his children and their love for him was tinged with 
the deepest reverence. He was quiet, reserved and scholarly, and 
few outside of his immediate family know of the depth of love and 
charity he felt for his fellow-men. A poem frequently quoted by 
him commenced — 

Think gently of the erring 

Ye liUow riot of the power 
With which the dark temptation came, 

In some unguarded hour. 

Dr. Trimble delivered his funeral sermon. 

He married 12 Dec, 1850, Julia Ann Cox, who was born 20 May, 
1824, to Judge Horatio Jones and Ann-Chandler Cox of Zanesville. 
Judge Cox owned one of the most successful paper mills in the 
State and was engaged in coal banks and the dry goods trade. Four 
of their children were born in Zanesville, the last in Columbus. 

1 Perley children: Annie Mary^ Horatio Putnam^, Nellie John- 
son'-, Ward Barton'^ James Harper Godman^ 

2 Annie^ was born 27 March, 1853, graduated at the high school 
and taught. She died 24 Nov.. 1882, in Columbus. Horatio^ was 
born 30 Jan., 1856, and died 8 Feb., 1862, in Zanesville. Nellie' 
was born 2 Oct., 1861, and died 22 Nov., 1885. 

3 Ward' was born 7 Dec, 1863, and 13 June, 1889, married Mary 
E, Dun. They have four children — "three sturdy boys to perpet- 
uate the name of Perley." He partnershiped with (perhaps his 
brother-in-law) George W. Dun, as "The Dun-Perley Co.", fire-proof 
contractors and dealers in fire-clay goods, in Columbus, and they 
were eminently successful, till the monetary depression, hard times, 
and their failure, when Ward engaged with the Cherry Valley Iron 
Works, Letonia, as book-keeper and superintendent. He is now 
with the United States Steel Corporation in New York City. 

4 James H. G.' was born 23 Oct., 1869, in Columbus, Ohio. He 
is not married. He was educated in the public schools, and en- 
gaged in banking and mercantile business until 1898. He served as 
volunteer in the Spanish-American War, five months at Chicka- 
mauga, Ga., as captain and brigade quartermaster. Since then he 
has been a member of "The Haydenville Company," Haydenville, 
Ohio, manufacturers of fire-clay goods, and vice president of the 
company. 



FAMILY 217: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOHX-2. THOMAS-8, AMOS-20, NATHANIEL-46, 
ARTEMAS WARD-99. 

PUTNAM PERLEY was born 1 Oct., 1810. When he was six 
years old he went to live with his grandfather Putnam of Danvers. 
He remained till he was fifteen, when his grandfather and grand- 
mother both died, then hired out to Moses Putnam at six dollars 
per month. With the money thus obtained, he bought a full suit of 



356 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

clothes. He then worked during the winter for his uncle, Frederic 
Merriam, for his board, and went to school. He worked for his 
father the following summer, and the ensuing fall went to learn the 
blacksmith's trade of Ezra Lummus of Wenham. After two years 
of hard work he engaged as apprentice with Jabez Richards of the 
same place. There he continued till he was twenty-one and a half 
years old, working the last six months as journeyman. He then 
worked at his trade three years in Boxford, boarding with the Misses 
Holyoke in the famous Holyoke house. He built and sold to 
Leonard Perley the house which was later the property of Daniel 
W. Conant, a short distance east of the Holyoke house. There his 
health failed and he gave up his trade. 

Next he bought a stock of dry goods in West Boxford and be- 
came a merchant. A few months proved it an unsuccessful venture. 
He took a partner named Foster, and they went to Dover, N. H. 
They did business about six months and failed. Foster fostered 
Foster, but Perley lost all. 

Mr. Perley then returned to Boxford and spent the winter. 
Afterwards he left his wife and infant son with her mother, 
and with Elijah Gould started for Illinois, by way of New York, 
Philadelphia, Alleghany Mountains by portage railway, to Pitts- 
burg, then down the Ohio, up the Mississippi and the Illinois 
to Ottawa, traveling the last fourteen miles on foot, Peru being at 
that time the head of navigation. His cash capital was then $ll.'2b. 
The next day he began at his trade for John Green at Dayton, four 
miles from Ottawa, at $2 per day and board. He worked three 
weeks and then bought the lot, shop and tools, on one, two and three 
years' time. Green saw him making money, got in another black- 
smith, and owning the water power gave his influence to the new 
comer. 

Mr. Perley had no disposition to fight his rival supplemented with 
the great influence of his creditor and at the end of nine months 
sold back the lot and shop for what he was to give for lot, shop and 
tools. He then — Feb., 1838 — settled his business and counted his 
capital at $1000. He could then second his intention of buying a 
farm. 

He had heard favorably of the Pecatonica country, one hundred 
miles northwest, and meeting with Isaac Farewell, who had just lo- 
cated there with his family and had returned for a load of wheat, 
Mr. Perley concluded to see the wonderful land for himself. They 
traveled five days, through an almost uninhabited country, making 
their own roads, through snow eighteen inches deep, and nearly 
perished with cold, arrived at the Farewell home on the Pecatonica 
river. His house was eighteen by sixteen feet, without doors or win- 
dows. The floor was the splittings of logs, three or four inches thick 
and hewed on one side; the roof was made of "shakes." It was 
home : there was his family, a warm welcome and happiness. A big 
fire blazed on the hearth and the "carpets" hung guard against the 
cold winter at the door. The place was about half way, in a direct 
line, between Chicago and Galena. Two years before, the state 
laid out a road there — now called "the State Road" — and Frink & 
Walker established a line of stages. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 357 

His narrative continues: "It was a new country indeed. High 
rolling prairies, dotted with groves, while all the streams were 
skirted with timber. All was new, wild, strange. But in the spring, 
when the sun had warmed to life the trees, the grasses, the flowers, 
a more delightful land never gladdened the eye or the heart of man." 

Along the streams and in the groves were scattered log-cabins of 
white men and wigwams of Indians, but no one settled upon the 
prairie. Soon a "claim" that suited was found — 100 acres of timber 
and (JOO acres of prairie adjoining — and purchased for $325. It had 
two log-houses on it and three acres of the prairie had been broken. 
That was to be his future home; and there he was to locate his 
family. 

Chicago had then less than a thousand population. "The Lake 
House" was the only hotel. That stood near the old fort and on the 
north side of the river. It had only one warehouse, and that was on 
the north side also. 

Mr. Perley returned East for his family. He journeyed by stage 
to Chicago, by the lakes to Buffalo, by the Erie Canal to Albany, 
by stage to Pittsfield, Mass., where his wife and son were living with 
her mother. They visited a few months in Essex County and then 
started for their prairie home. The boy sickened and died en 
route and was buried in Chicago. When they had reached home 
and had made ready to begin the struggle for life, the last dollar had 
been spent. With a loving wife ready to do and dare and a trusting 
faith Godward to supplement his own strong arm he went to work. 
He exchanged his work at the forge for farmers' work with their 
teams. The privations were great. The family used wheat for cof- 
fee, sage for tea ; they had no sugar. It was eighty miles to mill 
and one hundred miles to market — Chicago. A market load of oats 
was thirty-five bushels and the price was only forty cents, and only 
the strictest economy would allow him to take home any return for 
his load. He took his scythe and cut grass at the roadside for his 
horses and slept under his wagon. The first time he went to 
Chicago to market, his expense was only ten cents. That he spent 
for lodging, having tied his horses in an alley. 

After four years things changed. They could buy coffee, tea and 
sugar, live in a framed house and enjoy the innocent, laughing prattle 
of children. For twelve bright, happy years they gathered flocks and 
herds and fields of grain and many voices swelled the general joy! 
when lo ! a cloud dark as Erebus shaded their home. The wife and 
mother, the light and joy and stay of all their hearts paled with 
sickness and death; and amid the wild flowers of the prairie that 
she so much loved, they laid her gently in repose, as bright, as 
lovely and as fair as they. 

Mr. Perley said he could fill a volume with the pathetic and 
ludicrous of pioneer life, his troubles with wolves and the nearness 
of savages, and the wonders and richness of western growth ; but 
after all it must be experienced to be fully understood. He expe- 
rienced the change from the log-cabin to the city. 

About the time of the government sale of land — about five years 
after his location there — he was elected by his fellow townsmen, to 
prepare a map of the township and to bid off the land. He was 



358 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

elected commissioner to lay off, appraise and sell the township 
school section — 640 acres. He was for many years a school trustee, 
having charge of the school funds, etc., and also a school director; 
he served two periods of four years each as justice of the peace, was 
town assessor, and one of the first councilmen of the city, and was 
honored with subsequent elections. He garnered some twenty 
thousand dollars. 

He was a member of the Congregational Church more than fifty 
years, was a Sunday school scholar from the age of seven years, was 
Sunday school superintendent about twenty-five years, was deacon 
ten or a dozen years and was always ready for any good word and 
work. How wonderful the vicissitudes of the lite of man. 

Deacon Perley's first wife — published 15 May, 18.36, was Sarah 
Peabody Dow, born in July, 1815, to J. Warren and Emily-Partridge 
Dow of Tyringham, Mass. She died in Pecatonica in Sept., 1848. 
His second wife was Hannah Kimball-Morrill, born 20 March, 1826, 
to Daniel, a cabinet-maker, and Lydia-Abbot Morrill of Meriden, 
N. H., married 23 Aug., 1849, at Rockford, 111. Mr. Perley died 19 
April, 1886. His widow resides (1905) in Pecatonica. 

1 Perley children : Warren Dow'-^, Josiah Dow-, Frederic Putnam^, 
Benjamin Dow^ Ella Emily^ Joseph Warren*, Charles Edwin'^, 
Flora E.'- and Lizzie'-, Lillie- and Georgie". 

2 Warren D.^ was born in Boxford 29 March, 1837, and died in 
Chicago in Sept., 1838. Josiah D.^ was born in Pecatonica 20 May, 
1839, and died in Aug., 1840. Charles E.^ was born 28 July and 
died m Sept., 1848. Flora E.^ was born 22 Jan., 1852, and died 2 
Oct., 1868. The last three^ — triplets — were born and died 23 Aug., 
1857, 

3 Fred P.^ was born in Ridott, 111., 29 Jan., 1841 ; was a member 
of the senior class in Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., 
1857-8, and is unmarried in Pecatonica. 

4 Benjamin D.^ was born in Ridott, 111., 5 Aug., 1842. He is a 
merchant and esquire of Pecatonica, 111. He married in Rockford, 
111., 2 Jan., 1882, Lettie J. Davis, an artist, who was born in Ver- 
montville, 111., in 1852. She died in Pecatonica 21 Feb., 1897. 
Perley children, born in Pecatonica: Putnam Davis"; Mildred, 3 
Jan., 1891, graduated from the grammar school (1905) with honors 
preparatory to entering the high school. She is a fine pianist. 

5 Ella E} was born 20 Nov., 1844, and died 7 Oct., 1888, of con- 
sumption in Battle Creek. She married 27 July, 1870, Linus A. 
Paddock, a merchant. Their children: Genevieve, bon;i 9 Sept., 
1871, married Edward Vandeburg of Battle Creek, residing in 
Chicago, and Annie, born and died in Pecatonica. 

6 Joseph W.^ was born in Ridott 29 June, 1847. He was adopted 
in infancy by his aunt, wife of Dr. Eli Hall, and his name was 
changed to Hall. "He is a fine man" and is among the wealthiest 
of Stockton, Cal., his home. He is at present superintendent of 
Stockton Water Company. He married in Oakland, Cal., 29 Jan., 
1879, Nellie Elizabeth Dooley, who was born in Bath, Me., 15 Aug., 
1860, to John, a shipbuilder, and Margaret-Kelly Dooley. Their 
children are Thomas Putnam, born in Folsom, Cal., 27 Oct., 1881; 
residing, unmarried, in Cordetia, Cal.; Edith Perley, born in Pasa- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 359 

dena, Cal., 26 March, 1885, residing in Stockton, unmarried; Grace 
Huntington, born in Placerville, Cal., 14 May, 1894. 

7 Putnam D.^ was born in Pecatonica 12 Dec, 1882. He grad- 
uated from Pecatonica High School (1902) and attended the Uni- 
versity of Illinois one year. He is a "model young man." He 
married in Durand, 111., 31 Aug., 1904, Myrtle Lucile Day, who was 
born there 9 April, 1884, to Judson, a farmer, and Marie P'.-Hoyt 
Day. Their home is Pecatonica. Mr. Perley is in business with 
his father. Perley child : Edwin Day, born in Pecatonica 29 July, 
1905. 



FAMILY 218: WHITE. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOHN-2. THOMAS-8, AMOS-liO, NATHANIELr46, 
ARTEMAS WARD-99. 

HARRIET AUGUSTA PERLEY was born 15 April, 1817, 
and married 5 Oct., 1848, Amos Alden White, son of Amos C. and 
Lydia-Porter White of Danvers, Rev. J. Taylor officiating. He was 
born in Wenham 26 March, 1823. Mrs. White died 19 Aug., 1874, 
and he married, second, Adriadne Jewell of Hampton, N. H., by 
whom he had one child, Herbert Jewell, born in Danvers 24 Sept., 
1877. They reside in Danvers, where he is a prominent citizen and 
business man. 

1 Perley- White children : Marion Augusta'-, Alden Perley^. 

2 Marion Augusta^ was born 23 June, 1852, and died at the age 
of thirteen years. 

3 Alden P.\ born in Danvers, Mass., 20 Oct., 1856, was gradu- 
ated at Amherst College among the first in his class. He received 
several prizes during his college course for essays, oratory, etc. He 
had the "Grove Oration" at his graduation, of which the Springfield 
Union thus commented: 

"The Grove orator, A. P. White of Danvers, showed that this 
oration could be exceedingly humorous without being silly, and full 
of jokes without going the traditional round of 'grinds.' Amid the 
chaff of nonsense lay a great many grains of sound sense and advice 
for which one is not apt to look to a grove oration. Witness the fol- 
lowing extract from his parting words to the class: *We have lived 
and moved in a little community of our own, but must soon be absorbed 
in the organic unity of mankind. As you go out with high ideals to 
be and to do, be not surprised that the world does not appreciate 
your importance. Nobody will stand aside to let you in, nor will 
they know the tin box under your arm from an abortive fruit can. 
Brains, not diplomas, are in demand.' " 

He is now a lawyer in Salem of the firm Perry & White. He 
was elected attorney for the Eastern District of Massachusetts, 1895. 

Mr. White married, first, in Danvers, Mass., 2 June, 1884. Mary 
Howe, who was born in Clinton, Iowa, 9 March, 1864, to Isaac B. 
and Hannah R.-Gould Howe. She died in Danvers 4 Aug., 1885. 
He married, second, in Springfield, Mass., 2 June, 1896, Jessie Car- 
ter, who was born there 31 May, 1865, to Horatio N. and Eliza 



380 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Abigail-Griswold Carter. They reside in Salem, Mass. White 
issue: Carter, born 9 Aug., 1898; Barbara, 3 Oct., 1899; Nancy 
Perley, 12 Nov., 1900. 



FAMILY 219: FOWLE. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOHN-2. THOMAS-8, AMOS-'iO, XATHANIEL-46. 
ARTEMAS WARD-99. 

EMELINE PERLEY was born 27 June, 1819, and married 25 
May, 1832 (.''), Samuel Fowle, son of Samuel and Rebecca-Perry 
Fowle of Danvers. He was born 20 Aug., 1815. Mrs. Fowle died 
15 May, 1850, aged thirty years. 

[He married, second, Lydia Ann Alden of Salem 2 Jan., 1853. 
She was born (i Oct., 1833. Issue by his second wife was: Addie 
Lee, born 4 Nov., 1853; Walter Scott, born 14 March, 1861; Freddie 
Allen, born 12 Jan., 1866.] 

1 Perley- P\iwle children : A son'-, Perley E."- 

2 A son' was born in June, 1841, and died aged two months. 
Perley E.' married Miss Carrie L. Tinney 15 Oct., 1878, in New- 
buryport, by Rev. Mr. Ross. 



FAMILY 220: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. JOHN-2, THOMAS-S, AMOS-'20, NATHANIEL-46, 
ARTEMAS \VARD-99. 

EDWIN FORREST PERLEY was born 25 May, 1821. He as- 
sumed his middle name in honor of the tragedian. He went to Dan- 
vers in 1840 and lived there till 1847, when he removed to Zanesville, 
Ohio, where he engaged in the book and stationery trade with his 
brother. While there he purchased a half interest in the Zanesville 
Aurora, and was associate editor about two years. He sold out and 
went to Illinois in 1855, and established his home in Pecatonica. 
He owned land in Kansas and while building a house there received 
an injury that laid him up for some time, which he spent in Holton 
City, where he was elected mayor in 1875 as a Republican, and de- 
clined a renomination, retiring to his home in Pecatonica. He was 
in the grain business in 1869, for a time was real estate agent, and 
during 1867 and 1868 was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade. 
He owned and operated one of the best stone quarries and lime 
kilns in the State. Later he owned an extensive orange grove in 
Florida. 

Mr. Perley married Mrs. Mary Dean-Parks Partridge, widow of 
Colton Partridge of Pittsfield, Mass., in 1862. She was born in Dal- 
ton in Sept., 1818. They had no children. His widow died in 
Florida, where he died 26 Oct., 1904. 



FAMILY 221 : PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUPX-3, SAMUEL-12, DAVID-27, JOHN-48, 1)AVID-102. 

DAVID ERI PERLEY was born in Millwood, Rowley, 29 
Dec, 181t). He made his home upon the parental farm. His 
business of farming and as cattle-broker has been quite extensive. 

He married 15 Dec, 1842, Abigail Jewett Cressey, born 21 June, 
1823, to Susanna-Jewett and John Cressey, a tanner, of Rowley. 

1 Perley children: John Monroe-395, Leverett Wyman'-, Martha 
Scott-396, Eva Augusta^ David Ernest\ 

2 Leverett W.^ was born 24 Oct., 184.5, and married 6 Nov., 1873, 
Emma Greives, born in 1853 to Thomas and Almira-Foss Greives 
of Haverhill. They have no children. He has retired from business 
and they reside in Haverhill. 

3 Eva A.^ was born 13 Oct., 1852, is living unmarried at home, 
and caring for her aged parents. 

4 David E.^ was born 28 April, 18«4, and graduated at Bryant 
& Stratton's Commercial College. His present office is auditor. 
He married in Haverhill 7 April, 1885, Miss Fannie Nichols Bros- 
nan, who was born 1 May, 1864, to Thomas and Sophia Ayer- 
Nichols Brosnan of Haverhill. They reside now in Arlington, N. J. 
He was sergeant in Co. I, 13th Regiment National Guard of State 
of New York; department sheriff, Jersey City, N. J.; member of 
the Board of P2ducation in Arlington, N. J.; certifying accountant 
of the State of New York; member of New York Credit Men's As- 
sociation, and a member of the Freemasons in Jersey City, and of 
the Odd Fellows and Royal Arcanum. Their children are Ernest 
Winfield, born 10 April, 1886; Harold Malcolm, born 19 Nov., 1888; 
John Merton, born 16 .Oct., 1890. 



FAMILY 222: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-S, SAMrEL-12, DAVID-27, JOHN-48, MOSES-103. 

JOHN PERLEY was born in Rowley 3 Nov., 1827. His life 
was spent upon the parental acres, except two years at the Atkinson, 
N. H., Academy. He was bookish naturally, and had he continued 
his studies he would have been more widely useful. 

He says, " I was brought up in an isolated, rural district ; I had 
no playmates, for there were none near suited to my age; my mind 
instinctively turned to those objects in nature around me for com- 
panionship and pleasure. The impressions thus received cling to 
me still. The stately forest tree, the shady glens, the waving green 
fields, the smiling wild flowers, the songs of the birds, and the chirp- 
ing insects — all were held in closest friendship. Then there were the 
old nut-tree, the hollow oak upon the hill-top my castle, steep rock 
my fortification from dangerous foes, and dearest of all the 'old pear- 
tree' that stood near the 'cabin in the wild wood.' 

"Oh, 'how dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood,' and 



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THE PERLEY FAMILY 



how they have tempered my mind and heart through all these long 
years." Here he pays a lovmg tribute to his parents and, in especial, 
his mother. Though young when she left, "that sacred image is 
ever with me — her calm, pale features, her sweet, smiling face." 

He continues, "My education was sadly neglected. The family 
library was little more than the Bible, the Farmer's Almanac, and a 
history of the Indians." He was fond of reading and stud}^ and, as 
a pastime, occasionally indulged his ' metric pen. He favored us 
with a memory of his academic days : — 



ALL HAIL, LOV 
(Written 
All hall! loved Atkinson, all hail to thee, 

Thou staid old town of academic lore; 
On mem'ry's wings, in golden dreams I see 
Where thou art nesrled as in days of yore. 

As when I lived in Innocence of youth, 
And life to me was as a summer's day. 

And walked the paths of virtue and of truth, 
A stranger then to this world's evil way. 

I love thy grassy mei.ds, and sparkling rills. 
Thy smiling fields, .md flow'rs that bloomed 
so fair; 

I love thy shaded dells, and wooded hills, 
Thy granite rotks, thy pure and bracing air. 

How plain those lovely scenes appear to me, 
Where with my schoolmates I was wont to 
stray, 

Oi- listlessly beneath some shady tree, 
In idle chat did while the hours away. 

Now I remember well a drop of gall— 
A tiny drop that enanged my joy to grief,— 

A homesick heart when evening shades did fall. 
But sorrows then, as now our joys, were brief. 

Ihe schoolhouse now is mirrored on my mind. 
By stately elms half hidden from my view. 

There, other forms and objects dear I find, 
To which, long years ago, I bid adieu. 

And now, I think of thee. O lovely cot! 

With joy unfeigned I welcome thee again; 
Tlose blissful days with thee I've ne'er forgot. 

And oft I sigh for them, and sigh in vain. 



KD .\TKINSOX. 

in 1879.) 

Once more, I hear an aged and widowed dame, 
With trembling voles engaged in pray'r to 
God; 

F.ach day, she lived to praise His holy name. 
And now, I trust, that Heav'n is her reward. 

Her daughters, each f.nd all, were good and 

kind; 

In girlhood's days they chose the better part 

One gift had they, in this, all gifts combined, — 

God's lilessing too, for they were pure in 

heart. 

Those dwellers then on earth, where now »r« 
they? 
.\las! no one can tell but God alone. 
We wait the coming of the judgment day. 
And trust we'll meet around the great white 
throne. 

Aiounil those forms do golden halos gleam, 
Reflecting light like gorgeous, sunset rays, 

.\n<l forests far, and hills with beauty beam, 
Keminding me of happy childhood's days. 

Plow oft in dreams I view each hallowed scene. 

And feel once more the charm of youth's 

glad years; 

And then, with feelings wrought intense and 

keen. 

Awake to find my cheeks bedewed with tears. 

Farewell to thee, my long-loved Atkinson! 

Those scenes I love, I hope to see once more 
Before my earthly pilgrimage is done. 

And earthly scenes I never can restore! 



He was two years, when twelve, and thirteen years old, at Atkin- 
son Academy. In religion, he joined the faith of his family, and as 
Protestant or Catholic he exhibited a worthy Christian faith and 
practice. 

Mr. Perley married 11 Sept., 1858, Anne Maguire of Rumney, 
N. H., who was born in county Leitrim, 
Ireland, in Feb., 1836. He died of 
phthisic 22 June, 1885. She died 17 
Nov., 1901, and the Ipswich Chronicle 
of 29 Nov., thus speaks of her: — 

"Solemn high requiem mass for 
Mrs. Anne Perley, an old resident of Rowley, and mother of Sister 
Clara Agnes, superior of the convent connected with St. Paul School, 
Cambridge, was sung at St. Joseph's Church, Tuesday morning of 
last week. The officers of the mass were Rev. J. M. Donovan, 



Thus he wrote his name about a year 
before his death. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 363 

Ipswich, celebrant; Rev. J. M. Mulcahy, Arlington, deacon; Rev. 
J. J. Nilan, Amesbury, sub-deacon; Rev. J. J. Farrell, Cambridge, 
master of ceremonies. The choir was under the direction of Mr, 
E. Mark Sullivan, organist of the church. Many sisters of the 
order of St. Joseph from Cambridge, Brighton, Arlington and 
Haverhill were present. The interment was at Newburyport." 

1 Perley children : Sarah Ann'-, Susan Brown^ James Maguire^ 

2 Sarah A.^ (Sr. Clara Agnes) was born 24 July, 1859, and sev- 
eral years ago became a recluse of the convent in Arlington, Mass. 
She is now connected with the St. Paul's Convent, Cambridge, Mass. 

3 Susan B.^ was born in Newbury, Mass., 28 Nov., 1860. She 
married in Georgetown, Mass., 29 May, 1881, Patrick Joseph Hanle}^, 
who was born in Galway, Ireland, 2.5 April, 1854, to Edward, a civil 
engineer, and Eleanor-Greeley Hanley. She died in Danvers, Mass., 
in August, 1897. He is a blacksmith in Amesbury, Mass. Hanley 
children, born in Amesbury: Edward Patrick, 22 Feb., 1882, a 
machine fixer for the Hamilton corporation in Amesbury; John Per- 
ley, 5 June, 1884, an electrician for the Lord Electric Company of 
Boston; James Thomas, 5 Jan., 1887, a teamster in Lee, N. H.; 
Joseph, 25 Dec, 1889, a farmer in Amesbury; Clara Agnes, 27 
Feb., and died at the convent in Jamaica Plain, Boston, 14 July, 
1892; Francis, 25 April, 1893, attending the Parish School in 
Amesbury. 

4 James M.^ was born in Newbury 2 Dec, 1862, and married 30 
June, 1897, Gertrude Green Prime, who was born in Rowley 17 
Feb., 1876, to Samuel Scott and Charlotte Huntress-Jellison Prime. 
He is a shoemaker in Rowley. Perley children, born in Rowley : 
Ronald Prime, 17 April, 1898; Ruth Huntress and John Dudley, 25 
April, 1902. 



FAMILY 223: POTTER, CASWELL. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMTjEL-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-52, SAMUEL-105. 

ABIGAIL PERLEY was born 26 Oct., 1796, in Gray, Me. 
She married Elijah Potter, son of Elijah and Abigail-How Potter of 
Bridgton 20 Oct., 1836, in Harrison. He was born 9 June, 1796. 
He was a cooper by trade, but made farming his business. He died 
in Bridgton of cholera morbus 13 Aug., 1844. His widow married 
Marquis DeLafayette Caswell, son of Simon and Rachel-Staples 
Caswell of Harrison, in Bridgton 20 June, 1860. He was born in 
Minot, Me., 30 Oct., 1791. Mr. Caswell's first wife was Sally Nut- 
ting. He had no issue. 

1 Perley-Potter child : Rhoda Jane, born 25 May, 1839, married 
Nathaniel Potter, 2d, 28 Oct., 1855, a farmer in Bridgton. Issue: 
Ella Louisa, born 8 June, 1856; Clara Augusta, born 16 April, 
1859; Edwin Lewis, born 28 Sept., 1862; Cora Ellen, born 8 Sept., 
1865; Lizzie Mabel, born 31 Dec, 1876. 



FAMILY 224: SMITH. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-52, SAMUEL-106. 

RHODA PERLEY was born 3 Nov., 1805, in Gray, Me. She 
married 22 July, 1847, Fuller Andrews Smith, son of Daniel and 
Mary-Nelson Smith of Linebrook Parish, Ipswich, where he was 
born 22 March, 1806, removing to Bridgton in May, 1807, with his 
parents. He was a farmer and drover in Bridgton. 

1 Perley-Smith child: Julia Louisa. She was born 31 May, 1848, 
and married 8 Feb., 1874, Samuel William Potter of Gilead, Me., a 
farmer. They had issue George Fuller, born 13 Jan., 1875. She 
obtained a divorce, the custody of the child, and the change of the 
name Potter to Smith for herself and child. The decrees were 
made Jan. and April, 1877. She married, second, a Davis and had 
one child. 



FAMILY 225: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3. JUHN-13. SAMUAL-30, SAMUEL-52, SAMUEL-106. 

DAVID LEWIS PERLEY was born in Harrison, Me., 24 Oct., 
1807. The home of his childhood and youth became the home of 
his manhood, where he led the life of an honest, progressive farmer. 
He married 23 (27.'') Oct., 1835, Sophronia Spurr, who was born 4 
Feb., 1807, to Enoch and Abigail-VVright Spurr of Otisfield. The 
first two children were born in North Harrison, the others in Harri- 
son. He died l(j May, 1882; she 10 Nov., 1901. 

1 Perley children: William Sumner^ Catherine Fowler^ Osborn*, 
Ellen Augusta'-. 

2 Osborn^ was born 6 Dec, 1841, and died 20 April, 1844. Ellen 
A.i was born 16 May, 1848, and died 30 Jan., 1853. 

3 William S.' was born 30 Oct., 1836, cultivates his ancestral 
acres, and is somewhat engaged in speculation. He was administra- 
tor of the estate of his uncle-227. He is unmarried. 

4 Catherine F.^ was born 21 Aug., 1838. She married in Bridg- 
ton, Me., 15 Sept., 1864, Luther Cary Blake, born in Otisfield, Me., 
31 May, 1819, to Dr. Silas and Sophia-Cary Blake. Mr. Blake was 
a dealer in tinware and stoves in Harrison, where he died 17 Feb., 
1894. His widow lives in Harrison. Their only child : Nellie Per- 
ley, born in Harrison 27 Nov., 1866. 



FAMILY 226: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMDEL-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-52, SAMUEL-105. 

ISAAC PERLEY was born in Harrison, Me., 1 March, 1810. 
He was a farmer. In the fall of 1840 he removed to Bridgton 
Bridge; in the spring of 1841, to North Harrison, and in April, 1856, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 3(}5 

to his late home on the southeast slope of Scribner's Hill, Harrison. 
He married 27 Feb., 1840, Catherine Jane Fowler, who was born 24 
Dec, 1814, to David, a farmer and deputy sheriff, and Jane Fowler 
of Bridgton. Ridlon's history says Catherine was a sister to John 
W. Fowler the veteran stage driver. She died in Harrison 17 Aug., 
1881, and her husband at Bolster's Mills, Harrison, 3 Feb., 1900. 

1 Perley children : Miranda Louisa'*, David Fowler^ 

2 Miranda^ was born 9 July, 1841, and died in Harrison 28 Oct., 
1865. 

.3 David F.^ was born 1 July, 1844. He married 22 June, 1875, 
Julia Ann Scribner of Harrison, born 7 July, 1852, to David M. and 
Emeline-Patch Scribner of Bridgton. He enlisted against the Re- 
bellion in Company B, 23d Regiment, Maine Infantry, 10 Sept., 1862, 
and was discharged 13 Dec, 1862. He was a farmer and a broker 
in live stock. He died in Windham, Me., 19 May, 1899. His widow 
resides in East Otisfield. They had no children. 



FAMILY 227: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUFX-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-62, SAMUEL-105. 

LUTHER LEWIS PERLEY was born in Harrison, Me., 28 
June, 1813. He cultivated the parental farm with his brother David, 
though a tinsmith by trade. He was married in Rowley, Mass., by 
Rev. John Pike, D. D., of Rowley, 29 May, 1851, to Sarah Alice 
Potter who was born in Ipswich 7 March, 1823, to Asa and 
Susan Hadley-Johnson Potter. She died in Harrison of consumption 
28 March, 1854. She had one child. Mr. Perley's second wife, mar- 
ried 23 Oct., 1856, was Maria Conant Vining, who was born 5 April, 
1836, to David and Betsey Vining of Durham, Me. He died in 
Harrison 25 March, 1859, a man of sterling integrity, and esteemed 
by all who knew him. [His widow married Rev. David Libby of 
South Lewiston, and had another child, Willis Alvah, born in Lew- 
iston 3 Dec, 1871.] Mrs. Libby resides a widow in South Lewis- 
ton (1905.) 

1 Perley children : Osborne Potter-397, Emma Mahala*. 

2 Emma M.^ was born 6 Aug., 1857, and 19 Aug., 1876, married 
in Lewiston, Me., Asa Frederick Howe, who was born thirty or 
thirty-one years before to William F. and Susan-Potter Howe of 
Rowley. He fought against the Rebellion and received his dis- 
charge 17 June, 1865. He was proprietor and teacher of a Reform 
School for boys, 1870; of the boards of selectmen and assessors of 
Rowley, 1875, 6, 7, and chairman a portion of the time. He was 
State representative, 1878. They started West 5 Aug., 1878, and 
settled in Lincoln, Neb., where they remained several years. He is 
an officer connected with the Lyman School for boys in Westboro, 
Mass. Their home (1905) is Georgetown, Mass. Children: 
Josephine Eldred, born 2 Aug., 1879; Alice Marjorie. 



FAMILY 228: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEIi-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-S^. SAMUEL-105. 

WILLIAM PERLEY was born in Harrison, Me., 6 June, 1816. 
He was a stone mason by trade, but his business was farming. In 
1843 he built a house three miles out on the stage road to South Paris, 
which was burned in 1846. He immediately rebuilt the L and 
afterwards the house. In May, 1875, he sold the property to Lemuel 
and Sumner C. Davis, and it is now known as "the half-way house." 
He then purchased a residence on High street, Bridgton, and en- 
gaged in speculation. 

He married 22 Dec, 1842, Lois Porter Brackett, daughter of 
William, born 26 Nov., 1819. She died 10 Nov., 1897, in Blaine, 
Wash., where he is now living, July, 190-5. 

1 Perley children : George Parsons^ Charles Osborn^ 

2 George P.' was born 7 Sept., 1844. He began school teaching 
12 Dec, 1863, and taught one term. He became clerk for Silas 
Blake in a general store and the postoffice 20 Feb., 1865. In Sep- 
tember, 1866, he took relatively the same position for Wyatt Turner, 
late of Bolster's Mills, and 18 Dec, the same year, became book- 
keeper for the Forest Mills, Bridgton. In 1869 he and his brother 
began, in a small way, jobbing in woolen goods, purchasing direct 
from the mills. Their operations were confined to Cumberland and 
Oxford Counties. He was the book- and store-keeper, his brother 
the commercial traveler. In the summer of 1870 his health failed 
and he returned to his father's. The following winter they began 
the manufacture of carriages and sold out in 1871. That year, 21 
Nov., he bought the stove, tin and hardware business of B. Cleaves 
& Son, Bridgton; 12 March, 1872, his brother joined him, and 
the title read "G. P. Perley & Co." They admitted 1 Sept., 1874, 
Charles H. Weston of Oshkosh, Wis., and the title read "Perley 
Bros. & Weston." The brothers bought out Weston 27 July, 1876. 
In October, 1877, his brother went West, and in January, 1878, the 
business was sold to Jesse and George E. Murphy, who removed 
the stock, and the "Perley building" was leased to B. F. Evans as 
a furniture store. He became treasurer of the Bridgton Savings 
Bank 15 March 1879; and 26 July, disposed of the balance of stock 
in trade to Lewis W. Bradstreet. The "Perley building" was 
totally burned 1 Nov., 1879. 

He married in Bridgton, Me., 8 Jan., 1880, Frances Hilton, who 
was born in Bridgton 5 Dec, 1852, to Nathaniel Pike, a farmer, and 
Hannah Goodwin- Wiley Hilton. Their home ( 1905 ) is Blaine, 
Wash., where Mr. Perley as president and Mrs. Perley as secretary 
and treasurer are managing the Globe Investment Co. For some 
twelve years Mr. Perley has been a helpless rheumatic cripple, due 
to overwork and nervous prostration. Perley child : Harold Hilton, 
born 8 Aug., 1881, in Bridgton, Me., where he died 21 Jan., 1887. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 3(57 

3 Charles O.^ was born in Harrison Mills, Me., 4 Nov., 1848, 
His business life was identical with his brother's, till he went West 
10 Oct., 1877, on a prospecting tour. Osborn P.-397 joined him in 
Boston the next day and was compagnon de voyage. They returned 
to Bridgton 25 Dec, same year. He settled up his business, and 10 
Nov., 1879, started for Lincoln, Neb., arriving the 15th, where he 
was engaged in buying, selling and raising stock. He married in 
Lynn 29 Jan., 1890, when he was of Blaine, Wash., Rev. John D. 
Pickles officiating, Hester Amanda Tibbetts, who was born in Row- 
ley 13 Feb., 1859, to James and Jane Fowler -Potter Tibbetts. 
Their home is Blaine, where he is engaged in real estate. 



FAMILY 229: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-S. JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-52, 
NATHANIEL-106. 

NATHANIEL PERLEY was born in Livermore, Me., 26 Nov., 
1802. He was a school teacher and a farmer in early life, then a 
merchant in Livermore, and afterwards in Portland, till 1864, when 
he removed to Polo, Illinois. Mr. Perley married 15 June, 1826, 
Eliza Lane of Leeds, Me., born 1 May, 1802, to James and Abigail 
Lead-Vetten Lane and died in Polo 20 March, 1874. He died 11 
Aug., 1879. A Polo newspaper reads: 

"He commenced a Christian life during his twelfth year. In 
Maine and Illinois, for many years he was a member of the M. E, 
Church. His education, outside of the public school, was received at 
Kent's Hill Seminary, one of the leading schools of Maine. For over 
thirty years he pursued the vocation of a teacher during the winter sea- 
son, and that of a farmer the remainder of the year. That remarkably 
long period of school work, most of the time in his home district, is 
the strongest evidence of his worth and success as a teacher, and is 
alike complimentary to himself and patrons. The last twelve years 
of his life in Maine were devoted to that of a merchant, in the town 
of his nativity, where the most of his preceding life had been spent. 
By attending to his business, preserving his integrity, living up- 
rightly and purely, he gained friends and won success. 

"In the year 1864, he came to Polo. Of his life here our citizens 
are familiar; he discharged his responsibilities with fidelity and suc- 
cess, and whatever he lacked — as there is more or less of weakness 
in every human being — he fulfilled all his duties with an honest 
heart and with motives free from guile. He was an honorable citi- 
zen, a pure-minded man, a loving father, a kind friend and neighbor, 
a promoter of good works and a friend of the young. To the youth 
of our city we would commend his faithful and exact business habits, 
his purity of thought and expression, and his dignified Christian 
bearing. 

"His sickness was so brief that his death was unexpected by 
most of our citizens. The funeral services at the Methodist Church 
on the 13th, were well attended, a large number of persons advanced 



368 THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

in life being present. Rev. Dr. More was assisted in the services 
by Revs. J. O. Cramb and J. S. Detweiler. Dr. More paid an elo- 
quent and affectionate tribute to the character of the deceased. 
Rev. Mr. Cramb spoke very fittingly of his consistent Christian life 
and exemplary conduct as a church member." 

1 Perley children : Peleg Stone-398, John Alphonzo-399, Samuel 
Franklin- too, Eliza Ann-. 

2 Eliza A.^ was born 80 Nov., 1838. She married in Livermore, 
Me., 27 Aug., 18<i2, Carlos Herrick,who was born in Morrisville, Vt., 2 
May, 1838, to Eliab B., banker, and Miriam-Raymond Herrick. He 
was a lumberman in Polo, where he died of consumption 28 June, 
1873. Their children were born in Polo: Mary Eliza'^; Carlos Perley, 
born 19 April, 1869, a special agent of the Northwestern Mutual 
Life Insurance Company, living with his mother in Polo. 

3 Mary E.'^ was born 8 June, 1867, and married in Green Bay, 
Wis., 26 Oct., 1892, Charles Elon Mohr, accountant, born in Soder- 
haum, Sweeden, 21 Sept., 1854, to Carl Johan, clergyman, and Anna 
Sophia-Lindhall Mohr. Their home is Batavia, 111. Their child : 
Mildred Elizabeth Sophia, born 12 April, 1899. 



FAMILY 230: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. SAMUEL-3. JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-52, 
NATHANIEL-106. 

ULMER PERLEY was born in Livermore, Me., 10 Sept., 1807, 
and settled, a farmer, in his native town. He married 2 Aug., 1829, 
Louisa Hale Merrill of Turner, Me., who was born -t April, 1810, to 
Nancy-Hale and Col. Levi Merrill, a native of Falmouth. He died 
19 Aug., 1887; and she 27 Nov., 1899. Their children were all born 
in Livermore. 

1 Perley children: Adelia^ Zipporah Louise^ Ulmer Austin"-, 
Augusta^ 

2 Ulmer Austin^ was born 11 P'eb., 1839, and died 20 Aug., 1843. 

3 AdeUa^ was born 3 March, 1830, and married 15 May, 1852, in 
Livermore, Freedom Weed Gould, a farmer, born in Leeds 20 Nov., 
1830, to Peltiah, a farmer, and Mary-Chamberlain Gould. They re- 
sided in Leeds, where they died, she 9 Feb., 1892, and he 15 Feb., 
1904. Gould issue: Fannie Howard, born 9 Nov., 1852, and died 24 
March, 1873; Nathaniel Perley^ 

4 Zipporah «L.^ was born 8 Sept., 1835, and married 25 Dec, 
1858, William Henry Francis, a farmer, born 12 Jan., 1836, in Leeds, 
to Samuel L. and Naomi P.-True Francis of Turner. [Naomi's 
parents were Joshua and Lucy-Page True.] They resided in 
Leeds, where all their children were born. They removed to St. 
Paul, Minn., where he was a railroad flagman. He was killed by a 
train 30 July, 1903. She died the 10th of the following November. 
Francis issue: twins, Ulmer Perley' and Samuel Perley^; Augustus 
Strickland^; Henrietta Louise'°; Millie Bursely, born 7 June, 1880. 

5 Augusta^ was born 8 Sept., 1844, and married 10 April, 1864, 
Augustus Henry Strickland-107^ merchant, born 21 July, 1838, in 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 3(j9 

Livermore, where he died 20 Aug., 1878. His widow married a 
Foss and resides in Auburn, Me. Issue: Samuel Perley". 

6 Nathaniel P." was born 10 Nov., 18()3, and married 31 March, 
1889, in Readfield, Me., Mae G. Pease, born ni Wilton 5 July, 1865, 
to Augustus, a farmer, and Lydia P\-Blaisdell Pease. He is a 
farmer and resides in North Leeds. Gould issue : Bernice Adelia, 
born 11 May, 1890. 

7 Ulmer P.'* was born 23 Oct., 1859, and married in Wayne, Me., 
10 April, 1882^ Nellie Leadbetter, born thirty-eight years before to 
Clark and Mary Ann-Gott Leadbetter of Wayne. He is a farmer. 
They have no children. 

8 SamueP, born 23 Oct., 1859, a farmer, married in Sydney, 
Neb., 4 May, 1879, Lucy Rice Foss, who was born thirty-six years 
before to Capt. Fernando and Harriet-Hanson Foss of Farming- 
ton, Me. Their children are John, born 1 April, 1880; Daisy, born 

3 Feb., 1884; B , born 9 Dec, 1886; Henry, born 25 May, 1893; 

Fernando Foss, born 9 Jan., 1896. 

9 Augustus S.'' was born 17 Nov., 1864, and married in Portland, 
Me., 3 Nov., 1882, Gusta Ida Sarner, who was born twenty-seven 
years before in Stockholm, Sweden, to John and Jane-Anderson 
Sarner. Augustus is a farmer in Binston, Minn. Their child, Ida 
Gusta, was born 9 June, 1890. 

10 Henrietta' was born 15 Nov., 1874, and 30 March, 1893, mar- 
ried John Knowlton, son of Charles, a farmer, and Mary-Johnson 
Knowlton. John is a butcher. They have one child, Harry Hale, 
born 30 Dec, 189—. 

11 Samuel P.^ born in Livermore 3 Nov., 1865, married in 
Auburn, Me., 7 March, 1894, Rhoda Chase, born in Carroll, Me., 6 
May, 1869, to Joseph K., civil engineer, and Kfhe Augusta-Lowell 
Chase. They have no children. He is a physician in Waltham, 
Mass. 



FAMILY 231: HUSSEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUKL-3. jbHN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-62, 
NATHANIEL-1II6. 

SARAH STRICKLAND PERLEY was born 29 Oct., 1811, 
and 29 Dec, 1828, married in Livermore John Hussey, a far,mer, 
son of John and Catherine-Pettengell Hussey of Windham, Me., 
where he was born 4 June, 1801, and made his home. He was an 
active Methodist. She died of dropsy 10 Feb., 1869; he died 13 
Nov., 1881. 

1 Hussey children: Lucinda Perley-, Joseph'^ Caroline Alden^ 
Joseph Albion^, Ulmer Perley\ 

2 Lucinda P.^ was born 24 Jan., 1830, and resided in Windham 
Center, where she died, unmarried, 1 March, 1874. Joseph^ was 
born 4 May, 1831, and died in Windham 23 Nov., 1832. Caroline 
A.^ was born 18 Dec, 1832, resided in Windham Center, where she 
died, unmarried, 21 Nov., 1877. 

3 Joseph A.^ was born in Windham 17 May, 1836. He married 
in Naples, Me., 28 Feb., 1860, Lucinda Russell Humphrey, born in 



370 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Gray, Me., 81 May, 1830, to Asa and Aseneth-Fogg Humphrey. 
Mr. Hussey was a carpenter and farmer. He lived on a small farm 
near the old homestead till a short time before his death, which oc- 
curred in Deering, Me., 1 Sept., 1900. His widow, without children, 
resides in Woodfords, Me. 

4 Ulmer P.^ was born 11 July, 1853. He married in Falmouth, 
Me., 5 Sept., 1893, Georgia Anna Hall, born in Windham 24 Dec, 
1854, to William F., a farmer, and Lavina-Humphrey Hall. He is a 
farmer and lives on the old homestead in Windham, where his grand- 
father and his father lived and died. His wife died 5 April, 1898. 
They had no children. 



FAMILY 232: PF:RLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3, JOHN-1.3, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-52, 
A15RAHAM-108. 

GEORGE PERLEY was born in Gray, Me., 18 May, 1804. 
His birth, life and death were on the parental farm. He was an en- 
ergetic, capable man. He married 31 Aug., 1827, Hannah Huston 
Low, who was born 27 March, 1805, to Joseph and Sarah- Huston 
Low of North Yarmouth. He died 30 March, 1875; his widow 1 
March, 1886. His mventory was $14,221.90. 

1 Perley children: Mary Dolly\ Sarah Susan', George Low'-^, 
Cyrus Jordan'^, Martin Van Buren-401, Roscoe-402, Henrietta"*. 

2 Sarah S.^ was born 28 March and died 5 Sept., 1830. George 
L.' was born 4 Nov., 1832, and died, unmarried, in Gray, 24 July, 
1860. 

3 Cyrus Jordan^ was born 28 April, 1835, and married in Gray 30 
Nov., 1862, Susan Dyer Higgins-109^ who was born in Gray 9 Nov., 
1839. She died 5 Aug., 1895, in Gray, where he now resides (1905). 

4 Henrietta^ was born in Gray 23 March, 1844, and married there 
26 Nov., 1866, Orrin Smith Higgins-109^, a farmer, who was born in 
Gray 19 Jan., 1837, where they reside. Child: Fred Smiths 

5 Mary D.^ was born 31 March, 1828. She married Dr. Albion 
Reith Paris Larrabee, son of Benjamin and Susanna of Scarboro, 2 
July, 1850, in Gray, where she died 12 Sept., 1860. Their only child, 
Susan D., born 28 June, 1851, married Dr. Frank Morgan 25 June, 
1873. 

6 Fred S.^ was born in Gray 10 Nov., 1873. He is a farmer. 
He married in Gray 1 Jan., 1903, Alma Savoy, a teacher, born in 
Gray 22 July, 1875, to Martin and Mary Susan-Goff Savoy. They 
reside in Gray. 



FAMILY 233: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUI-:L-3. JOHN-13.SAMUEL-3I), SAMUEL-52, 
ABRAHAM-108. 

JOHN HUMPHREY PERLEY was born in Gray, Me., 22 
Sept., 1809. He was a farmer in Gray till 1867, when he removed 
to North Yarmouth to continue farming. He married 17 March, 
1842, Mary Susan Starbird, who was born 25 March, 1823, to William 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 37 1 

Simonton and Olive-Berry Starbird of Gray. He died 21 Jan., 
1885; his widow 26 Feb., 1902. 

1 Perley children : Albion Starbird403, Ellen Rebecca^ Mary 
Louise'', John Edwin'^, Fannie Smith'^ and Alvin Higgins^ Howard 
Starbird", Lizzie Anna^ William Warren Starbird', Hattie L.^ and 
Henry Joseph^ Alice Latham'^ 

2 Ellen R.^ was born in Gray, Me., 25 Nov., 1844, and died un- 
married, in North Yarmouth, Me., 20 Dec, 189(j. John E.^ was 
born 17 Oct., 1849, and died, unmarried, of typhoid fever in Oct., 
1877. Lizzie A.^ was born 29 June, 1858, and died of typhoid fever 
in Oct., 1872. Hattie L.^ and Henry J.^ were born in Gray 21 July, 
1803, and Hattie died 21 Oct., 1863. Henry J., unmarried, is an 
employe in the water department of Galveston, Texas. 

3 Fannie S.^ was born 22 May, 1853, a twin with Alvin, and 10 
Dec, 1874, married Alfred Noyes Titcomb, who was born 18 Oct., 
1848, to Seward, a farmer, and Judith B.-Merchant Titcomb of North 
Yarmouth, where he was a farmer. She died 24 May, 1889. Mr. 
Titcomb married, second, in Lowell, Mass., 7 Dec, 1892, Alice h.\ 
who was born in Gray 24 Feb., 1866. She graduated from the Gor- 
ham Normal School in 1884, and taught rural schools till 1891; was 
first assistant at Greely Institute for one year, and for two years was 
supervisor of schools in North Yarmouth. Their home is Cumber- 
land, Me. Titcomb children: Alfred Francis, born 17 May, 1889, in 
North Yarmouth; Herva Alice, born 28 May, 1894; Matilda Evelyn, 
and Mary Anne, twins, born 9 Dec, 1896. 

4 Mary L.^ was born in Gray 19 Jan., 1847. She married in 
Lewiston, Me., 3 May, 1873, Willard Sawyer-109* born in Gray, Me., 
17 Aug., 1848, to John Fowler, a farmer, and Malinda-Perley Sawyer. 
Their home without children is East Gray. John Fowler Sawyer 
died 11 May, 1897; his widow 16 Nov., 1903. 

5 Alvin H.^ was born in Gray 22 May, 1853. He married 
in North Yarmouth, Me., 26 Oct., 1887, Mary Susan Marston, a 
dressmaker, born in North Yarmouth 9 March, 1859, to Charles 
Henry and Joanna Barber-Cole Marston. Mr. Perley is a farmer of 
Gray. He went to San Francisco, Cal., in the fall of 1875, where 
he was contractor for street sprinkling till 1902. Perley children, 
born in San Francisco: Gladys Hazel, 12 Sept., 1890; Florence 
May, 15 Nov., 1892. 

6 Howard S.^ was born in Gray 11 Aug., 1855, where he mar- 
ried 16 Jan., 1889, Mary Johnson Perley-239^ who was born in Gray 
25 July, 1869. Mr. Perley is a collector. Their home is San Fran- 
cisco, where their children were born: Howard Starbird, 14 March, 
1891; Lawrence Webb, 12 Jan., 1893. 

7 William W. S.^ was born in Gray 14 July, 1861. He married 
in Cumberland, Me., 14 Nov., 1893, Hattie Eliza Eaton, born in 
Cumberland 22 Oct., 1874, to Clarence Granville, a farmer, and Sarah 
Jane-Eagles Eaton. Mr. Perley is a farmer of New Gloucester, Me., 
with post office in Intervale. He has spent several years of his life 
in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Cal. Perley children, born in 
New Gloucester, Me.: Lot Jesse Starbird, born 16 P'eb., 1896; Rose 
Lillian, born 29 May, 1900; William Warren Starbird, born 6 July, 
1903; Nellie Starbird, born 17 May, 1905. 



FAMILY 234: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUKL-.i. JOHN-13. SAMUKL-30, SAMUEL-52, 
ABRAHAM-IOJS. 

NATHANIEL PERLEY was born in Gray 5 June, 1812. He 
resided in Gray. His first wife, married 15 May, 1834, was Mahala 
B. Morse, who was born 27 Oct., 1815. She died 27 April, 1842. 
His second wife was Vesta A. Harris, who was born 27 March, 1819. 
He died in 1 852. 

1 Perley children : Frederick Augustus', Franklin M., who was 
born 24 May, 1850, and died 10 Dec, 1851. 

2 Frederick A.' was born in Gray 20 Jan., 1837. His home is 
Yarmouth. He married, first, 25 Dec, 18(j0, Mary Ann Sawyer 
Blanchard, born in Cumberland 18 Dec, 1843; second, P211en Fran- 
ces Knight, born in Yarmouth. Their child was Eva Gray, born 
11 Jan., 1863, to his first wife. 



FAMILY 235: MASON. 



LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMlEL-3, JOIIN-13, SAMUEI^30, SAMUEL-52, 
ABRAHAM-108. 

REBECCA PERLEY was born 14 Aug., 1816. She married in 
April, 1845, Seth C. Mason, who was born 4 Dec, 1820, to Deacon 
Seth C. and Hannah-Bryant Mason of Portland. She died 15 Sept., 
1871, the mother of three children. [Mr. Mason's second wife, mar- 
ried 4 Oct., 1872, was Miss Sarah Hilton of Boston, Mass., who was 
born in Deerfield, N. H., in 1822.] In 1872 he removed to Somer- 
ville, Mass. 

1 Perley-Mason children : Pollen Eugenia-, Margaret Adelaide^ 
Anna Rebecca\ 

2 Ellen E.^ was born in Portland, Me., 2 March, 1846. She edu- 
cated herself for home mission work, which she has made the busi- 
ness of her life. She was ten and a half years in the Little Wan- 
derers' Home, Boston; then with the Lawrence General Hospital, 
Lawrence, Mass.; then two years matron of the Sherborn Reform- 
atory Prison for Women ; and has been more than ten years matron 
of the Somerville Day Nursery. She has been remarkably success- 
ful in the several positions of trust. She is a member of the Boston 
Monday Evening Club, of the Somerville Daughters of Maine, and 
of the National Conference of Charities and Correction. She is a 
Baptist in religion. 

3 Margaret A,' was born in May and died in September, 1849. 

4 Anna Rebecca^ was born in Portland, Me., 22 Sept., 1851. 
She married in Somerville, Mass., 24 June, 1874, Frank Alton 
Noyes, (Noyes & Colby, grain. Chamber of Commerce, Boston) 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 373 

born in Auburn, Me., to Levi P., a farmer, and Jane-Gowell Noyes. 
They reside in Somerville. Mr. Noyes is a member of the Order of 
the Eastern Star, a Rebekah member of Irebro lodge and of the 
Daughters of Maine club. Their church relation is Unitarian. 
They have one daughter Florence Ethel'. 

5 Florence E.^ was born in Somerville 13 April, 1878, and is a 
graduate of Wellesley College, class of 1900. She married in Som- 
erville 29 Sept., 1908, William Charles Drouet, street paver, born in 
Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, England, 7 Sept., 1875, to Earnest Charles, 
life insurance and real estate agent, and Emma-Warren Drouet. 
Their home is Somerville, and they have one child : Elinor, born in 
New Bedford, Mass , 17 July, 1904. 



FAMILY 230: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3. J()HN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-52, 
ABRAHAM-IOS. 

JONAS HUMPHREY PERLEY was born in Gray, Me., 29 
April, 1822. He began business life as an importer and commis- 
sion merchant in Portland. He was successful and amassed wealth. 
He was president of the Board of Trade from 1858 till after the 
great fire. In 1871 he removed to Detroit, Mich., and engaged in 
the lumber trade. He retired from business several years before 
his death. 

Mr. Perley married in Portland 21 Nov., 1846. Frances Shepard 
Smith, who was born 21 Dec, 1823, to Rev. Nathaniel and Ursula- 
Shepard Smith of Newburyport, Mass. She was a granddaughter 
of Dr. Samuel Shepard of Exeter, N. H., whose biography is stated 
in the American Encyclopaedia. She was a true mother and a noble 
woman. She died in Searcy, Ark., 13 Dec, 1884. He died in 
South Bend, Ind., 9 April, 1892. 

1 Perley children : Williard Humphrey^ Fannie Ella^ Harry Otis- 
404, Maude Marion^ Jonas Clayton^, Gertrude May"^, Samuel Shepard^ 
Arthur Park^ Kirk Welder^ 

2 Williard H.^ (he wrote it Willard) was born 17 Oct., 1848. He 
began college life at Bowdoin at the age of sixteen, and graduated 
in 18(39. He read law with Judge Howard of Portland. When he 
went to Detroit in 1871 he entered the Law Department of Michi- 
gan University, Ann Arbor, and graduated in 1872. He then 
entered the law office of U. S. Senator John Newbury. The follow- 
ing summer, while making a tour of the Lakes, he accidentally fell 
from the steamer and was drowned 3 Sept., 1873. He was noted for 
his frankness and honesty of purpose. Gertrude M.^ was born 31 
Oct., 18G0, and died 10 Aug., 18(jl. 

8 P^annie E.^ was born 29 Sept., 1850. In 18(56 and 1867 she 
studied in the Ipswich, Mass., Female Seminary and afterwards in 
Miss Terry's school in New Haven, Conn. She married 9 May, 
1874, Charles Louis Piquette, who was born 24 May, 1843, to 
John Baptiste and Angelique-Campan Piquette, descendants of the 



374 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

wealthy French famiHes of Detroit, that had held their land from 
the days of the Indians. Their wedding tour of a year duration was 
made to Europe. They remained in America, at Detroit, from May 
12 to Nov. 13, when they again sailed for Europe. Their steamer, 
the Amerique, became disabled in mid-ocean, and they were lost at 
sea for forty days. The Ville de Havre rescued them and they 
landed Dec. 24. Five months later — 24 July, 187G — Mr. Piquette 
died. 

She married, second, in Detroit, Mich., 8 Sept., 1881, George W. 
Van Dyke, dealer in real estate, born in Detroit 11 Jan., 1840, to 
James A., a prominent lawyer, and Elizabeth-Desnoyer Van Dyke. 
He died 24 June, 1898, in Detroit, where his widow now resides. 
Perley-Piquette children: Marie''; Charles, born 26 Dec, 1876, in 
South Bend, Ind. Perley-Vandyke children, born in Detroit : James 
A., born 31 Oct., 1882; George Francis, born 1 March, 1884; Maud 
E., born 28 Sept., 1886; Catherine Perley, born 18 P^eb., 1888; Mar- 
garet and Alice, twins, born 25 F'eb., 1890 — Alice died 2 Dec, 1901; 
Harold Perley, born 14 July, 1891; Marian Agnes, born 17 Dec, 
1892. 

4 Maud M.' was born in Portland, Me., 28 Oct., 1854. She grad- 
uated at Miss Edwards' school, New Haven, Conn. She has enjoyed 
extensive foreign travel. She married at St. Marys, Ind., 23 
Feb., 1881, Alexis Coquillard, born in Detroit, Mich., 28 April, 
1825, to Benjamin, a farmer, and Sophia-Andre Coquillard. Mr. 
Coquillard was a manufacturer of wagons and dealer in real 
estate. He died in Battle Creek, Mich., 23 P'eb., 1890. His 
widow resides in South Bend, Ind., where their children were 
born : Alexis, 21 Jan., 1882, who studied in Notre Dame University and 
engaged in real estate; Joseph Alexander, 18 Dec, 1884, who gradu- 
ated from Phillips-P2xeter Academy 18 June, 1904, and is a student 
in Michigan University. 

5 Jonas C} was born in Portland, Me., 29 June, 1855. He was 
educated in Portland and Detroit and became a southern planter, 
with home at Searcy, Ark. He married there 20 Dec, 1887, Sarah 
Jane Miniard, born in Tarcora, Ga., 18 April, 1864, to James, a 
farmer, and Elizabeth-Smith Miniard. Their home is Ashdown, Ark., 
where Mr. Perley is engaged in stock-raising. Perley children, born 
in Searcy: Arthur Clayton, born 29 June, 1888; Norma, born 20 
Dec, 1892; Maud Oma, born 15 Jan., 1894. 

6 Samuel Shepard^ was born m Portland, Me., 8 Oct., 1861. He 
married in South Bend, Ind., 23 Nov., 1892, Lillian Casady, born 
in New Carlisle, Ind., 28 April, 1871, to W. L., president of South 
Bend Plow Company, and Mary-Proud Casady. He graduated from 
Notre Dame University, Indiana. Mr. Perley is the manager of the 
Coquillard Wagon Works of Henderson, Ky., and he is also mana- 
ger of Alexis Coquillard estate of South Bend, Ind. He was a 
member of the County Council of St. Joseph County, Indiana, 1898- 
1902. His home is South Bend. Perley children, born in South 
Bend: Margaret Marion, 24 Aug., 1893: Samuel Shepard, 9 Jan., 
1894, died 8 Nov., 1900; William Casady, 15 May, 1898; Harold 
Otis, 21 Sept., 1901. 

7 Arthur Park^ was born in Portland, Me., 15 Sept., 1863. He 



History and genealogy 375 

married in South Bend, Ind., 28 Oct., 1890, Agnes Irene Howard, 
born in South Bend 12 July, 1872, to Timothy E., ex-Supreme Court 
judge of Indiana, and JuHa-Redmond Howard. Mr. Perley is presi- 
dent of the A. P. Perley Lumber Company of South Bend. He is a 
graduate of Notre Dame University, Indiana. Perley children: 
Ursula Irene, born 7 Feb., 1897; Maud, born 9 May, 1899. 

8 Kirk W.^ was born in Portland, Me., 23 Jan, 1868. He mar- 
ried in Niles, Mich., 1 June, 1904, Myrtle Malinda Rough, born in 
Niles 2 May, 1878, to George W. and Malinda-Broceus Rough. 
Mr. Perley finished his college education at Notre Dame University, 
Notre Dame, Ind., in 1886, and Mrs. Perley at South Bend, Ind., in 
1899. They reside in Henderson, Ky., where Mr. Perley is secre- 
tary of Coquillard Wagon Works Corporation. 

9 Marie^ was born in Paris, Prance, 13 P'"eb., 1876. She married 
in Detroit, Mich., 6 July, 1904, George Elliott Stevanson. His 
father was a lawyer. His mother's name was Emma-Metz. He 
studied in Williams College. Their home is Detroit, where Mr. 
Stevanson is a lawyer. 



FAMILY 237: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-S, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-52, ISAAC-109. 

JOSEPH HANCOCK PERLEY was born in Gray, Me., 28 
Feb., 1803. He began business as a butcher. His uncle Isaac 
loaned him a horse, wagon and a little cash. He began small and 
worked patiently: he made money and became a drover. In 1843 
he removed from Gray to Portland, where at 102 Canal street Perley 
& Russell, grocers and ship chandlers, did business till Mr. Perley 
retired in 1871, with ;^60,000 and "a reputation of unimpeachable 
integrity." 

Mr. Perley married 29 Oct., 1834, Jane Sweetser, born to John 
and Jane, of Gray. She died 7 May, 1842. He married 29 March, 
1852, his second wife, Ruth Ward Merrill, who was born 23 Nov., 
1823, to John and Hannah-Sanborn Merrill of Bethel. She survived 
her husband. Mr. Perley, whose portrait is on the next page, died 
31 Aug., 1881, and S.P. Mayberry, Esq., in the Bridgton News wrote: 
"The subject of this notice in early life was engaged in the cattle 
trade and held several offices of trust in his native town. After- 
wards he removed to what is now Deering and from there to Port- 
land, where he with John Russell of Gray established the well-known 
firm of Perley & Russell, which he continued thirty-six years, and 
left a reputation for probity and fair dealing above reproach. 
Mr. Russell died several years since and the firm was succeeded in 
the mercantile business by the sons of Mr. Russell." 

1 Perley children : Alvah Sweetser'", Eliza Jane'^ Henry Frank- 
linV Joseph Henry^ Jennie Sweetser'^, Florence Elmyr'\ Grace Isa- 
dore Charlton^, Henry Joseph*. 

2 Alvah S.^ was born in Gray 23 July, 1835. His mother died 
when he was six years of age. He lived with his uncles until he 



376 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



was about ten. He attended the common district school during a 
part of that time. He then attended the academy at North Yar- 
mouth, now Yarmouth, Me., three years, under the tuition of 
Prof. George Woods; then the academies in Portland and P'ryeburg, 
Me., about five years. 

He then returned to Portland ready for business; but not finding 
there an opportunity to engage he visited Boston and New York. 
There he spent more than a year in the fruitless attempt to secure a 
permanent business suited to his taste, and he determined to migrate 




JOSEPH H. PERLEY. 

westward. He left Portland for Boston, by boat, 15 Oct., 1854, and 
traveling westward by rail, and visiting many places en route, he at 
last arrived in Detroit, Mich. There he began and followed the busi- 
ness of a civil engineer — exploring and locating lands, traveling over 
the larger part of the unsettled portion of the lower peninsula of 
Michigan, for five years. He then returned to Maine. 

After a short stay, he left for warmer climes; he sailed from 
Portland, as passenger, on the bark Acasia, bound for Cuba, 6 Nov., 
1859, and made the passage in eleven days. He visited Havana, 
Matanzas, Cardenas, and many other places of interest. Thence he 
sailed for New Orleans, thence he journeyed into Texas, visiting its 
principal cities and towns, includmg y\ustin, its capital, the battle- 
field of San Jacinto, the ruins of the Alamo Castle at San Antonio, 
where the immortal Crockett and Bowie fell. He then visited In- 
dianola, on the coast, having passed over much of the State and the 
greater part of the distance by stage-coach, and returned to New 
Orleans. 

Slavery was then flourishing, and having a desire to learn some- 
thing about the Negro's condition and the ways of the peculiar insti- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 377 

tution, he traversed Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, 
Arkansas, and finally arrived at St. Louis, Mo. By rail and boat 
and stage-coach, he had had a wearisome, weird and instructive ex- 
perience. Thence he went by Chicago and Milwaukee to Portage 
City; but there he did not stop long; he suddenly contracted the 
fever, then prevalent there and known as the Pike's Peak gold-fever, 
and he immediately left for that new Eldorado of the West. He 
went by water to Hannibal, thence by rail to St. Joseph, at that 
time the extreme end of railroad communication westward. 

He says: "Once in St. Joseph, I stood on the verge of western 
settlements. On the eastern edge of the great territory of Kansas 
were found a few settlements, but passing those, we had passed be- 
yond the sight and sound of industry — no postal accommodations, 
no telegraph with its unsightly poles in the far distance, no cars to 
break the monotonous stillness. The farthest ken was one great 
field of grass, the mighty rolling prairie, the home of the Indian, the 
buffalo, the deer and the antelope. I had now begun my eventful 
march of forty-two days across the Great Plains — the Great Ameri- 
can Desert, accompanying a cattle train, being one of fifty men. We 
arrived without loss of life and with but little sickness, though many 
heads of stock perished, having traveled, by our road-ometer, 729 
miles, from St. Joseph to Aurora, Kansas Territory, now Denver 
City, Colo." 

Prospecting and mining he traversed parts of Kansas, Colorado, 
New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Wyoming, spending more than six 
years, returning to Council Bluffs, with the wagon train, by way of 
Omaha, eleven days en route, 5 July, 18(3(3, the day following the 
great fire in Portland, Me., the residence of his father. A few days 
later the steamer Denver took him to St. Joseph, steam cars to De- 
troit and the Grand Trunk Railway to Portland, Me. 

He writes further: "Home again! Great was the rejoicing of 
my relatives and friends. I was looked upon as the wild man of the 
wilderness, having been the associate of wild Indians in the wilder- 
ness and in the mountains, having crossed the Great Plains, having 
witnessed the rapid pace of 'the Pony,' in his flight towards the 
great ocean, the passage of the first stage-coach and the building of 
the first telegraph line across the continent." 

The next fall he returned to Michigan and engaged in the lumber 
business about six years. Having timber lands on the Chippewa 
river, he disposed of his Michigan interests and removed to Eau 
Claire in the spring of 1872. Entering upon the manufacture of 
lumber and exploring the forests between times, he remained in Eau 
Claire and vicinity until the spring of 1879, when he again sold out. 

He continues: "Once again I started on a trip of exploration into 
Northern Dakota and Minnesota. I first visited the famous Red 
River Valley, then a wild country, but destined to be the great 
wheatfield of the world, traveling on horseback from Big Stone 
lake northward to the British possessions; thence on foot and in 
birch-canoe easterly, visiting lake Itasca, the source of the Missis- 
sippi river, the great falls of that river, 250 miles, by river, above the 
falls of St. Anthony at Minneapolis, the St. Louis river and falls in 
Minnesota, the north and south sides of Lake Superior and finally 



378 The perLey family 

the beautiful region eighty miles south and west of the lake known 
as Mille Lacs. That country is thickly interspersed with lakes of 
all sizes, with marshes of wild rice, wild fruits upon all sides, the 
haunts of the deer, the goose and the duck, shores wooded with 
timber of all kinds, and to the eye of the aeronaut interlaced and 
woven together seemingly with threads of silver. The Mille 
Lacs region was formerly the home of the Dakotah Indians, the 
Sioux of the present day." 

While in this region, he was called to his parental home, to the 
bedside of his aged father. 

He married 18 Dec, 1883, in Casselton, Dakota, Mary Frances 
Heald, an artist, who was born 28 March, 1846, in Troy, Me., to 
Celinda Ann-Haskell and Peter Heald, a carriage manufacturer. 
They had no children, and were divorced some ten years ago. His 
present address is Edison, Wash., (Aug., 1905) but he will soon go to 
Alaska. The steamer "Mary F. Perley" of Seattle was built in 
1888 by Mr. Perley and named for his wife. The boat was one hun- 
dred and twenty-five feet long, and intended for a freighter, but be- 
came a passenger boat. 

3 Eliza ].' was born 3 March, 1838, and died 7 Feb., 1839. 
Henry ¥.' was born 2 Oct.,, 1840, and died 18 May, 1841. 

4 Joseph H.^ was born 2.5 April, 1842. He was a young man of 
great promise. He enlisted against the Rebellion at the age of 
eighteen years. He was 2d lieutenant, his youth preventing a 
higher command. He was commended for his bravery at Cedar 
Mountain, on the death of his captain. He took cold from exposure 
at Antietam 17 Sept. and died 18 Dec, 1862. His adjutant wrote 
of him: "Lt. Perley was weak of body but strong in will. He 
refused to be sick as long as there were trials and dangers for him 
to suffer; but when we arrived at Berlin, and all excitement had 
ceased, he was compelled to succumb and return to Maine, where 
he died. Perhaps no officer was more loved by his men than Perley 
was. He was little known outside of his own company — E — but 
we who belonged there can testify that his faithfulness and gallantry 
were of no common kind." 

5 Jennie S.^ was born 4 Jan., 1853. She had a graduate's educa- 
tion and studied for the stage. She married before 1881 Weller 
Hayward Noyes. He is vice president of Swift & Co.'s corporation, 
New York, and resides in Tenafly, N. J. Their child, Perley Hay- 
ward, graduated at the Berkeley School, New York, and entered 
Harvard College. 

6 Florence E.^ was born 27 Feb., 1854. She married in Portland, 
Me., 27 Aug., 1873, Hon. Joseph A. Locke, a lawyer, who was born 
25 Dec, 1843, to Stephen and Lucinda-Clark Locke. Mr. Locke 
died 21 April, 1904, in Portland, where his widow resides. Locke 
issue: Harold, born 24 June, 1874, died 5 Sept., 1874; Grace Perley, 
born 21 Oct., 1875, who received the Bachelor's degree at Bryn 
Mawr College in 1898, the Master's degree in 1899, and resides with 
her mother; Alfred, born 9 April, 1878, died in Portland 27 Aug., 
1880; John Richards, born 10 July, 1880, who graduated at Harvard 
University in 1901, took the Master's degree in 1902, and graduated 
at the Harvard Law School in 1905, and is now a member of the 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 379 

Suffolk Bar; Allan Stephen, born 7 June, 1885, a student at Har- 
vard University; Joseph Alvah, born 3 Jan., 1889. 

7 Grace I. C.^ was born 6 Oct., 1856, and died unmarried 10 
Aug., 1889. 

8 Henry J.^ was born 12 Nov., 1861, and is with Swift & Co. in 
Flushing, Long Island, N. Y. 



FAMILY 238: PERLEY. 

LINKAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-S, JOHN-13, SAMUEL,-30, SAMnEL-52, ISAAC-109. 

ISAAC PERLEY was born in Gray, Me., 17 March, 1817. He 
made Gray his home, where he owned a large farm. He was edu- 
cated at Bowdoin College under President Woods, and graduated in 
1843. He taught school several years in Gray and adjacent towns. 
After marriage he removed to Gorham and gave 
all his time for fifteen years to farming. He then ^ /J^jClX/ 
returned to Gray. He joined the North Yar- ^^OJi^t^^*^ 
mouth First Congregational Church by profession Thus he wmte his name 
of faith 4 Nov., 1838. '° "" i^'"er in issi. 

Mr. Perley married in New York City 1 Oct., 1845, Ellen Water- 
house Higgins, who was born 24 April, 1820, to Eleeza, a ship 
builder and farmer, and Susanna-Dyer Higgins. She died in Gray 
18 Oct., 1889. He died in Charleston, Me., about 1891. 

1 Perley children : Frances Ellen'-, Anna Higgins^ Emma L.'^, 
Alvin Higgins'*. 

2 Frances E.' was born in Gorham, Me., 17 June, 1846 or 7. 
She married 18 July, 1866, John Hamilton Higgins, a Baptist clergy- 
man, who was born in Garland, Me., 28 May, 1841, to Amos, a 
farmer, and Sarah-Hamilton Higgins. She died in New York City 
8 Jan., 1869, and he married, second, her sister, Emma L.\ who was 
born 30 or 31 March, 1851. She died in Charleston, Me., 31 Dec, 
1893. [Mr. Higgins married third, Mrs. Ellen Harvey McCully, 
and resides in Charleston.] He relinquished a successful and prom- 
ising business in New York City to devote his time to evangelistic 
work in Maine. He endowed the Charleston Academy, and its name 
was changed to Higgins Classical Institute, and his work in recent 
years has brought the school to an independent financial condition. 
Higgins issue: Fanny Mille, born 1 Jan., 1869, in New York City, 
where she died 26 March, 1876; Lillie and Millie, twins, born and 
died in February, 1876; Florence Ellen, born 17 May, 1879; Ethel 
May, born 6 Dec, 1880; Alice Emma*^; Elsie Louise, born 2 Feb., 
and died 22 Aug., 1891. 

3 Anna H.^ was born in Gray, Me., 18 July, 1848, and married 
30 April, 1867, Reuben Wescott, a farmer, born in Gorham 24 Dec, 
1839, to Reuben, a farmer, and Mary Ann-Skillings Wescott. She 
died in Gorham 25 Dec, 1875. [He married, second, Lizzie Davis, 
by whom he had a daughter Anna, and is living in White Rock, 
Me.] Perley- Wescott children, born in Gorham: Clarence Morti- 
mer*'; Frank Perley, 28 July, 1873, graduated in 1894 from the Maine 



380 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Wesleyan Seminary, Kent's Hill, and from Harvard University in 
1898, and is now employed in the shoe business, Boston. 

4 Alvin H.' was born 4 Dec, 1858, and married in Gray IG Aug., 
1879, Florence A. Dority, who was born in Charleston, Me., 10 June, 
1857. She was divorced about the year 1894 and a few months 
after married Eugene Hall and is now living in Gray. Mr. Perley 
has been town treasurer of Charleston for a number of years. He is 
extensively engaged in farming and trading and has a large store 
and saw-mill. Perley child: NIaude E., born in June, 188(), who 
resides with her mother. 

5 Alice E.- was born in Charleston 14 Dec, 1882. She married 
in Charleston 17 Sept., 1902, Rev. Sumner Bangs officiating, Odber 
Earle Boadway, who was born in Bradley, Me., 20 Nov., 1880, to 
Joseph E., a farmer, and Laura A.-Rose Boadway. Mr, Boadway is 
manager for the Chandler Furniture Company of Bangor, where he 
resides and where their child, Lucille Higgins, was born 30 Dec, 
1903. 

6 Clarence M.'' was born in Gorham 20 Nov., 1869. He mar- 
ried there 8 Dec, 1894, Mabel Libby, who was born in the same 
town 10 March, 1874, to Joseph Edgar, a farmer, and Annah Au- 
gusta-Libby Libby. Mr. Wescott was a farmer. He died in Gor- 
ham 26 Sept., 1898. His widow resides in South Windham, Me. 
Wescott child: Reuben Edgar, born in Gorham 2 Jan., 1896. 



FAMILY 239: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3, JOHX-13, SAMUEL^l, S\MUEL-52. ISAAC! 9 

CEPHAS WHITNEY PERLEY was born in Gray 18 April, 
1826. He began business as a drover and was enterprising and suc- 
cessful, but after a while settled as a farmer in Gray. He lived in a 
brick house near his grandfather's homestead. He served his town 
as selectman and in other official stations and was an effilcient offi- 
cer. 

He married. Rev. Nathan Carter officiating, at her father's home 
on the eve of 6 Oct., 1868, Sarah Abbie Johnson, a teacher, who was 
born in North Yarmouth, Me., 23 Jan., 1839, to Isaac Skellin, a 
farmer, and Ann Webb-Dam Johnson. Mr. Perley died suddenly 
15 Oct., 1884, of valvular heart trouble and rests in the family lot in 
the Gray cemetery. 

[His widow married in Gray 13 April, 1890, Rev. E. Bean offici- 
ating, and thereby became the second wife of Capt. Samuel Hobart 
Sweetser, a sea captain born in North Yarmouth in Jan., 1826, to 
Sylvanus, a farmer, and Sally-Patrick Sweetser, a teacher. His first 
wife was Mary Augusta Skillin. He died in North Yarmouth 15 
Feb., 1893. His widow resides in Cumberland Center, Me.] 

1 Perley children : Mary Johnson-233'^'; Susan Higgins.' 

2 Susan H.' was born in Gray 18 May, 1873. She is a graduate 
of Pennell Institute and of the Boston College of Oratory and by 
profession is a reader and teacher of elocution. She married at her 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 381 

mother's home in Gray 'IX Dec, 1897, Thomas Bush Matthew Gates, 
a merchant, who was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 7 Sept., 1863, to 
George, a shoe merchant, and Mary-Coats Gates. Their home is 
New York City, where their children were born : Donald Coats, 
31 March, 1903; Sarah Perley, 19 Nov., 1904. 



FAMILY 240: PERLEY. 

LINKAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUP:L-3, .JOHX-13, SAMUEL-30, ,JOHX-53, NATHANIEL 

MIGHILLrlll. 

NATHANIEL MIGHILL PERLEY was born in Norfolk, 
Va., 30 Nov., 1815, and reared in Rowley, Mass. It is said that 
most of the elms around Rowley Common were set out by him. He 
was a carpenter by trade. For ten years he was overseer in one of 
the mills in Lowell, Mass. He then removed to Springfield, N. H.; 
then to Manchester, N. H., where he died Friday, 7 Feb., 1862. 

His first wife, married 8 April, 1846, was Ann Gates, who was 
born in Sudbury, Mass., Thursday, 16 June, 1814, the sixth child 
and fifth daughter of ¥A\, a farmer, and Ann-Dakin Gates, and died 
in Lowell, Mass., Wednesday, 29 Dec, 1847. When in Manchester, 
he married, second, 21 Nov., 1849, Mary Winchester Brown, who 
was born in Wilmot, N. H., 21 Nov., 1813, to Nehemiah and Mehita- 
ble-Noyes Brown, and died in Manchester Tuesday, 19 Feb., 1895. 

1 Perley children : Anna Elizabeth'^, Emma Hannah.^ 

2 Anna PI' was born in Lowell, Mass., 16 Dec, 1847, and upon 
the death of her mother was legally adopted by her uncle and aunt, 
Hapgood and Emeline-Gates Wright of Lowell. She married in 
Lowell 28 Nov., 1882, Henry James Fay, who was born in Taunton, 
Mass., 26 Sept., 1846, to James L., a machine engraver, now retired, 
and Mary-Mahoney Fay. They reside in Lowell. Fay issue : Henry 
Hapgood, born 27 Dec, 1885, a graduate of the Lowell High School, 
class of 1903. 

3 Emma H.' was born 2 June, 1851, in Lowell, Mass. She grad- 
uated from the high school, Manchester, in 1870. She has been for 
many years a teacher in the public schools of that city, which is her 
home. 



FAMILY 241: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. SAMUEL-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-3(i, NATHANIEL-54 
EBENEZER-113. 

JAMES PERLEY was born in Salisbury, Mass., 20 June, 1806. 
He was a Methodist clergyman, and preached ' at Alexandria and 
Charlottesville, Va. He married, in Alexandria, Elizabeth Watts 
Cook, who was born in 1803. He died in Charlottesville 9 April, 
1849. His widow survived him till 17 Sept., 1871, dying then in 
Alexandria. Six children were born in Alexandria, the last in 
Charlottesville. 



382 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

1 Perley children: Alcinia Virginia'% James Edwin'-, James-405, 
Sarah EHzabeth^ William Ebenezer', B. Eranklin'^ Annie Elizabethl 

2 Alcinia V/ was born 25 Oct., 1829, and died 8 March, 1872; 
James E.\ 10 Feb., and died in Aug., 1832; Benj. F.\ 7 March, 1842, 
and died in July, 1849; Annie E.\ in 1848, and died 29 April, 1849. 

3 Sarah E.^ was born 10 Sept., 1835; Wm. E.S 27 Aug., 1837. 



FAMILY 242: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUKL-3, JOHN-13, SAMlJEL-3(), NATHANIEL-54, 

SAMUEL-114. 

SAMUEL PERLEY was born in Newbury, Mass., in 1804, (the 
Newbury records say 20 June, 180(5). tie went with his father's 
family to Londonderry, N. H., in 1813; in 1815, to Steubenville, 
Ohio; in 1S16, to Harrisburg, Pa., and was there left behind, when 
the family after a stay of nine years, in 1825, removed to New York 
City. In Harrisburg, he entered apprentice to the art of printing, 
and had for a "companion piece" a man who was later Hon. Simon 
Cameron, President Lincoln's Secretary of War. At the end of his 
service he went to Washington, D. C, and worked on the National 
Intelligencer. About 1831, he began for the Methodist Book Con- 
cern, New York, as printer in charge of the publishing department. 
He was intimate with Horace Greeley, who advised a union of inter- 
ests in the Tribune; but Mr. Perley, in 1841, went to Erie, Pa., and 
established the Chronicle, a Whig paper, which he published some 
thirteen years or more. From 1851 he served as prothonotary for 
Erie County for three years, and declined a second nomination prof- 
fered by his friends. In 1855 he gave the Chronicle to his son 
James, and removed to Girard and established the Republican. It 
was from Mr. Perley's carriage that Mr. Greeley entered the car of 
Abraham Lincoln, who was journeying to Washington to be inaugu- 
rated. That occasion, previously arranged, was the first meeting of 
Mr. Perley and Mr. Lincoln. At Girard, Mr. Perley was offered an 
Indian Agency (which then "rated worth a fortune") which he de- 
clined. He was then offered a clerkship in the War Department, which 
he accepted and occupied till his death. 

The following is taken from the Erie Gazette: — 
"At the age of ten years he removed with his father to Harris- 
burg, Pa., where he learned the art of printing from James Peacock. 
It was there that he made the acquaintance of his life-long friend, 
Simon Cameron, who was in the same business. He afterwards 
removed to New York City, where he married Miss Frances McCart- 
ney, a life-long member of the Methodist church, and a sister of Rev. 
Dr. Francis McCartney of the Baltimore Conference, in which city 
he was a pastor until his death in 1875, nearly 20 years. After nine 
years spent in New York as editor of the publications of the Metho- 
dist Publishing House, he was offered a partnership by Horace 
Greeley in the establishment of a paper, which he declined. After- 
wards, upon Mr. Greeley's advice, he came to Erie in 1840, and 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 383 

established and published for 16 years the Erie Chronicle, a zealous 
advocate of Whig principles. 

"In 1851, after a spirited campaign, he was elected prothonotary 
of Erie County, and served for three years. Upon the expiration of 
his term in 1854, transferring the Chronicle to his eldest son, Jas. P. 
Perley, he removed to Girard, and taking charge of the paper there, 
issued the Republican, one of the earliest distinct Republican papers 
in northwestern Pennsylvania. Upon Gen. Cameron's appointment 
as Secretary of War in 18G1, Mr. Perley was given a responsible 
position in the War Department, and since that time has almost 
continually resided at Washington city. 

"On the evening of the 23d of December, returning to his resi- 
dence, he took supper as usual and sat up reading till 10 o'clock, 
when he retired. At midnight he awoke complaining of pain near 
the heart, and before a physician could arrive he quietly passed 
away. Thus closed the active, useful life of one who may well be 
called a pure, honest and upright man; one whose good deeds were 
always quietly and unostentatiously done, while his whole life was 
marked by modest. Christian love for all. Mr. Perley had ten chil- 
dren, of whom three sons and three daughters survive, James P., in 
the Treasury Department at Washington ; F. M., proprietor of the 
Franklinville Argus, and Seth Todd, a lawyer of this city; Mrs. Mary 
Charles of Washington, D. C, Lucy, in the home mission work of 
the Presbyterian Church, and Fanny, now a missionary in India." 

Mr. Perley married in New York City Frances Eliza Macartney 
of Maguire's Bridge, Ireland, who was born 14 
Feb, 1810, at King's Gate near Dublin, Ireland, to 
Francis, a linen draper, and Mary-Henderson Ma- 
cartney. Her father was a merchant in Philadel- 
phia, Pa., at the time of his death. She died in 
Washington, D. C, 12 June, 1877, where also Mr. 
Perley died 23 Dec, 1881. 

This family name belongs to the Anchinleck 
branch of the ancient Scottish family of Macart- 
ney. George Macartney, P3sq., married, 1522, 
Margaret MacCullogh of Fleet Bank, Kirkcud- 
bright. . . . George Macartney of Lissa- 
noure, Antrim, Ireland, was an envoy extraordinary 
to Russia in 1764, negotiated an alliance between 
Russia and England, was created Earl of Macartney, ^^^^^'^^^^tney arms. 
in the Irish peerage and was a member of the British Parliament for 
many years." 

1 Perley children: James Peacock-406, Samuel Thomas Barrett", 
Mary Lucy'', Francis Macartney-407, Catherine Ann"*, Lucy Balch^, 
Mary Jane", Seth Todd-408, Sarah Lydia^ John Macartney^ Julia 
Carter^ Fannie Amanda". 

2 Samuel T. B.^ was born 14 P'eb., 1831, in New York City, and 
died in June, 1851. He was a young man of rare accomplishments 
and fine ability. He began his career on the New Orleans Picayune 
and served only long enough to show a future rich with promise. 
He lies buried in Greenwood Cemetery, New York. 

3 Mary L.^ was born in 1832 and died in 1833. S. Lydia' was 




384 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

born 14 April, 1842, and died in 1853. John M/ was born in 1844 
and died in 1846. Julia C.^ was born in 1848 and died in 1849. 

4 Catherine A,' was born 26 Dec, 1835, and in 1868 married 
John Dodsworth of Erie, Pa. She died 30 May, 1880, having had a 
son Richard. 

5 Lucy B.^ was born 6 Jan., 1837. She was a school teacher in 
New York City and at one time engaged in missionary work in Utah. 
She resides, unmarried, with her sister, Mary J., in Glen Echo, Md. 

6 Mary J.^ was born 26 May, 1839, and married in 1874 Richard 
Adair Charles, who is employed in the Internal Revenue Bureau of 
the Treasury Department, Washington, D. C. Their postofifice is 
Glen Echo, Md. 

7 Fannie A.' was born in Erie, Pa., in 1851. She was a teacher 
and missionary and died unmarried in Washington, D. C, 29 April, 
1897. She was for years a missionary in Minpooria, British India, 
for the Presbyterian Church; she then served with her sister Lucy 
B. in Utah ; later she lectured in the interest of the Board of Mis- 
sions. The New York PZvangelist of May, 1897, is cited for further 
particulars of her work as a missionary and lecturer. Her death 
was partly due to a railroad accident while traveling on one of her 
lecturing tours. 



FAMILY 243: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUI'X-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, NATHANlEL-54, 
NATHANIEL-114. 

CHARLES PERLEY was born in Newburyport 10 June, 1811. 
He went with the family to Londonderry, N. H., Steubenville, Ohio, 
Harrisburg, Pa., and reached New York City in 1825. There he 
made his home. " He was fourteen years old, poor and ignorant, 
having spent eleven years in the West, where it was as hard to get 
schooling as it was to get money. In the city he snatched up six 
months' schooling and then was apprenticed for his parents' relief 
and his own. He became an iron founder and a machinist. Having 
attained his majority he set up housekeeping, and his business pros- 
pered. He located in the vicinity of the shipyards and became con- 
nected with ship building. Mr. Perley received thirty-five patents 
of the United States government for labor-saving devices and ma- 
chines on shipboard. At one time hardly a vessel left a wharf of the 
metropolis without bearing some token of his originality. He was 
proprietor of the Eckford Iron Works, where the most noted of his 
inventions was conceived and produced, the submarine gunboat, 
called ths "Torpedo-boat." After twelve years of perseverance in 
a legal contention with the United States government for the 
validity of his "torpedo" patent, the government acknowledged his 
claim, as may appear by an examination of documents in the office 
of the Secretary of the Navy. 

Mr. Perley was elected an assessor of his ward for 1845, and to 
the Legislature for 1848 and 1849, when he assisted in electing Wil- 




MR. AND MRS. CHARLES I'ERLEY. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 385 

liam H. Seward to the national Senate. He was elected school 
trustee fifteen successive years, and a trustee of the Dry Dock Sav- 
ings Bank for more than thirty years. In religion he was Methodist 
and was a ruling elder. He was a solid, progressive, genial, Chris- 
tian gentleman. 

He married 9 May, 1832, in New York City, Mary Jane Matthews, 
who was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, 1(5 April, 1813, to Thomas, 
a merchant, and Mary-Keys Matthews. She came with her parents 
to New York at the age of fourteen. Mr. Perley was taken sick 
Saturday and died in New York Monday, 15 June, 1885, of hemor- 
rhage of the liver. His widow died in Rockville Center, L. I., 4 
Nov., 1901. 

1 Perley children, born in New York City : Edward Matthews- 
409, Charles Sabatton-410, Joseph Livermore-411, William Balch', 
Isabella-, John Keys-4r2 and Henry Clay^ Lucy l^alch"* and Char- 
lotte Eliza^ Mary Jane*^ and Adeline Deamond", Hamilton Fish^ and 
William Henry Seward'-, four pairs of twins. 

2 William B.^ was born 12 July, 1838, and died an infant. Isa- 
bella' was born 30 Nov., 1839, and died 29 April, 1852. William H. 
S.' was born 30 April, 1851, and died an infant. 

3 Henry C.^ twin with John K.', was born 13 Dec, 1842, in Elev- 
enth Ward, New York City. He was educated in the public schools. 
When eighteen years of age, he enlisted in the Union Army, 9th 
Regt. N. Y. Vols. He became associated with Col. R. C. Haw- 
kins, Gen. Ed. Jardine and Col. E. A. Kimball, in the organiza- 
tion of the well-known Hawkins Zouaves, and accompanied that regi- 
ment to the field as lieutenant of Company F. Mr. Perley served 
with the regiment in the Virginia and North Carolina campaigns 
under Gen. A. E. Burnside, being with his company at Big Bethel, 
Roanoke Island, Camden and Newbern. Upon Gen. Burnside as- 
suming command of the Army of the Potomac, the 9th N. Y. Vols, 
was transferred to the Virginia Department, and was engaged in the 
battles of Fredericksburg, South Mountain and Antietam. Col. Per- 
ley returned to his city and was mustered out as captain with the 
regiment. 

He served seven years in the National Guard of New York as 
captain, major and lieutenant colonel. He was councilman of Nine- 
teenth Ward in 1868; alderman, 1878, 1879, 1880 and 1881, and was 
very popular, having a constituency of 32,000 voters; was chief clerk 
in Police Court from 1 Jan., 1882, to 1 Jan., 1895, from which position 
he retired by reason of failing health. Col. Perley has always been 
an active Republican, earnest in advocating the principles of his 
party, and has represented his district on the County committee for 
twenty years. He was a member of the executive committee of the 
County committee, and chairman of the printing committee for ten 
years. He has officiated on the State committee two years or more, 
representing the late Judge Solon B. Smith. He has attended every 
State and National convention from 1876 to 1893, either as delegate, 
alternate or visitor. He was a Republican Candidate for governor in 
1884, and candidate for County clerk in 1888. He has been thirty 
years a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was com- 
mander, three years, of E. A. Kendall Post, No. 100, of the National 





386 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Guards, and eleven years commander of Reno Post, No. 44, of the 
Grand Army of the RepubHc, and is now a member. He led the 
Post in the grand parade at New York City in 1877. He has never 
married. 

4 Lucy B.' was born in New York 8 April, 1847, married in Nov., 
1875, Hugh Howard Penny of Pennsylvania and died in Hagers- 
town, Md., 6 Nov., 1880, leaving no children. He has married again. 

5 Charlotte Eliza^ was born in New York City 8 April, 1847, and 
married 16 Feb., 
1871, Ira Benedict 
Betts, a cashier, born / y ^ ^^ ^y 
in Lewisburg, N. Y., iyC'^P'cy'^'^ ^'^ 
to Benajah Tay- 
lor and Emily-Sey- 
mour Betts. Their 

, • -NT -^7-1 Written about 1881. 

home IS New York 

City. Issue: Charles Darling, born 20 Feb., 1873, died 25 Dec, 
1888; Ralph Perley, born 19 Nov., 1874, died 10 June, 1889; Ira 
Benedict''; Frank Taylor, born 18 March, 1877; Emily Ada, born 19 
Jan., 1879; Lucy Penny, born 18 Nov., 1882; William Henry, born 

17 March, 1884; Robert Jefferson, born 9 June, 1886. 

6 Mary J.^ was born 24 Nov., 1844. She married 21 Nov., 1865, 
Robert Jefferson Wright, born in Flushing, Long Island, N. Y., 8 
July, 1842, to Benjamin B., a farmer, and Eliza Ann-Miller Wright. 
Some years ago Mr. Wright was engaged in the flour and grain 
trade in New York City. Their home is Rockville Center, Long- 
Island. Their children, born in New York City, are Harry Perley, 
born 21 Dec, 1866, and unmarried; Lillia Ann"-; Robert Jefferson, 
born 1 Nov., 1875, who was a commissioner of correction during 
Mayor Strong's administration and was a trustee of the Dry Dock 
Savings Bank and died; Phoebe Ann"; Mary Jane, born 8 Nov., 
1879; Claude Vincent'-; Florence Grace'*; Mabel Josephine, born 16 
Jan., 1886; Benjamin Birdsal, born 25 Dec, 1889. 

7 Adeline D.', twin with Mary J.', born 24 Nov., 1844, married 

18 July, 1871, Luther Wise of Washingtonville, N. Y., a merchant, 
born 26 Aug., 1844, to John, a farmer, and Phebe-Wood Wise. He 
died 5 May, 1894. Mrs. Wise is living in New York City. Wise 
issue: Jessie Perley, born in Flushing, N. Y., 2 Feb., 1874, who 
married 27 Sept., 1899, James Bruce Crawford (born in Ingersoll, 
Ontario, Canada, 23 Aug., 1872, to Thomas and Anne-McMulkin 
Crawford and died 20 Dec, 1899) and resides in New York; George 
Howard, born in New York City 17 Feb., 1876, who married there 
4 Oct., 1899, Charlotte Elizabeth Frame of that city, born 10 Sept., 
1874, to John, a builder, and Delia-Mack Frame, where they reside. 

8 Hamilton F.' was born 30 April, 1852, a twin with Wm. H. S-. 
He married 3 June, 1893 (New York records: 9 June, 1892) Lucie 
Wheeler Brock, born in Troy, N. Y., 7 Nov., 1858, to Leonard Len, 
a leather merchant, and Elizabeth-McCorkel Brock. They have no 
children. He is a machinist by trade, which he learned of the 
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, N. H. Return- 
ing to New York, he was appointed engineer in the Fire Depart- 
ment, in which he was a captain many years, rendering valuable ser- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 387 

vice in saving property and life. He was foreman of engine com- 
pany No. 39, of the paid department, and led his company in the 
grand parade of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1877. 

9 Ira Benedict^ born 9 July, 1875, married 6 April, 1904, in 
Ridgefiekl, Ct., Matilda Hilton Benedict, who was born in Ridgefield 
20 Nov., 1880, to William Andrew, a farmer, and Frances Eliza-Frost 
Benedict. Mr. Betts graduated from public school No. 39 in New 
York, 1891; from Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, architectural course, 
1897; and Institute of Technology of Boston, architectural course, 
1899. Since then he has been closely connected with and instru- 
mental in building a great many of the large edifices all over the 
United States. [The immigrant ancestor of the Benedict family 
was Thomas, who was born in Nottinghamshire, England, and came 
over in 1683. The Betts family began here with Thomas, who was 
nineteen years old when he came over in 1G18. He founded Guil- 
ford, Ct., 1630.] Their child is Ira Benedict, born 31 Aug., 1905. 

10 Lillia A."^ was born 16 Jan., 1873. She married in New York 
City 16 Jan., 1895, Horace Wilson Northrop, a dentist in New York 
City, who was born in Ridgefield, Ct., 11 Nov., 1864, to Linus 
Olmstead and Margaret Wallace-Holmes Northrop. Northrop issue : 
born in New York City: A son born 26 and died 30 March, 1896; 
Robert Wright, born 7 March, 1905. 

11 Phoebe A.*^ was born 12 April, 1877. She married in Ocean- 
side, N. Y., 29 June, 1904, Rev. Charles Herbert Scholey, a Presby- 
terian minister, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, 11 Dec, 1871, to 
George Barrett, a merchant, and Margaret Isabella-Amos Scholey, 
Rev. Mr. Scholey received degree A. B. from Western Reserve Uni- 
versity, 1895; degree A. M., Columbia University, 1897; degree 
B. D., Union Theological Seminary, 1898. He was assistant pastor 
of the City Park Branch of First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, 
N. Y., and is now (1905) of the East Harlem Presbyterian Church, 
New York City, which pastorate he has held since 1 May, 1901. 
He is the author of " Prodigal's Prayer," 1900, Fleming Revell Co., N.Y. 

12 Claude V.* was born 20 March, 1880. He married Florence 
Stafford Engels, who was born in Switzerland 11 July, 1878, to P'red- 
erick William and Ellen-Stafford Engels. Mr. Wright is a merchant 
in fertilizers. They reside in Rockville Center, L. I. Wright 
issue: Ruth Engels, born in New York City 24 Sept., 1901. 

13 Florence G.*^ was born 28 Jan., 1883. She married in Hemp- 
stead, N. Y., Monday, 5 Oct., 1903, Charles Cyril Hendrickson, who 
was born in Brooklyn 31 Oct., 1874, to Increase Carpenter and Al- 
verda Elizabeth-Keach Hendrickson. Father and son are dealers 
in building material. Charles C. resides in Rockville Center, L. I. 



FAMILY 244: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16. THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57, 

ISRAEL-115. 

CHARLES STRANGE PERLEY was born in Maugerville, 
N. B., 11 April, 1796. He was named for his grandmother Strange. 
"He left his native Province," says the Brantford Courier, "at an 



388 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

early age, and with his mother and uncle, Joseph Tisdale, went to 
Upper Canada in the year 1801, and settled at Vittoria, in the 
County Norfolk. Early thrown upon his own resources he was 
largely the architect of his own fortune. He took to the life of a 
farmer, and continued to follow it with other branches of business 
all through his life." At one time he owned a thousand acres of 
land, on which he built a flouring mill. Some years before his death 
he sold the entire property. 

" Shortly after his first marriage, he settled at Ancaster, where 
he resided for seven years. He inherited all the United Empire 
Loyalist love for the British flag and British institutions, and was at 
all times prepared to defend them by word and deed. Though young 
at the time of the war of 1812, he volunteered for active service and 
took part in the battle of Lundy's Lane, and was also present at 
Stoney Creek. In 1832 he removed into the township of Burford, as 
a pioneer settler, where he resided till his death. In the Insurrec- 
tion of 1737 he was again out as senior captain of his regiment under 
Sir Allan McNab. Under the old militia system he was appointed 
captain in 1839 and passed through the grades of major, lieutenant 
colonel (appointed in 1849) and then colonel. He was, as captain, a 
member of the court-martial that tried the insurgents. He was 
brought a good deal in contact with the Six Nation Indians, and the 
good opinion they entertained of him led them to appoint him one of 
their chiefs. He was generous to the needy, judiciously charitable 
to the erring, and generously helpful as a neighbor or a friend. 

"He took an active part in the municipal and political affairs of 
the County, and filled the warden's chair." He served as shire-reeve 
and deputy shire-reeve more than twenty years, and retired in 1860. 

" In politics he was, on his mother's side, descended from the 
United Empire Loyalists, and an unswerving Conservative. Friend 
and foe alike knew where to find Col. Perley. Outspoken and prac- 
tical, his natural honesty of character led him to rebuke without 
hesitation what he considered mean, dishonest or untruthful. If 
this habit gave him some enemies it brought him many true friends. 
In him one of the high-toned old-school Conservatives has passed 
away, and his-place will not be easily filled. 

"Two events in the year 1879 tried him greatly and tended to 
break a constitution weakened with advanced years. In the month 
of May his dwelling house, 'The Oaks,' where for many years his 
numerous friends had enjoyed his hearty hospitality, was burned 
down during the night and he and his family escaped with scarcely 
more than their lives. In the month of November the unexpected 
death of his son Thomas proved a heavy shock, and one from which 
he never recovered. Though able to go about he gradually failed, 
and with one day's confinement to his bed he gently slept away into 
the sleep of death at a quarter to six o'clock, on the morning of Sun- 
day, the 19th day of January, 1879, at the ripe old age of eighty-two 
years, nine months and eight days. His remains were interred in 
the graveyard attached to Trinity Church, Burford, and were fol- 
lowed by a large cortege of sleighs nearly a mile long. He will be 
greatly missed in the community where he resided, and he carries 
with him to his grave the respect of all who knew him." 




COL. CHARLES S. PEULEY. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 389 

Col. Perley's first wife, married in 1820, was Elsie McCall, born 
to Col. Daniel of County Norfolk in 1800. She died in 1861, the 
mother of all his children. His second wife, born 25 Sept., 1815, 
married 25 Jan., 1866, was Winifred Maria Rapelje, daughter of 
Sheriff Abram A. and Sarah -Wycoff Rapelje, and widow of Quinton 
Hugh Barrett of County Norfolk. This lady is now living at the 
grand old age of about ninety years, with her nephew in Port Dover, 
Province Ontario. 

Mr, Perley, under date of 24 Aug., 1877, wrote: — "I am the 
youngest son of Israel who was the oldest son of Israel who went to 
the Province of New Brunswick about the year 1760 from Boxford, 
Mass. My father married Miss Hannah Tisdale in 1788. I was 
born in 1796, was brought to Canada in 1801, grew into manhood in 
what is now County Norfolk; and in 1832 moved into the township 
of Burford, where I have resided ever since. I have passed through 
many trying vicissitudes, and enjoyed many blessings from Provi- 
dence. 

"I married Miss Elsie, daughter of Col. Daniel McCall (a 
Scotch family), by whom I had a family of ten children. I buried 
my wife in 1861, married again in 1866, the widow Barrett, daughter 
of the late Sheriff Rapelje, County Norfolk. 

"Although at present in my eighty-second year, I am in posses- 
sion of all my faculties and enjoy very good health. I have been en- 
gaged all my life in farming and at one time very extensively — 1000 
acres of land. I built a large flouring mill — which I sold some years 
since. I bore arms in the War of 1812, for a short time, in defence, 
of course, of my country. I was appointed a captain in the militia 
in 1839, a lieutenant colonel in 1849, which office I now hold. I have 
been elected to serve in the County Council as reeve and deputy 
reeve — a service of twenty years, retiring in 1860." 

1 Perley children : Daniel-413, Helen'-, Elizabeth Mooers^ Alice^ 
Phoebe", Charles-414, WillianT*, Thomas-415, Allan Napier McNab", 
Charlotte Emily". 

2 Helen^ was born 4 Dec, 1822, in Vittoria, County Norfolk, 
Ont. She married in Burford, Ont., 20 Nov., 1844, as the second 
wife of John Choate, born in Glanford, County Wentworth, Ont., 9 
April, 1816, to Thomas and Annie -McArter Choate. Mr. Choate 
was a farmer. He was councilor and deputy reeve, justice of the 
peace, and senior major of the militia. Mrs. Choate died at the 
family residence "Brookside," Putnam, County Middlesex, Ont., 18 
May, 1888. Her husband died in Toronto, Ont., while on a Christ- 
mas visit, at the residence of John Kay Macdonald", 8 Jan., 1892. 
Choate children: John Erederick*^; Thomas Allan, born in township 
of Dorchester, County Middlesex, Ont., 7 April, 1854, died 26 March, 
1859; Charles Alfred'-'. 

3 Elizabeth M ^ was born 23 June, 1826, in Ancaster. Her first 
husband was Matthew Tisdale, who was born to Nancy-Swain and 
Lot Tisdale, a farmer, 10 May, 1825, in Burford, where he died, a 
farmer, 20 April, 1854. Her second husband, a widower and a 
farmer, married 1 June, 1858, was Samuel Hunt Park, who died 15 
Nov., 1860. Her third marriage 15 Nov., 1864, was with Thomas 
Nugent of Belmont. They lived in Brantford, Ont., where she 



390 THE PERLEY FAMILi^ 

died. She had only two children: Clara, born 29 April, 1852, and 
died in 1873; Alice, born 1 July, 1853, and died in Burford in 1854. 

4 Alice\ born in 1827, died, unmarried, while visiting in St. John, 
N. B., in 1851 or 2; William^ born in 1833, died in 1836. 

5 Phoebe^ was born 10 May, 1830. She married at Burford, Ont., 
2(3 Jan., 1858, John McLellan Smith, born in Islay, Scotland, to John 
William and Margaret-McLellan Smith. Mr. Smith was a lumber 
merchant, and ranch owner. He owned and operated at the same 
time five sawmills. His widow resides in Toronto. Their children: 
Charles Perley'"; Margaret McLellan, who resides with her mother. 

6 Allan N. McN.^ was born at "The Oaks," Burford, Brant 
County, Ont., 20 April, 1838. He married in Galb, Ont., 22 Jan., 
1882, Margaret Helen Tisdale, born at Oak Lodge, Paris, Ont., 2 
Nov., 1856, to Joseph Cleoden, a farmer, and Rachel-Carpenter Tis- 
dale. Mr. Perley taught school, was a telegrapher and a book- 
keeper. His last years were spent in farming. He died in Spring- 
ford, Ont., 23 Nov., 1894. His widow resides in Tilsonburg, Ont. 
Perley child: Agnes Helen, born in Paris, Ont., 12 March, 1883, 
entered in January, 1904, the Jewish Hospital, Avondale, Cincin- 
nati, Ohio, to study to become a trained nurse. 

7 Charlotte P3.' was born 20 June, 1841, in Ikirford, Ont., and 
married there 4 Dec, 1869, John Kay Macdonald, who was born in 
Edinburgh, Scotland, 12 Oct., 1837, to Donald, a merchant and 
farmer, and Elizabeth-MacKay Macdonald. Mr. Macdonald is treas- 
urer of York County and managing director of the Confederation 
Life Association. He is president of the Upper Canada Religious 
Tract and Book Society, and of the Children's Aid Society of 
Toronto. He was president, and is now first vice president, of the 
Ontario Lord's Day Alliance of Ontario and was till his resignation 
vice president and treasurer of the Upper Canada Bible Society. 
He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and for twenty years has 
been convener of the Assembly's Standing Committee of the West- 
ern Section of the Aged and Infirm Ministers' P\md of the Presby- 
terian Church in Canada; and has held many other positions con- 
nected with church and benevolent movements. Mrs. Macdonald, 
"a good true wife," died in Toronto 26 Aug., 1902. Their children: 
John Perley, born 26 Oct., 1870, a student, accidentally shot at a 
rifle range, died 26 July, 1887; Donald Bruce'^; Charles Strange'-; 
Charlotte Helen, born 10 Sept., 1875, resides with her father. 

8 John F.' was born in Putnam, Ont., 27 Jan., 1851. He 
married at Springfield-on-the-Credit 8 Oct., 1879, Georgina Helen 
Skynner, born at "Bleakhouse," Peel, Sheridan County, Ont., 11 
Feb., 1857, to John, early a sea captain, later a farmer, and Mary- 
Adamson Skynner. Mr. Choate is a graduate of Toronto Military 
College, and is major of the 20th regiment. He is a holder of long 
service medal of Colonial Auxiliary P'orces. He is Past Master of 
King Hiram's Lodge, Ingersoll, Ont. At present he is chief pro- 
vincial land inspector for Manitoba and lives in Arden. Their chil- 
dren, the first two born in Putnam, Ont., and the last in Arden: 
Mary Helen, 16 Nov., 1880; Louisa Harris, 5 Aug., 1882; Bessie 
May Wilmot, 6 April, 1893. 

9 Charles A."- was born in North Dorchester, Middlesex County, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 39I 

6 Oct., 1860. He married in Ingersoll, Ont., 21 March, 1888, Annie 
Revell, born in North Oxford 19 Oct., 1860, to Henry, a farmer, and 
Annie-Minty Revell. Mr. Choate is a farmer in Ingersoll. Their 
children: John Alfred, born 8 Sept., 1889; Frederick Henry, born 
31 Oct., 1890; Charles Allan, born 21 Nov., 1892. 

10 Charles Perley'' was born in Tilsonburg, Ont., 1 Sept., 1860. 
He married 22 Oct., 1908, at Toronto, Ont.. Mary Edith Graham, 
born in Toronto 31 May, 1874, to James Eliot, physician, and Mary 
Jane-Aikins Graham, daughter of Senator Aikins. Mr. Smith is a 
barrister and resides in Toronto. 

11 Donald Bruce' was born in Toronto, Ont., 24 Feb., 1871. 
He married in Montreal 26 Dec, 1900, Theresa Kate Parfitt, born 
12 Dec, 18 — , in Delaware, Canada. Mr. Macdonald is a clergy- 
man, and is principal of St. Andrew's College, Toronto. 

12 Charles S." was born in Toronto, Ont., 11 July, 1872. He 
married in London, Ont., 25 May, 1903, Ethel Margaret Magee, 
born in London 22 Aug., 1877, to James, Judge of Court of 
Appeal, and Susan-Bastedo Magee. Mr. Macdonald is a clerk of 
the Confederation Life Association. They reside in Toronto. 



FAMILY 245: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TnOMAS-4, THOMAS-IG. THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57, 

THOMAS-116. 

CHARLES PERLEY was born in Maugerville. N. B., and, an 
adult, was baptised 23 April, 1797. He was a lumberman. He was 
a number of years a member of Provincial Legislative Council, 
which service won him the title of Honorable. He resided in Wood- 
stock, where he died of cancer 23 Sept., 1877. 

He married 28 Nov., 1827, Margaret Jane Bedell, daughter of 
John, Esq. She died in Woodstock, mother of all his children. 
His second wife was widow Jane Morton, and his third, married 3 
Aug., 1871, was Mrs. Caroline A.-Bugbee Kelsey, daughter of Eben 
and Anna-Munro Bugbee, and widow of Isaac Stevens Kelsey, a 
merchant of Calais, Me., who married her 15 Aug., 1844, in St. 
Stephens, N. B., who was born in Portland 17 Sept., 1819, to Elias 
and Emeline Mowbry-Cross Kelsey, and who died of blood poison 12 
May, 1847. A wife died 2 June, 1860. 

1 Perley children : William Howard", Ann Maria'^ Louisa Jane^ 
John Bedell, Charles Allen. 

2 William H.^ never married and "died more than forty-five 
years ago." Louisa J.^ was born in July, and married Wm. Harri- 
son Smithson (so Mr, Hunt* says), son of a Methodist clergyman, 
and had Henry, who died young, and Bessie, who is with her par- 
ents in Ottawa. 

3 Ann M.^ was born in Woodstock, N. B., 5 Nov., 1828. She 
married there 14 Jan., 1857, George Claxon Hunt, born in St. John, 
N. B., 4 March, 1827, to George Claxon, mariner, and Philena-Rob- 
inson Hunt, who was a native of Bath, Me. Their home was Fred- 
ericton, where she died 15 March, 1900, where he is a druggist, and 



392 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

where their children were born: Mary Louise"; Ella Perley, born 22 
May, 1859; Bertha Isabella, born 30 Oct., 1863, died 31 Aug., 1804; 
Margaret Jane Bedell, born 6 Feb. and died 4 Sept., 1862; Gertrude 
Annie, born 7 Sept., 1866; Beesie Leel 

4 Mary L.'' was born in Fredericton, N. B., 21 Oct., 1857. She 
married there 30 June, 1881, James W. Davidson, an insurance 
agent, who was born in Newcastle, Miramichi County, N. B., 1 July, 

1854(.?), to Allen, a lawyer, and Travis Davidson. Their home 

is Newcastle. Davidson issue : George Allen, born 21 Jan., 1886, died 
in July, 1887; Marjorie Louise, born 2 March, 1887; Gertrude 
Hunt, born 3 July, 1889; James Warren, born 2 Dec, 1894; Wil- 
liam Harold, born 29 May, 1896; John Travis, born 12 Oct., 1897. 

5 Bessie L.^ was born 18 Dec, 1867, and married 21 June, 1893, 
Harrison Kinnear, who was born in St. John, N. B., 16 July, 1864 (.^), 
to F. C. and Margaret-Landsdown Kinnear.' Their home is Sydney, 
C. B. Kinnear issue: George Galland, born 23 Jan., 1898; John 
Harrison, born 3 Oct., 1901. 



FAMILY 2 16: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIliiM.\S-4, TUdMAS-lC. THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57, 

THOMAS-tlC. 

GEORGE SIMONS PERLEY was born in Maugerville, N. B., 
31 Dec, 1806. He was a farmer. He married 1 Dec, 1834, his 
cousin Augusta Sophia Perley-117'. She was born in Maugerville 10 
July, 1816, and died there 16 Feb., 1870, where he died, says one, 
"at his old home, 4 June, 1888"; another says, "29, May, 1889, aged 
eighty-two years." 

1 Perley children : Mary Frances", Charlotte Lovitt^ Walter Ed- 
win', Charles Augustus-416, Maria Euphemia^ John William-, Thomas 
Allen, Jenette Adelia'', Annie Plorence', William Smith, Louise'-, 
Alexander. 

2 Walter^ died in Austin, Rees River District, Nevada, of 
mountain fever, 15 Sept., 1864, and was buried there. J. Wil- 
liam^ was drowned while skating when a boy. Louise' died when 
six months old. 

3 Mary F.' was born in Maugerville 14 Dec, 1836, and married 
Thomas Clark Dykeman, a farmer of Upper Jemseg, Queens County, 
N. B., who was born in Jemseg in 1834, to Richard, a farmer, and 
Sarah-Clark Dykeman. She died in Jemseg 12 Dec, 1899, aged 
"sixty years," without issue. He married, second. Miss Lizzie Hat- 
field. 

4 Charlotte L\ was born in Maugerville 12 Nov., 1838. She 
married there 24 Sept., 1873, as the second wife of Frederick Den- 
ton of Scotchtown, N. B., a boat-builder, who was born in Maquapit 
Lake 26 Jan., 1819, to Samuel and Hannah-Thorn Denton. His 
first wife was Miss Mary Ann Springer. He died in Scotchtown 9 
Jan., 1896. His widow resides in Upper Maugerville, without chil- 
dren. 

5 Maria E} was born in Maugerville, and married in Jemseg 22 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 393 

June, 1869, Abraham Wood Dykeman, a farmer, of Lower Jemseg, 
where he was born to Barnett Manzer, a farmer, and Martha Sophia- 
Beyea Dykeman. She died 20 March, 1892, in St. John; he died 3 
June, 1905. Dykeman children: Barnett Manzer, a "deep-water cap- 
tain," drowned 5 Feb.-, 1901; Flora Augusta**; Louisa Rebecca, who 
died in St. John unmarried 9 March, 1905; Thomas Chalmers, who is 
an engineer, unmarried, in St. John; Walter Frederick, is a share 
owner in a mine in Colorado; Martha Sophia^; Ida Isabelle, who is 
unmarried in St. John. 

Jenette A.^ married in Fredericton 22 March, 1877, Rev. T. H. 
Porter officiating, John Robert Upton, brother of Letitia-llb. She 
died 28 April, 1892; he is living in Waterville, Me. Upton children: 
Augusta Sophia, born 12 April, 1879, married 12 Oct., 1901, Everett 
Wilson of Sabattus, Me.; Lillie Gertrude^"; Cora May^^; Hazel, born 
1 Sept., 1891. 

7 Annie F.' was born in Maugerville 18 July, 1855. She mar- 
ried in Fredericton, N. B., 7 Oct., 1880, Edward Arthur Nightin- 
gale, fireman, born in Queens County 24 Oct., 1852, to John and 
Rhoda-Jenkins Nightingale. Their home is Houlton, Me., where 
the first three of these children are living: Georgianna, born in 
Fredericton 20 Feb., 1882; Bessie Perley, born in Hartford, N. B., 
9 Oct., 1883; Frank Edward, born in Hartford 26 April, 1886; Gen- 
eva Pauline, born 23 Sept., 1891, died 22 Dec, 1893; Frederick 
Harold, born 20 May, and died 29 Aug., 1893; Charles Hazen, born 
4 Oct., 1895, died 17 April, 1896. 

8 Plora A.^ married in St. John 6 June, 1894, John Richard Rog- 
ers, a roller in an ironworks, who was born in Halifax, N. S., 6 Oct., 
1869, to William, a broom-maker, and Sarah-Langrell Rogers. Their 
home is St. John. Rogers issue: Hazel Pearl, born 29 Jan., 1896, 
died 4 May, 1905; Morris Ruffs, born 5 March, 1898, died 14 March, 
1904; John P'ranklin, born 7 Jan., 1900; Roland Leo, born 15 Nov., 
1901, died 19 March, 1904. 

9 Martha S.® was born in Jemseg 27 March, 18 — , and married 
in St. John 15 Nov., 1900, Alex. Beverly Young, a farmer, who was 
born in Jemseg 14 Jan., to John Colwell, a miller, and Martha-Burns 
Young. Young issue: Olive Louise, born 20 June, 1902, in Jemseg. 

10 Lillie G.'' was born 30 Dec, 1880. She married in St. John, 
Rev. J. W. Kelley officiating, 14 Dec, 1899, Samuel Lesley Jenkins, 
aged 32, of Coix Point, son of David and Sarah Jenkins. He is a 
railroad section "boss" in Cumberland Bay. Jenkins children: 
Hazel Augusta, born 16 April, 1901; Victor Gorden, born 18 Aug., 
1904. 

11 Cora M.« was born 23 June, 1885, and married 20 Oct., 1903, 
Walter W. Gower of Sherman's Mills, Me. Gower child: Walter 
Raymond, born 6 Aug., 1904. 



FAMILY 247: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. TH(1MAS-4, THOMAS-IO, THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57, 

THOMAS-116. 

THOMAS EDWARD PERLEY married Maria Grover. 

1 Perley children: John Allan'', Arthur Wallace'-, William'-, 
Mary E.-. 

2 Arthur W.' is in the State of Washington; William' and Mary 
E/ died in childhood. 

3 John A/ was born in Woodstock, N. B., 19 June, 1848. He is 
extensively engaged in the hotel and stage business in Andover, 
N. B., which he says in an advertisement, is "situated on the St. 
John river fifty miles from Woodstock, N. B., on the Canadian Pa- 
cific Railway, and is the starting point for the famous hunting and 
fishing grounds of the Tobique river." His hotel furnishes guides 
and canoes for sportsmen. He married in Andover 12 Jan., 1876, 
Hettie Pickard Gerry, who was born there 18 March, 1850, to Phoebe- 
Sloat and George E. Gerry. Perley children, born in Andover: 
Agnes Louise, born 19 June, 1877; George W.; Harold, born 24 
Sept., 1879. 



p-AMILY 248: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TnoMAS-4. TIUOIAS-IC, THOMAS 33, ISRAEL-57, 

SOLOMON-m. 

JAMES EDWIN PERLEY was born 22 Feb., 1805. He re- 
moved to Woodbridge, San Joaquin County, Cal., before 1822. He 
was State representative two years, and a State senator, which ofifice 
conferred the title of Hon. He, with his youngest daughter, went to 
New Brunswick on a visit to his old home and friends in lS(iS, 
where he died from a severe cold and congestion of the lungs 17 
June, within two weeks of their arrival there. 

His wife was Mary Ann McLaughlin, who was born 1 Oct., 1812, 
and died 15 Jan., 1879. The following is from a local journal: 

"At Woodbridge, Cal., on the 3d of January, after a brief illness 
of three days from a severe cold, Anna Augusta Perley, youngest 
daughter of the late Senator James E. Perley. It will be remem- 
bered that the deceased accompanied her father to New Brunswick 
in June, 18G8, on a summer visit to their friends, when death sud- 
denly terminated his existence within two weeks of their arrival. 

"Also at Woodbridge, Cal., on the 15th day of January, of con- 
gestion of the lungs, Mrs. Mary Perley, widow of the late James E. 
Perley. She leaves five sons and one daughter to mourn their loss." 

1 Perley children, the first five born in Maugerville, N. B., and the 
others in Fredericton: Henry Edwin'-, Solomon'^, Sophia F^liza^ 
Charles William^ P" ranees Amanda", James Albert'^ Allan Wilmot^ 
Anna Augusta^ James Frederic -417, George-418, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY ;^95 

2 Henry E.^ was born 31 Jan., 1829. He married in 1891 Selina 
Steele, now dead. He died in Stockton, Cal., 11 Feb., 1899. 

3 Solomon^ was born 5 July, 1831. He died, unmarried, in 1868 
or 1869 in Colorado. Sophia E.^ was born 29 April, 1833, and died 
15 April, 1837. James A.' was born 10 April and died 20 May, 1839. 
Anna A.^ was born 26 Aug., 1840, and died after an illness of three 
days, in Woodbridge, Cal., 3 Jan., 1879. 

4 Charles W.^ was born in Maugerville, N. B., 5 Feb., 1835. He 
married in Modesto, Cal., 13 Jan., 1884, Jane Mary Cookson, born in 
Freedom, Me., 20 Aug., 1862, to Rev. Thomas and Mary Jane-Pen- 
ney Cookson. Mr. Perley is a dealer in books and stationery in 
Modesto. Perley children: Harold Edgar, born 4 Nov., 1884; Mary, 
born 26 Oct., 1886; Charles, born 13 Dec, 1888; Walter, born 8 
March, 1902. 

5 Frances A.^ was born 26 March, 1837. She married about the 
year 1864 David Mitchell, who was born in Scotland and came to 
America when quite young, and died some years ago. She died 15 
P'eb., 1880. They had three children: Molly, who is not living, and 
Edward and May, who are living. 

6 Allan W.' was born 26 Sept., 1842, and marrying located in 
the West. 



FAMILY 249: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-l. TII()MAS-4, TH0MAS-1(5, THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57, 

SOLOMON-117. 

GEORGE AUGUSTUS PERLEY was born in Maugerville, 
N. B., 26 Sept., 1811. He was a justice of the peace, auctioneer and 
real estate agent and judge's assistant. The latter years of his life 
his work was mostly that of a justice of the peace. He is most 
widely known by his relation to a chart of the Perley F'amily, and 
as father of the Perley Family conventions. The chart referred to 
was begun probably by Thomas Perley-33 of Boxford somewhat prior 
to 1785, and later extended, by some one, to contain the male names 
of five generations. This chart Squire Perley essayed to extend to 
and include the latest member of the family. It was a laudable and 
painstaking task, and he succeeded in adding more than three hun- 
dred names. In 1873 he published the old chart with his additions 
in sheet form; in 1877 he published a second edition enlarged, in 
pamphlet form. Both were well received. He tells his own story 
in the St. John, N. B., Daily Telegraph of 24 April, 1*^77: — 

" THE PERLEY FAMILY TREE. 

"If the statement were made that all individuals on the continent 
of North America bearing the name of Perley were the descendants 
in a direct line of one common ancestor, who emigrated from Wales 
to the New World one hundred and thirty-eight years after its dis- 
covery by Cokmibus, it would be received with an incredulous smile, 
or an expression uncomplimentary to the sanity of the individual 
bold enough to venture such an assertion. Yet this is capable of 



390 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

demonstration ; in fact its truth has been established beyond the 
shadow of a doubt by Mr. George A, Perley of Fredericton, who has 
for many years been engaged in the laudable work of tracing back 
the family history of his kinsfolk, not with the vain expectation of 
discovering an estate in England, or a rich bonanza in America, but 
influenced thereto by an eager taste for genealogical investigations 
that had its origin in the possession of an old chart or family tree 
found among his grandfather's papers, and bearing date of 1785. 
The accuracy of this chart was tested in every possible way, and 
not an error detected therein; indeed its authenticity was fully 
proven by comparison with another chart sent to him by Dr. Perley 
of Lynn, Mass., that had been treasured in his family for nearly a 
century. And so Mr. Perley's self-inflicted but praiseworthy task went 
on for years, unknown to the outside world, yet of lively interest to 
every Perley in the land. Correspondence flowed in on him from 
all parts of the United States and the Dominion ; each letter supply- 
ing some missing link, or reconciling what for a time had seemed a 
contradiction, until in 1873, after years of study, Mr. George Augustus 
Perley of P>edericton, son of Solomon of the ()th generation, issued a 
printed chart of the Perley family in America, embracing the 
names of the male heirs of Allen Perley, a native of Wales, 
who emigrated to New England and arrived at Charlestown near 
Boston, on the 12th day of July, A. D. 1030. He removed from 
thence to Ipswich in 1634, and the year following married Susanna 
Bokenson, by whom he had four sons, whose male descendants down 
to the ninth generation are exhibited in the chart. Two facts in 
this connection may here be noted: John Perley was the first male 
child of European parents born in the town of Ipswich, in 1(536, and 
Israel of the fifth generation, was the first male child of European 
parents born on the St. John river, January 10th, 1755. Since its 
publication, the chart has been liberally distributed over the land 
wherever a Perley could be found, and its correctness authenticated 
by comparison with the family records and branch charts in nearly 
every State in the Union. 

"The following extract is clipped from the Charlottesville, Vir- 
ginia, Chronicle of March 16th recently sent to Mr. Perley:— 

" 'George A. Perley of Fredericton, N. B., away up yonder east 
of Maine, is a man who wants to know all about his kinsfolk from 
his primal ancestor, the original Allen, down to the latest infantile 
heir of the Perley name. He is cultivating a family tree which is 
spreading its branches in all directions, and bids fair to gather 
under its umbrageous shelter all the Perleys in all the States of all 
the nations in all the world. George A. Perley confesses that he is 
said to have "Perley on the brain," but asserts that inasmuch as he is 
a "double Perley," he has a right to be inquisitive in regard to the 
scattered members of the family, all of whom he purposes to gather 
together in a happy reunion at Ipswich, Massachusetts, in the balmy 
month of June. Now in his anxiety to ascertain the whereabouts 
of his relatives, it is natural to suppose that Geo. A. was attracted 
by the name of James Perley, when his eye fell upon it in print, as 
that of a man who lived in Charlottesville, Virginia, and he deter- 
mined at once to know more about him. So about six months ago 




GEORGE AUGUSTUS PERLEY, ESQ. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 397 

he opened a correspondence with our fellow citizen of that name, 
and upon information forwarded to him, came to the conclusion that 
our friend James must go down on the family chart, and attend the 
convention at Ipswich. In one of his letters he says : — 

" ' "I have puzzled my brain time and again to fit your family on 
its proper branch, and some ten days ago I bethought me of a letter 
I had in my possession from Charles Ferley of New York, and after 
comparing it with letters received from you, I do believe it is a clue 
to your family origin. Correspond with him at once, and he will be 
heartily glad to assist you, as he is very warm-hearted towards his 
relatives." 

" 'A correspondence followed, which fixes beyond a doubt the 
near relationship of Chas. Perley of New York and James Perley of 
Charlottesville, two individuals who, until very recently, had never 
heard of each other, for which acquaintance they are indebted to the 
genealogical taste and investigation of their industrious relative, , 
George A. of Fredericton, N. B., the man who is said to have " Per- 
ley on the brain." ' 

"The family name in Flintshire, Wales, is Ap-Perley, this being 
a common Welsh prefix, though Allan probably dropped it shortly 
after his advent among the stern iconoclasts of New lingland. The 
late Moses H. Perley, Esq., when on a visit to London some years 
ago, obtained from the Heraldry office, a copy of the Ap-Perley ar- 
morial bearings, and those members of the family who are anxious 
to possess a full description, can do so by communicating with their 
energetic kinsman at Fredericton." 

Squire Perley's greatest service to the family was in the creation 
of a sentiment for a Perley Family gathering. He was the father 
of the Perley Family Conventions, and as such will be held in kindly 
remembrance and high consideration. He was persistent in his pur- 
pose and effort. The kindly greetings at the Conventions, the inter- 
change of sentiments, the endorsements of purposes, and the mutual 
sympathies expressed,^ — all confirm to him his meed of praise. 

Mr. Perley removed to P'redericton 12 May, 1840, and became a 
"deputy sitting justice of the peace for the collection of debts and 
conveyancing." About 1857 he bought of a Mr. Lipsett a home, 
which some years later he remodeled. The engraving shows it as it 
was in January, 1905. Mr. Perley's office and auction and commis- 
sion rooms were in the Provincial building, near the Queen Hotel. 
In the building, according to a brass tablet upon it, was held the 
first Provincial Parliament. 

The walking stick mentioned on page 118 is thus explained by 
Mr. H. LeBaron Smith: Israel Perley made such use of a willow 
branch when returning from a trip along the Miramichi river, a dis- 
tance of some sixty miles. He planted it top down in front of his 
home, where it grew to an umbrageous size. It was called the "Per- 
ley Willow." The following Mr. Smith quotes from "The Centen- 
nial Loyalist Souvenir": "A number of trees, scions from the origi- 
nal willow planted at Maugerville, 1761, were planted in the old 
burying, ground [St. John, N. B.] Nov. 23, 1883. The first was 
dedicated to the late Canon Harrison of Portland, N. B., by the 
New Brunswick Historical Society; the second, by Mrs. Hathaway 



398 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



and daughters, to the late F. W. Hathaway; the third, by Mrs. Per- 
ley, to the late Wm. Colbrooke Perley; the fourth, by Henry Perley, 
to his late father, Moses Henry Perley; and the fifth to Moses Per- 
ley, father of Moses H. Perley, and the last was to Israel Perley, 
great-great-grandfather of Wm. Colbrooke Perley. The donor of 
these trees was Geo. A. Perley, Esq., of P^^edericton, a grandson of 




UKSniEXCE OF GEO. A. PEULEY. 



Israel Perley." Thus is shown Mr. Perley's love of his family name, 
and his desire to honor it and to perpetuate the honor. 

The Gleaner of Fredericton, his home, thus spoke of him : — 
"Israel Perley and his descendants have taken a prominent place 
in New Brunswick, but none of them have been more respected than 
the gentleman who passed to his rest on Sunday morning. George 
A. Perley was at one time actively engaged in commercial pursuits. 
He also took some interest in city politics and was an alderman of 
the city. His most prominent post was in connection with the Metho- 
dist church. He was chapel steward for many years, and secretary 
of the Sunday school for nearly half a century." 

The Reporter said: "He was a most active member of the Meth- 
odist Church, and held the office of trustee for many years. He 
was also secretary of the Sabbath school for more than thirty- 
five consecutive years, and when reading his annual report at the 
anniversary exercises two weeks ago, he appeared much affected, 
and in referring to his long service and then feeble condition, he 
said he would rather 'wear out than rust out.' His school records 
are of the most complete character and will be valuable for future 
reference. He served his country faithfully for many years as a 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 399 

magistrate, and his last duties were in connection with the recent 
election bribery case, which must have been a great strain upon his 
physical condition, especially as he held the poll himself on election 
day in New Maryland. At the great Perley reunion in Massachu- 
setts last summer, deceased was a most prominent member of the 
party, and the data supplied by him was considered of the utmost 
value and interest. Four daughters survive him and have the kind- 
est sympathy of the entire community in their bereavement." 

Mr. Perley married 13 Oct., 1837, Hannah Coburn, born in Shef; 

field, N. B., 3 June, 1812, to Moses and Barker Coburn. 

She died in Fredericton 16 Dec, 1874; he, 6 March, 1887. 

1 Perley children: Sophia Isabel'^ George Augustus", Moses 
Coburn'-, Charlotte Hayward^, Henry Allen'^, Helen Amelia", Alice 
Elizabeths 

2 George A.' was born 14 May, 1841, and died 9 Dec, 1842. 
Moses C.^ was born 24 P"eb., and died 5 Nov., 1843. Henry A.^ was 
born and died 20 Dec, 1847. Helen A.' born in 1848, and died 3 
Dec, 1887. 

3 Sophia I.' born 10 Aug., 1839, was a real estate agent and lived 
at home in Fredericton, till her death 3 May, 1902. Charlotte H.^ 
was born in Sept., 1844, and lived on the parental home till recently. 
Alice K.\ born in 1850, has a teacher's diploma, but prefers a respon- 
sible and lucrative clerkship in a dry goods house in I^oston, where 
she has been a number of years. 



FAMH.Y 250: MILES. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TU().MAS-4, TUOMAS-IG, THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57, 
SOLOMON-117. 

NANCY AMANDA PERLEY was born 19 April, 1817, and 
13 June, 1838, married Thomas Odber Miles, who was born 7 Nov., 
1817, to Thomas Odber and Sarah Ann-Carman Miles of Mauger- 
ville. He was a farmer in his native town. He died 1 July, 1880, 
and she, 4 Dec, 1891. 

1 Miles children: George Hayward'', Theodorus Clowes'^, Anna 
Julia Woodforde^ Thomas Odber", Adrianna Cecilia", Henry Smith- 
252'*, Charles LeBaron**, Frank Roswell,^ Arnand Raglan"', Sarah 
Ann-, Cora Gertrude", Murray Bliss^l 

2 Sarah A.' was born 28 March, 1857, and died 17 June, 1870. 

3 George H.^ was born 11 June, 1839. He married 29 Dec, 1874, 
Ada Charlotte Glasier, born in Lincoln, Sunbury County, N. B., 15 
June, 1856, to Duncan Dunbar, steamboat owner and transporter of 
lumber, and Sarah-Mitchell Glasier. Mr. Miles was manager of 
steamers for D. D. Glasier & Co. He died 18 April, 1896, in St. 
John, where his widow now resides. Miles children : Frederick 
bunbar'^^; Maud Amanda, born in St. John, N. B., 10 Nov., 1887. 

4 Anna J. W.^ was born in Maugerville 18 Feb., 1843, and 18 
P'eb., 18(53, in Maugerville married Charles McGibbon, who was 
born in Douglas 18 Oct., 1825, to John and Mary-Nevers McGibbon- 



400 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

57^ He was a farmer and lived in Douglas, where he died 28 Oct., 
1896, and she, 17 Aug., 1900. McGibbon issue: Malcolm Drum- 
mond, born b Dec, 1863, died 29 Nov., 1869; Agnes, born 6 Nov., 
1864, died 8 Feb., 1881; Harold Bruce, born 25 March, 1866, died 
15 Nov., 1879; Jessie Helena^°; Colin Frank^". 

5 Theodorus C was born 20 Feb., 1841, and married 28 March, 
1876, Isabel Scott Mclntyre of Richmond, Carleton County, N. B., 
who was born 25 Feb., 1844. Theodorus and his cousin, Walter 
Edwin Perley-246\ left for California 7 Nov., 1863, and arrived in 
San Francisco 20 December of the same year. Finding nothing 
sufficiently promising, they left the next year for Rees River, 
Nevada. There they engaged in silver mining with moderate suc- 
cess for a time. There, 15 Sept., 1864, Walter died of mountain 
fever and was buried in Austin. 

In April, 1866, Theodorus left Austin for Salt Lake City, where 
he remained long enough to see the city, Brigham Young and some 
other notables. He then went to Virginia City, Montana, and 
arrived about 1 May, 1866. There he remained, mining till 1872, 
when "he concluded," as he said, "that mining was not his forte." 
He then began freighting and made money; then he added specu- 
lating with success. He began horse-raising and hay cultivation in 
1876, and in 1878 he entered upon the business of sheep raising and 
wool growing. In 1868 he with a party of seven others visited The 
National Park and spent four months in surveying its wonders. 
Hostile Indians frequented that section then, but his party had no 
trouble with them. He wrote: "I held one end of the picket ropes 
that first told the height of the upper falls on the Yellowstone river. 
The lower falls we could not measure with our ropes: they were too 
short at one end by about 250 feet. The rope and a pocket foot- 
rule were our only means of measure." Mr. Miles' home was Silver 
Bow, Deer Lodge County, where he died 17 May, 1904. Miles 
issue: Charles LeBaron'^; John Clowes and a daughter (twins), 
born 19 Dec, 1878, the former livmg only two days and the latter 
till 2 Nov., 1880. 

6 Thomas Odber^ was born in Maugerville, N. B., 6 Dec, 1844. 
He married at St. John 13 Oct., 1880, Agnes Godard, who was born 
there 16 June, 1846, to John F., town clerk, and Isabella-McMackin 
Godard. About the time of his majority he went to Montana and 
engaged in mining about four years, when he began stock and hay 
raising and teaming. He is wealthy. This is his picture: Height 5 
ft. 11 in., weight 174 lbs., complexion fair, hazel eyes, dark hair. He 
uses neither tobacco, snuff nor liquor and inclines to the Episcopal 
Church. His home was Silver Bow, with his brother Theodorus. 
Children: Thomas Odber, 4th, born 17 Oct., 1882; (Hazel T., 
adopted, born 14 Feb., 1888); J. Frederick, born 12 Dec, 1888. 

7 Adrianna Cecilia^ was born in Maugerville, N. B., 5 Sept., 1846. 
She married 15 Sept., 1870, Charles F. K Dibblee, civil engineer, 
who was born in Woodstock Parish, N. B., 8 July, 1845, to Harry 
E., customs officer, and Charlotte-Ketchum Dibblee. Their children : 
Harrie Miles, born 9 Sept., 1871, a civil engineer in Ontario; Char- 
lotte Maud, born 9 Nov., 1872, died 20 P^eb., 1880; LeBaron, born 
28 April, 1874, an assistant pay clerk at Millinocket, Me.; Irvine, 




COLIN b\ McGiBUUN. 




CHARLES LeBARON MILES. C. E. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 401 

born 29 Aug., 1876, a bookkeeper in New York; Blanche Ketchum 
born 15 May, 1878, a stenographer ; Harold Bruce, born 6 Dec, 1879, 
civil engineer in British Columbia; Edmund Stone, born 18 June, 
1883, student in college, electrical department; Marion Grace, born 
29 Dec, 1884; Cora Woodford, born 23 May, died 23 Sept., 1887; 
Ernest Adrian, born in Oct., 1888, died 5 Aug., 1889. 

8 Charles LeBaron^ was born 7 June, 1850, in Maugerville, and 
married 11 June, 1878, Mrs. Wilhemina Louisa Florence-Nash 
Beardsley, who was born 17 April, 1850, in Poquioque, N. B., to 
Capt. William and Maria Louise-Grimsdick Nash. Her father was 
in the East Indian service. Mr. Miles is a civil engineer and early 
located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he was employed on the 
Canadian Pacific Railway. He now resides in Andover, N. B. 
Issue: Harold Roy'''; Vera Constance, born in Manitoba, 10 Feb., 
1881, died 27 Jan., 1895; Edmund Lancelet, born in Pt. Arthur, 
Ont., 10 Jan., 1883, is resident engineer on construction Canadian 
Pacific Railway new line from Sudbury to Toronto; LeBaron Per- 
ley, born in Rio du Camp, Que., 5 Feb., 1888; Helen Lois, born in 
Andover 5 Sept., and died 10 Oct., 1890. 

9 Frank RoswelP was born in Maugerville, N. B., 1 June, 1852. 
He married at St. John, N. B., 9 Nov., 1878, Ellen Murray Lawson, 
born at Coals Island, N. B., 17 Oct., 1852, to David and Eliza-Mur- 
ray Lawson. He has been many years engaged in ranching in Deer 
Lodge County, Mont. His present address is Kalispell, Mont. 

10 Arnand Raglan\ born in Maugerville 28 Sept., 1854, married 
20 Oct., 1880, Georgiana Harrison of the same town, born 15 Sept., 
1854, to Charles B. and Charlotte M. -Miles Harrison. He is a lum- 
ber surveyor. Their children, born at Maugerville: Frank Bruce, 
D. M. D., born 20 April, 1883; Edgar Stuart, B. A. I., born 10 May, 
1884; Kate Haws, born 9 March, 188G; George Harrison, born 30 
Dec, 1893. 

11 Cora Gertrude' was born in Maugerville, N. B., 29 July, 1859. 
She married there 1(5 May, 1883, William Edward Clowes, born in 
Fredericton 27 March, 1852, to Edward Allison, a lawyer, and Caro- 
line-Humphreys Clowes. She died in Deer Lodge, Mont., 9 April, 
1891. Mr. Clowes is a contractor and builder and resides in Butte, 
Mont. Children: Mabel Amanda, born 4 May, 1884; Theodore 
Miles, born 16 May, 1886, a graduate of Michigan Law School, Ann 
Arbor, with the degree of LL. B.; Edna AlHson born 3 July, 1888. 

12 Murray Bliss' was born in Upper Maugerville 15 Sept., 1863. 
He married in Butte, Mont., 8 Nov., 1887, Matie Euphemia 
Coburn, born in Dunkirk, N. Y., 20 Dec, 1865, to Frank and Mary 
Jane-Cross Coburn. They reside in North Yakima, Wash., where 
he is co-proprietor of Hotel Bartholet. 

13 P^rederick D.^ was born in Lincoln, N. B., 26 Dec, 1875. He 
is married and lives in St. John. 

14 Charles LeBaron^ was born in Silver Bow, Mont., 17 March, 
1877. He married in Butte, Mont., 22 Aug., 1898, Mary Ann Oak- 
ley, born in New York Mills, Minn., 14 July, 1882, to WilHam 
Andrew and Rachel Eunis-Harper Oakley. Mr. Miles is a graduate 
of Butte High School, class of 1895, and a farmer of Silver Bow. 



402 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Their children, born in Butte: Erna Ardis, born 3 June, 1899, died 
•25 July, 1900; Theodore Clowes, born 19 Feb., 1901; Lillian Ger- 
trude, born 26 May, 1903. 

15 Jessie H."* was born in Douglas, York County, N. B., 1 July, 
1876. She became a trained nurse. Alexander Pearson, born in 
Rochdale, England, 29 Oct., 1878, to William, M. D., and Betsy- 
Franklin Pearson, when but a boy, accidentally shot himself in the 
right arm near the shoulder, shattering the bone. While in the hos- 
pital Jessie H. McGibbon was his nurse. Five years after her grad- 
uation, 11 Aug., 1904, they were married in P'all River, their present 
home. 

16 Colin ¥.^ was born in Douglas, York County, N. B., 16 March, 
1883; his address now, at the age of twenty-two years, is 111 West 
Porphyry street, Butte City, Mont. 

The home of his childhood and youth was a farming community, 
and among the well-to-do people were his parents. There he learned 
to guide the plow, to cure the hay, and to garner the products of 
autumn, and in the district school there he acquired the knowledge 
that was to serve him in the business of his life. He was particu- 
larly fond of his rural home, its comforts, its pastimes, its tender 
admonitions and wise counsels, and there remained in filial fidelity, 
till its motherly light and love went out in death. 

When musing on companions gone, 
We doubly feel ourselves alone.— Scott. 

The year following his mother's death, he left — 10 Aug., 1901 — 
for the far-off West. He soon found himself in the midst of the 
great wheat fields of Minnesota. There he paused to take his first 
lesson in western wheat cultivation and the fashions of wheat farm- 
ers. He found there nothing particularly new, except that eighteen 
hours made a day's work instead of ten, to which he had been accus- 
tomed. Eighteen hours were too much for the eye-lids, the muscles, 
and general health, and two months of that fashion were ample for 
a life time. He left 12 Nov., 1901, for Montana. 

In that State he took his second lesson in western "ways and 
means." He became a ranchero upon the ranch of his uncle, T. O. 
Miles-250\ That did not prove to be his ideal; there was more 
money somewhere else for that amount of labor, and he owed it to 
his ambition to find the place. He labored two months for his uncle, 
and then went to Butte City, where 7 P'eb., 1902, he became a miner 
in the West Colusa mine. 

Mining was not exactly ideal, but "the yellow stuff" answered 
well the desire of his purse, the color of "old gold" fitted well in the 
eye, and paid best for the hours employed. There he delved two 
and a half years ; he piled his coffers with yellow rocks, and could, 
as the old "forty-niner" sung: 

A pocket full of rocks bring home. 

He had been temperate, prudent, judicious, diligent, and could 
well afford a day off; when a desire, strong and urgent, prevailed 
upon him to see the fair world at the World's fair, and to visit the 
old farm home in the East, fraught with so many pleasing and hal- 
lowed associations. 




MRS. ABNER BULL. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 403 

Homeward bound, he relayed eight days at the Fair in St. Louis 
— eight luminous days, the completest and grandest of his life. He 
arrived home 18 Aug., 1904. A few days later the venerable struc- 
ture, the home of his parents and his youth, with its wealth of cher- 
ished memories, burned to the ground, and six human souls per- 
ished in the; flames. The lapping flames with the wild cries for help 
presented a spectacle of intense anguish. He remained among his 
friends and relations, enjoying their association and hospitality 
about two months, when he returned to the mine. 

Mr. MacGibbon is not married, but is wedded to an ambition 
that will make him one of the wealthy citizens of the Great West. 

17 Harold Roy^ was born 14 March, 1879, in Manitoba. He 
married at North Bay 15 Feb., 1902, Margaret Alice Doran, born in 
Perth, Ontario, 22 April, 1874, to William, a judge, and Isabella- 
McRae Doran. He is now a resident engineer on the Canadian 
Pacific Railway at North Bay, having been rodman on B. & A., lev- 
eler on Washington County R. R., and transitman on the Algonia 
Central. Child: Mary Florence, born at North Bay, 20 Nov., 1903. 



FAMILY 251: BULL.' 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TnOMAS-4, TIlOxMAS-lG. THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57, 

SOLOMON-117. 

FRANCES ELIZABTH PERLEY was born 15 Feb., 1819. 
She married in Woodstock, N, B., 8 Jan., 1840, Abner Bull of that 
town, who was born 21 Dec, 1811, to George C, a farmer, and 
Nancy-McKeen Bull. They died — he 16 Jan., she 27 July, 1889, in 
Woodstock. 

[Mr. Bull's father, Capt. George Bull, was born in Ulster County, 
N. Y., in 1752. He was a "Loyalist," and late in the year 1780 was 
commissioned lieutenant in Capt. Nathan Frink's troop of cavalry, 
which served under Gen. Benedict Arnold at the burning of New 
London, Ct., where Capt. Frink was aide-de-camp to the general. 
Lt. Bull enlisted the greater part of his command ; he was sometimes 
detailed as escort to Madam Arnold, a lady of acknowledged refine- 
ment and beauty. Arnold, observed Lt. Bull, was not a confidant of 
the British officers'; they regarded him as a renegade. 

[Peace being restored, Capt. Bull retired to New Brunswick, and 
was placed on the half-pay list for life. About 1790 he settled at 
Bull's Creek, and the estate has been in the family name ever since. 
A small brass plate marked "Lieut. Bull, American Legion, Cav- 
alry," designated his army chest on all his campaigns and may now 
be seen at the door of the new house built by his son Abner, upon 
tlie old homestead. He was a useful and influential man, was 
wealthy for those days and filled various parish offices, his name ap- 
pearing first in 1792 as overseer of the poor. 

[Capt. Bull married in Nov., 1784, Nancy McKeen of Mauger- 
ville. They died — he 18 Oct., 1838, aged eighty-six years ; she 14 
Aug., 1855, aged eighty-seven years. Their children were William 



404 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Richard Howe, born 2 July, 1785, married Sally Ketchum and set- 
tled in Richmond; George Horatio Nelson, born 19 Dec, 1788, 
married Maria Smith, daughter of Capt. Jacob, and settled on her 
father's property, his house being the third built in the town ; Peter 
Duncan, born 3 Oct., 1791, married Eunice Beckwith, and settled in 
Presque Isle; Cadwallader Jarvis, born 10 Feb., 1795; Mary Ann, 
born 8 Feb., 1804, married Paul Micheau Bedell, and settled on a 
part of her father's farm; Warren Collingwood-llG"; Charles Coch- 
ran, married Mary Wolverton and lived in Northampton ; Abner. 

[Gray -haired report says that wars of words were frequent be- 
tween these two families of the old planters and the Loyalists. O, 
sure ! Note how they took hostages of each other — on the bond, 
vinculum matrimonii.] 

1 Bull children : George Harvey-, Mary Merritt^ Sidney Dennis- 
ton\ Sara Caroline^ Frederic Byron*"', Florence Augusta', Maria An- 
tionette**, Helen Louise'', Alice Bertha-', Edward Litton^ 

2 George H.^ was born in Woodstock, N. B., 8 Jan., 1841, and 9 
Nov., 1869, married Elizabeth [M.] Mclntyre of Richmond, N. B., 
who was born 17 March, 1845. He engaged in stock raising in 
Montana for some years with home in Butte City. At present 
(1904) he is mining. Issue: George Wakefield Clowes, born 24 
April, 1871, in Sheridan, Mont. Geo. H. remarks: "I have great 
respect for the Perley family for their brains. They were always 
looked up to and took a leading part wherever they were placed." 

3 Mary M.^ was born in Woodstock 17 May, 1843. She married 
25 Aug., 1864, Thomas Bradshaw Winslow, born in Woodstock 30 
May, 1839, to John Francis Wentworth and Jane-Rainsford Winslow. 
Their home is Fredericton, N. B., where Mr. Winslow is secretary of 
Board Works. Their children: Jane Francis^'^; Thomas Bruce, born 
27 Aug., 1867; Grace Elenora, born 20 Feb., 1878; Donald Bradshaw, 
born 9 May, 1883. 

4 Sidney D.' was born 21 March, 1846, and died unmarried. 
Helen L.^ was born 12 April, 1856, and died, unmarried, in Nov., 
1892. Edward L.^ was born 23 Feb., 1861, and died 27 Aug., 1862. 

5 Sara C.^ was born in W^oodstock, N. B., 15 May, 1848, and mar- 
ried 21 Aug., 1869, Thomas Mclntyre, born in Richmond Corner, 
N. B., 5 May, 1848, to Robert, a farmer, and Jane-F'leming Mclntyre. 
He died 8 Dec, 1897, in Richmond Corner, where his widow now 
resides and carries on the farm. Issue: Kathleen Isabella"; 
Alice Marion, born 5 Sept., 1872 ; Harold Perley, born 28 July, 
1874; Byron Woodbury, born 9 March, 1876; Nora Neals'^ Ruby 
Antionette^l 

6 Frederic B.^ was born 5 Jan., 1850. He married 2 Nov., 1882, 
Margaret E. Dibblee, who was born 28 April, 1852, to H. E. and 
Charlotte-Ketchum Dibblee. Their home is Woodstock, N. B. 
Issue: Norman Keith, born 10 Sept., 1884; James Allison, born 18 
Aug., 1886. 

7 Florence A.^ was born in Woodstock, N. B., 2 Jan., 1852. She 
married 17 Oct., 1893, in Toronto, Ont., and became the second 
wife of Charles H. Lyon Perkins, a farmer, born in Petersville 4 
April, 1857, to Charles T., a farmer, and Harriet Deborah-Lyon. 
Their home is Woodstock. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 405 

8 Maria A.' was bora in Woodstock, N. B., 28 Jan., 1854. She 
married 15 Sept., 1881, Frederick James Harrison, a farmer, born in 
Maugerville 12 June, 1857, to James, a farmer, and Hannah Bridges 
Harrison. He died in Maugerville 2 Oct., 1890. His widow resides 
in Fredericton. Issue: Herbert LeRoy, born 25 Aug., 1882; Archi- 
bald Douglas, born 2 Dec, 1883; Elbridge Thompson, born 28 Aug., 
1885, died 12 Nov., 1886; Helen Winifred, born 8 Sept., 1887; 
George Henry Sterling, born 17 July, 1889. 

9 Alice B.i was born 27 May, 1858, and married 7 Sept., 1882, 
J. Rice Tupper. They have had children. Brock, Nellie and 
Marjorie. 

10 Jane F.lwas born 19 Oct., 1865, and married 9 April, 1893, 
William Emile De Lisle Smith, secretary of the telephone company 
of Fredericton, who was born 11 Nov., 1858. They have one child, 
Winslow Ruggles, born 9 Feb., 1894. 

11 Kathleen I.*" was born in Richmond, N. B., 21 June, 1870, be- 
came a school teacher, and married in Richmond 24 July, 1901, 
Joseph Speer, a farmer, born in Speerville, N, B., 5 Sept., 1842, to 
John, a farmer, and Margaret-Hemphill Speer. Speerville is their 
home. Their children are: Stanley Mclntyre, born 15 May, 1902 ; 
Frances Perley, born 16 July, 1903. 

12 Nora N.^ was born 9 Jan., 1878, and married 20 Sept., 1903, 
Warren Perley Simmons, a carpenter, son of George and Caroline- 
Briggs Simmons. Their home is Dover, N. H., and they have one 
child: Ralph Woodbury, born 20 June, 1904. 

13 Ruby A.^ was born in Richmond, N. B., 21 Feb., 1880, and 
married there 20 June, 1900, Ernest Dufferin Haynes, a farmer, 
born in Plymouth, N. B., 3 Jan., 1874, to Robert and Elizabeth Jane- 
Wilson Haynes. Their home is Plymouth. Haynes children : Wil- 
frid Ernest, born 22 July, 1901; Hazel Evelyn, born 9 Sept., 1903. 



FAMILY 252: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TnOJIAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOJVIAS-33, ISRAEL-57, 
WILLIAM-118. 

WILLIAM EDWARD PERLEY was born in Maugerville 26 
March, 1815. His father died when he was but a lad, and his mother 
marrying again, he was brought up by his step-father in Blissville, 
where, arriving at manhood, he bought a farm and adopted farming 
as a life work. To farming he added the lumber trade, and in 1856 
he began statecraft. In each he was particularly successful. 

His first contest for a seat in the local Legislature was exceed- 
ingly gratifying: "he was elected at the head of the poll. The con- 
stituency elected two members. In his parish he got every vote, a 
most unusual thing." That seat he continued to hold for forty-four 
years, excepting one term when wanting four votes he was defeated 
by the duplicity of his colleague. During that time and by virtue 
of his elections he was several years a member of the Governor's 
Council, or as popularly called "The Government." "He was one 
of six members elected in 1866 out of a Parliament of forty-one 



406 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

members, in support of an Act for the Confederation of the British 
North American Provinces. 'The government' was defeated, but 
the next year Mr. Perley was successful and the confederating act 
was passed. Here his broad statesmanship and his incessant labors 
in behalf of the confederation commended him to a seat in the 
Dominion House of Commons, but his effort in that direction was 
unsuccessful and he continued in the provincial Parliament, by an- 
nual elections, till his age demanded a life of quiet free from care 
and fraught with the amenities of home." 

He was a very popular man. His long service attested his faith- 
fulness, his practical ability, his good judgment and his broad states- 
manship. One of his nephews wrote, "He looks out well for his 
constituency." 

He married 13 April, 1887, Sarah Hartt, who was born in Glad- 
stone, N. B., 25 Aug., 1814, to Thomas, a mill owner, and Phebe- 
Phillips Hartt-'254. She died in Blissville. His last years were 
quiet and retired. He died in Oromocto at the home of his daugh- 
ter, Mrs. Miles, 6 June, 1900, and is buried in the family plot at 
Blissville. 

1 Perley children : William Dell-419, George Hayward-, Thomas 
Endicott", George Albert-420, Charlotte Hayward421, Duncan Wel- 
lington", Lizzie Hartt", Daniel Edward", Annie Sarah Lovatt\ 

2 George H.^ was born 19 Dec, 1839, and died 17 Oct., 1840. 
Thomas E.^ was born 9 Oct., 1841, and lives, unmarried, in Oro- 
mocto. Lizzie H.' was born 13 Nov., 1848; is unmarried, a profes- 
sional nurse in Boston. Daniel E.^ was born 22 Sept., 1850, and 
died unmarried, 13 Oct., 1899. 

8 Duncan .W.^was born 10 Feb., 1847. He graduated at Eaton's 
Business College, St. John, N. B., about 1868. He went into White 
Pine County, Nevada, 30 Oct., 1872. He first engaged in stock 
raising. He was known on the frontier ^_^ 

as "a brave man." He was State senator .^^^^^-^^'^ y^ 

two terms, 1878 and 83. He was a rail- c--^" ^^^•^^^^<zx^>^ 
way contractor, superintendent of the con- ^^^^^^^^^^'^ 

struction of the Denver & Rio Grande 
Railway, and at the same time engaged in '^° " ^*'"^'" *^"* '^'^'^^• 
commercial business. His home is now in San Francisco. He has 
been gold and silver mining for years with varied success. His 
weight is 330 lbs. and is probably the heaviest Perley alive. 

He married 29 Nov., 1889, Miss Minnie Evangeline Wescott. 
They have had no children. Mrs. Perley is a graduate of Mills Col- 
lege, a superior ladies' seminary on the Pacific coast. She is an 
artist, and excels as a painter of china. "Perley gold" for hand- 
painted china is without an equal. She is a professor in Kermic 
Studio, and her pupils take high rank. 

4 Annie S. L.^ was born 31 Oct., 1857, in BHssville, N. B. She 
married there in Dec, 1885, Henry Smith Miles-250' who was born 
in Maugerville 3 June, 1848, and became a farmer there. He died 
in Oromocto 4 March, 1902. She married, second, in St. John 4 
Dec, 1902, Jacob Byron Grant, a real estate agent, who was born in 
Keswick, York County, 3 July, 1856, to Jacob, a farmer, and Jane- 
Kennedy Grant. Their home is West St. John, 




HON. DUNCAN W. PERLEY. 



FAMILY 253: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, Tn()MAS-4, TIIOMAS-16, THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57, 

WILLIAM-118. 

DUNCAN WELLINGTON PERLEY was born in Mauger- 
ville 31 Jan., 1817. He read law in New Brunswick, and went to 
the extreme West to practice. He settled in San Francisco, and 
"was considered one of the smartest lawyers on the Pacific coast." 
All the old miners of Nevada and California knew him, and said he 
was "dead sure to win his case." 

Mr. Perley married 13 April, 1852, an English officer's daughter, 
Louise Corbet Bingham of Detroit, Mich., who was born 2 March, 
1833, and died in San P'rancisco 30 March, 1856, where also he died 
8 Sept., 1874. 

1 Perley children : George Hayward"-, Cornelia Terry'l 

2 George H.\ born 18 Jan., 1853, died in Detroit 6 June, 1854. 
Cornelia T.\ born 29 Sept., 1855, died in San Francisco 23 June, 
18G4. 



FAMILY 254: HARTT. 



LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TII(tMAS-4, THOMAS-IC, THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57, 

WILLIAM-118. 

MARY ADELINE PERLEY was born 1 July, 1821, and 18 
Jan., 1840, became the first wife of Thomas Endicott Hartt, who was 
born 26 Aug., 1817, to Thomas and Phoebe Phillips-252, parish of 
Gladstone, Blissville, N. B. Mrs. Hartt died in Gladstone 10 July, 
1874. [Mr. Hartt had a second wife, Elizabeth Peabody of Lincoln, 
born 1 March, 1834, in Rushagonis, to John and Mary Ann-Smith 
Peabody]. Mr. Hart was a lumberman, is now a farmer and justice 
of the peace. 

1 Perley-Hartt children: David Wellington^ Edward Perley-, 
Alfred Ernesf*, Theodosia Adriana-. 

2 Edward P.\ born 25 Dec, 1847, is married and lives in Fred- 
ericton Junction. Theodosia A.\ born 1 Jan., 1860, married C. B. 
Lockhart and has a family in St. John. 

3 David W.^ was born in Fredericton Junction, N. B., 17 March, 
1843. He married in Fredericton 5 May, 1881, Charlotte Amanda 
Adams, a school teacher, who was born in Lincoln, York County, 1 
Sept., 1860, to George Martin, a farmer, and Mary-Hayward Adams. 
Mr. Hart was a merchant and died 25 Aug., 1901, in P'redericton 
Junction, where his widow resides and where their children were 
born: Thomas Byron, 20 March, 1882, who married 2 Sept., 1903, 
Helen Coleman Nason and has issue, Carrie Anna Bridges, born 17 
July, 1904; Mary Adeline, 31 March, 1884; George Martin, 13 
March, 1886; Olive Maude, 10 Jan., 1890; Zelda Beth, 15 Oct., 
1894; Lottie Beatrice, 27 Dec, 1896. 



408 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

4 Alfred E/ was born in Fredericton Junction 17 Oct., 1849. 
He is a provision dealer in St. John, West N. B. He married in 
Blissville, N. B., 20 May, 1885, Jannie Mersereau, who was born in 
Blissville 31 Dec, 1860, to Daniel Wood, a farmer, and Adaline 
Amelia-Smith Mersereau. Hartt issue: Jessie Adaline, born 20 
Jan., 1888; Gilbert Ernest, born 8 July, 1890; who are fitting for 
college at the high school of St. John. 



FAMILY 255: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS^. TnOMAS-lG, THOMAS-33, OLIVER-5S?, 

DANIEL-119. 

ISRAEL EDWIN PERLEY was born in Oueensbury, York 
County, N. B., 24 Oct., 1812. He was a farmer. He married 25 
June, 185(3, in Fredericton, Mrs. Jane-McAy Kelley, a dressmaker, 




MRS. ALEXANDER A. NEVERS. 



born in Glasgow, Scotland, 25 Nov., 1814, to Anthony and Elizabeth- 
McKnight McAy. He died in Plorenceville, Carleton County, 6 
Dec, 1884; she 19 Feb., 1891. 

1 Perley children : John Allen'-, Charlotte Augusta."^ 

2 John A,^ was born in Florenceville 8 Sept., 1851, and married 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 409 

in St. Stephen 24 Jan., 1885, Hannah Gibberson,born in Bristol, Carle- 
ton County, 20 May, 1865, to John Marshall, a farmer, and Lucy-Gallop 
Giberson. Their home is Florenceville, where he is a farmer. Perley 
issue: Gordon Allen, born 5 Aug., 1887, living in Arcala, Assiniboia, 
N. W. T.; Rosa Ann, born 7 March, 1889; George Albert, born 12 
March, 1890; Budd Roy, born 31 Jan., 1894; Frank Emery and Fay 
Fern, twins, born 28 Sept., 1896; Henry Ward Beecher, born 12 
April, 1898. 

3 Charlotte Augusta^ pictured on opposite page, was born in 
Oueensbury, N. B., 16 April, 1847. She married, first, 25 Dec, 1869, 
Sedgefield Douglas Shaw, a farmer, born at Middle Simonds, Carle- 
ton County, N. B., 24 May, 1847, to Abijah, a farmer, and Matilda- 
Drier Shaw. He died in Hartland, Carleton County, N. B., 10 Jan., 
1891. She married, second, in Florenceville 25 Dec, 1894, Alex- 
ander Albert Nevers, a farmer, born in Hartland 2 March, 1852, to 
Alexander Peters and Mary Elizabeth-Hayden Nevers. Mrs. Nevers 
is a tailoress by trade. Shaw issue : Mattie Marretta, born in Middle 
Simonds 28 Sept., 1885, and died 9 April, 1895, at Hartland. 



FAMILY 256: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4. TIIOMAS-IC, THOMAS-33, OLIVER-59, 

I)ANIEL-119. 

FREDERIC ADOLPHUS PERLEY was born 1 Jan., 1818, 
in Queensbury, N. B., where he was a farmer, and died suddenly 22 
May, 1879. His first wife was Mary Harmony (or Hannah) Mooers; 
his second, married 25 March, 1846, was Jane Atherton, who was 
born 26 Aug., 1819, to Peter and Mary-Carle Atherton, in Queens- 
bury, where she died 5 Dec, 1874. 

1 Perley children: Albert^ Thomas Hayward'^, Henry Allison^, 
Lewis Benjamin^ Annie Mary'"'. 

2 Albert^ was at one time in Michigan. Annie*' has not heard 
from him for thirty years. 

3 Thomas H.^ was born 9 Aug., 1847, in Oueensbury, N. B., and 
is a farmer and lumberman in Bear Island, York County. He mar- 
ried 21 Feb., 1877, at Bear Island, Annie Long, born at Macnaquack 
River 26 Feb., 1854, to Abram, a farmer, and Sarah-Miles Long. 
Perley children : Bessie'; Fannie Miles, born 19 Nov., 1882; Mary 
Ruth, born 24 Sept., 1893. 

4 Henry A.^ was born in Oueensbury, N. B., 5 March, 1849. 
He married in the Parish of Kingsclear, York County, 18 June, 1875, 
Eliza Hammond, who was born in Kingsclear 18 Sept., 1852, to 
Eleazer Slocum and Sarah-Kilburn Hammond. Their home is Cal- 
gary, N. W. T., Canada, where Mr. Perley is proprietor of the 
Alberta Hotel. No children. 

5 Lewis Benjamin^ was born 16 Dec, 1850, in Oueensbury. He 
is a house carpenter and resides in Fredericton. He married 20 
June, 1876, in Fredericton, Eliza Jane Scarr, born 29 Aug., 1850, to 
Joseph, a shoemaker, and Mary-Coulson Scarr of the same place. 
Perley child: Lewis Coulson, born 19 Jan., 1882, in Fredericton, and 



410 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

graduated at the high school in 1900. His present address is Monc- 
ton, N. B. 

b Annie Mary^ was born 4 Oct., 1853, in Parish of Queensbury. 
She became, 14 June, 1877, the second wife of Moses Byron Mc- 
Nally, a farmer, born in Queensbury 29 Oct., 1854, to Moses, a 
farmer, and Frances-Kilburn McNally. Their postoffice address is 
Kingsclear, N. B. Issue: George Frederick, born 29 June, 1878, a 
Bachelor of Arts of University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, and 
now a teacher in Moncton High School ; Frank Leslie, born 2 Nov., 
1879; Jean Francis, born 9 Dec, 1881; Percy Byron, born 21 Jan., 
1887, who has graduated at the Fredericton High School, and 
expects to enter the Pennsylvania University, Department of Den- 
tistry, this fall (1905). 

7 Bessie'^ was born 13 Jan., 1878, and married 20 June, 1900, 
Brock Marven Hagerman, carpenter, born in Bear Island to Alfred 
and Annie-Ingraham Hagerman. They reside in Houlton, Me. 



FAMILY 257: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-l.TnOMAS-4, THOMAS-IO, THOMAS-33, OLIVER-59, MOSES-120. 

"MOSES HENRY PERLEY was born in the parish of Mauger- 
ville, County of Sunbury, New Brunswick, 31 December, 1804. He 
was, through his mother, a grandson of Israel Perley, the leader of the 
party which, emigrating from Massachusetts, then an English col- 
ony, settled on the river St. John in 1762-G3, in that part now known 
as Maugerville. 

"Israel Perley was accompanied to New Brunswick by his brother 
Oliver, and Moses, the son of the latter, married Mary (his cousin) 
the daughter of the former, and had issue Charles who died in in- 
fancy, and Moses Henry, the subject of this sketch, who was a post- 
humous child, his father having been accidentally killed before his 
birth. For a few years he lived in Maugerville, and then with his 
mother — who was a woman of a very strong and marked character — 
moved to St. John, where he received a common school education. 
Having adopted the profession of law he was admitted an attorney 
of the supreme court in 1828, and called to the bar in 1830. 

"He married 14 Sept., 1829, Jane, daughter of Isaac Ketchum, 
one of the Loyalists who is 1783 abandoned their homes and prop- 
erty in the United States and made a new home for themselves in 
New Brunswick, near Hampton Ferry. By her he had eight chil- 
dren, all of whom, save the eldest — the writer — have passed away. 

"During 1835-37 my late father engaged heavily in milling, lum- 
bering and coal mining enterprises, which were attractive at that 
time, but he was not fortunate in his ventures, which turned out dis- 
astrously, and he lost much money by them. 

"In his early years he was fond of the woods, and when but a 
youth he engaged in the purchase of furs, often making long trips 
in a canoe up the St. John and its tributaries, accompanied by an 
Indian as his guide and motor power, in search of furs, which he 
paid for in silver dollars; and he has more than once told me that 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 411 

when he left on such trips he often had enough money to tempt a 
man to make away with him, which could easily have been done, for 
the country was then unsettled and the inhabitants scarce. It was 
then he made the acquaintance of the Maliceets, which lasted until 
his death. 

"For many years in after life he spent his holidays in fishing and 
shooting, and thus became acquainted and familiar with the princi- 
pal rivers, streams and lakes of his native Province, and kept up and 
enlarged his friendship with the Indians, who made him their 'white 
chief,' and he for many years acted as intermediary between them 
and the provincial government. I have his commission as ' Nunjeet 
Sachem' of the whole Micmac nation, dated 7 Sept., 1841, and there 
was a similar commission as 'Chief Sachem' of the Maliceet tribe of 
about the same date, but I have every reason to believe that it was 
burned in the fire in St. John in 1877. I am personally aware that 
in 1839 he was a 'chief,' and can well remember his appearance 
when clad in his dress, etc., which he wore on a few occasions. I 
have in my possession a silver medal, three inches in diameter, dated 
1840, on the edge of which is engraved: 'From Her Most Gracious 
Majesty to M. H. Perley, Chief Sachem of the Maliceets and Wun- 
jeet Sagamore of the Micmac Nation.' 

"About 1844 he was appointed immigration agent at the port of 
St. John, N. B.. and held that office until 1857 or 58. 

"In 1846 her majesty's government having undertaken an explo- 
ratory survey to ascertain the practicability of constructing, through 
New Brunswick, a railway from the eastern coast of Nova Scotia to 
Quebec, Mr. Perley was directed by the lieutenant governor of New 
Brunswick . . . 'to make certain inquiries in regard to the re- 
sources of the country traversed by the railway, and the means it 
would be likely to afford of rendering them (sic) more extensively 
available, not only to the people of the Province, but to those of the 
' United Kingdom.' The report on these inquiries is dated January, 
1847, and includes a report upon the several counties in the Prov- 
ince, with reference to the trade, agriculture, fisheries, resources 
and capabilities, and as an appendix a 'report on the Forest Trees 
of New Brunswick.' 

"In 1849, in accordance with instructions from the lieutenant 
governor, my father submitted a ' Report on the Sea and River Fish- 
eries of New Brunswick, within the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Bay 
of Chaleur.' In 1851, he presented a further 'Report upon the 
Fisheries in the Bay of Fundy,' and in that report submitted a 'Cat- 
alogue (in part) of the fishes of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.' 

"For many years my father took much pains in gathering infor- 
mation relative to trade and commerce, and this led to his being ac- 
tively engaged with others in the collection of statistics of trade 
between the United States and the colonies (Canada), and in per- 
fecting those measures which ultimately led to the treaty of 1854, 
between Great Britain and the United States, known as the 'Reci- 
procity Treaty,' and so highly were his services appreciated by Lord 
Elgin, then governor general of Canada and her majesty's govern- 
ment, that immediately on its ratification, he was, in 1855, appointed 
the commissioner on behalf of the British government to carry out 



412 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

its terms, being — it is believed — the first instance of any native-born 
colonist, without imperial interest, or imperial connection, being ap- 
pointed to an office of such responsibility and distinction. Of the 
manner in which he discharged the important, and at times delicate 
duties of his office, the continued confidence of her majesty's gov- 
ernment under succeeding administrations is the best proof, and had 
he lived to have completed his labors, he would no doubt have re- 
ceived a marked proof of approbation. 

"In 1836, as her majesty's immigration officer at St. John, N. B., 
he issued in England 'A Handbook of Information for Emigrants to 
New Brunswick,' describing tersely the Province, its climate, popu- 
lation, resources, fisheries, forests, agricultural facilities, mines and 
minerals, etc. 

" His pen was never idle, and for years he contributed articles to 
the papers of the day, all of which are now extinct — bearing on mat- 
ters political, historical, and of general interest and importance; but 
he never sought for political honors or place, being content with ren- 
dering assistance to those whose political views and opinions were 
endorsed by him. 

"At the time of his death he was in discharge of his imperial 
duties, and was on board her majesty's steamer Desjoerate, that ves- 
sel having been detailed for his use by her majesty's government. 

"About 1 Aug., 1862, he was seized with gastric fever, and after 
some days of illness apparently recovered, but a relapse took place, 
and death ensued on the 17th. His remains were interred with 
naval honors in the Episcopalian burial ground at Forteau, on the 
coast of Labrador, north of the Straits of Belle Isle. 

"My father was a true son of New Brunswick, and had ever and 
always her interests and those of her people at heart. In his lec- 
tures and addresses, which were many, his theme was always an 
instructive one, and had reference to or a bearing on his native 
Province; and whether he treated of her history, her woods, her 
rivers, her resources, he could always hold an audience attentive and 
silent. 

" Possessed of an imposing presence, a remarkable memory, per- 
fect command of language, the power to express his views, knowl- 
edge and sentiments clearly and tersely, and a rich and sonorous 
voice, he was always able to please an audience as a lecturer, and 
when practising as a barrister to impress a jury. He was a man in 
advance of his time, and in many things (notably railways and facili- 
ties for improving the movement of articles of traffic) he was an 
enthusiast; and could he have lived to take a part in the movement 
which led to confederation in 1867, the leaders of that movement 
would have had his willing and powerful assistance and hearty sup- 
port." 

The above is a very apposite and tender tribute of his son Henry, 
as published in the St. John Sun. We may add: the railway con- 
vention at Portland, Me., in June, 1850, was brilliant with a galaxy 
of business men and capitalists. The purpose of the convention was 
an international route from that city via Bangor and St. John to 
Halifax, N. S. There was no abler advocate of the project than Mr. 
Perley. His breadth of thought, the future of his vision, his practi- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 413 

cal knowledge of the country and its resources and needs, the solid- 
ity of his plan and purpose, eloquently expressed, showed the man, 
intellectually and intelligently, as imposing as his presence. The 
route was incorporated by the name he gave it. His brilliant con- 
ception of the hour was long since fully realized. 

History speaks of the "Ashburton treaty," by which the bound- 
ary between Maine and New Brunswick was established in 1842. 
Daniel Webster and Lord Ashburton were the commissioners. Mr. 
Perley was quite literally "The power behind the throne"; and, 
as Mr. Webster once said, "not to speak of matches and over- 
matches," the Queen got all that belonged to her." 

The following tribute is by I. Hamilton Pay: 

"Mr. Perley, after a few years' practice in the law, devoted his 
attention more to other pursuits, principally the establishment of 
mills and the incorporation of companies for utilizing the vast lum- 
bering interests of the country. This brought him greatly into 
contact with the enterprising business men of Maine and other New 
England States, by whom he was greatly esteemed and his talents 
appreciated. 

"His habits were extremely active and the knowledge, acquired 
during his sporting excursions, of the sea and river fisheries of Brit- 
ish North America, ultimately led to high preferment from the Brit- 
ish government. 

"Mr. Perley was a genial, warm-hearted, generous and hospitable 
man, of great literary tastes, a good writer and pleasant companion. 

"On all public questions tending to the ultimate advancement of 
his native Province, and the consolidation of British North America, 
he was largely in advance of the age in which he lived. He was an 
enthusiast in matters of progress and a warm supporter of liberal 
and enlightened institutions. He took an active part in the early 
establishment of the Mechanics' Institute at St. John, contributing 
to its popularity and success by a series of instructive lectures. 

"Mr. Perley never filled any local or municipal ofitice in his native 
Province; his feelings and aspirations were more cosmopolitan than 
local; his energies sought a wider sphere. Had he lived till the 
Confederation of Canada, his extensive knowledge of her harbors 
and her resources would have commended him to high place among 
her public men." 

Rev. W. O. Raymond, D. D., of St. John, N. B., writes many 
things written above, and further says: "Mr. Perley was a remark- 
able man. . . . The Indians were greatly attached to him. As 
Indian commissioner he befriended them from time to time. Per- 
haps his interest in the native Indians was stimulated by an unfortu- 
nate accident that occurred when he was about nineteen years old. 
While engaged in target-practice, with one Wm. Munford, they 
chanced to shoot and fatally wound an Indian. They were tried for 
manslaughter, found guilty and fined — Perley ;^10 and Munford 
£,b. The Indians cherished no resentment, evidently satisfied the 
occurrence was accidental. 

"In recognition of his services and ability in collecting and com- 
piling trade and other statistics with Hon. Daniel Webster and other 
eminent public men, prior to the treaty of 1854, Lord Elgin, Gov- 



414 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

ernor General of Canada, appointed him a commissioner to carry the 
treaty into effect. 

"It is said that he knew more about Canadian fisheries than any 
man before or since. He was the best living authority of his time 
on early New Brunswick history, and delivered many lectures on the 
subject. He was at his best on the platform, always a most popu- 
lar and interesting lecturer. In 1861 he edited The Colonial Empire, 
published in St. John." 

The Dictionary of National Biography calls Mr. Perley a " Cana- 
dian commercial pioneer." 

While sometime sojourning in London, England, on her majesty's 
colonial business, Mr. Perley, attracted perhaps by a similarity of 
names, visited a family residing there by the name of Apperley. 
The acquaintance thus made ripened in cordial friendship, and Mr. 
Perley ever visited there whenever in the capital city. On one occa- 
sion when he was about to leave, the family entrusted to his keeping, 
as a mark of consideration and esteem, a copy — a pen and ink sketch 
made by Miss Apperley — of their armorial bearing. It was hardly 
in their power to show him greater respect. 

Mr. Perley married 17 Sept., 1829, Jane Ketchum, who was born 
in 1805 to Isaac and Betsey-Hoyt Ketchum of Hampton, N. B. 
She died of old age in July, 1877. He died 17 Aug., 1862. 

1 Perley children: Henry Fullerton-422, George Hayward423, 
Charles Edwin", Mary^ Ada C.^ Allan'-, William Colebrook'', Arthur 
Blackwood'-, Francis E.'^ 

2 Charles E.' was born 16 Nov., 1834, and died 6 Oct., 1835. 
Allan^ was born 18 Jan. and died 29 March, 1841. Mary^ was born 2 
Aug. and died 3 Nov., 1836. Arthur B.' was born 16 Feb., 1847, and 
died 24 July, 1870; Francis E.^ "died in infancy." 

3 Ada C was born 13 April, 1838. She married 31 Oct., 1860, 

Richard Simonds, son of Charles and Gilbert Simonds of 

Portland, Me. They resided in St. John, where she died 24 Dec, 
1865; and he 9 Sept., 1866. They had no issue. 

4 William C.^ was born 29 Jan., 1842 or 41. He married 14 Oct., 
1869, Annie E. Hatheway, who was born 16 Dec, 1850, to F. W, 
and S.-P. Hatheway of Fredericton. Their home was St. John, 
where he was a barrister, and died 15 Dec, 1879. She died without 
issue. 



FAMILY 258: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIIOMAS-4, TIIOMAS-IG, THOMAS-33, ENOCH-61, JOHN-122. 

AUGUSTUS PERLEY was born in Bridgton, Me., 13 (Ingalls 
Journal, "18") July, 1813. There he made his life-long home. He 
entered into a copartnership titled Perley & Stiles, and they manu- 
factured house-wrights' supplies, doors, sashes, blinds, etc. He 
retired from the business some years before his death, which occurred 
in Bridgton 20 Feb., 1885. 

Mr. Perley married 13 Feb., 1838, Rachel G. Andrews, born in 
Vermont 20 Jan., 1817. Her father died when she was a child, and 
she was brought up by her great uncle, Lt. Andrews of the Revolu- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 415 

tionary army. She died 1 March, 1859. Mr. Perley's second wife, 
married 80 July, 1861, was Angela McLellan Cleaves-56'', born 17 
July, 1839, in Portland, Me., to Nathan, a merchant, and Nancy- 
McLellan Cleaves. She resides in Woodfords, Me. 

1 Perley children: Frederic Augustus'^, Annette Elisabeth^, 
George Putnam^ Ella Annette^ 

2 Frederic A.^ was born 15 Dec, 1847, and died 16 Sept., 1866. 
Annette E.^ was born 14 Sept., 1841, and died 2 Dec, 1848. 

3 George P.^ was born in Bridgton, Me., 18 June, 1858. He 
graduated in medicine in Portland, Me., 1878, and practiced in 
Charlottesville, Va., and in 1891 in Chippana, Iowa. His health fail- 
ing, he bought a high-class fruit farm in Woodstock, Conn., and 
resides there. He married in Bridgton, Me., 16 Aug., 1886, Isabel 
P'ogg, who was born in Bridgton 18 Jan., 1862, to Adeline P.-Cass 
and Albert Fctgg. Their children: Adeline, born 1 May, and died 
in Aug., 1888; Donald, born 17 Nov., 1889; and Helen, born 1 Jan., 
1894. 

4 Ella A.i was born 12 March, 1853. In February, 1880, she 
went to Cape Colony and was there until June, 1887, coming home 
for a year in the meantime. She taught in the Huguenot Seminary 
at Wellington, sixty miles inland from Cape Town. The school was 
not a mission school, but a seminary — now a seminary and college 
for young ladies, founded after the Mt. Holyoke system, adapted to 
suit the ways of the country. 



FAMILY 259: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16. THOMAS-33, ENOCH-61, 

THOMAS-1J3. 

SAMUEL FARNSWORTH PERLEY was born in Naples, 
then the southern part of Bridgton, Me., 30 June, 1817. He suc- 
ceeded his father upon the old homestead and became a progressive 
farmer, endeavoring to improve the methods, the breeds of stock 
and the quality of fruits. 

He spent the winter of 1874-5 in the South for his health. He 
then returned to his farm, but was obliged to retire in the winter of 
1878-9. The local journal printed the following tribute to his 
worth : — 

"On Wednesday morning, at his home in Naples, died Hon. 
Samuel V. Perley, at the age of sixty-four. Although he had long 
been in failing health, and of late his condition had grown so much 
worse as to indicate a speedy dissolution, yet when the end came, 
the news fell with a sudden and heavy weight upon his many per- 
sonal friends and the general public. 'A strong man has fallen,' and 
his departure has left a void which will long be felt by the com- 
munity in which he so long dwelt, and with whom his name was a 
tower of strength whether in church or state, in business circles, or 
in private social life. But he is gone, and it but remains to us to 
speak in a general way, as our limited data at this time will permit, 
of the lamented dead. 

"Mr. Perley was born in 1817, on the old homestead where his 



416 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

whole life was spent. He was one of ten children, and only two sur- 
vive — Dr. Thomas Perley of Naples and Mrs. Elizabeth Blake of 
Pennsylvania. He was educated at the Bridgton and Gorham Acad- 
emies, and was fitted for college. He, however, chose no profession, 
but devoted himself to agriculture, which he studied, theoretically 
and practically, with unwaning enthusiasm, to the end of life. He 
was president of Cumberland County Agricultural Society, a mem- 
ber of agricultural societies throughout the State; was trustee of the 
Maine State Agricultural College in Orono, from its founding to 
1874; he also took a prominent part in local and general movements 
and enterprises pertaining to farming and its kindred branches, and 
was looked up to as authority in these matters. Though having no 
natural inclination to politics, Mr. Perley, as a Republican, was 
four times elected to the Legislature, serving in both branches, he 
receiving the support of many voters of different political faith from 
his own, they feeling that he was 'the best man' they could select, 
one who would further the interests of all his constituency. There 
as elsewhere, he 'acted well his part,' filling his positions with char- 
acteristic ability. He was selectman in 18G7. In religious affairs 
he was an active, useful and faithful worker, and the Congregational 
Church and Parish at South Bridgton lose in him a most valued and 
worthy member. He had a love for literature and books, which his 
wealth enabled him to gratify; he was a practical surveyor, and for 
many years he cheerfully acceded to the frequent requests of his 
townsmen and other citizens, to run lines, and, as a justice of the 
peace, to make out instruments in real estate transfers and other 
legal business transactions, and to settle questions of disputed boun- 
daryUines. At his attractive and beautiful homestead, were wont to 
gather the cultured and educated from abroad; while his neighbors 
and townspeople, whether rich or poor, he always 'met on the level' 
in genial and kindly fellowship. 

"Mr. Perley nearly twenty years ago was severely injured by 
being caught on the shafting of a mill, and was carried many times 
round with fearful velocity, his escape with his life being little less 
than a miracle. He afterward was badly hurt by a fall. From the 
effects of these two accidents he never fully recovered, and they 
doubtless were the indirect cause of his last years of suffering and 
his passage to the tomb ere the full measure of his years was filled." 

He married 14 Feb., 1842, Hannah Pierce Griswold, who was 
born 12 Dec, 1817, to Dr. Oliver and Sarah-Fessenden Griswold of 
Fryeburg, Me. She died 24 May, 1843. He married, second, 
Almira Titcomb P'itch-260, 25 Nov., 1847. She was born 9 Sept., 
1819, to Judge Luther and Almira-Titcomb Fitch of Portland. She 
survives her husband, who died in Naples 4 May, 1881. 

1 Perley children : Mary Griswold", Augusta Anne^ Ellen Fes- 
senden'-, Enoch'-, Alice"-^. 

2 Mary G.,^ born in Naples 19 Dec, 1842, lives in Andover, Mass.; 
Augusta A.,' born 28 Sept., 1848, died 31 Oct., 1865; Ellen F.,iborn 
30 June, 1852, died 18 June, 1859; EnochS born 24 Feb., 1856, died 
26 Nov., 1863; Alice, born 18 Feb., 1860, died 16 June, 1863. 



FAMILY 200: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16. THOMAS-33, ENOCH-61, 

THOMAS-1^3. 

HENRY ENOCH PERLEY was born in Bridgton, Me., the 
part now Naples, 15 Jan., 1823. His home was Bridgton. In 1856 
he was a merchant of the firm Perley & Cram at Central Wharf, 
Portland, Me. He married 19 June, 1851, Mary Titcomb P'itch, 
born in Portland 8 Jan., 1831, a sister to Almira-259. He died in 
Portland 31 March, 1860. 

1 Perley child: George Allen, born 18 Sept., 1856, and died 14 
March, 1858. 



FAMILY 261: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, 5^H()MAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOMAS -33, AAROX-t)2, 

ISRAEL-lli5. 

AUGUSTUS PERLEY was born in Salem in 1816. He was a 
professional teacher of penmanship in New York City. His wife, 
married 29 May, 1842, was Miama Adelaide Cole, a music teacher, 
born 2 Aug., 1817, in Philadelphia, Pa., to Isaac Packard and Phebe- 
Spalding Cole. She died 14 Sept., 1849, in New York City, where 
Mr. Perley died 31 Dec, 1851. 

1 Perley children: Thomas Augustus-424, Mary Adelaide", Isaac 
Shepard Cole-425. 

2 Mary A.^ was born in Scotch Plains, N. J., 14 June, 1847, and 
is living unmarried in Boxford. 



FAMILY 262: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIIOMAS-4, TUOMAS16. ASA-35, DUDLEY-63, .TOHN-l'JT. 

BENJAMIN SPAULDING PERLEY was born in Winchen- 
don, Mass., 20 Feb., 1798. At the age of three years he went with 
his parents to Unity, Me. When of age he bought the farm adjoin- 
ing his father's and made it his home. To his home he was strongly 
attached, and was seldom away more than a few days at a time. 

Mr. Perley was a citizen respected and valued ; his opinions were 
formed and expressed without fear or favor. He made a partisan- 
ship, so to speak, of what he considered right, with a corresponding 
persistent opposition to what he thought wrong. He was socially 
inclined, but not a great talker. He was an earnest, active Chris- 
tian. He was a deacon in the Congregational Church of Freedom, 
Me., from its organization, 1858, till his death. 

He married 25 Nov., 1821, Rhoda Alexander Raymond, who was 



418 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

born 13 July, 1791, to Lemuel and Roxanna, of Bowdoin. She died 
5 Aug., 1866; he 12 Aug., 1873. 

1 Perley children: Dorcas Knowles'^ Abbie Raymond'^, lantha 
Adelia^ Sarah RandalP. 

2 Dorcas K.^ was born 2 Sept., 1822. She married 4 April, 1850, 
Cyrus Shaw King, who was born 2 Sept., 1818, to Samuel and Sarah- 
Hall King of Paris, Me. He was a printer. They lived in Portland 
till the fall of 1866, when they removed to Washington, D. C. She 
died 20 F"eb., 1900. King children: Metella, born 26 May, 1851, a 
school teacher, residing unmarried in Washington; Theo. Ingalls'; 
Alice Adeha, born 29 March, 1858, and died 22 March, 1859. 

3 Abbie R.' was born 14 March, 1826. She married 19 May, 
1855, Alexandei: Bunker Worth, born 10 April, 1812, to Henry and 
Persis-Bunker Worth of Vassalboro, Me. He was a farmer in Vas- 
salboro, till they removed to Unity in the spring of 1865. She died 
17 May, 1895; he 9 Aug., 1904. Worth children: Lizzie Abbie"; 
George Perley, born 6 Feb., 1859, in Vassalboro, and died 18 April, 
1863; George Edward''. 

4 lantha A.' was born 10 Dec, 1827, and died unmarried 6 April, 
1884. Sarah R} was born 5 April, 1832, and resides unmarried in 
Freedom, Me. She merits thanks for her interest and labor in 
gathering material for the family. 

5 Theo. L**, born in Portland, Me., 12 Feb., 1854, married in, 
Washington, D. C., where she was a music teacher, 4 Feb., 1885, 
Cora Hodgkins, born in Schoharie, N. Y., 4 Feb., 1860, to David, a 
farmer, and Harriet Eliza-Shears Hodgkins. Their home is Ken- 
sington, Md. Mr. King graduated at Columbian University, 1874, 
with first honors of his class. He took his Master's degree by exam- 
ination. He spent several years studying and teaching music. In 
1891 he was appointed to a position in the United States Naval 
Observatory, where he rapidly rose to be assistant astronomer, the 
highest open to civilians. King issue: Esther, born 21 Jan., 1887, 
died 12 Feb., 1897; George Allen, born 22 Feb., 1889; Howard Per- 
ley, born 17 Feb., 1890; Raymond Cyrus, born 6 Jan., 1895, died 27 
Dec, 1895; Roy Grant, born 29 Aug., 1896, died 26 Feb., 1897; 
Etta Metella, born 23 Dec, 1901. 

6 Lizzie A.*^ was born in Vassalboro, Me., 24 Nov., 1857. She 
was a school teacher for several years before her marriage. She 
married in Unity, Me., 2 Sept., 1883, Edward Payne Knowlton, a 
sheepskin tanner and farmer, who was born in Liberty, Me., 10 
April, 1842, to Joseph Warren, a lawyer, and Julia-Davis Knowlton. 
Their home was Liberty. Mr. Knowlton died in Benton, Me., 2 
Aug., 1902. She married second, 24 March, 1905, and became the 
second wife of Charles B. Denaco, who was born in Benton, Me., 23 
Jan., 1865, to Alfred and Maria-Mercer Denaco. Knowlton issue: 
Julia Mae*; Edward Joseph, born 22 Sept., 1886, died 18 Jan., 1887; 
Aleck Worth, born 4 April, 1888, in Taunton, Mass.; George Ed- 
ward, born 17 July, 1890, died 11 March, 1891; Theo Carlysle, born 
24 Oct., 1893; Norman Perley, 26 July, 1894. 

7 George Edward'', born 12 May, 1866, in Unity, married in Lib- 
erty 18 May, 1891, Edith Abbie Boynton, born in Liberty 19 Nov., 
1865, to William Sears, school teacher, and Sarah-Packard Boynton. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 419 

He is a teacher and a farmer of Freedom, Me. Worth issue: Orrie 
Ermina, born 31 Aug., 1893. 

8 JuHa M.® was born in Liberty 17 Feb., 1885. She married in 
Albion 8 Sept., 1904, Perley Mansfield Denaco, a farmer, who was 
born in Benton 8 Sept., 1882, to Alfred, a farmer, and Maria-Mercer 
Denaco. Their present address (Aug., 1905) is Waterville, Me. 



FAMILY 263: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16. ASA-35, DUDLEY-63, JOHN-liT. 

JOHN PERLEY was born in Unity, Me., 15 March, 1812. An 
accident at sea in his seventeenth year changed materially his after 
life. He began school teaching when eighteen and taught thirteen 
years. After his wife's death, he pursued commercial studies and 
caligraphy in New York City. He was thirty-four years principal 
of the commercial department of Maine Wesleyan Seminary and 
Female College, Kent's Hill, and many years professor of penman- 
ship in Waterville Classical Institute and Hebron and Houlton 
Academies. While at Kent's Hill, he had 5,000 scholars, 1,500 in 
bookkeeping. He was never tardy at a recitation. He had on his 
list 40,000 scholars, 900 classes. He wrote: "I am still hale and 
hearty, without a drop of the 'ardent' in my blood, or the 'poisonous 
weed' in my system." He is the author of "Perley's System of 
Penmanship and Bookkeeping." 

Rev. and Prof. Morse of the College says : 

" Prof. Perley is a gentleman of high-toned Christian character. 
As a teacher of penmanship and bookkeeping he has had a large 
and successful experience in our best schools. He is specially 
characterized by a genuine devotion to his profession, by practical 
methods of instruction, and by a rare power to awaken the interest 
and secure the, rapid advancement of his pupils. His work is always 
most highly appreciated where its character and results are best 
known." 

The following from the Belfast Journal of 30 May, 1895, is health- 
ful reading: — 

"Prof. John Perley died May 20th at his home in Unity, aged 
eighty-three years, two months and five days. His parents were 
pioneers. Their nearest market was Belfast, which could only be 
reached by a path through the forest. They were persons of 
marked ability and from them John (youngest of six children) in- 
herited the traits and talents that have so aided him in his useful 
life. The old homestead has been in the family for over a hundred 
years. A beautiful home it is, with its substantial buildings and its 
wayside junipsrs and maples that were planted by Mr. Perley many 
years ago, and are now like forest trees in size and beauty. 

" Mr. Perley was a man of more than ordinary ability and would 
have succeeded as a writer had he turned his attention in that direc- 
tion, as his numerous letters and pithy articles in many of our State 
papers show. His chief work, however, was that of a teacher of 



420 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

penmanship and he originated the Perley system of penmanship so 
well and favorably known. For about thirty years he had charge of 
the commercial department at Kent's Hill, and there is scarcely a 
town or city in the State where he has not taught. Perhaps he is as 
well known as any other man in Maine, having had under his instruc- 
tion over 45,000 scholars. His work was not, however, entirely in 
this direction. He was an active and generous worker in church and 
Sunday school ; also a staunch temperance man, who advocated tem- 
perance in all things. In the past few years he has been exceedingly 
interested in the Grange work and most heartily indorsed all efforts 
that aided in making the farmer's life a pleasure and a success. 
During his sickness he planned a Grange party for his 83d birthday, 
but was obliged to defer it on account of fast increasing feebleness 
and that reunion will not come till they, like himself, shall have 
passed to the Better World. The many visits from Grangers and 
other friends and the welcome letters that he received from them 
were a great pleasure and comfort to him. 

"His approach to the 'change' was gradual and more like losing 
hold of this life than disease. Until the very last his intellect was 
unimpaired and the smile of recognition and the pressure of the hand 
assured his friends that death could not chill the loving heart of 
father and friend, and his faith in immortality, entertained through 
so long a life, did not fail him in the trial hour and made the transi- 
tion easy, notwithstanding he so loved life here, for to him life was 
not a vale of tears, but joyous and beautiful. 

"Truly in life he followed the injunction, 'Use the things of this 
world as not abusing them ' ; therefore his life testifies to the truth 
that a compliance with nature's laws is the portal leading to paths of 
pleasantness and peace. Cleanliness, temperance, industry, charity 
and integrity were attributes which he assiduously cultivated, and 
from the practice of them he reaped an abundant harvest of peace 
and prosperity. ' Home, Sweet Home,' so familiar to his friends and 
scholars, was the cherished haven, where, in the presence of his 
beloved family, he found rest from his labors, which were arduous, 
but never irksome, for in all the relations of life he carried a cheer- 
fulness and affection that, like sunshine, warmed and attracted those 
with whom he came in contact, as his many friends and scholars well 
remember. 

" It may be pleasant for those who have received instruction from 
him to know that he ever retained the warmest interest and affection 
for them, and he was wont to say, 'Once a scholar, always a friend.' 
Rev. S. C. Whitcomb of Pittsfield officiated at the funeral, and truly 
did he follow the injunction, * Comfort ye my people,' by his portrayal 
of the blessed reunion with loved ones gone before, and the peace 
and joy of the good man risen to the higher life. In fervid language 
he portrayed the influence of a good life, remarking that after the 
generation in which it was passed had gone, succeeding generations 
might still feel its helpful power. Many friends were present to pay 
their last respects to one whose tranquil face in the sleep of death 
seemed to say, 'All is well.' 'Blessed are they who die in the Lord,' 
who die in the consciousness that comes from God's inner monitor 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



421 



that to the faithful ever gives its helpful assurance, 'Well clone good 
and faithful servant, enter thou into the joys of thy Lord.' " 

IN MEMORY OF JOHN PERLF.Y. 

Dear ones, swift tears are falling, 

So empty the old arm chair, 
And your hearts are sadly calling 

For the missing one— not there. 

But O, bereaved, remember 

He has passed from a world of care- 
He has gone from life's bleak December 

To a land of June, so fair. 

Today, tho' your cup is sadness 

There is joy on the other side- 
An anthem of joy and gladness 

For a loved one, 'crossed the tide. 

— Mira Emerson. 

The editor himself wrote an extended notice of him, from which 
is taken the following brief paragraph: "Mr. John Perley of Unity 
was a student of books; benevolent in thought and deed; a lover of 
home ; and loyal to Maine, and to the right, to an intense degree. 
It has been well said of him that he was 'a refined, cultivated, mod- 
est gentleman of the old school, whose race is fast dying out amid 
the ru.sh and hurry of the present age.' ... 'a devoted Bap- 
tist — but better than that, a noble every -day Christian.' " 

His vacations were mostly spent at his "Home, Sweet Home," in 
Unity. 




HOME, SWEET HOME. 

Mr. Perley's first wife, married 11 Dec, 1833, was Eliza Walker, 
who was born 26 July, 1809, to William, a farmer, and Huldah-Scrib- 
ner Walker of Thorndyke, Me. She died of consumption in Unity 
26 July, 1841. His second wife, married 5 Jan., 1843, was Esther 
Carter Foster, who was born 17 Sept., 1814, to Thomas D. and 
Joanna-Carter Foster of Montville, Me. She died 2 Nov., 1889, in 
Unity, where all his children were born. 

1 Perley children: Benjamin Dudley'^ Esther Maria^ Sarah 
Amelia'-, John Milton'-, Eliza Jane^ Roscoe John*', Olive Foster'-, 
Robert Foster'-, Helen Margelia^ 

2 Benjamin D.\ born 14 Feb., 1835, died in Staten Island, N. Y., 
11 March, 1854; Sarah A.\ born 27 Aug., 1839, died 27 Jan., 1840; 
John M.\ born 4 Nov., 1840, died 4 March, 1841 ; Olive ¥.\ born 2 



42'2 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

and died 16 Aug., 1847; Robert F.\ born 20 Sept., died 4 Oct,, 1849. 

3 Esther M.^ was born in Unity 13 Feb., 1838, and 7 Sept., 1857, 
married George Washington Clark, who was born in Damariscotta, 
Me., 1 Nov., 1835, to Jacob and Betsey-Campbell Clark. He was a 
farmer in Unity, where he died 22 FcId., 1895, and where his widow 
now resides (Aug., 1905). Clark issue: Bina Eliza"; Isabella Cora, 
born 19 June, 1802, in Knox, Me., now unmarried; Margie Paulina*; 
Allen Winfield'-'; John Perley, born 7 June, 1874, in Unity, unmar- 
ried in Bigtimber, Mont. 

4 Eliza J.* was born 27 Feb., 1845. She graduated at Maine 
Wesleyan Seminary and Female College in 1866, taught in the high 
schools in Portland and Auburn till June, 1876; then studied two 
years in Europe. She was eighteen months at Halle, Thuringia, 
Freiburg and Heidelburg, and six months in Switzerland, Rome and 
Paris. Returning home, she accepted a professorship in her Alma 
Mater. 

5 Helen M.^ was born 28 Jan., 1852. She married 5 June, 1875, 
Rev. James Eugene Clark-r27^ who was born in Newcastle, Me., 12 
July, 1855. He studied at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and 
Female College, Kent's Hill. Mrs. Clark died in Unity 29 March, 
1896. Clark issue: Amy Gertrude'"; Gretchen Lange, born 5 Jan., 
1880, a graduate of Framingham Normal School and now (1905) 
teacher in Bloomfield, N. J.; Efifie May, born 15 Oct., 1881, unmar- 
ried, in Riverside, Cal. 

6 Roscoe J.' was born 2 Aug., 1846. He succeeded to the old 
homestead farm. He married in Fort Fairfield, Me., 9 March, 1880, 
Maria Bishop, born in P'ort Fairfield 22 Dec, 1848, to William, a 
farmer, and Esther-Giberson Bishop. Mr. Perley is a farmer in 
Thorndike, Me., without children. 

7 Bina E.^ was born in Knox, Me., 17 June, 1858. She was a 
school teacher. She married 12 Dec, 1877, Weston Whitten, a 
blacksmith, who was born in Montville, Me., 31 March, 1850, to 
Oliver, a farmer, and Hannah-Currier Whitten. She died in Unity 
15 P'eb., 1884. He married, second. Miss Angle Clark and resides 
in Unity. Whitten issue: Louville Weston and Bina Esther, twins, 
born 15 Feb., 1884. 

8 Margie P.^ was born in Knox 27 April, 1867. She married in 
Billings, Mont., in 1896, Wilber Stephen Lowell, and has no children. 

9 Winfield A.^ was born in Unity 21 May, 1869, married 5 Jan., 
1891, Lizzie McOuirk of Butte, Mont. They live in Bigtimber. 
Clark issue: Amber Winifred, born 28 Nov., 1892. 

10 Amy G.^ was born in Unity, Me., 17 June, 1876. She was a 
teacher. She married in Thorndike, Me., 9 Aug., 1904, Robert 
Leonard Glover, a merchant, who was born in P'ramingham, Mass., 
9 Aug., 1873, to Frank R., a merchant, and Ella Lewis-French 
Glover. Their home is Framingham. 



FAMILY 264: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIIOMAS-4, TIIOMAS-16, ASA-35, ASA-64, AMOS-131. 

THOMAS HORSFIELD PERLEY was born in Maugerville, 
N. B., 27 (his widow says 8) April, 1820. He settled upon "the old 
place." The postoffice address is Upper Maugerville. He was a 
scientific farmer, a fact recognized by the Sunbury Agricultural 
Society in their choice of him for president three or more terms. 
He is an Episcopalian and was warden more than twenty years 
He was president of a large society called the British Templars and 
also of a total abstinence society. 

He married 28 June, 1843, Hannah Moore DeVeber, who was 
born in Oueensbury 28 June, 1822, to Isaac Claudius and Jane- 
Moore DeVeber. She died 15 March, 1864. His second wife was 
Henrietta Sofia, sister of his first wife, born in St. Mary's, York 
County, 11 March, 1825, and married in Houlton, Me., 20 July, 1868. 
He died in Victoria, British Columbia, 8 Feb., 1894. His widow 
resides in Upper Maugerville (Feb., 1905). 

1 Perley children : Helen Jane'-, Charles Amos'\ Henrietta Eliz- 
abeth^ Hannah Louisa IsabeP, William George Frederick-, Eliza 
Annette", Bertha Ida Maria", Thomas Arthur Medley-. 

2 Helen J.^ was born in Maugerville 25 March, 1844, and resides 
unmarried in Victoria, B. C. William G. F.^ was born 25 July, 1853, 
and resides unmarried in Victoria, B. C. Thomas A. M.^ was born 
15 Nov., 1860, and died in Eau Claire, Wis., 20 Aug., 1888. 

3 Charles A.' was born in Upper Maugerville, N. B., 16 Feb., 
1847. He married in Boston, Mass., 26 June, 1880, Annie Bell 
Smith, who was born in Upper Maugerville 7 Oct., 1857, to Samuel 
Cornwall, a farmer, and Jane-Burns Smith. Mr. Perley is a carpen- 
ter and mill-wright by trade, and at present is engaged in hotel and 
dray business in Washburn, Wis. He is also a good farmer, is fine 
looking, industrious, and a genius. Perley children: Grace Edna"; 
Ray Ford, born 8 July, 1883, a graduate of the Toland Business 
University of Lacrosse, Wis., now a bookkeeper; Scott DeVeber, 
born 25 May, 1885, and died 12 Aug., 1885; Maud, born 18 Feb., 
1887, who is in "the abstract business" in Washburn, Wis.; Fern 
Smith, born 11 Dec, 1891; Charles Earl, born 15 March, 1893; 
James Lyall, born 20 May, 1895. 

4 Henrietta E.^ was born in Maugerville 6 May, 1849. She mar- 
ried there 15 July, 1880, George Frederick Banks-1331 Their home 
is Upper Maugerville, where he is a farmer, and their children were 
born: Violet Irene, 7 Feb., 1881; George Frederick, 7 Oct., 1882; 
Blanche Beatrice, 25 July, 1885. 

5 Hannah L. I.^ was born in Maugerville 26 March, 1851, and 
there 9 June, 1881, became the second wife of James Archibald 
Shields, who was born in Maugerville 24 Jan., 1833, to James and 
Mar)r Ann-Langhan Shields. He died in Maugerville 18 April, 1893, 



424 The Perley family 

and his widow, 1895, removed to British Columbia, where in Victoria, 
she now (1905) resides. Her only child is May Louisa, born 12 
April, 1884, in Maugerville, who is now in Victoria. 

t) Eliza A.^ was born 17 May, 1855, in Upper Maugerville, where 
she married 19 Feb., 1881, Martin Eldridge, captain and vessel 
owner, born in Beaver Harbor, N. B., 31 July, 1855, to James, a 
fisherman, and Emily-Cross Eldridge. Mrs. Eldridge was a school 
teacher. , Their home is Beaver Harbor, where their children were 
born: Wilford Perley, 17 Jan., 1882, and died 23 Sept.. 1904; Pearl 
Viola, 12 Sept., 1883; Roy Chipman, 22 Feb., 1887; Ina Belle, 25 
Sept., 1889; Hazel Irene, 18 April, 1892; Claire Merton, 10 Oct., 
1895. 

7 Bertha I. M.' was born in Maugerville, N. B., 1 May, 1857, and 
28 Nov., 1888, in Eau Claire, Wis., became the second wife of Daniel 
Lewis Emery, born in P'ort Kent, Me., 12 Nov., 1839, to Miles, a 
farmer, and Ada-Neddo Emery. Their home is PZau Claire, where 
he is a farmer and a lumberer, and their children were born : 
Thomas Percy, 26 June, 1889; Earl Roy, 26 Feb., 1891; Charles 
Henry, 11 Jan., 1893; Harold Wilhs, 5 May, 1895; Edna Helen, 10 
Aug., 1897, died 8 May, 1901. 

8 Grace E.'^ was born in Eau Claire, Wis., 28 Aug., 1881. She 
graduated at the Toland Business University, Lacrosse, Wis., and 
up to the time of her marriage held a first class position of stenog- 
rapher with the Swift Packing Company of St. Paul, Minn. She 
married in St. Paul 2 Sept., 1901, John Roland Phillips, who was 
born in London, England, 31 Dec, 1874, to Mary E.-Hargreaves 

and Phillips, a magistrate, and is chief of the beef department 

of Swift & Co. Their children were born in St. Paul : John Roland, 
7 Sept., 1902; Dorothy Grace, 30 Aug., 1904. 



FAMILY 265: PERLEY. 

LINKAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIIOMAS-4, THOMAS Hi, ASA-35, ASA-64, DUDLEY-132 

ASA PERLEY was born in Miramichi, N. B., 23 Aug., 1814. 
Like his neighbors and the people generally in that section, he was 
a farmer and fisherman. He was a captain in the Northumberland 
militia. He was esteemed as a citizen and was in comfortable cir- 
cumstances. His religious views were Presbyterian. His family 
are all tall and most of them are of dark complexion. 

He married in Chatham, N. B., 13 June, 1843, Catherine Brem- 
ner, born there 4 Oct., 1820, to Philip and Catherine-Murdock Brem- 
ner. Mr. Perley was a cooper by trade. He died in Chatham 2 
Feb., 1894. 

1 Perley children, born in Chatham: Dudley^ Catherine Mur- 
dock^ Philip Bremner-426, Asa Alexander'-, Annie Gillis^ James 
Bremner**, Janet Elizabeth'^ Nathaniel William", Margaret Eleanorl 

2 Asa A} was born 14 Oct., 1850, and died 19 Feb., 1870; Janet 
E.\ 29 March, 1857, and died 24 Feb., 1870. 

3 Dudley' was born 23 May, 1844, and 24 Nov., 1885, married 






\^ >^^ 



426 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Sarah Saxsmith, a dressmaker of Chatham, where she was born 1 
Oct., 1844, to Michael, a farmer, and Margaret-Bunbry Saxsmith. 
He is a farmer in Chatham without children. 

4 Catherine M.^ was born 25 Nov., 184(5, and 28 Oct., 1893, mar- 
ried in Attleboro, Mass., James Buckley, a watchman, born in 
Black River, N. B. He died 11 July, 1902, in Attleboro, where his 
widow is a dressmaker. 

5 Annie G.^ was born 27 Oct., 1852, and married in Chatham, 
N. B., 1 Jan., 1884, William George McLeod, a farmer, born in Bay 
du Vin, N. B., 27 May, 1858, to Donald, a farmer, and Eleanor Isa- 
bella-Murray McLeod". Their home is Bay du Vin, where their 
children were born: Asa Melvelle Ferley, 28 Oct., 1884; William 
Douglas, 16 Sept., 1886; Dudley Benson, 13 Feb., 1895. 

6 James B.^ was born 2 March, 1855, and married in Bay du 
Vin 6 Feb., 1889, Grace Darling McLeod, born there 14 Feb., 1853, 
to Donald and Eleanor Isabella-Murray McLeod". He is a fireman 
in Chatham. Perley issue : Katie May and Ellen Bartlett, twins, 
born 28 Dec, 1889, and died— Katie 28 Aug., and Ellen 18 Sept., 
1890; Ethel Maud, born 9 Jan., 1890; Asa Melvin, born 14 Jan., 
1891; Mary Loggie, born 9 Dec, 1894; James Wilbur, born 28 
May, 1898. 

7 Nathaniel W.^ was born 28 Oct., 1859, and married 22 Nov., 
1898, in Chatham, Maria Elizabeth Parker Forbes, a school teacher, 
born there 18 April, 1868, to Hugh, a sea captain, and Mary-Cam- 
eron Forbes. His home is "The Birches," Chatham, where he is a 
farmer, and their children were born : Mary Catherine Florence, 26 
Oct., 1899; Hugh Forbes, 15 Aug., 1901; Edith Gertrude, 8 Oct., 
1903. 

8 Margaret E.^ was born 8 May, 1862, and married in Chatham 
20 March, 1893, John Alexander McLeod, born in Bay du Vin, 
N. B., December, 1862, to Donald and Eleanor Isabella-Murray 
McLeod^ He is a farmer in Chatham. McLeod issue, born in Bay 
du Vin: Sarah Isabelle, 20 Jan., 1895; Catherine Eleanor, 30 Jan., 
1897; Aileen Audrey, 22 May, 1902. 



FAMILY 266: PERLEY. 

LINEAL, DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TnOMAS-4. TII()MAS-16. ASA-35, ASA-C.4, DUDLEY-132. 

DUDLP:Y perley was born in Miramichi 26 Aug., 1816. 
He was a farmer in Chatham. He was an officer in the North- 
umberland militia from 1842. He was 
a member of the Presbyterian church. 
His family are of medium height, ^/JyC^^^^^C^yiA^, 
dark complexion and of good personal y^ ' ^/^ 

appearance. He married 16 Dec, p^ 1/ 

1853, Mary Fenton, who was born in Autograph secured by miss Abigail w. 
Dundee, Scotland, 23 July, 1831, to Periey-428 for tws book. 

Alexander and Annie-Gruar Fenton. He died 17 Oct., 1903, in 
Chatham, where his widow now resides. 




^<^r'6i/o<^y 




CAPl'. DUDLEY PEKLEY. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 427 

1 Perley children, born in Chatham: Annie^ Dudley^ Helen'-, 
Alexander-, Margaret', Hannah Pickard'-, Thomas Horsfield'-^, Alex, 
ander Fenton'', James 
Walls'-, Katherine Mary'-. 

2 Helen^ was born 18 dJ Jl /^J'TyCCty 
Oct., 1858, and died 23 ^ " 
Aug., 186U. Alexander^ J /I / ^ 





was born 16 Jan., and _ . _ 

died 9 April, 1861. Han- rH/' /^ ^7) 

nah P.^ was born 26 April, ^(^ ^tli^'TT'^'yi'ay/z. t^y^ L 
1864, and resides in Chat- 
ham. Thomas H.^ was 

born 25 Sept., 1866, and Autograph seouml bv Miss Abigail W. Pei- 

is a clerk in Middle Sack- ^"^-^^^ fo^- tbis book. 

ville, N. B. Katherine M.^ was born 21 March, 1875, and died 4 

June, 1881. James W.^ was born 24 Sept., 1871. 

3 Annie^ was born 10 Jan., 1855, and married 26 Dec, 1884, 
Anthony Adams, who is engaged in steamboating, was born in 
Northesk, on the Miramichi, N. B., 12 July, 1853, to Justus and 
Mary-McKay Adams. Their home is Chatham, and only child, 
Clarence Percy. 

4 Dudley^ was born 2 Nov., 1856. He married in Renova, Clin- 
ton County, Pa., in May, 1885, Laura Gertrude Lummeraux. He is 
engaged in railroading. 

5 Margaret^ was born 17 Feb., 1862. She married in Chatham 14 
April, 1897, James D. MacMillan, a surveyor, born in Boiestown, 
N. B., 18 May, 1862, to Alexander, a hotel keeper, and Jean-MacKay 
MacMillan. Their home is Boiestown, and their children: P'rances 
Robb, born 31 Aug., 1901; James Dudley Alexander, born 2 Dec, 
1903. 

6 Alexander F.^ was born 14 Feb., 1819. He married in Chat- 
ham 10 Nov., 1896, Agnes Jane Jackson, a dressmaker, born in 
Chatham 28 April, 1877, to Stephen, a carpenter, and Annie-Stewart 
Jackson. Their home is Chatham, where he is an engineer and 
their children were born: Arthur Alexander, 19 Feb., 1898; Mary 
Alice, 16 June, 1899; Marguarite Gertrude, 12 July, 1900; Helen, 
13 Sept., 1902; Dudley, 11 Oct., 1904. 



FAMILY 267: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TllOMAS-1, TII(tMAS-16, ASA-35, ASA-64, DUULEY-13-A 

AMOS PERLEY was born in Miramichi 13 March, 1821. His 
home is Chatham and he is a 
farmer. He is also engaged in 
the fisheries. He holds a gov- ^^^^l^-'^^y^.^^p^ ^-,^^^^^^^^4^^:^^^^^ 
ernment appointment as fishery /^ 

overseer. He is esteemed r 

among: his neighbors and is in Autograpli secured by MIss Abigail W. Per- 
r^, , , ■ , ley-428 for this bools. 

comfortable circumstances. 

His family are nearly all tall and dark complexioned. 

Mr. Perley married 28 Sept., 1848, Phebe Ann Bulman of Chat- 





428 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

ham, who was born 4 March, 1827, and who died of heart disease 17 
Feb., 1881, and was interred in St. John's churchyard. Mr. Perley 
is the last of his fa- 
ther's family. y>=^ '^l/ 

1 Perley children: ce^^^^t^-z;?-^ <;?^^ c>?^ 
Annie'", Daniel Bulman- ^ 
427, Josephine Mary^ /iYm^^ 
Helen^ Abigail Willis- /^^^-^'^ 
ton-428, Alexander^ c/ 

John Thomas^ Am0S^ Autograph secured by Miss Abigail W. 

•' ^ A -1 1 ley-428 for this booli. 

2 Annie was born 

in Chatham 27 June, 1849. She married in Chatham (3 April, 1892, 
and became the second wife of James Miller Henderson, born in 
Chatham 2 Oct., 1844, to James, a school teacher, and Elizabeth- 
Armstrong Henderson. [Mr. Henderson's first wife was Annie 
Gordon, by whom he had : Alexander Gordon, born 7 April, 1869, 
unmarried, in Stellarton, N. S. ; James William, born 3 March, 1871, 
married and residing in Stellarton; Thomas Arthur, born 24 Dec, 
1872, married, in New Haven; David Nathaniel, born 15 Dec, 1875, 
unmarried, in Stellarton.] Mr. Henderson was a merchant. He 
died 5 Nov., 1901, in Stellarton, N. S., where his widow now resides. 

3 Josephine M.^ was born in Chatham 19 June, 1852. She mar- 
ried, first, in Sobo, Ont., 23 Sept., 1876, and became the second wife 
of Abraham Post Edington, a painter, who was born in Seneca, 
N. Y., 13 June, 1829, to Philip, a farmer, and Magdalene-Skemihorn, 
Edington. He died in Sobo 23 April, 1889. She married, second, 
in city of London, Ont., 13 Sept., 1893, William Page Seeds, a 
farmer, who was born in Belfast, Ireland, 3 Sept., 1851, to William, 
a doctor, and Mary Elizabeth-Page Seeds. Their home is Green 
Lake, Seattle, Wash. Their child: Linda Bell, born in London, 
Ont., 28 Nov., 1896. 

4 Helen^ was born in Chatham, N. B., 19 July, 1854. She re- 
ceived a common school education in New Brunswick. She studied 
also in the Northfield Seminary, P3ast Northfield, Mass., in the New 
York City Mission, and in the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, 111. 
She married in Wheaton, 111., 25 Oct., 1904, James Edward Tierney, 
born in Syracuse, N. Y., 15 April, 1853, to James Owen and Cath- 
erine-Shannon Tierney. They reside in Chicago, 111. 

5 Alexander^ was born 25 April, 1859. John T.^ was born 10 
April, 1861, and is engaged in real estate and lumbering in Green 
Lake. Amos^ was born 2 July, 1868, and is married, in Chatham. 



FAMILY 268: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, TIIOMAS-16. ASA-35. ASA-64, DUDLEY-13'2. 

WILLIAM BRYANT PERLEY was born in Miramichi 28 July, 
1823. He was a farmer in Chatham and also a ship builder. He was a 
member of the Presbyterian church. His wife was Mary Jane Man- 
derson, born 11 Feb., 1829, married 12 July, 1855, and died 1 Sept., 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 429 

1862, an invalid for sixteen years. He died 9 Aug., 1879, and is 
buried in Chatham 

1 Perley chil- ^ 

rlrf»n • T iirir Riif-V> Autograph secured by Miss Abigail W. Perley-42S for tbis book. 

Brown'-, Annie Wilhelmina^ Susan Jane"-. 

2 Lucy R. B.i was born 16 April, 1857, died 29 May, 1901. 
Susan J.* was born 1 July, and died 18 Oct., 1862. 

3 Annie W.^ was born in Chatham o Sept., 1858. She was a 
dressmaker. She married ># ^*. /T) yO 

wife of Richard Attridge, Autograph secured by Miss Abigail W. Per- 

born in Bathurst, N. B., 10 i^^y-^zs for this book. 

Sept., 1836, to Arthur, a shipbuilder, (a descendant of Arthur At- 
tridge, soldier under Cromwell,) and Margaret-Dawson Attridge, 
who was born in Ayrshire, Scotland. Richard Attridge was one of 
the early gold seekers in California and one of the first discoverers 
of gold in British Columbia on the Frazer river; he was afterwards 
one of the first lumbermen on Puget Sound, now the state of Wash- 
ington. [His first wife was Jane Treese of Doaktown, by whom he 
had issue: Maggie and Adelia who died young; Arthur, born 25 
March, 1880; Herman, born 27 Aug., 1887; Adda, born 9 Oct., 
188 1.] Mrs. Attridge died 3 Sept., 1897, in Doaktown, where Mr. 
Attridge now lives — a merchant, farmer, and lumberman. Perley- 
Attridge children, born in Doaktown: Muriel, 17 June, 1890; Rich- 
ard and Mary, twins, 8 Dec, 1892. 



FAMILY 269: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. TIK1MAS-4, TIIOMAS-16, ASA-35, ASA-64, ASA-133. 

DUDLEY PUTNAM PERLEY was born in Maugerville, 
N. B., 9 Dec, 1818. He resided there and was a man of excellent 
character and highly esteemed. He was a farmer by occupation and 
housewright by trade. He married 17 June, 1851, Harriet Elizabeth 
Howland, who was born in 1833 and died in Maugerville in 1890. 
He died in Maugerville in May, 1900. 

1 Perley children, born in Upper Maugerville : Mary Belle'-, Ed- 
ward Oric'*, Susan Elizabeth'*, Hattie Lavinia^ Herbert Dudley*', 
Plarvey Asa'^, Winnefred Hayes*, PVances Blanch^. 

2 Mary B.^ was born 17 Dec, 1852. She was a school teacher. 
She married in Fredericton, N. B., 9 May, 1879, John Lounsbury, a 
farmer and merchant, born in Gagetown, Sunbury County, 26 April, 
1837, to John, a farmer, and Sarah-Gunter Lounsbury. She died 26 
Aug., 1895, in Upper Hainsville. Mr. Lounsbury resides in Lin- 
coln, N. B. Issue, born in Dumfries, York County: Arthur Perley, 
9 Oct., 1879, died in Fredericton 12 Feb., 1882; Edward LeBaron, 
21 Oct., 1881, died in Fredericton 28 March, 1887; Roy Herman, 
2S Nov., 1884, residing in Lincoln. 



4,30 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

3 Edward O.^ was born 8 Sept., 1855. He married in Frederic- 
ton, N. B., 26 Jan., 1877, Mary Ada Raymond, born in Hampton, 
Kings County, N. B., 30 Jan., 1862, to James Smith, J. P., and 
Phoebe Amelia-Dykeman Raymond. Their home is Frederic- 
ton. He is a steamship captain in inland waters. Perley child : 
Morris Raymond, born in Gibson, York County, N. B., 15 Oct., 1887, 
graduated from Fredericton High School, class of 1904, received the 
Sir Howard Douglas silver medal for classics, passed the matricula- 
tion examinations for University of New Brunswick in first division 
and entitled to York County scholarship for 1904. He is now a 
clerk in Bank of Nova Scotia, Fredericton. 

4 Susan E.^ was born 2 May, 1859. She was a school teacher. 
She married in New York City 18 Nov., 1889, James Edmund Dib- 
blee, chemist, born in Woodstock, N. B., 19 Aug., 1850, to Henry 
E., collector of customs, and Charlotte-Ketchum Dibblee. Their 
home is Madison, N. H. 

5 Hattie L.' was born 19 April, 1863. She married in Frederic- 
ton, N. B., in 1887, Harry Wmters, son of Robert of Fredericton, 
where he died, and where she also died 24 Sept., 1900, leaving one 
daughter, Winnifred Lillian, born in Fredericton 15 Dec, 1888. 

6 Herbert D.' was born 17 April, 1867. He married in Wheel- 
ing, W. Va., 1 Nov., 1892, Anna Nancy Whiteman, born in Ben wood 11 
May, 1874, to William Alexander, and Maggrert Jane-Hill White- 
man. Mr. Perley is a steel worker in Wheeling. Their children 
were born in Ben wood: Roy Corson, 7 Aug., 1893, died 1 April, 
1894; Harvey Reese, 13 Jan., 1895; Esther Elizabeth, 5 Oct., 1900. 

7 Harvey A.^ was born 9 May; 1870. He married in Kings 
Clear, York County, N. B., 22 June, 1898, Bessie Allen Strange, 
born in Kings Clear, 8 Nov., 1873, to George Allen, a lumberman, 
and Jane Una-Lunt Strange. Mr. Perley is a farmer of Upper 
Maugerville, where their children were born : Frank Strange, 25 
Aug., 1899; Arthur Dibblee, 8 March, and died 20 Dec, 1901; Dud- 
ley Edward, 24 Aug., 1903. 

8 Winnefred H.^ was born 31 Oct., 1872, or 1 Nov., 1873, and re- 
sides in New York City. 

9 P'rances B.^ was born 10 July, 1875, and 31 Dec, 1901, in 
Rothsay, Kings County, N. B., became the second wife of Harold 
Farmer Plall, independent, born 5 Nov., 1868, to Thomas Farmer, 
independent, and Maria Robinson-Kay Hall. She was educated in 
St. John, N. B., and at McGill University, Montreal, Que. Mr. 
Hall was educated at Wellington College, England, and later at 
Cambridge University, England. Their home is Summerseat Cot- 
tage, Rothsay. Child: Dudley P'armer, born 9 Aug., 1903, in 
Rothsay. 



FAMILY 270: PERLEY. . 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-t, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-10, ASA-35, ALLENMiT, DAVID-136. 

DAVID PERLEY was born in Gardner, Mass., 6 March, 1819. 
He married 29 Dec, 1845, Susan Eaton Mann of Med way, who was 
born 29 Dec, 1822, a cousin to the Hon. Horace Mann. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 43X 

Mrs. Perley was an exemplary lady ; she gave her best exertions 
for her family, and in her age they blessed her with their dutiful 
presence and love. 

Mr. Perley was by trade a fork maker, or temperer of steel, was a 
a very fine workman and commanded large salary. His method 
was a secret and was done in a closed room in extreme heat. He 
died very suddenly of cancer in the stomach, 5 Feb., 1877. His 
widow died 2 Nov., 1903, aged eighty years, ten months, four days. 
They lived in Fitchburg, Mass. 

1 Perley children : Mary Ann"-, Caroline Maria'\ Frances Isabell', 
David Edward^ Henry Herbert^ Ada Curtis'. 

2 Mary A.^ was born in East Walpole, Mass., 3 July, 1846, and 
married in Lunenburg 15 Feb., 1871, Frank Abel Harris of Fitch- 
burg, born in Lowell 11 June, 1850, to Ossian and Prudentia Harris. 
He was an iron moulder by trade. The occasion of his death was 
horrible. A large kettle of molten metal was hanging upon a crane 
to be swung into position for use, when the suspension chain broke, 
and Mr. Harris was thereby thrown down and partially enveloped in 
the seething mass. His death immediately ensued, 10 Oct., 1902. 
His widow resides in Fitchburg. Harris children: Albert Clarence, 
born 15 Nov., 1872, and died 18 Nov., 1893, in Jamaica Plain, Mass. 
George Stephen Onias, born 29 April, 1877; Fannie Edith, born 7 
June, 1881, residing with her mother. 

3 Caroline M.^ was born in Dedham 9 Feb., 1848, and married 2 
Sept., 1868, Charles Herbert Webb, steel finisher, born in Guildhall, Vt., 
12 Oct., 1834, to Lucius R. and Cornelia P. Webb of Brockton, Mass. 
Their children: Minnie Blanche, born 6 Sept., 1869, married Urbane 
F. Rowell, having child; Edward Clarence"*; Herbert Lucius, born 
14 Nov., 1875, who is unmarried and has been employed in the Senti- 
nel office since 1891; Archie Forest, born 22 July, 1880, who has 
been employed in the Sentinel office since 1898; Frederick, born 
17 Jan., 1885, died 16 Dec, 1887. 

4 Frances I.^ was born in Dedham 12 Feb., 1850. She married 
2 April, 1884, in Fitchburg, Charles Reuben Conn, who was born in 
Ashburnham 26 May, 1852, to John Austin and Nancy Maria-Betts 
Conn, a grocer, at 32 River St., Pltchburg. Mr. Conn, senior, was 
a manufacturer of chairs, and Charles at home learned the trade, be- 
ginning in his boyhood as sand paperer. They have had children : 
Alice Frances, born in Fitchburg 3 July, 1888, and Harriet Isabel, 
born 27 Sept., 1890, and died 10 Feb., 1892. 

5 David E.^ was born 7 Nov., 1854. 

6 Henry H.^ was born in Medfield 10 Nov., 1859. He married 
in Clinton, Mass., 25 Dec, 1884, Annie Elizabeth Clark, who was 
born 15 Dec, 1856, in Canada, to Rosa- Crofford and John Clark, a 
mason. Henry learned the manufacture of cigars, but later engaged 
with his brother in-law Conn in the grocery trade. Perley child : 
Dora Agnes, born in P'itchburg 30 May, 1890. 

7 Ada C.^ was born in Medfield, Mass,, 4 Oct., 1862, and in Ash- 
burnham, Mass., 13 Sept., 1881, became the second wife of Frederick 
Wellington Bailey, a stone mason, born in Townsend, Vt., 12 July, 
1850, to Orra, a stone mason, and Julia Miranda-Pettee Bailey. [Mr. 
Bailey's first wife was Addie May.] Their home is Brattleboro, Vt. 



432 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Bailey issue: Annie Louise, born in Leominster, Mass., 2 June, 1887, 
who in Fitchburg 16 March, 1904, became the second wife of Wat- 
son Samuel French, a carpenter of Brattleboro, Vt., born in New- 
port, Canada, 18 Feb., 1864, to Hannah Augusta-Buzzell and Nor- 
man Johnson French of South Londonderry, Vt.; Gertrude JuHa, 
born in Fitchburg, 11 June, 1902. 

8 Edward C.^ was born in West Chelmsford 3 Nov., 1870. He 
attended the public schools of Brockton and Fitchburg and moved 
to the latter place in 1884. He was for a while employed in 
the grocery business, and in 1888 entered the service of the Senti- 
nel Printing Co., as pressman, where he is still employed. 10 May, 
1898, he enUsted in Co. B., Sixth Regiment, U. S. V., to serve during 
the Spanish American War and was mustered out 21 Jan., 1899. 
He afterwards served four years in the State Militia in Co. B, Sixth 
Regiment, M. V. M. He married in Fitchburg 16 Nov., 1901, 
Lottie Mercy Smith, born in Bolton, Canada, 29 Oct., 1879, to John 
Bush and Betsey Alida-Palmer Smith. 



FAMILY 271: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, TIIOMAS-16. ASA-36, ALLEN-67, DAVII)-136. 

HENRY PARTRIDGE PERLEY was born in Gardner, 
Mass., 23 Feb., 1828. He learned the trade of cane splitting in the 
local chair factory, and pursued that calling. His wife was Cynthia 
Hunting of Winchendon, who died 20 June, 1889, aged fifty-nine 
years, eight months and eight days. He died 12 March, 1894. 

1 Perley child: Frances Emmaroy, born 13 Jan., and died (says 
the record) 25 Aug., 1851, aged six months and twenty-five days. 



FAMILY 272: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16. ASA-35, ALLEN-67, ASA-138. 

ASA PROCTOR PERLEY was born in Templeton, Mass., 4 
June, 1824. He was a chair maker. He married, first, in Gardner, 
Mass., 18 Aug., 1846, Lucy Ann Austin, born in Surry, N. H., 4 
March, 1826, to Thomas, a farmer, and Lucy-Kendrick Austin. She 
died in Keene, N. H., 11 Dec, 1873. He married, second, in Win- 
chendon, Mass., 3 Jan., 1875, Mrs. Mary Ann-Haskell Forristall, 
born in Troy, N. H., 12 Sept., 1829, to Abner, a farmer, and Laura- 
Lawrence Haskell. Her first husband was Norris Forristall. Mr. 
Perley died in Gardner, Mass., 26 April, 1886. His widow resides 
in Winchendon, Mass., (Feb., 1905). 

1 Perley children: Ella Eliza'-, Alice Annett^ Emma Jane^ Wil- 
liam Fred'. 

2 Ella E.i was born in Gardner, Mass., 20 May, 1848. She mar- 
ried in Keene, N. H., 25 April, 1865, James William Dodge, born in 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 433 

Keene 13 April, 1845, to James, a carpenter, and Randilla-Bundy 
Dodge. Mr. Dodge is a railroad official. They reside in Keene, 
where their children were born and died. Dodge children : Cora 
Ella, born 13 June, and died 1 Sept., 1867; Walter Fred, born 28 
July, and died 15 Oct., 1869. 

3 Alice A.^ was born in Lebanon, N. H., 25 Aug., 1850. She 
married in Nashua, N. H., 4 June, 1873, Wesley Jerome Wilkins, 
born in Concord, N. H., 11 April, 1852, to Harriet Newell-Davis and 
Rev. E. R. Wilkins. She died in Londonderry, N. H., 12 Dec, 
1904. He is a Methodist Episcopal clergyman of West Derry, 
N. H. Wilkins children : Herbert Emerson'', Benson Perley". 

4 Emma J.^ was born in Troy, N. H., 30 July, 1856. She mar- 
ried in Keene, N. H., 19 May, 1875, Arthur Whitcomb Fisher, born 
in Hinsdale, N. H., 12 April, 1855, to John Beadley, a merchant, 
and Lucretia Orphelia-Higgins Fisher. She died 9 Dec, 1893, in 
Hartford, Conn., where Mr. Fisher is a clerk. Their children, born 
in Hartford: Alice May^; Jennie Isabelle®; John Arthur, born 10 
July, 1885; James Perley, born 28 Aug. and died 31 Dec, 1887. 

5 William F.^ was born in Keene, N. H., 30 April, 1865. He 
married in Bethel, Vt., 6 May, 1891, Kate Louise Wheeler, born 
there 8 Nov., 1866, to Frederick and Harriet Emmeline- Hatch 
Wheeler. Their home is Bellows Falls, Vt., where he is a railroad 
cashier. 

6 Herbert E.^ was born in Keene, N. H., 26 May, 1874. He 
married in Laconia, N. H., 20 July, 1897, Lillian Addie Lamprey, 
born in Laconia 19 June, 1875, to George Henry, a carpenter, and 
Adeline Lavina-Farrar Lamprey. Their home is Keene, where he 
is a clerk for the Boston & Maine Railroad. Wilkins child : Mal- 
colm Lamprey, born in Bellows Falls, Vt., 17 May, 1898. 

7 Benson P.^ was born in Keene, N. H., 8 Feb., 1876. He is a 
graduate of the Laconia High School, and took his degree A. B. in 
Boston University. He married in Methuen, Mass., 9 Oct., 1901, 
Martha Adelia Fifield, born in Methuen 20 April, 1879, to Roscoe 
Alonzo, a carriage maker and mechanic, and Lucelia Elizabeth-Chap- 
man Fifield. Mrs. Wilkins is a graduate of the Methuen High 
School and of the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston. 
Their home is Greenland, N. H. (1905) where he is a clergyman of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their child : Doris P^ifield, born 
in Methuen 25 Aug., 1902. 

8 Alice M.^ was born 30 Dec, 1881. She married in Stoddard, 
N. H., 23 Aug., 1897, Fred Brown, who was born in Munsonville, 
N. H., in July, 1871, to Samuel Oscar, a farmer, and Lydia Livina- 
Dodge Brown. He is a farmer in Munsonville, where their child, 
Emma Livina, was born 5 July, 1898. 

9 Jennie L'* was born 3 Sept., 1883. She married in Keene, 
N. H., 6 Nov., 1901, Ernest Mann Fletcher, who was born there 3 
Dec, 1879, to Hiram Dagget, a farmer, and Nettie-Mann Fletcher. 
He is a foreman in a woodyard there. Their child, Mildred Viola, 
was born 13 Sept., 1903. 



FAMILY 273: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, ALLEN-G7, ASA-138. 

CHARLES ADDISON PERLEY was born in Gardner, Mass., 
15 Sept., 1826. His home was Baldwinsville, a manufacturing vil- 
lage in the town of Templeton. He was a chair manufacturer, and 
in 1878 received a patent on nursery chairs. As to politics, he was 
a vice president of a Garfield and Arthur Club in Templeton. 

He married in Gardner 20 April, 1847, Chloe Whitney, born 
there 4 Oct., 1828, to Seth, a farmer, and Chloe-Lincoln Whitney. 
(Mrs. Whitney was born in Hingham and died 4 Jan., 1855, aged 
fifty-nine years, seven days.) Mr. Perley died 2 Feb., 1887, in Bald- 
winsville, Mass., where his widow now resides. She settled the 
estate, valued at ^54,686.52. His residence was one of the finest in 
the town; its elevation commanded a delightful view of the village 
and the surrounding country, and is now occupied by his son. 

The following is an abstract of Rev. Mr. Foster's discourse 
at Mr. Perley's funeral : 

" No Scripture is more appropriate to this occasion than the last 
twelve verses of the twelfth chapter of Romans. The man who in 
some good degree realizes in his life the ideal here set before us is 
worthy of honor. There are in every civilized community three 
classes of men and women. There are first the men and women of 
public spirit, who, while attending very earnestly and properly to 
their own personal affairs, at the same time are careful for the pub- 
lic weal. They are honest in business, scorning to take an unfair 
advantage of another or to do a mean thing. They regard the rights 
and interests of others just as sacred and precious as their own. 
Their motto is not the low prudential one, 'honesty is the best pol- 
icy,' but the high, honorable sentiment, 'honesty is the only policy 
for a man.' In social life they are pure, spurning the vulgar and 
profane, filling out the apostle's ideal, envying not, vaunting not, not 
easily provoked, thinking no evil, bearing all things, believing all 
things, hoping all things. They have a ready sympathy, and an open 
hand for every public interest. Education, religion, moral reform, 
public utility in multifarious phases, all find in them a ready support. 
They seek earnestly to make themselves felt in society, and the state 
for good. 

"There is a second class of men and women in every community, 
the selfish class. They may plan as carefully and execute as thor- 
oughly as the first class, but the sole end of all their plan and effort 
is self. They recognize no obligation to the public. Their daily 
prayer is, 'God bless me and my wife, my son and his wife, we four 
and no more.' Their business enterprises may bring some results 
of good to the public, but not of their seeking. It is all the same to 
them whether others are gainers or losers by their operations. In 
this class are our embezzling cashiers, our defaulting clerks and 
agents, our dishonest men who give short weights and measures, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 435 

who fail in business, paying twenty cents on a dollar, and laying 
away in a snug corner fifty cents for themselves. In this class are 
our unscrupulous wretches who trade in widows' tears and orphans' 
woes. 

"There is a third class of men and women in every community, 
the scum, the drift wood of social life, who lay and execute no plans, 
who live from hand to mouth, who are carried hither and thither by 
every changing circumstance. 

"That which constitutes the uncivilized state is the absence of the 
first, the public-spirited class. Of course the degree of civilization 
to which any community attains is determined by the number and 
weight of this class. The loss of one of this class is a public loss 
and affliction. 

" I know I voice the opinion and feeling of every individual of this 
large audience, when I say, Mr. Perley belonged emphatically to the 
first class. For twenty-five years he has been felt in all this region 
as a power for good. 

"He was, first, a successful business man, and all his business 
operations were directed to beneficent public ends. Born to the 
chair business, he brought a decidedly practical inventive bent to 
the improvement of that business. He was the first inventor of the 
'combination high chair' for infants, with its four forms, the easy 
elegant high chair, the low floor chair, the crib chair, and the car- 
riage chair. Mr. Perley's hand may not be the only one in effecting 
all these changes, but he originated the idea and set the ball rolling. 
He has taken out a number of working patents and perfected the 
crude patents of others in this work of improving the chair business. 
His last work was an easy noiseless rocker that is to give comfort 
and rest to the stiffened joints and rheumatic frames of our dear old 
grandfathers and grandmothers. His last business thoughts a few* 
days before his death were given to the correcting of one slight 
defect in this work. It has been said that he who causes two blades 
of grass to grow in place of one, is a public benefactor. Certainly 
as high honor belongs to him who has lightened the cares and anxi- 
eties of thousands of mothers, and added to the gushing gladness of 
tens of thousands of the sweet innocents of our homes, through his 
fine improvements in children's and babies' chairs. No widow weeps 
over the work of Mr. Perley's hands, no orphan pines in penury and 
want. 

" Mr. Perley was a great-hearted charitable Christian. There was 
no cant about him, but there was downright earnestness of good- 
ness. He put character above creed and profession. The denom- 
inational robe hung very loosely on his shoulders. He scorned the 
spirit of bitter partisanship. He was ready to recognize excellences 
in other denominations and to correct defects in his own. He deeply 
felt that the evangelical teaching of the past had held up too exclu- 
sively the idea of self-salvation, rather than the salvation of others. 
He insisted with peculiar emphasis that we are to enter on the Chris- 
tian life not first and chiefly to save ourselves, but far more to save 
others. The last time his pastor called upon him he said nothing 
about himself and his hopes and prospects, but he asked about the 



436 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

prospect of a revival, and remarked that he had been talking with 
some of the brethren to get ready for it. 

"In bringing our tribute of respect here to-day it is an unspeak- 
able comfort and joy that we can render it to a worthy life. 

"Sunday, the Sabbath School held a memorial service for Mr. Per- 
ley, who was for nine years its superintendent. The pastor read a 
beautiful letter from an absent father, about a palatial residence he 
was constructing for the family in the far-famed diamond fields, in a 
country 4000 miles square, every part of it pervaded with a health 
giving atmosphere, mellow light, and an exuberant growth. The 
children and adults were greatly interested. He said the twenty- 
first chapter of Revelation was our Father's letter, and in conclud- 
ing his remarks said : 

"What was there in the life of Mr.Perley that makes all this appro- 
priate.'' First, he was an honest man ; second, he was a kind, gener- 
ous man; third, he was a Christian man." 

1 Parley children: Mary Isabell", Charles Addison*^. 

2 Mary IsabelP was born in Gardner 24 Aug., 1849. She mar- 
ried 28 Nov., 1867, Herbert Leland, chair maker, born in Templeton 
5 Oct., 1841, to Leander and Elizabeth S. -Wellington Leland. Mr. 
Leland died 12 March, 1900, in Baldwinsville, where his widow now 
resides. 

3 Charles Addison^ was born in Winchendon, Mass., 30 June, 
1855. He married 24 Nov., 1881, Mary Ella Waite, born in Hub- 
bardston, Mass., 2 Aug., 1858, to Oilman, chair manufacturer, and 
Jerusha-Hosmer Waite. They reside in Baldwinsville, where he is 
the postmaster. Perley children, born in Baldwinsville: Ralph 
Waite, born 7 Dec, 1882, died 11 Dec, 1884; Marian Waite, born 
29 April, 1886; Helen Mildred and Mary Marguerite, twins, born 6 
April, 1892. 



FAMILY 274: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, ALLKN-67, ASA-138. 

GEORGE ALLEN PERLEY was born in Gardner, Mass., 8 
July, 1831. He married there 9 Aug., 1853, Susan A. Nichols, born 
in Hubbardston, Mass., 29 April, 1830, to John and Mercy- Wood- 
ward Nichols of Hubbardston. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in 
Co. H, 36th Regt., M. V. M. He was promoted to first lieutenant of 
Co. K, 36th Regt., and was discharged at the close of the war in 1865. 
Mr. Perley was a chair manufacturer in Gardner, where he died 14 
May, 1896, and where his widow is living. 

1 Perley children : Lula Emagene'*, Fannie Eliza'-, Jennie MabeP, 
Alonzo Allenl 

2 Fannie E.^ was born 14 May, 1861, and died 1 May, 1879. 

3 Lula E.^ was born in Gardner, Mass., 19 June, 1856. She mar- 
ried in Athol 20 Oct., 1875, George Warren Mason, a printer and 
publisher, born in Athol 19 Nov., 1850, to Henry, a saddler, and 
Emily Watson-Howe Mason. Issue: Harry Warren-', Ethel Louise". 

4 Jennie MabeP was born , in Gardner, Mass., 7 May, 1868. She 
married there 28 Sept., 1887, Charles Hermon Goddard, born 28 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 437 

July, 1866, to Augustus A., a mechanic, and Abbie-Wilkinson God- 
dard. She married second 18 June, 1896, in Gardner, Walter Her- 
bert Hinds, who was born 20 Oct., 1861, to Abijah and Harriet Z.- 
Hinds Hinds. Their home is Northampton, Mass. 

5 Alonzo A.^ was born in Gardner, Mass., 25 July, 1873. He is 
a mechanic by trade, and lives unmarried in Gardner. 

6 Harry W.^ was born in Gardner, Mass., 12 May, 1876. He 
married in Wallingford, Conn., 2 July, 1901, Julia Lorretta Downey, 
who was born in Wallingford 7 Dec, 1876, to John and Eliza-Fahey 
Downey. They reside in Providence, R. L, where he is a silver- 
smith. Their child: Harry Downey, born in Auburn, R. I., 21 Dec, 
1903. 

7 Ethel L.^ was born in Gardner, Mass., 17 Sept., 1878, and mar- 
ried in Boston, Mass., 20 Oct., 1897. Albert Henry Bagloe, a dry 
goods salesman, who was born 3 April, 1870, to William, a farmer, 
and Ann-Tradinic Bagloe. Their home is Needham, Mass. Their 
children, born in Boston: Carry Mason, 14 May, 1898; Hattie Grace, 
19 May, 1899. 



FAMILY 275: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA 35, ALLEN-67, ASA-138. 

JAMES MONROE PERLEY was born in Gardner 26 Feb., 
1834. He married 7 Dec, 1865, in Templeton, Mass., Fannie E. 
Johnson, who was born in Templeton 29 Nov., 1843, to Stedman, 
a farmer, and Cynthie-Merritt Johnson. Her father was the inven- 
tor of the winnowing machine for cleaning grain, the familiar machine 
now on the market known as the "Johnson." Mr. Perley was for 
many years engaged in the manufacture of chairs, from which busi- 
ness he is now retired, with home in Baldwinsville. 

1 Perley child: Frank Monroe, born 7 Nov., 1873, died 18 Sept., 
1874. 



FAMILY 276: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, ALLEN-67, ASA-138. 

FRANCIS WALTER PERLEY was born in Gardner, Mass., 4 
May, 1836. He married 1 July, 1857, Adeline Gates, who was born 
in Gardner 14 Oct., 1840, to Amos, a chair maker, and Betsey-Kemp 
Gates. Their home is Gardner, Mass. 

1 Perley children : George Francis'", Nellie Elizal 

2 George F.^ was born in Gardner 4 Aug., 1859. He married in 
Athol, Mass., 3 Jan., 1881, Rena Rose Clark, born in East Brook- 
field, Mass., 17 May, 1859, to Leonard and Susan-Hovey Clark. Mr. 
Perley is foreman in a baby-carriage manufactory. Their home 
is Leominster, Mass. Perley children, born in Gardner: George 
Roscoe, 14 Nov., 1882; Wallace Emerson, 17 Sept., 1885. 



438 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

3 Nellie E.^ was born in Gardner 23 March, 1865. She married 
26 Sept., 1888, William Amos Weeks, finisher, born in Winchendon, 
Mass., 30 Jan., 1862, to Amos, a machinist, and Emeline-Elliott 
Weeks. Their home is Gardner, where their child, Marian Vera, 
was born 6 July, 1896. 



FAMILY 277: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16. ASA-35. ALLEN-67, ASA-138. 

THEOPHILUS PARSONS PERLEY was born in Gardner, 
Mass., 12 Nov., 1838. He married in Templeton, Mass., 11 Sept., 
1866, Alice Adelia Upham, dressmaker, born in Phillipston, Mass., 
13 Feb., 1846, to Joseph Emerson and Susan Pemelia-Newton 
Upham. Mrs. Perley is a niece of Capt. Charles W. Upham. 

" In his earlier days Mr. Perley was associated with his father 
and several brothers in the manufacture of chairs and chair stock in 
what is known as the old Perley mill, near the Samuel Clark place. 
The business was sold to Evans & Bowker in 1887. Later he car- 
ried on a successful coal and grain business, and built the block on 
Parker street known as the Perley block. He died 3 Dec, 1901, 
after a lingering illness of two years." 

1 Perley child : Carrie F"rances'-. 

2 Carrie F.^ was born 20 July, 1869, and became a music teacher. 
She married in Gardner 23 Oct., 1895, John Farrington Miner, a 
machinist, born in Windsor, Mass., 13 July, 1871, to Jonathan Isaiah 
and Caroline Alleta-Goodrich Miner. Their home is Gardner, with- 
out children. 



FAMILY 278: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMA.S-16, ASA-35, ALLEN-67, ASA-138. 

LOUIS SYLVESTER PERLEY was born in Gardner, Mass., 
17 June, 1844. He married, first, in Templeton, Mass., 7 Jan., 1871, 
Rebecca Moore Howe, school teacher, of Templeton, Mass., born in 
Petersham, Mass., 15 June, 1845, to Stephen and Betsey I.-White 
Howe. She died in Templeton 27 March, 1883. Mr. Perley mar- 
ried, second, in Orange, Mass., 29 Sept., 1885, Anna Eliza Wright, 
born in Northfield 15 Feb., 1853, to Henry and Eliza Anna- Wood- 
cock Wright. Their home is Gardner. Mr. Perley is a clerk in the 
office of the commissioners of war records, State House, Boston. 

1 Perley children, born in Baldwinsville, Templeton, Mass.: 
Louis Howe^ a son^ Ruth White'-, Belle Wright'-, Philip Sylvester'^ 

2 A son^ was stillborn 4 May, 1876; Ruth W.^ was born 27 Nov., 
1882, and 1 Dec, 1900, on the Boston & Maine Railroad, near Roy- 
alston, received a personal injury for which by order of court the 
road paid her $4000; Belle W.^ was born 23 Sept., 1888; Philip S.^ 
was born 27 March, 1890. 

3 Louis H.^ was born 22 Oct., 1871. He has been in the em- 




JOHN W. PERLEY, ESQ. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



439 



ploy of the railroad for the past seventeen years. For five years he 
was telegraph operator and baggage master at Baldwinsville, was 
station agent in Holden, Mass., five years, also five years in South Roy- 
alston, Mass. He is now ticket agent at the station in Athol, Mass., 
his home. He married, first, in Winchester, N. H., 24 Aug., 1892, 
Flora Grace Doolittle, born in Richmond, N. H., to Charles, farmer, 
and Mary Etta-Buffum Doolittle. She died in Royalston 4 Aug., 
1897. He married, second, in Royalston 5 Oct., 1898, Mary Hall, 
born in Enfield, Mass., 28 Sept., 1866, to George and Charlotte- 
Newell Hall. Perley children: Norman Henry, born in Holden 5 
Feb., 1895; Flora Leona, born in Royalston 4 Aug., 1897; George 
Hall, born and died in Royalston 23 Aug., 1899. 



FAMILY 279: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, TIIOMAS-IG, AHA-35, DANIEL-68, DANlEL-139. 

JOHN WESLEY PERLEY was born in South Bridgton, Me., 
25 Feb., 1844. He married 18 Dec, 1870, Miss Maria Hosford Ed- 
wards, who was born in Warsaw, N. Y., 29 April, 1834, to Catherine 
and Timothy, a farmer, of Lamoile, 111. She lived some time in 
Santa Rosa, Cal., an invalid, and has been blind for some years. 
The loss of her only child whose endearment is beyond expression 
weighs heavily upon her mind. She is descended from the famous 
Jonathan Edwards family, and is worthy her descent in the sterling 
qualities of her mind and heart. She lives (1903) in Detroit Citv, 
Minn. 

The postmaster at Perley, Wis., wrote us some years ago. "This 
town was named for J. W. Perley, a noted man in this locality, a very 
successful lumberman — very wealthy and influential." 

Mr. Perley's character was essentially that of a business man. 
He could fell a forest, manufacture lumber, build a village, name a 
town, plant a vineyard, cultivate a farm, establish a bank. He trav- 
eled all through the West, including Alaska; was well-read and 
widely intelligent. He harvested knowledge and used it with wisdom. 

"Representative Men of the United States" says of him: "His 
boyhood was spent upon his father's farm and he attended school 
winters. He garnered the 'three Rs ' before the end of his four- 
teenth year, when his school-life closed. When his father died in 
1857, the farm demanded his entire attention ; but farm life did not 
advance the theoretical side of his life nor ensure his ideal; it did, 
however, make a man of him ; it introduced him to practical life and 
taught him independent reliance and exertion. 

"In 1863 he visited Wisconsin and her northern pineries, and 
having carefully canvassed St. Croix County for the lumber business 
returned home. The next year, 9 April, 1864, he bought a saw 
mill and land adjoining, in Brookville, on the river Eau Galle, County 
St. Croix. His mill was run by water power and had a capacity of 
2,500,000 feet per annum — no inconsiderable industry for a primi- 
tive enterprise — to which he later on added steam power. He 



440 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

bought, near Hammond, a tract of land he sold to settlers for farms, 
but 200 acres which he held for himself. In 1872 Bracket & Perley 
erected a brick building and opened a hardware trade. From 1877, 
he conducted for two years a lumber business in Clear Lake, Polk 
County. In 1880 he founded the Andrews & Perley Lumber Co., 
of which he was president. This company founded the town of Per- 
ley, Barron County. In 1888 he established the Bank of St. Croix 
Falls, and was elected president. During the panic of 1893, it was 
the only bank in that section which was not obliged to withstand a 
run. In 1890 he became interested in the Carpenter Bar Gold 
Mining Company, owners and operators of a placer mine of 500 acres 
in Deer Lodge County, Mont., whose estimated production since its 
discovery in 1862 has been $5,000,000 of gold, and not half of it has 
been worked. He owned between 11,000 and 12,000 acres of land 
in northern Wisconsin. His farm proper, in Perley, to which he 
retired, consisted of 14-10 acres. 

"He was a member of the Repubhcan party and of the Masonic 
order; he was a patriotic advocate of freedom and equal rights to all, 
and a lover of fair dealings. He was in no way a politician and ever 
refused to be a candidate for political honors. No man in the great 
Northwest more deserved success and none has left a mOre honor- 
able record." 

Miss Clara H. Berry-139"', his niece, his bookkeeper, writes : 
"Uncle died Monday morning of paralysis; Rev. Miss Ida Richard- 
son preached a funeral sermon at his residence; and the body was 
taken to Santa Rosa for burial at the side of his son. His health 
failed him during the last five years of his life, though most of the 
time he was fairly well and able to attend to his business. During 
the last three years only the care of his farm engrossed his atten- 
tion. There he seemed most happy, since he was particularly fond 
of animals and outdoor life. Two weeks before his death he had a 
slight paralysis of his left side, apparently of a few hours' duration. 
He sat up and read every day thereafter till the end came. His 
charities were large and unostentatious. He maintained a free hos- 
pital-bed, without disclosing his name, gave liberally to other hospi- 
tals, assisted several young men to an education and business. He 
was a large-hearted, generous, kind, considerate man, a noble citizen, 
endeared in his family." 

1 Perley child : John Edwards'-. 

2 J. Edwards^ was born in Hammond, Wis., 12 Aug., 1872, and died 
in Tucson, Arizona, 14 Feb., 1893, of heart failure. In 188(5 his 
parents sought the milder climate of California for his health, and in 
1888 made Santa Rosa their permanent home. Young Perley 
studied in a private school and graduated with high honors at a com- 
mercial college. From that time his health failed. As a last resort 
he and his mother went to the still milder climate of Arizona, where 
he died. One of his teachers paid him this beautiful tribute: "The 
love his teachers and companions bore him was earned not only by 
conscientious study and application in the class room, but also by 
his consistent and manly bearing on the playground and in the 
home." He had a thoughtful appreciation of his home advantages 
and comforts, and a tender solicitude for his invalid mother. 



FAMILY 280: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, DANIEL-C8, 
FREDERIC PORTER-140. 

WILLIAM EARL PERLEY was born in Grand Lake, N. B., 
19 June, 1827. He was a farmer in his early days. Then he became 
a carpenter, and worked a number of years at the trade. He settled 
with his father in Indiana in 1845, and in 1873 removed to Spring 
Hill, Iowa, and there made his home. He was a volunteer in the 
Rebellion, 42d Indiana Regiment, Co. F, till peace was restored. He 
was with Gen. Sherman at the surrender of Gen. Johnston. He 
had a good farm, well stocked, and was a strong man financially and 
socially. 

He married in Michigan City, Ind., 2 March, 1853, Marietta 
Palmer, born in Schoharie or Broome County, N. Y., 19 Aug., 1833, 
to Ebenezer, a school teacher and carpenter, and Frances Crosier- 
Moss Palmer of Laporte, Ind. Their children were born and died 
in Laporte. Mr, Perley died in Greenbush, Warren County, Iowa, 
15 Dec, 1888. His widow resides upon the farm (1905). 

1 Perley children: Frances Elizabeth'^, Charles Frederick'-. 

2 Frances E.^ was born 15 Oct., 1857, and died 15 Sept., 1858. 
Charles F.^ was born 6 Nov., 1859, and died 6 Aug., 1861. 



FAMILY 281: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, DANIEL-68, 
FREDERICK PORTER-140. 

ASA CHARLES PERLEY was born in St. John, N. B., 4 Jan., 
1829. He was a farmer boy till seventeen, when apprenticed to 
learn the carpenter's trade. Carpentry and car building, in Indiana, 
were his business till a score of years ago, when he bought a farm in 
Spring Hill, Iowa. He was school director, real estate supervisor 
and township trustee. He writes: As to wealth, we have neither 
poverty nor riches, but think, if any of the Perleys would give us a 
call, we could do the fair thing by them. His wife and daughter are 
members of the M. E. Church. Mr. Perley is now retired. His wife 
was Sarah Whitely, married in Lafayette, Ind., 13 Nov., 1857, born 
in Staley Bridge, England, 28 July, 1833. Her mother's maiden 
name was Harriet Boothroyd. Their children were born in Michi- 
gan City, Ind. Their home now is Indianola, Iowa. 

1 Perley children : Carrie Lorinda'^ George Frederick^ 

2 Carrie L.^ was born 22 Dec, 1859. She taught for several 
years in the public schools of Warren County, Iowa. She married 
her twenty-first birthday and his twenty-fourth, 22 Dec, 1880, John 



442 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Pressley Anderson, a merchant of Indianola, Iowa, son of William 
and Euphemia-Findlay Anderson. 

3 George F/ was born 18 June, 1865. He married in Des Moines, 
Iowa, 25 Dec., 1889, Margaret Buck, born in Oneco, 111., 24 May, 
1868, to Ezekiel, farmer, and Lydia-Scott Buck. Mr. Perley is a 
merchant in Indianola. Perley children : Hazel, born 21 Dec, 1890; 
George Ernest, born 3 Aug., 1893. 



FAMILY 282: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-l, THOMAS-4, TUOMAS-IO, ASA-35, DANIEL-68, 
FREDERICK PORTER-140. 

GEORGE AUGUSTUS PERLEY was born in Houlton, Me., 
19 May, 1832. Most of his life he was a lumberman. He was in 
the first call for volunteers against the Rebellion, and served till 
peace was restored. He served in Co. B, 9th Indiana Regiment, then 
in Co. K, 73d Regiment. He was in many hard-fought battles, but 
escaped even a wound. He resided sometime on his homestead of 
on 2 hundred and sixty acres, Beaver City, Neb. He married 24 
April, 1869, Mary Kinney of Des Moines, Iowa, who was born in 
South Bend, Ind., to John, a farmer, and Elizabeth-Emberlin Kin- 
ney. Their present home is Summerset, Iowa, where Mr. Perley is 
engaged in farming. 

1 Perley children : Martha', Etta^ Elizabeth-, F'rederic Willis*. 

2 Martha' was born in Des Moines 31 Jan., 1870, and died near 
Oxford, Neb., 22 Jan., 1879. Elizabeth' was born in Des Moines 20 
Jan., 1875, and died in Summerset 6 Feb., 1886. Frederic W,' was 
born in Oregon, Mo., 15 July, 1880, and resides, unmarried, in Sum- 
merset. 

3 Etta' was born in Red Rock, Iowa. She was a dressmaker. 
She married 9 Nov., 1899, in Summerset, Iowa, John Edward Sny- 
der, a farmer, born in Sioux City, Iowa, 9 March, 1872, to James, a 
farmer, and Nancy V.-Tate Snyder. Their home is Summerset. 
Snyder issue: Loran Perley, born 30 Oct., 1900. 



FAMILY 283: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16. ASA-35, DANIEL-68, 
FREDERICK PORTER-140. 

DAVID POOR PERLEY was born m Toronto, Ontario, Can- 
ada, 7 June, 1836. He has been most of his life a lumberman. He 
married 13 Nov., 1860, Emma Selfina Sumner of New York, born 
11 July, 1844, to Daniel and Lucy Ann-Moody Sumner. She died 
in Sioux City, Iowa, 16 Aug., 1895. Mr. Perley married second in 
Sioux City 23 Jan., 1898, Minnie Phoebe Phillips, born in Dakota 
City, Dakota County, Neb., 10 March, 1873, to Charles and Eveline 
Elizabeth-Hunt Phillips. Their home is Sioux City. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOaY 443 

1 Parley children: Henrietta'^ William Albert", Daniel Albertus'', 
Charles Frederic'', Orville George'". 

2 William A/ was born 26 Oct., 1865, and died 10 Aug., 1866. 
Orville G.^ was born in Montevideo, Minn., 15 May, 1885. He is 
a motor-car conductor in Sioux City. 

3 Henrietta^ was born 10 Nov., 1861, in Michigan City, Ind. 
She is a dressmaker by trade, and resides in Sioux City, Iowa. She 
married in Council Bluffs, Iowa, 22 Oct., 1898, Edwin Page Holmes, 
who was born in Albion, Mich., 7 Jan., 1857, to Charles F. and 
Nancy-Young Holmes. He is a machinist. They have no children. 

4 Daniel A.' was born 31 July, 1867, in Michigan City, Ind. He 
is a laborer in Sioux City, Iowa, where he married 7 May, 1891, Edith 
Edna Barnes, who was a school teacher, born in Ionia, Mich., 6 Jan., 
1870, to Joseph, a jeweler, and Jennie Lavina-Collins Barnes. Per- 
ley children, born in Sioux City but the first: Walter Albertus, in 
Emerson, Neb., 10 Feb., 1892; Ralph Frederic, 9 April, 1894 ; Ethel 
Henrietta, 18 Jan., 1897; Edyth Almeda, 18 Sept., 1899. 

5 Charles F.^ was born in Spring Hill, Iowa, 3 Oct., 1874. He 
married in Sioux City, Iowa, 4 Nov., 1897, Bertha Luclinger, born 
there 25 June, 1874, to Daniel and Jennie-Atkinson Luclinger. Mr. 
Perley is manager for Swift & Co., at Dubuque, Iowa, where they 
reside. Perley children, born in Sioux City: Henrietta Florence, 12 
Nov., 1898; David Earle, 26 Aug., 1902. 



FAMILY 284: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16. ASA-35, HENRY-69, HENRY-141. 

ALBERT PERLEY was born in Boxford, Mass., 11 Oct., 1809. 
He purchased his grandfather's farm and settled upon it. He was 
a quiet, industrious man; reserved, yet very agreeably social with 
intimate acquaintances; was an excellent citizen. He married Han- 
nah Hayward, daughter of Jabez, of Boxford, 23 Jan., 1840. Her 
mother's maiden name was Long. While milking his cows, 21 Feb., 
1876, he had an apoplectic fit, and died almost instantly. His widow 
died 17 April, 1889. 

1 Perley children, born in Boxford: Catherine'^ Mary Emma^ 
Josephine*, Albert E.^ Jane^ Samuel Augustus-429, Charles'^ and 
Henryl 

2 Catherine' was born 17 Nov., 1840, and married a Buck- 
ley of Danvers, where she died 25 P'eb., 1879. Buckley issue: May 
A., born 6 Dec, 1859; Adella E., born 12 Aug., 1861 ; John A., born 
20 March, 1873. 

3 Mary E.^ was born 4 Sept., 1842, and 20 May, 1866, married 
Asahel Huntington Todd, who was born in Topsfield 13 Oct., 1830, 
to Samuel Cheny and Lydia-Gould Todd. He died 8 June, 1890, in 
Topsfield, where his widow now resides (Feb., 1905). Todd chil- 
dren: Ada Josephine, born 2 Aug., 1868; Augustus Hayward, born 
1 Sept., 1873; Marion Huntington, born 2 Dec, 1879. 

4 Josephine' was born 28 Dec, 1843, and 2 Jan., 1872, married 



444 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

A. Austin Lake, who was born 6 March, 1841, to Eleazer and Han- 
nah A.-Gould Lake of Topsfield. He was a shoemaker. He died 7 
March, 1877, in Topsfield, where his widow resides (1905). 

5 Albert E.^ was born 8 June, 1845. He volunteered against the 
Rebellion 3 Sept. and was mustered in 25 Sept., 1862, for nine months, 
in Co. D, 48th Regt., Gen. Banks' division ; was at Baton Rouge, 
New Orleans, and was wounded in his right arm at Port Hudson 27 
May, 1863. He was discharged 23 Aug., 1863, and re-enlisted 26 
Aug., 1864, for one year, in 28th Regt., Heavy Artillery. After- 
wards he was a farm hand in Boxford and vicinity, and teamster in 
Danvers, where he died unmarried 21 April, 1877, aged (sic) thirty- 
two years, ten months and thirteen days. 

6 Jane^was born 1 Sept., 1849. She married 12 Feb., 1871, Rev. 
S. D. Gammell officiating, George A. Wilkins. who was born in 1848 
to Frederick and Sarah-Fuller Wilkins of Danvers. He lived in 
Danvers, a shoemaker. She died in Boxford 19 April, 1872. 

7 Charles' was born 16 Oct., 1854. He married in Boston, Mass., 
3 March, 1883, Louise Parkhurst Emerson, born in Chelmsford, 
Mass., 21 Nov., 1861, to Rufus Webster and Martha Lucinda-Park- 
hurst Emerson. Their home is Boxford. Perley children, born in 
Boxford: Jeannette, 22 July, 1885; Bertha, 28 Oct., 1886; Barbara 
Carolyn, 30 Aug., 1902. 

8 Henry\ twin with Charles^ was born 16 Oct., 1854, and mar- 
ried in Georgetown, Mass., 22 Dec, 1886, Abbie Nelson Chaplin, a 
teacher, who was born in Georgetown 4 Dec, 1861, to Charles E., a 
farmer, and Charlotte-Nelson Chaplin. Mr. Perley is a farmer in 
East Boxford. Perley children, born in Boxford: Henry Chaplin, 
12 Oct., 1887; Raymond, 9 April, 1889; Charlotte, 17 June, 1891; 
Esther Katharine, 28 April, 1901. 



FAMILY 285: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TnOMAS-4, THOM,AS-16, ASA-35, HENRY-69, HENRY-141. 

CHARLES PERLEY was born in Boxford 13 April, 1811. He 
became a shoemaker and repairer, industrious and skillful. He was 
tenacious of his opinions, and his speech was often sharply pertinent. 
He married 15 April, 1835, Lucy Jane Herrick, who was born 8 
March, 1813, to James and Mary-Jones Herrick of Beverly, Mass. 
He died 1 Sept., 1877. His remains were buried in Georgetown. 
She died 24 Feb., 1896, aged eighty-two years, eleven months, nine- 
teen days. 

1 Perley children : Harriet Elizabeth'-, Lucy Helen^ 

2 Harriet E.' was born 25 Oct., 1837, and married George Her- 
vey Spofford, who was born 10 Dec, 1835, to Gardner and Mary- 
Platts Spofford of Georgetown. He was a shoe manufacturer in 
Georgetown till 1880, when he removed to Plymouth, Mass. Their 
home (1905) is Campello, Mass., where he is a shoe cutter. Spof- 
ford issue: Elizabeth Maria^ ; Preston Gardner, born 22 April, 1856, 
a shoe cutter, unmarried, of Campello. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 445 

3 Lucy H.^ was born 12 Aug., 1839. She attended Topsfield 
Academy, and unmarried, lives in Georgetown. 

4 "Lizzie" M.- was born in Georgetown, Mass., 16 Nov., 1853, 
and married 8 Sept., 1875, Joseph N. Kelley, who was born in 
Waterboro, Me., 10 Feb., 1853, to WilHam and Sarah-Emery Kelley. 
He was foreman in a shoe factory in Campello, where he died 26 
July, 1892. His widow resides in Campello, where she is machine 
operator in a shoe factory. Kelley issue : George Spofford, born 8 
Sept., 1886. 



FAMILY 286: ANDREWS. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALL AN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, HENRY-69, HENRY-141. 

HARRIET AUGUSTA PERLEY was born 17 Jan., 1814, and 
4 April, 1838, married Dean Andrews, born in Boxford 12 July, 1800, 
to Nathan and Eunice-Kimball Andrews. Mr. Andrews was an 
extensive farmer and dealer in ship timber and lumber. He died 1 
March, 1869. His widow resides with her daughter Emily in Box- 
ford (Oct., 1905). 

1 Andrews children : Emily Augusta'-; Harriet Esther^ 

2 Emily A.^ was born 25 July, 1845, and married 16 Feb., 1870, 
Solomon Washington Howe, who was born in Boxford 5 Nov., 1842, 
to Edward and Mary Ann-Lowe Howe. He settled upon the estate 
of his wife's parents. He is a farmer and also is engaged in saw and 
grist milling. They have no children. 

3 Harriet E.^ was born in Boxford 12 April, 1852. She is a 
music teacher, and is unmarried. 



FAMILY 287: DORMAN. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOlIAS-4, THOjrAS-16, ASA-35, HENRY-69, HENRY-141. 

PHEBE PERLEY was born 24 or 25 Feb., 1817, and 6 Nov., 
1839, became the second wife of Moses Dorman, who was born 25 
Sept., 1803, to Moses and Huldah-Gould Dorman of Boxford. She 
died 30 Aug., 1848, the mother of four children. 

[Mr. Dorman's first wife was Huldah Gould, married in Box- 
ford 1 April, 1828, and born in Boxford 15 Aug., 1806, to Jacob 
and Ruth-Peabody Gould. She was a sister of Gen. Gould of 
Rochester, N. Y. She died 3 Feb , 1839, at the Dorman home. 

[Their only child was Huldah Elizabeth, who was born in Boxford 
9 Aug., 1829, and married there 10 April, 1851, Joseph Huntington 
Janes, a farmer, born in Topsfield, Mass., 1 June, 1826, to Henry, a 
farmer, and Annie-Batchelder Janes. She died in Boxford 5 Sept., 
1896. Janes children: Henry Dorman, born in Topsfield 17 March, 
1852, married, and residing in Portland, Oregon; Florence Hunting- 
ton, born in Boxford 8 April, 1853, residing, unmarried, in Boxford; 
Annie Batchelder, born in Boxford 16 April, 1854, married George 
E. Stanley of Salem, and died 30 Oct., 1891 ; Arthur Gould, born in 
Boxford 1 Oct., 1856, and died in May, 1857. 



446 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

[Mr. Dorman's third wife was Mary Nourse Foster, daughter of 
Capt. Aaron Foster of Dan vers, married 27 Feb., 1851. She sur- 
vived her husband and spent her days on the Dorman estate.] 

The Moses Dorman house, built a httle later than 1688 by Tim- 
othy Dorman, born to Thomas in 1663, has been so changed and en- 
larged by his son John and later occupants that the picture presents 
but little of the original structure beyond the massive timbers. 

Mr. Dorman was a leading citizen and a progressive farmer. He 
represented his town in the State Legislature 1835 and 1836, was a 
selectman 1831-2-3-4-5-6, 1840-1-2, 1844, 1846-7-8, 1853-4, 1856. He 
was also widely known as a land surveyor and a justice of the peace. 
Town Clerk Putnam of Andover, speaking of the several surv^eys 
and maps of his town, said that Moses Dorman of Boxford made the 
survey and map of 1830, and in many respects it is the best one. 




Mr. Dorman also surveyed and mapped his own town of Boxford the 
same year. He was a just man and an acknowledged conservator 
of the peace. 

He died 26 July, 1877, aged seventy-three years. His death was 
thought to have been hastened by his grief for the death of a prom- 
ising son. 

1 Perley-Dorman children: Moses Horace'^ Harriet Andrews^, 
Franklin Webster^ Thomas Perley\ 

2 M. Horace^ was born 10 March, 1841, and educated in Tops- 
field Academy. He married Sarah Cheever, daughter of Aaron, of 
Danvers, 12 Jan., 1865, and was a member of the business firm 
Lawrence & Co., New York City. They reside in Brooklyn. Their 
children are Jessie Thomas, born 3 Jan., 1868; Anna Cheever®; 
Wm. Richardson, died 26 July, 1871. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 447 

3 Harriet A.^ was born in Boxford 20 March, 1843. She married 
there 18 Nov., 1877, and became the second wife of John Everett 
Herrick, who was born in Salem, Mass., 19 Nov., 1831, to John, a 
farmer, and EHzabeth FHnt-Foster Herrick. [Mr. Herrick's first 
wife was Miss Elizabeth Ann Burnham.] Their home is West 
Peabody, where Mr. Herrick is a farmer. They have no children. 

4 Franklin Webster^ was born in Boxford 28 Dec, 1844. He 
married in South Hadley, Mass., 6 Oct., 1870, Isabelle Wait Taylor, 
born in South Hadley to Erastus, a builder, and Sarah-Burnett Tay- 
lor. Their home is Upper Montclair, N.J. Mr. Dorman is a mem- 
ber of the firm of Amory, Browne & Co., dry goods commission 
merchants, New York City. He is a member of the Montclair 
Club and of the Merchants' Club, New York City. He served as 
member of the Montclair Township Committee of 1876 and 1877. 
Dorman children : Theodore Taylor"; Franklin Abbott*; Harry 
Gaylord"; Mary Isabelle, born 28 Oct., 1880, student of high school, 
died in Montclair 14 March, 1899; Thomas Burnett, born 15 Nov., 
1884, who graduated in 1902 from the Volkmann School, Boston, is 
now in his junior year at Harvard and a member of the Pi Eta 
Society. 

5 Thomas P.^ was born 4 Feb., 1847. He was a young man of 
excellent promise, based on character and ability. His sterling 
worth was appreciated by his fellow citizens who made him town 
clerk in 1871 and 2, and selectman in the latter year. A little later 
he began the study of law, with especial reference to probate prac- 
tice. He had nearly completed his course of reading in the law 
office of Charles Kimball, Esq., of Salem, when from chills and fever 
he died 17 April, 1877, aged thirty years. 

6 Anna C."' was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 18 Aug., 1869, and 
married there 3 Oct., 1895, George Henry Bailey, Jr., machinist, 
born in Brooklyn 29 Nov., 1868, to George Henry and Ellen Re- 
becca-Platt Bailey. Their home is Bellevue, Pa. Their child : Sarah 
Cheever, born 11 July, 1899. 

7 Theodore Taylor^ was born in South Hadley, Mass., 11 Sept., 
1871. He graduated at the Montclair High School, 1889; at the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1893, with degree of S. B.; 
at the Law School of Columbia University, Washington, D. C, 1896, 
with degree of LL. B.; 1897, LL. M.; 1898, M. P. L. Mr. Dorman 
was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the District of 
Columbia in 1898, and to the Court of Appeals in the same year. 
In 1902 he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the 
State of New York, and in 1904 to the Circuit Court of the United 
States for the Southern District of New York. He is a member of 
the Phi Delta Phi Fraternity. He married in Flushing, L. I., N. Y., 
14 July, 1904, Frances Cole Hayes, who was born in Albany, N. Y.. 
to John William, a lawyer, and Frances Harriet-Cole Hayes. They 
reside in Upper Montclair. 

8 Frankhn Abbott^ was born in Montclair, N. J., 20 Dec, 1872, 
He took the degree of A. B. cum laude from Harvard, 1894; degree 
A. M. from Columbia University, 1898; and the degree M. D. from 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is now ( 1905 ) a lecturer 
in New York Post Graduate Medical School, visiting physician to 



448 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

the Post Graduate, the City, and the Sloane Maternity Hospitals. 
He married in Flushing, L. I., N. Y., 22 Sept., 1902, Jane Chadwick 
Callender, a trained nurse, born in Albany, N. Y., 1874, to William 
N., an editor, and Susan-Wilbur Callender. They reside in New- 
York City. Dorman child: Isabel Wait, born 8 Oct., 1903. 

9 Harry Gaylord"* was born in Montclair, N. J., 9 Jan., 1876. 
He graduated from the Montclair High School, 1892, winning the 
Wilde bronze medal for general scholarship. He graduated from 
Harvard College in 1896, with degree of A. B. cum laude, and from 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, in 
1900, with degree of M. D., winning second Harsden prize for gen- 
eral proficiency. He is now professor of children's diseases, Syrian 
Protestant College, Beyrout, Syria. He married in Beyrout 14 
Jan., 1908, Mary Bliss Dale, born there to Rev. Gerald F., a minis- 
ter and missionary, and Mary-Bliss Dale. Dorman child: Gerald 
Dale, born in Beyrout 12 Nov., 1903. 



FAMILY 288: LONG. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, HENRY-69, HENRY-141. 

CATHERINE PERLEY was born in Boxford, Mass., 26 March, 
1821. She married there 4 May, 1842, Henry Long, who was born 
in North Andover, Mass., 8 Aug., 1819, to Elijah, a farmer, and 
Elizabeth-Bolman Long. He was a blacksmith and stabler in Tops- 
field, where his wife died of erysipelas, 10 Feb., 1858, and where he 
married, second, 6 March, 1860, Elizabeth Gould, born there 12 
Nov., 1828, to Josiah, a farmer, and Betsey-Gould Gould. 

Mr. Long was a fine artisan, a hard worker, a good citizen, and 
earned and devised a fine estate. He died of brain fever 19 Aug., 
1871. His widow died in Topsfield 2 April, 1890. 

1 Long children : Henry Lsmont', Charles Otis^ Martha Alice^ 
William Albert^ Ira Perley^ 

2 Henry L.^ was born 30 Aug., 1844, and died in Detroit, Mich., 
13 Jan., 1867. He began life as a clerk in a bookstore in Salem, 
and went West, probably for a drier atmosphere and health. He 
never married. Charles O.^ was born 14 Oct., 1847, and died 22 
Oct., 1871, in Topsfield, where he was a clerk in a variety store. 

3 Martha A.^ was born in Topsfield 16 Sept., 1851. She married 
there 16 Sept., 1875, Jared Brown McLane, born in Pugvvash, N. S., 
8 May, 1853, to Alexander, a blacksmith, and Harriet-Brown McLane. 
They reside in North Reading, Mass., where Mr. McLane is a wagon 
manufacturer. McLane issue; Lelia Harriet"; Bessie Long, born in 
North Reading 29 Oct., 1878, who is an assistant cashier of the 
First National Bank in Reading. 

4 William A.^ was born in Topsfield 29 Aug., 1854. He married 
in Boxford 18 Dec, 1894, Marietta Long, a school teacher, born in 
Salem 5 Aug., 1854, to Charles Washington, a wheelwright, and 
Margaret-Barrett Long. They reside in Topsfield. 

5 Ira P.^ was born in Topsfield 20 P'eb., 1857. He married in 
Boxford 29 July, 1877, Harriet Lake Follansbee, born in George- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 449 

town, Mass., 21 Jan., 1857, to Moses C. and Martha- Wayland Fol- 
lansbee. She died in Topsfield 1 Oct., 1893. He married, second, 
14 Dec, 1898, Laura Ann Cummings, born in Topsfield 15 Oct., 
1857, to Alfred, a farmer, and Salome M. -Welch Cummings. Mr. 
Long was a blacksmith. He died 30 Dec, 1903, in Topsfield, where 
his widow now resides. Long issue born in Topsfield : Ethel 
Catherine, 9 Feb., 1878, died 1 Sept., 1893; Ruth Alice, 22 Jan., 
1880, died 1 Sept., 1893; Henry Follansbee, 29 Sept., 1883, a clerk, 
residing in Topsfield; William Chester, 20 Aug., 1886; Perley 
Lamont, 28 Aug., 1887, died 9 May, 1888. 

6 Lelia H.*^ was born in Topsfield 22 Aug., 1876. She married 
in North Reading, Mass., 22 Aug., 1900, Foster Rayner Batchelder, 
born there 22 Dec, 1873, to Dennis, a farmer, and Lucy Frances- 
Rayner Batchelder. Mr, Batchelder is assistant manager of the 
McLane Wagon Manufactory. 



FAMILY 289: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-], THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, HENRY-69, HENRY-141. 

OSMORE PERLEY was born in Boxford, Mass., 25 Dec, 1825. 
He was a mason by trade. His family resided in Haverhill, Mass., 
except about ten years from 1853, in Providence, R. L His wife 
was Martha Janes Denning, who was born in Poland, Me., 11 Dec, 
1832, to Job and Hannah-True Denning of Haverhill. He died 20 
Feb., 1878. His widow and her daughter resided in Haverhill for 
some years till they removed to Newark, N. J. Their home now 
(1905) is Oak Park, 111. 

1 Perley children : Ida May', Annie Celinda^. 

2 Ida M.' was born 8 Nov., 1852, and died in Providence, R. I., 
of scarlet fever, 16 May, 1854 or 5. 

3 Annie C.^ was born 8 Nov., 1854 or 5, in Providence, R. I., 
and 22 May, 1876, married in Haverhill, Jesse Stanly Gilmore, who 
was born in Newton, N. H., in 1850 to Jesse and Sophia-Carter Gil- 
more of Haverhill. He was a salesman in Haverhill, where he died. 
She married, second, G. Edwin Batchelder, who is now dead. She 
resides in Oak Park, 111. Gilmore issue: Harry Bassett, born 5 
Aug., 1878, is a salesman in Chicago, with home in Oak Park, 111. 



FAMILY 290: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, HENRY-69, SAMUEL-142. 

GEORGE PERLEY was born in Boxford 5 June, 1817. He 
was a progressive farmer, in his native town. He was a well in- 
formed man and took delight in helping advance all the local inter- 
ests. He was a constable many years, and a considerable period 
clerk of the school district. He was commissioned justice of the 



450 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

peace by Gov. Boutwell in Dec, 1852, and served four terms less a 
few months. He rendered good service in aid of this work, and also 
of the family reunion in 1877. He was one of a committee of 
arrangements. 

He married 4 March, 1845, Mary Paige Johnson, a weaver, who 
was born in Brownfield, Me., 30 Oct., 1821, to Simon and Sarah- 
Spencer Johnson. "About a year before his death he had an almost 
fatal attack of heart complaint. A second attack, 19 June, 1880, 
was fatal. He was one of the solid men of the town." His widow 
died in Boxford 22 Dec, 1896. 

1 Perley child: Mary Ellen was born 24 Jan., 1846. She is a 
skilled botanist, and a ripe scholar. She has compiled and published 
a genealogical volume of the Peabody side of her family. She re- 
sides, unmarried, in Boxford. 



FAMILY 291: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, SAMUEL-7(l, DANIEL-145. 

HOWARD PERLEY was born in Lynn 21 May, 1838. He 
married in Lynn 6 Oct., 1864, Eliza Frances Warner, who was born 
in Boston 13 Nov., 1842, to John Gerry and Eliza-Newhall Warnei^' 
of Lynn. He was early a bookkeeper for Hon. John B. Alley & Co., 
Boston, and resided in Lynn. 

The following is from the Register of the Lynn Historical Society 
for 1899: 

" Mr. Perley was connected with the firm of John B. Alley & 
Sons, (leather merchants) of Boston, and their successors. Alley 
Bros. & Place, for thirty-six years. 

"A cultured musician, and a fine singer, he was an early member 
of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church choir as one of the men members. 
He was an active member of the Lynn Choral Union which took 
part in the first Peace Jubilee, and later he was a member of the 
Lynn Musical Association. 

"He took a strong helpful part in the Lynn Boys' Club. Fra- 
ternally he was affiliated with Mt. Carmel Lodge of Masons and of 
Kirtland Lodge, Knights of Honor. He was a member of the 
Oxford Club and of the Lynn Historical Society from its organization. 

"He led a blameless, unobtrusive life, marked by kindly deeds. 
Welcome ev^erywhere, he was happiest in the family circle of which 
he was the loved and honored head." 

Mr. Perley died 30 May, 1899, in Lynn, where his widow now 
resides with her daughter, Mrs. Hill. 

1 Perley children: Clarence Warner^ Alice Howard^ George 
Frances"-. 

2 George F.^ was born 20 Aug., 1871, and 24 July, 1886, slipped 
from the rocks near "Spouting Horn," Nahant, and was drowned. 

3 Clarence W.^ was born in Lynn 16 Feb., 1867. He graduated 
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, department of biol- 
ogy, in 1896 with degree of Bachelor of Science. He was classifier 
in the John Crerar Library of Science in Chicago, 1900-1902, and 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 45I 

since 1902 has been in charge of the Department of Technology, 
Library of Congress. 

4 Alice H.^ was born in Lynn 29 Dec, 1878. She married there 
4 Oct., 1900, Nathaniel Oilman Hill, born in Charlestown, Mass., 6 
May, 1869, to Nathaniel Ela and Caroline Oilman- Tufts Hill. Mr. 
Hill is assistant paymaster for the Boston & Maine Railroad. Their 
home is Lynn, where their children were born : Eleanor Oilman, 8 
May, 1902; Frances Warner, 20 July, 1903. 



FAMILY 292: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16. ASA-35, SAMUEL TO, DANIEL-145. 

CHARLES STEARNS PERLEY was born in Lynn 15 May, 
1810, and -married 15 April, 1867, Mary Frances Melcher, who was 
born 28 Nov., 1842, to William Neal and Harriet Newell-Meader Mel- 
cher of Lynn. He was educated in Lynn schools and graduated from 
the Lynn High School in 1855. He then became clerk in wholesale 
hardware business in Boston, where he remained till Januar};', 1862, 
when he was appointed paymaster in the regular navy by President 
Lincoln. He served through the war, and resigned in 1868, while 
stationed at the Norfolk Navy Yard, to enter business. He began ih 
Boston as "Ward & Perley." He resides in Oermantown, and his 
business, indexing of reference books, is in Philadelphia. He is also 
owner of patents. His wife died 6 March, 1905. 

1 Perley children, born in Lynn: Lottie M.- and Harriet Mel- 
cher-, Alan Bigelow^ 

2 Lottie M.i was born 29 March and died 21 April, 1868. Har- 
riet M.\ a twin with Lottie, was born 29 March, 1868, and lives with 
her father. 

8 Alan B.^ was born 15 April, 1873. He is a civil engineer in 
Philadelphia, Pa., having his home with his father. 



FAMILY 293: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, TnOMAS-16. ASA-35, SOLOMON-71, 

^'A^HA^'IEL-^47. 

SOLOMON PERLEY was born at Keswick Ridge, N. B., 30 
Sept., 1845. He married there 16 July, 1868, Ruth Brewer of the 
same town, born 8 May, 1851, to Henry, a farmer, and Ruth-Law- 
rence Brewer. Mr. Perley is dealer in country produce and has an 
interest in a wood-turning factory. Their home is Upper Wood- 
stock. 

1 Perley children : Nathaniel Lincoln'-, Earl Moren-, Harry Have- 
lock^, Elden Hay ward", Bernard". 

2 Nathaniel L.^ was born 26 January, 1870, and died 26 July, 
1877; Earl M.^ was born 24 Jan., 1872, and met death by drowning 
28 May, 1879; Harry H.^ was born 16 Jan., 1875, and died 23 May, 
1890; Elden H.^ was born 12 Oct., 1880, and died 28 Jan., 1881 ; Ber- 
nard^ was born 7 May, 1889. 



FAMILY 294: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, JAL'OB-17, JACOH-37, JACOB-73, JOSHUA-148. 

JACOB PERLEY was born in Wilton, Me., 9 Feb., 1789. He 
went into Ohio with his father, and after his return he Hved about a 
year with his uncle, Moses Perley of Montville. The return ride 
from Montville to Wilton, when about seven years old, pillion-like 
without a pillion, on horseback with his father, continued a weird 
memory. His means of education were limited, as well in that new 
country they might be, yet he acquitted himself in public and private 
business with honor and efficiency. He was selectman of Patten 
Me., and the first juror drawn from the town. ' 

In 1?29 he married and began life in Orono, where he was a lum- 
berman. In 1831 he removed to Farmington; in 1833, to his wife's 
father's m St. Albans, and the next year", following the example of 
his father and grandfather, he went fifty miles into the wilderness 
and cleared a farm and established a home. It became the town of 
Patten. In the winter of 1834-5 his wife left the comfortable home 
of her father to join in the hardships and share in the triumphs of 
all-conquering industry. 

Mrs. Perley wrote: "It was in the wilderness; neither phy.sician 
nor store, nor post office, within fifty miles. There we lived twenty- 
four years, till it became quite a populous place. It was the best 
place for poor people I ever lived in. There my husband's business 
was farming, and he always gained property while he attended to it 
When he built the first house in Patten he had to cut down trees to 
make room for it. We lived there eleven years, then sold and bought 
again, where we lived eleven years more, and were doing better than 
we ever had done. In. 1859 he sold and removed to Bangor and 
began a grocery trade. He was unsuccessful. 

"In politics he was an Abolitionist and Republican. In religion 
he favored the Friends, though he never identified himself with them. 
He had a keen sense of rightness and justice, and he sympathized 
with the oppressed. His sterling virtues and patience are highly 
commendable." 

Mr. Perley married 15 Feb., 1829, Mary A. French, who was 
born in Monmouth, Me., to Dr. Benjamin and Mary-Riley French of 
St. Albans. He enjoyed good health till sixty, then became lame. 
He died suddenly 31 March, 1874. His widow lived in Bangor till 
her death. 

1 Perley children : Mary'^, Benjamin-, Addie-. 

2 Mary' was born 11 Oct., 1830, in Orono, and died in Farming- 
ton in 1832; Benjamin, in 1832 in Farmington, and died in St 
Albans in 1835; Addie, in 1838 in Patten, and died of consumption 
m Bangor, unmarried, 17 Nov., 1874. 



FAMILY 295: PERLEY. 

LIXEAI^ DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-aT, JACOi5-73, JOSHUA-148. 

JOHN PERLEY was born in Wilton, Me., 11 April, 1800. His 
means of education were limited, but he had an inquiring mind and 
had acquired habits of industry, and he made the most of his oppor- 
tunities. He went into the forests of Wilton and built a home. 
His first purchase was in 1824. In 1836 he sold and bought another 
farm in Wilton of Jeremiah Small. In 1837 he sold and bought of 
John Tufts; in 1839 he sold and bought of Loren Adams. While 
on the Adams place his wife died and his children were scattered. In 
1846 he sold again and bought the Hatch place. He went to East 
Wilton in 1854 and bought the "Hatch Stand" in 1855. In 1857 he 
sold and purchased a store in the village. In 1861 he bought another 
farm and removed from the village. Soon after 1865 he sold and 
removed to Bean's Corner, Jay. Soon after he returned to Wilton, 
and the next year removed to Industry, where he died. His removals 
were in Wilton, except those named otherwise. 

He was an honest, industrious, respected citizen. In making his 
early home he worked hard, felling trees or threshing out grain by 
night. He was not superstitious, but he had a prejudice about many 
things. He did not favor the introduction of novelties, or improve- 
ments as they were called, to any great extent. He liked to see and 
use old styles. He would have made an excellent antiquary. He 
had a pair of fringed mittens, thirty-five years old, and many other 
things in the nature of relics. He was an extensive reader, and had 
a retentive memory. He was pleasant in his family, though natu- 
rally nervous and excitable. He was eminently neighborly : after the 
sale of his first farm, his neighbor offered him his choice of ten good 
cows, if he would return. Though his was a life not brilliant, nor 
particularly attractive, the commingling of disappointments, perse- 
verance, hardships, labor, temptations, honesty and sterling integrity 
in it, his children's children may contemplate with no little degree of 
satisfaction and pride. 

Mr. Perley married in Wilton, Me., 17 Feb., 1825, Maranda 
Perry, who, born in West Boylston, Mass., 3 Jan., 1804, to Joseph, a 
farmer, and Sally-Sawyer Perry, died 10 May, 1845. His second 
wife was Rachel P. Herrick of Strong, Me., married 20 March, 1849, 
born 10 Nov., 1816, and died 20 July, 1860. His third wife was 
Lydia Herrick, married 15 March, 1865, born in Strong 6 Aug., 1819. 
He was sick about a year, and died in Industry 7 Sept., 1871. His 
widow married James Snowman of Rangeley, Me., where she died 8 
March, 1889. 

1 Perley children : Joseph Perry"^, Joshua Eaton-430, John Estes- 
481, Hannah Selina^ Moses Sawyer*, Lauretta'^ Sarah Maranda^ 

2 Joseph P.' was born 10 Jan., 1826, and died in Wilton, Me., 30 
Aug., 1834. Lauretta^ was born 9 Sept., 1837, and died in Wilton 
9 April, 1838. 



454 THE PERLEY F'AMILY 

8 Hannah S.' was born in Wilton 7 Sept., 1831, and married in 
Scituate, Mass., in 1852, James Winchell Cud worth, a carpenter, born 
in Scituate 12 Sept., 1824, to Israel, a carpenter, and Mabel-Jenkins 
Cudworth. She died in Boston 10 or 15 May, 1859, leaving one 
child. He married second, Miss Emeline Alrich. He died in Rox- 
bury, Mass., 22 July, 1895. Perley-Cudworth child : Emma Adelaide, 
born 29 July, 1857, in Boston, a stenographer, unmarried, in Dor- 
chester, Mass. 

■4 Moses S.^ was born 28 Aug., 1834, and married 1 Aug., 1858, 
Urania Pease Smith. When a young man he was employed in a 
scythe shop, and early in the (30's engaged in farming, and finally 
settled in Ayer, Mass., where he died 30 March, 1900. His widow 
resides in Brookline, Mass. 

5 Sarah M.' was born in Wilton, Me., 24 Feb., 1841. She mar- 
ried there, 25 Nov., 1862, Algernon Mansfield Mitchell, born in 
Lewiston, Me., 12 Sept., 1838, to Jonathan and Mary P.-Wright 
Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell was a spinner in woolen mills till the Civil 
War, when he enlisted 1 Aug., 1801, in the Eighth IVIaine; was sick 
with measles in hospital at Annapolis, INId., till the next April, when 
he was discharged for disability. He re-enlisted 24 Feb., 1864, and 
remained till the close of the war. He was at one time of the Ambu- 
lance Corps and served sometime in the Veteran Reserve Corps. 
After the war he was engaged for several years in Boston meat mar- 
kets, and later, throughout his section, with a two-horse team peddled 
dry and fancy goods. His widow resides in Sabattus, Me. Mitchell 
children: Lillian Effie''; Sylvanus Sherman"; Lena May^^; Guy Liv- 
ingstone^; Burton Lafayette^"; Rose Estelle"; Grace Elisabeth'-; 
Blanch Vivian, who, born 6 Jan., 1880, is unmarried in Shiloh ; Sarah 
Adelina'^ 

6 Lillian E.^ was born in Lewiston 12 Feb., 1864, and married 
there Ralph Roderick Myrick, a shoemaker, born in Troy, Me., 10 
Jan., 1869, to Freeman Drew and Helen AL-Rhodes Myrick. Lillian 
was a compositor in the office of Lewiston Daily and Weekly Jour- 
nal for some twenty or twenty-five years. She died in Shiloh 13 
Oct., 1902, having had one child born 21 Nov., and died 7 Dec, 1894. 
Mr. Myrick married, second, 1 June, 1904, Alice M. Jones of Wales, 
Me. His address is Sabattus. 

7 Sylvanus S." was born in Lewiston, Me., 18 July, 1866, and 
married in Greene, Me., Clara A. Sprague, born in Greene 7 March, 
1871, to Jefferson and Celestia-Wllkins Sprague. He was a carpen- 
ter. His wife died suddenly of hemorrhage of the brain 19 July, 
1897. He received by accident in a saw mill internal injuries from 
which he suffered intensely for thirty hours, when death relieved 
him 19 Sept., 1897 — just two months after the death of his wife. 
They left one child: Burton Mansfield, born in Greene 27 Sept., 
1895. 

8 Lena M.^ was born in Lewiston 16 Feb., 1868. She was a 
dressmaker. She married in Wales Corner, Me., 26 March, 1889, 
Walter Elbridge Webster, born in Lewiston 11 March, 1863, to 
Elbridge G., a farmer, and Henrietta Ardellia-Given Webster. Mr. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 455 

Webster is a blacksmith and farmer. Webster children, born in 
Wales, Me.: Lillian Sarah, 21 April, 1896; Dean Barbour, 11 Oct., 
1898; Perley Mitchell, Jan., 1901; Carleton Given, 2 May, 1903. 

9 Guy h/' was born in Lewiston, Me., 22 April, 1870, and mar- 
ried there 4 Oct., 1894, Maud Louise Carleton, born in Readfield, 
Me., 21 April, ,1872, to Robert Wilson, a farmer, and Nancy Jane- 
Hodgdon Carleton. He is a farmer in Turner, Me. 

10 Burton L.^ was born in Lewiston, Me., 26 Aug., 1872. He is 
a carpenter. He married in Shiloh, Me., 27 July, 1902, Ethel Mae 
Bender, who was born in Chicago, 111., 16 Jan., 1879, to Benjamin 
Frank, a livestock dealer, and Mary Elizabeth-Kellogg Bender. 
Mitchell children: Blanche Elisabeth, born in Chicago 27 July, 1903; 
Ruth, born in Arlington Heights, 111., 11 Sept., 1904. 

11 Rose E.^' was born 16 Feb., 1875, and began teaching at the 
age of sixteen. She graduated at the Teachers' Fitting School in 
Lewiston, attended Bates College and the Normal School of Farm- 
ington. She taught in Chesterville, Me., three years prior to Sept., 
1905, when she began as teacher in the State School for Boys in 
Portland, having charge of the musical' department. 

12 Grace E.° was born in Lewiston 25 Nov., 1877. She was a 
school teacher. She married in Shiloh, Me., 27 July, 1902, Rev. 
Frank Gordon McKenzie of Shiloh, born 3 July, 1877, to Caleb 
Jackson, a sea captain, and Susan-Dart McKenzie. He is highly 
esteemed as a spiritual leader in his community and for his interest 
in the " Bible School." McKenzie children : Ruel Dart, born 4 June, 
1903 ; Noel, born 25 Dec, 1904. 

13 Sarah A,^ was born in Leeds, Me., 26 Jan., 1882, and married 
in Shiloh, Me., 1 Jan., 1904, Rev. Ernest Howard Tupper of Shiloh, 
who was born in Oakland, Me., 20 May, 1877, to Charles Jacob, a 
farmer, and Sarah Emily King-Emerson Tupper. He is a graduate 
of Colby College and was formerly a teacher. He is deeply inter- 
ested in spiritual work among children. Tupper child : Larcy, born 
8 Jan., 1905. 



FAMILY 296: WHITMORE. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4. JACOB-17. JACOB-37, JACOB-73, JOSHUA-148. 

MARTHA PERLEY was born in Deerfield, Ohio, 18 April, 
1803. She was motherless when two days old, as related in fam- 
ily-148. Her mother was sister to the wife of Col. Fairbanks of 
Farmington, Me., and when the sisters parted they promised that a 
daughter born to either should be given the name of the other, and 
if either should die, the other should have the child, if it should sur- 
vive. The child was feeble and wearied of the long journey, and for 
miles upon miles the father walked carrying the infant in his arms. 
Her aunt at last received her, and adopted and educated her. 

She married in Farmington, Me., 20 Dec, 1822, Benjamin Whit- 
more, a blacksmith, who was born in Bowdoinham, Me., 15 March, 
1798, to Benjamin and Olive-Cook Whitmore. She died in Fair- 



456 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

banks, Farmington, 10 Jan., 1865, leaving a fragrant memory of 
noble womanhood. He died in Fairbanks 15 June, 1883. 

1 Whitmore children : Joshua Perley'-, Martha Elizabeth^ Han- 
nah RacheP, a son"-, a daughter'^ Benjamin Perley", Amherst", John 
Franklin-, John Clement*^, Nathaniel Chadbourne-. 

2 Joshua P.^ was born 25 Oct., 1823, and died in March, 1833. 
The nameless ones died at birth. Amherst^ was born in Fairbanks, 
P'armington, 25 Sept., 1836, was a carpenter, and died unmarried in 
San Francisco, Cal., 26 Dec, 1901. John F.^ was born 18 Oct., 1839, 
and died in 1840. Nathaniel C.\ born in Fairbanks, P'armington, 1 
Nov., 1844, was a carriage maker, and died in Fairbanks 2 Sept., 
1904. 

3 Martha E.^ was born in Strong, Me., 6 Oct., 1825. She mar- 
ried in F'armington, Me., 9 March, 1870, Lawrence Stevens, a trader, 
who was born in Schenectady, N. Y. He died 15 Jan., 1886, in 
Lowell, Mass., where his widow died 15 Jan., 188is. 

4 Hannah R.' was born in Strong, Me., 10 July, 1828. She mar- 
ried in Wilton 25 July, 1850, Horatio Greenward Eaton, a farmer and 
millwright, who was born in Farmington 26 June, 1828, to Isaac and 
Mary-Lyon Eaton. Their address and their children's is P'airbanks. 
Eaton issue, born in Farmington: Aura Genevieve, 15 March, 1852, 
who is unmarried; Clarence Melville'; Florence Emma, 25 Sept., 
1857, who is unmarried; Stella Marion, 15 July, 1860, died 17 Dec, 
1869; a daughter, born and died 20 Oct., 1870. 

5 Benjamin P.^ was born in Fairbanks, P^armington, 31 Jan., 1834. 
He was a painter. He married in Farmington 20 March, 1870, and 
became the second husband of P3mma Strong. She was born in Ver- 
mont and was by trade a milliner and dressmaker. Her father was 
a musician. Her first husband was A. L. Lord. She died in P'air- 
banks 4 July, 1890; and he 9 March, 1891. 

6 John C.^ was born in P^airbanks 22 Aug., 1842. He was a 
painter and undertaker. He married in P'armington in March, 1870, 
Lottie Graves, who was born in New Sharon, Me., to Jonathan and 
Plummer Graves. 

7 Clarence M/ was born 8 Nov., 1853. He married in P'arming- 
ton 11 June, 1879, Alice Minerva Chick, who was born in Embden, 
Me., 1 March, 1863, to Silas, a shoemaker, and Louisa- P'oss Chick. 
Mr. Eaton is a trader. Their address is Fairbanks. Eaton issue : 
Plossie Genevieve, born 3 Oct., 1881, in Fairbanks. 



FAMILY 297: BACHELLOR. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JAOOB-17, JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74, 
BENJAMIN-155. 

MARTHA GOULD PERLEY was born in Dunbarton, N. H., 
28 June, 1793. She married 15 Feb., 1814, George Hiram Abiff 
Bachellor, who was born in Haverhill, Mass., 30 June, 1788, to Dr. 
William and Lydia-Chase Bachellor. [Dr. Bachellor's father was 
Rev. Samuel Bachellor, the first Congregational minister of the West 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 457 

Parish of Haverhill. Lydia-Chase Bachellor was of West Newbury 
and a lineal descendant of Aquilla Chase.] His wife died 23 Sept., 
1826. His second wife, married 4 June, 1829, was Sally Wood-87\ 
born 27 Nov., 1798, to Solomon and Phebe-Perley Wood of Boxford. 
He was a wheelwright and wagon builder in Groveland, Mass., where 
he died 15 Oct., 1863. His widow died in Jan., 1886. 

1 Perley-Bachellor children: William K."-, Lois Hardy^ George 
KendalP, Leonard Haseltine", Humphrey Clark'', Morrison Proctor, 
or Proctor P.^, Charles^ Wood-Bachellor children: Henry Perley^ 
Elbridge Kimball', Ruth M^ 

2 "William K.^ had his surname changed to Kendall." He was 
born 17 June, 1814, in Groveland, and married, first. Miss Rebecca 
Carlton. His second marriage was in Georgetown 10 Dec, 1855, to 
Mary Sophila Jewett, who was born there 23 May, 1835, to Jacob F., 
a shoemaker, and Julia-Merrill Jewett. Mr. Kendall was a shoe 
cutter. He died 27 March, 1900, in Georgetown, where his widow 
now resides (1905). Kendall issue: Mary Rebecca^. 

3 Lois H.^ was born 10 Nov., 1815, in Groveland, and was adopted 
by her aunt, Mrs. Lois Hardy. She married in Groveland 10 Nov., 
1836, Gardner Perry Ladd, who was born in Groveland 23 Oct., 1814, 
to Nathaniel and Sarah-Ingersoll Ladd. She died 28 March, 1902. 
Mr. Ladd was a member of "the Constitutional Convention in 1853." 
He was tax collector and treasurer of the town of Groveland from 
1872 to 1896 and was chairman of the Board of selectmen from 1882 
to 1889. He is now retired (1905) in Groveland. Ladd issue, born 
in Groveland: Jeremiah Benjamin Perley^'^; Nathaniel E."; RufusG., 
born 31 Dec, 1846, and died 18 Aug., 1848; Martha G.^- 

4 George KendalP dropped the name Bachellor and retained his 
middle name as a surname. He was born 21 Sept., 1817 — was a 
shoe cutter — married Mary Kimball — died 13 March, 1855; his widow 
28 Nov., 1904, without issue. 

5 Humphrey C.^ was born 31 Jan., 1821, and died 19 Jan., 1823. 
Leonard H.' was born 20 Jan., 1819, and died unmarried 7 Jan., 1888. 
He was a brushmaker in Groveland, and blind from 1837. Charles^ 
married Mary Lamb, and had a son George and a daughter Mary 
who married a Baker, all of Georgetown. Morrison P.^ left several 
grandchildren, of whom were Charles Woodcock and Jenny W., both 
of Georgetown. 

6 Henry P.^ was born in 1832, and married Elmira G. Kimball, 
daughter of George N. and Almira-Hall Kimball of Groveland, where 
he was a shoe manufacturer. He removed to Newton, N. H,, in 
1855. He left issue: Maria G., who, born in 1855, married a Fegan; 
George and Charles of Groveland; John of Boston. 

7 Elbridge K.^ was born in Groveland, Mass., 31 Dec, 1830. He 
married in Hayerhill 21 June, 1859, Eliza Jane Bartlett, a music 
teacher, who was born in Newton, N. H., 23 June, 1835, to Luther, a 
shoe manufacturer of Haverhill, and Adaline-Bartlett Bartlett. Mr. 
Bachelder was a shoe manufacturer and resided in Newburyport, 
Mass., where he died 8 Dec, 1901. His widow resides in Newbury- 
port (1905), without children. 

8 Ruth M.\ born in 1835, married Benja. P. Carleton, son of 



458 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

George and Tamison-Pemberton Carleton, lived in Bradford, and had 
Elbridge of Groveland and Harlan of Haverhill. 

9 Mary R.- was born 4 Jan., 1866, in Georgetown, where she mar- 
ried 16 June, 1886, Lewis Henry Giles, who was born there 31 July, 
1863, to James B., a shoe manufacturer, and Eliza Kimball-Bunker 
Giles. He graduated at the Putnam Free School, Newburyport. 
He afterward attended the Bryant & Stratton Commercial School 
in Boston, and then accepted a position in the Georgetown National 
Bank, where he became cashier in 1887, a position he still holds 
(1905). Mrs. Giles graduated at the Georgetown High School, and 
previous to her marriage taught two years. Giles issue, born in 
Georgetown: Bertha Kendall, 9 Dec, 1887. 

10 Jeremiah B. P.* was born 28 March, 1838. He married in East 
Haverhill, Mass., 2 March, 1859, Ann Rebecca George, who was born 
in Groveland 30 May, 1840, to Levi B. and Joanna-Carter George. 
He was educated in the public schools and Merrimac Academy. 
He was a justice of the peace and conveyancer and practitioner in 
probate. During the Civil War he was sergeant in 8th Unattached 
Company, Heavy Artillery, Mass. Vols.; was second lieutenant, 21st 
Unattached Company — afterwards Company E, 4th Artillery. He 
died 11 April, 1895, in Groveland; his widow 13 May, 1901. Ladd 
issue: Alice M., born 8 Jan.; 1867, died unmarried 8 April, 1887, in 
Groveland. 

11 Nathaniel E.^was born 16 June, 1840. He married in Grove- 
land, 18 Oct., 1868, Isabelle S. Parker, who was born there 31 Jan., 
1845, to Dean R., a shoe cutter, and Rebecca K. -Foster Parker. He 
was educated in the public schools and Merrimac Academy. He 
enlisted as a private in the Civil War and shared the perils of his 
regiment till 26 Aug., 1863, when he was discharged by order of the 
War Department to accept promotion. He was commissioned sec- 
ond lieutenant, first lieutenant, and then captain of 55th Regt., Mass. 
Vols.; was commissioned a brevet major of volunteers. During a 
portion of 1864 and 1865 he was in command of Fort 2, Long Island, 
and Fort Delafield, Folly Island, Charleston Harbor, S. C. From 
March, 1865, until September of the same year he was on the staff 
of Maj. Gen. Hatch, as assistant provost marshal. In 1887 he was a 
member of the Massachusetts Legislature, serving on the committee 
on railroads. Maj. Ladd is by trade a shoe manufacturer. He is 
now (1905) engaged in railway mail service, detailed as a transfer 
clerk at the North Union Station, Boston, with home in Groveland. 
Ladd issue, born in Groveland : Fred Winthrop, 28 Nov., 1869, died 
7 Dec, 1877; Arthur Shirley, 2 March, 1875, an insurance agent in 
Haverhill; Stanley Parker, 29 Oct., 1880. 

12 Martha G.** was born 8 May, 1849. She married in Grove- 
land in Nov., 1874, George E. Dawkins, a shoemaker, who was born 
in Newbury, Mass., 13 Dec, 1849, to Thomas and Adeline-Dawkins 
Dawkins. She died in Groveland in April, 1886. Mr. Dawkins 
resides in Georgetown, where his only child, George K., resides 
unmarried. 



FAMILY 298: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-l, THOMAS-4, JAOOB-17, JACOB-37, BENJAMIN 74, 
BENJAMIN-155. 

BENJAMIN PERLEY was born 15 Feb., 1795, in Dunbarton, 
N. H., where he became a farmer, and where he married 27 Dec, 
1821, Ruth Sawyer Mills, born 9 July, 1802, to Thomas of the same 
place, where he died 11 Oct., 1877. His widow died in Manchester, 
N. H., 27 March, 1882. 

1 Perley children, born in Dunbarton : Warren-432, Charles-433, 
Margaret Ferguson*, John Quincy Adams-484, Mary Jane^ Sarah 
Lois*, Lydia Ann^ Hannah Morrison'', Alsina Abbott'. 

2 Margaret F.^ was born 4 Oct., 1825, and 5 Feb., 1850, married 
Daniel D. Heath, and had one child. Her second husband, married 
7 March, 1855, was James Clement. She died 31 July, 1872. Heath 
child: Edward D., born 2 Sept., 1851, married an Illinois lady and 
had two children. " This family went West years ago and nothing 
is known of them." 

8 Mary J.^ was born in Dunbarton 28 April, 1830, and married 
in Lawrence, Mass., 19 Sept., 1850, Elijah Estabrook Wortman, a 
printer, born in Maine 10 March, 1829, to David Wortman. He died 
in Rockland, Me., 12 April, 1877. His widow resides in Manches- 
ter, N. H. Wortman issue: Clarence Perley, born in Dunbarton 22 
Nov., 1851, and married; Ada, born in Rockland 20 March, died 29 
Aug., 1855; Etta Mary, born in Rockland 18 Sept., 1859, died in 
Boxford, Mass., 28 May, 1881. 

4 Sarah L.^ was born 5 May, 1832, and died unmarried 8 May, 
1852. 

5 Lydia A.^ was born 8 Aug., 1834, and married 3 Jan., 1853, in 
Manchester, N. H., Orin Elliot Kimball, leather and wool merchant, 
born in Dracut, Mass., 22 Aug., 1833, to Calvin, a granite cutter, and 
Dorcas-Abbott Kimball. She died in Manchester 18 June, 1867. 
Kimball issue: Ruth Ella**. 

6 Hannah M.^ was born in Dunbarton 2 Oct., 1836, and married 
in Manchester, N. H., 11 April, 1860, Arthur Brown Underbill, born 
in Chester, N. H., 23 Oct., 1832, to Flagg T., edge tool manufacturer, 
and Mary-Brown Underbill. Mr. Underbill was superintendent of 
motive power for Boston & Albany Railroad, and died 24 May, 1896, 
in Springfield, Mass., where his widow now resides. Underbill issue : 
Arthur Perley^. 

7 Alsina A.^ was born 23 Aug., 1840, and married, first, in Man- 
chester, N. H., 10 Nov., 1858, Alfred Woodbury (a brother to Heph- 
zibah-434), a farmer, born in Goffstown, N. H., 7 April, 1839, to 
Amos, a farmer, and Mary-Annis Woodbury, They were divorced 
and she married, second, in Haverhill, Mass., 31 May, 1869, her 
brother-in-law, Orin Elliot KimbalP. Their home is Manchester. 
Woodbury issue : Herbert Albert^". 



460 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

8 Ruth E.^ was born in Manchester 4 Aug., 1854, married in Bos- 
ton 11 June, 1878, Simon Henry Brown, a leather and wool merchant, 
born in Auburn, N. H., 23 July, 1845, to Nathaniel, an edge tool 
manufacturer, and Sarah-Graham Brown. They reside in Manches- 
ter and have one child, Perley Kimball, born in Ramapo, N. Y., 21 
June, 1887, who is preparing to enter Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology. 

9 Arthur P.® was born in Boston 17 Dec, 1872, and married in 
Dorchester, Mass., 12 Oct., 1897, Marion Belle Stone, born in South 
Boston 15 June, 1874, to William Pay son, a carriage builder, and 
Lillian-Dolbear Stone. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Insti- 
tute of Technology, is a dealer in automobiles, lives in Dorchester, 
where their child Ruth was born 12 Nov., 1900. 

10 Herbert A.' was born in Dunbarton, N. H., 15 Jan., 1860, and 
married in Manchester 28 April, 1877, Minnie Haines, born in Pea- 
body, Mass., 11 May, 1859, to John Ayer and Theresa-Cogswell 
Haines. He is a mechanic, lives in Manchester, and has issue born 
there: Leon Wesley, 25 Feb., 1878; Pearl Elsie, 22 Dec, 1891; and 
Alberta, per Hammond genealogy. 



FAMILY 299: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74, 
BENJAMIN-] 55. 

WARREN PERLEY was born in Dunbarton, N. H., 30 Sept., 
1799, where he was a farmer, and served as selectman and repre- 
sentative several years. His wife was Emily Mills. He died 27 
May, 1854. 

1 Perley children : Martha B.-, Jeremiah', Moses'^ John'\ Georgel 

2 Martha' was born about 1826, and married Rodney Sargent, 
born about 1825 — resided in South Groveland — about 1852-3 went 
to Danvers — had children: George, who died young, and Ann E., 
born about 1851 ; Jeremiah', Stark's History of Dunbarton says, "was 
slain by a party of Indians in California, after a brave defense." 

3 Moses' married and has two sons and lives in Duhbarton, N. H. 
John' and George^ went to California, where they may now be living. 



FAMILY 300: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-1, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74, 
BENJAMIN-155. 

GILMAN PERLEY was born in Dunbarton, N. H., 27 Aug., 
1801. He adopted Georgetown as his home, and for years was the 
genial "Baker Perley" of northern and central Essex County. Later 
he was a grocer. He was a man that everybody liked, for his genial 
disposition, his gentlemanly manners, his honesty and business punc- 
tuality and integrity. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 461 

His first wife was Mary Jane Pickett, daughter of Benj. and Sarah, 
born 10 Sept., 1807, and married 31 Oct., 1826, and died 24 June, 
1878. His second wife was Mrs. Susan M. Meader of Epping, N. 
H., married in Haverhill 15 Jan., 1879. He died 17 Nov., 1886. 
The Georgetown Advocate said : 

"Mrs. Mary Perley, wife of Capt. Oilman Perley, died suddenly 
last Monday morning. She has for several years been a sufferer from 
a tumor upon her neck, which before her death had assumed enor- 
mous proportions, but a shock of something resembling paralysis 
was the cause of her death. Mrs. Perley has been for a number of 
years a constant member of the Memorial Church, and is reported to 
have been an exemplary and kind-hearted woman. We deeply sym- 
pathize with the genial captain in his bereavement, as we know the 
pangs of the loss of so important a part in one's household. In this 
we are assured that we shall have a ready support from the popula- 
tion of the entire portion of Essex North, as no man is better known 
than the captain, who for more than half a century has been, as 
a baker and grocer, a welcome visitor to nearly every household. 
The house was almost a hotel in former years before the infirmity 
attacked her, and her hospitality was proverbial and notorious. Her 
funeral occurred last Wednesday, and the remains repose in Harmony 
Cemetery." 

1 Perley children: Sarah Jane435, Eliza', Mary Ann^ Oilman^ 
Renton Melvin-436, Elbridge\ John Lovering-437, Sylvester Cum 
mings\ 

2 Eliza' was born 15 Nov., 1828, and married in Georgetown 25 
Sept., 1850, John McCurdy Poore, who was born 4 July, 1826, to Ben- 
jamin and Martha-McCurdy Poore of Goffstown, N. H., and who died 
15 Aug., 1884. He was a shoe manufacturer in Haverhill from 1852, 
was orderly sergeant in Co. F, 50th Regt., Mass. Vols., was at Port 
Hudson, was assessor in 1879, was justice of the peace. Child: 
John F'reddie, born 22 May, and died 2 Sept., 1857. 

3 Mary' was born 2 Feb., 1830, and 10 June, 1850, married Solo- 
mon H. Harvey, who was born in 1830 to Stephen and Eliza, of 
Georgetown. " One child : Nellie Harvey Bond, died 26 April, 1884." 

4 Oilman' was born 28 March, 1831, and died 10 Sept., 1831; 
p:ibridge', 21 Jan., and died 1 or 29 Oct., 1834; Sylvester C, 4 Oct., 
1839, and died 2 Dec, 1871. He married in Newburyport, where 
he was a clerk, 28 May, 1858, Sarah ¥. Pride of the same city, who, 
twenty years before was born in Marblehead to Elisha and Elizabeth 
Pride. They had Lilian Nestelle, born 18 Jan., 1886, in Newburyport. 



FAMILY 301: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74, 
BENJAMIN-1.55. 

JOHN PERLEY was born in Dunbarton, N. H., 8 July, 1808. 
He settled a farmer in Bradford, Mass., near the falls of the Merri- 
mac. He was a selectman three successive years from 1862, and 



462 THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

held other town offices at other times. He married Mrs. Ruby-Gage 
Thurston 26 Nov., 1832. She was the widow of Nathaniel Bridges 
Thurston, a grocer of Bradford, who married her in April, 1823, and 
died in Aug., 1831. She was born 30 Dec, 1800, to Uriah and Han- 
nah-Tenney Gage, and had by Thurston: Aroline, of Boston in 1898, 
Martha B. and William G. 

1 Perley children : Rubia Ann Thurston"^, Clarinda Goulds 

2 Rubia A. T.^ was born 2 May, 1833, and in Lawrence, Mass., 1 
Nov., 1853, married George Poor, who was born 18 May, 1825, to 
Samuel and Hannah-Greenough Poor of Newbury. He was a shoe 
manufacturer in Haverhill, where she died 17 Oct., 1861. [Mr. Poor 
married again 11 Jan., 1866, at South Royalton, Vt., Jeannette 
Osgood, who was born in Sharon, Vt., 18 Oct., 1843, to Ora and 
Sarah-Flint Osgood, and had one child, George Osgood, born 7 Sept., 
1868.] Rubia's children were Charles Howard''; Emma, born 9 Oct., 
1859, and died 18 P>b., 1860; Frank Thurston, born 1 Aug., 1861, 
and died in Methuen 14 Jan., 1862. 

3 Clarinda G.^ was born 11 Nov. 1834, and died unmarried in 
Bradford 11 April, 1865. 

4 Charles H.^ was born 6 Sept., 1854, and 3 Nov., 1880, married 
P"annie Damon Swan, who was born 22 May, 1859, to Frank C. and 
Olive E.-Damon Swan of Haverhill. He is an attorney-at-law. 



FAMILY 302: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74, 
BENJAMIN-155. 

ELBRIDGE PERLEY was born in Dunbarton, N. H., 29 Oct., 
1810. He was a stone mason in Georgetown till 1838, when he 
bought the Dr. Bacon farm in Boxford and became a farmer. He 
married 25 Oct., 1835, Sarah Kimball, who was born 31 Oct., 1814, 
to Asa and Sarah-Gage Kimball of Bradford. He died 28 April, 
1876; she 19 March, 1897. 

1 Perley children: Asa Kimball'^ Thomas Peabody^ William 
Elbridge-438, Aroline Amelia\ John Eustice^ Sarah Lois MerrilP. 

2 Asa^ was born 4 April, 1837. He was mustered in against the 
Rebellion, for nine months, in Co. K, 50th Regt., Mass. Vols., Gen. 
Banks' division, 19 Sept., 1862, and did service at New Orleans, 
Baton Rouge and Port Hudson. He came home sick and died 16 
Aug., 1863. 

3 Thomas P.^ was born 19 Aug., 1839. He was mustered in with 
his brother, went as far as New Orleans, was sick on the passage 
from New York, died on the Mississippi river on his way home 3 
Aug., 1863, near Helena, Ark., where he was buried the same day. 
A memorial at Asa's grave in West Boxford commemorates the two 
patriots : 

Leaves have their time to fall, 
And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, 

And stars to set ; but all — 
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death ! 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 453 

4 Aroline^ was born 17 Jan., 1845, and married Everett Bean and 
resides in Groveton, N. H. John^ was born 24 Jan., 1849 ; he lived 
at home till his mother died. Later he lived much of his time in 
Boston, where he had the care of gentlemen's valuable horses and 
was some time a coachman. He married Susan Parrott, who is now 
in California. They have had no children. Sarah L. M.^ was born 
5 Feb., 1854, and 20 Nov., 1872, married William Philander Emery, 
who was born in 1849 to William B. and Abigail-Hanson F.mery of 
Sanford, Me. She died without issue 28 March, 1875. 



FAMILY 303: PERLEY. 

LI.VEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-l, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74, PALiL-156. 

BENJAMIN PERLEY was born in Springfield, N. H., 8 June, 
1802. He was a farmer. His first wife was Hannah Adams (born 
in New London), a school teacher. Her parents were Moses and 
Hannah-Flanders Adams. She died in New London in July, 1844. 
He married, second, in July, 1848, Mrs. Eliza-Gage Collins of Enfield, 
N. H., born 23 April, 1807, to Phineas, a farmer, and Phebe-Eaton 
Gase. He died in Springfield 14 Aug., 1867; and she in New Lon- 
don 23 Dec, 1882. 

1 Perley children : Cyrus A.'-, Hannah Adelphia'', Sarah Augusta'', 
Abbie Eliza°. 

2 Cyrus A.^ was born in Oct., 1835, and died in Nov., 1841. 

3 Hannah A.^ was born in Springfield, N. H., 12 March, 1836. 
She married in Manchester, N. H., 8 April, 1861, Erastus Graffum 
Rollins, who was born in Camden, Me., 26 June, 1834, to David, a 
farmer, and Miriam N. -Gross Rollins. He was a photographer many 
years in Gloucester, Mass., and did a large business. At length, his 
health failing, he removed to Georgetown, Mass., where he bought 
a small farm. Subsequently he sold and removed. For some time 
he made his home in southern California. Their home (1905) is 
Norton, Mass., where he is a farmer. Rollins issue: Charles P'rank, 
born 14 Feb., 1868, died 11 Sept., 1869; P^red Perley, born in Glouces- 
ter 22 Jan., 1870, resides unmarried with his parents. 

4 Sarah A.^ was born in Springfield, N. H., 11 June, 1846, and 
married in New London 2 July, 1865, Edwin Messer, a farmer, born 
in New London 2 Sept., 1837, to Jacob, a farmer, and Mary-Putney 
Messer. Their home is New London. Messer children, born in 
New London: Laura Angle, 17 Dec, 1866, died 22 April, 1897; Liz- 
zie Estella, 17 May, 1868; Herman Perley®; Elmer Frank^; Mary 
Abbie, 10 Sept., 1876; and Jennie Bell, 16 Dec, 1879, are trained 
nurses of Manchester, having graduated from the New London Acad- 
emy and Elliot Hospital Nurses' School of Manchester; Charles 
Sherman, 17 Oct., 1881, resides with his parents. 

5 Abbie E.^ was born in Springfield, N. H., 11 Sept., 1847, and 
became, in Manchester, the second wife of George Warren Tilton, 
a painter, born in Epping, N. H. He died 1 Sept., 1897. His widow 
resides in New London. Her portrait is on the next page. 



464 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



6 Herman P.* was born in New London 14 Aug., 18(j9. He mar- 
ried in West Springfield, N. H., 11 Jan., 1899, Lennie Jane Philbrick, 
a teacher, born in West Springfield 11 May, 1873, to Horace Hall, a 
farmer, and Mary Jane-Noyes Philbrick. Mr. Messer was educated 
at Colby Academy, is Past Master of the local Grange and a select- 
man of the town. Mrs. Messer is a graduate of the Plymouth State 




MRS. ABHIE ELIZA TILTON. 

Normal School and a member of the School Board of New London. 
Mes.ser children: Edna Gertrude, born 14 Oct., 1899; Clayton Per- 
ley, born 22 Oct., 1904. 

7 Elmer F.^ was born in New London 20 Aug., 1874, and mar- 
ried there 28 Dec, 1900, Gustie May Todd, a teacher, born in New 
London 8 Jan., 1878, to Edward A., a farmer, and Alice A. -Trow 
Todd. Their home is New London, where their child, Helen Todd, 
was born 19 Dec, 1904. 



FAMILY 304: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74, PAUL-156. 

DANIEL STORY PERLEY was born in Springfield, N. H., 
16 Jan., 1808, where he settled, with post office address New Lon- 
don. His first wife, married 5 June, 1843, in Sutton, N. H., where 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 465 

she was born 7 Feb., 1813, was Mahala Gile, daughter of Levi Gile, 
a farmer. She died in Springfield 30 Oct., 1839. He married, sec- 
ond, in Springfield 16 Jan., 1861, and became the third husband (tf 
Mrs. Lucy Morrill Brown, born in Wilmot, N. H., 3 June, 1816, to 
Jabez, a farmer, and Hannah-Blanchard Morrill. He died in Spring- 
field 30 March, 1878. His widow resides in New London. 

1 Perley children : Mary Ann'-, Asenath Gile*^. 

2 Mary A.^ was born in Springfield, N. H., 24 March, 1844, and 
married there 15 Jan., 1872, James Woodbury Hutchins, a carpenter, 
born in York, Me. He was several years landlord of the Merrimac 
House, Lowell, Mass. She was in early years a school teacher. 
She died in Wilmot, N. H., in August, 1875; and he in Lowell, 
Mass., circa 1902-3, leaving issue: Guy, born 28 Oct., 1872. 

3 Asenath G.^ was born 23 Feb., 1847, and died 17 Dec, 1853. 



FAMILY 305: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, BP:NJAM1Jv-T4, JOHN-159. 

PROCTOR JEFFERSON PERLEY was born in Salem, Mass., 
17 June, 1802. He was a painter by trade. He married in Essex 
23 May, 1828, Lydia Herrick Perkins, born there 6 Dec, 1804, to 
Abraham and Mary-Burnham Perkins. Their home was South Dan- 
vers (now Peabody), where she died 29 Nov., 1889. He died of con- 
sumption in Salem 16 Feb., 1841. 

1 Perley children : Mary Wilder'^ Lucy Secomb'', Elbridge Gerry- 
439, Maria Taylor^ 

2 Mary W.' was born in Peabody 23 Feb., 1829, and married there 
4 Dec, 1849, Henry Nehemiah Butman, a salesman and machinist, 
born in Salem, Mass., 7 Nov., 1826, to Nehemiah W., mate of vessel, 
and Mary Nicholson-Morong Butman. He died in Boston, Mass., 3 
Sept., 1891. His widow resides in Roxbury, Mass. Butman issue: 
Eliza Edwards, born 25 Dec, 1850, in Woburn, Mass., who is now of 
Boston; William Henry, born in Lawrence 27 Oct., 1853, married, 
died 11 March, 1897; Frederick Perley^; Anna Morong, born 23 
June, 1861, died in Lawrence, Mass., 22 Sept., 1863; Clara Grace, 
born 19 May, 1856, died in Lawrence 5 March, 1858; Mabel, born in 
Lawrence 15 May, 1864, residing in Roxbury; Charles Everett''; 
Nellie Grace, born in Chelsea, Mass., 8 Sept., 1872, died in Feb., 1873. 

3 Lucy S.^ was born 24 Oct., 1830, and 27 Jan., 1856, married 
Jacob McKenzie of Essex, Mass., born 14 July, 1829, where he was 
a shoemaker. Their children : Nellie, born 18 March, 1858; Frank 
Emerson, 16 July, 1863 ; Albert, 28 Sept., 1864, and died 14 May, 1866. 

4 Maria T.^ was born in Peabody 29 Jan., 1839, and married there 
6 Jan., 1859, Lyman Osborn, born in Peabody 2 April, 1835, to Ken- 
dall, a leather manufacturer, and Sally-Bushby Osborn. He is a 
shoe cutter of Peabody. Issue: Lyman Perley". 

5 Frederick P." was born in Lawrence, Mass., 8 March, 1858, and 
married in Holbrook, Mass., 26 May, 1880, Lizzie Ella Paine, born in 
East Randolph, now Holbrook, Mass., 21 Feb., 1858, to Benjamin 



466 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

and Mercy Winslow-Tillson Paine. Mr. Butman is a manufacturer 
in Holbrook. Child: Frederick Carlton, born 4 Feb., 1888. 

6 Charles E.'-^ was born in Lawrence, Mass., 5 Feb., 1867, and 
married in Everett, Mass., 10 Aug., 1887, Lottie May Cutter, who 
was born in Chelsea, Mass., 27 May, 1870, to William P., a carpenter, 
and Charity Elizabeth-Wade Cutter. Mr. Butman is engaged in 
shipping. Their home is now Maiden: Their children were born in 
Everett, but the last in Maiden: Lillian May, 21 Nov., 1887, unmar- 
ried; Charles Sumner, 17 Sept., 1890; Lester Leland, 15 April, 1893, 
died 11 June, 1893; Edna Wilder, 27 July, 1896; Doris Lorinda, 6 
March, 1903. 

7 Lyman P.'* was born in South Danvers, now Peabody, 22 Sept., 
1860, graduated from Peabody High School 13 July, 1877, and took 
first prize. He married in Maiden, Mass., 4 Oct., 1892, Lizzie 
Cheever Osborn, born in East Boston, Mass., 8 Aug., 1858, to Louis, 
a machinist, and Eliza Sutton-Cheever Osborn. Their home is Pea- 
body, where he is librarian of the Peabody Institute. 



FAMILY 306: WHEELER. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TH03IAS-4 JACOB-17, JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74, JOHN-159. 

MEHITABLE PERLEY was born in Salem 5 Jan., 1806. She 
married in 18-40 Asa Wheeler, who was born 28 July, 1799. He was 
a dealer in provisions, in Salem, and a widower ; his first wife was 
Louise Robinson. He died 1 June, 1854, of apoplexy; she 22 Nov., 
1873, of pneumonia. 

1 Wheeler children : Richard Perley'^ Louisa Robinson^, Emily 
P.^, Francis Woodward^ Manly Asa'*. 

2 Richard^ was born in Salem 29 June, 1835. He was a lieuten- 
ant in the War of the Rebellion, was mortally wounded and died 2 
June, 1864, at Drury's Bluff, Va. ; his body was embalmed, and 
interred in Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem. 

3 Louisa R.^ was born in Peabody, Mass., 24 Feb., 1843. She 
married in Manchester, Mass., 26 Nov., 1863, Truman Alvah Hardy, 
who was born in Salisbury, N. H., 21 Oct., 1839, to Truman and 
Ellen-Beals Hardy. He was many years of the dry goods firm Shep- 
herd & Co., Salem. He died in South Newbury, Ohio, 31 March, 
1882. His widow resides in Salem. Hardy issue: Lizzie Frances'^; 
Arthur Proctor"; Henry Wheeler, born in Salem 5 May, 1876, a law- 
yer, residing in Salem. 

4 Emily P.^ was born 8 Oct., and died in Peabody 9 Nov., 1846. 
Francis W.^ was born 30 July, 1849, in Salem, where he died 15 June, 
1870. Manly A.^ was born 21 Nov., 1851, in Salem, where he died 9 
April, 1852. 

5 Lizzie F.^ was born in Salem 20 July, 1866. She married there 
24 Aug., 1891, Frederic Augustus Fuller, a salesman in furs, who 
was born in Salem 22 Nov., 1864, to Joseph T. and Jeanette-Chipman 
Fuller. They reside in Salem. Fuller issue: Margaret Frances, 
born 8 June, 1892; Harold Chipman, born 22 Nov., 1894; Dorothy 
Dale, born 11 March, 1896; Priscilla Howland, born 6 Oct., 1900. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 467 

6 Arthur P.^ was born in Salem 22 Feb., 1873, and married there 
21 Oct., 1895, Laura Annie Fuller, sister of Frederic'', born in Salem 
21 Aug., 1872. Mr. Hardy is a lawyer. Their home is Maiden, and 
their issue: Miriam, born 9 May, 1902. 



FAMILY 307: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIIOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74, JOHN-159. 

JACOB PERLEY was born in Salem 29 Nov., 1811. If our 
memory is correct, he said he had lived in Salem, Danvers, South 
Danvers, and again in Salem, without change of residence, so fickle 
was the town's boundary. He was a morocco manufacturer. His 
business and church relations were in Peabody, as it is now called. 
He joined the Congregational Church in 1832, and was chosen dea- 
con in 1855. He was sixteen years the Sunday school superintendent, 
and afterwards, ten years, of a branch school in Rockville, now South 
Peabody. His entire family are church members. He wrote face- 
tiously "I am the first man in Salem — if you are going easterly." 

We mention here a curious incident. Mr. Perley, in some sud- 
den sickness, about 1870, lost his false teeth, seven in number on a 
gold plate. Careful search was made for them in vain. It was a 
mystery; they could not be found; and no one could imagine their 
hiding place. But Mr. Perley became permanently sick; he could 
take only fluid food, and that with great difficulty. The doctor's 
diagnosis pronounced the trouble a paralysis of the throat. For 
fourteen months Mr. Perley suffered and became emaciated, till one 
day in a violent fit of coughing, he threw out the surreptitious inter- 
lopers : the teeth were found, and he soon recovered. 

He married 30 Oct., 1844, Abigail Tufts Frothingham, who was 
born 20 Feb., 1817, to Joseph and Deborah-Tufts Frothingham of 
Danvers, and died in Salem 8 July, 1889. 

A Salem journal thus noticed his death: "April 2, 1894, Deacon 
Jacob Perley, who resided in the first house on Boston street, over 
the dividing line, died quite suddenly at 8.15 this morning. He was 
taken ill with congestion of the lungs last evening and the attack 
resulted in his death. He had been an invalid, from angina pectoris, 
for a long time, but his death was unexpected. Mr. Perley was born 
in Salem, Nov. 29, 1811, and was 82 years of age. He was engaged 
in the morocco industry for years in this town, but retired over 
twenty years ago, and has since given his attention to literary work 
for which he had a great liking. He was a constant contributor to 
the newspapers, and wrote much on subjects pertaining to nature, 
temperance and theology. He was for a number of years a member 
of the Salem school board and for 40 years was a deacon of the South 
Congregational Church of Peabody. He leaves a sister, Mrs. Jeffer- 
son Taylor, aged 85 years, and two daughters, the elder Mrs. Albert H. 
Whidden, and the younger, Miss Abbie, an invalid for a long time." 

1 Perley children : Helen Eliza"^, Abbie Frothinghani'l 

2 Helen E.' was born 12 Oct., 1846, and married 29 June, 1870, 



468 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Albert Henry Whidden, a hardware merchant, born 9 Sept., 1842, to 
Henry L,, a painter, and Mary A.-Fellows Whidden. Their home is 
Salem, Mass. Whidden child : Henry Frothingham^ 

3 Abbie ¥} was born 29 June, 1848, and died unmarried, in 
Salem, of heart disease 31 Dec, 1896. 

4 Henry F.", a hardware merchant, was born in Salem 6 Dec, 
1872, and married there IG Oct., 1901, Isabel Strother Clerk, born 
in Peabody, Mass., 9 March, 1876, to George, a leather manufacturer, 
and Eliza Willoughby-Strother Clerk. Their home is Peabody, and 
their child, Donald Strother, born in Peabody 26 Sept., 1902. 



FAMILY 308: MERRILL. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, JAOOB-17, JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74, JACOB-161. 

APPHIA ANN PERLEY was born 25 Oct., 1818, and mar- 
ried Lewis Austin Merrill of Rowley 4 July, 1837. He was a shoe- 
maker and manufacturer in Georgetown and afterwards a teacher. 
She died 25 Oct., 1863. He with his son Austin enUsted in the Civil 
War and served three months at Salem. They enlisted again for 
nine months and after that service returned home. 

1 Merrill children, born in Georgetown : Benjamin Austin-, Rose 
Ann^ Perley Braman^ Harriet (or Hannah.?) B.\ Lucy A.^ Thomas', 
Lewis M.^ Sylvanus Dodged 

2 B. Austin^ was born 30 June, 1842. He enlisted the third (?) 
time and soon thereafter was shot and died in a hospital. Mr, P. A. 
Merrill of Newburyport, a nephew, wrote: "Austin, his wife and 
wife's mother, and Hannah, — all died soon after; and if my memory 
serves me right it was within a year after Benjamin was shot." Aus- 
tin was surgeon's assistant. 

3 Rose A.^ was born 2 Aug., 1844. She married Samuel Wad- 
leigh of Georgetown and died some few years after her marriage. 

4 Perley B.^ born 28 Nov., 1845, died of scarlet fever 25 Feb., 
1847, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Georgetown; Harriet B.', 
born 28 Sept., 1848, died 12 April, 1849, of influenza; Thomas^ born 
10 Feb., died of lung disease 25 May, 1855; Lewis M.\ born 9 March, 
died 5 Oct., 1859; Sylvanus D.\ born 19 April, 1861, died in infancy. 

5 Lucy A.^ was born 3 Nov., 1851, married a Kelley and moved 
to Worcester, Mass., where dying she left one child. 



FAMILY 309: FARNUM. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, JOHN-75, JOHN-162. 

ABIGAIL GOODHUE PERLEY was born in Enfield, N. H., 
28 Nov., 1801, and 8 Nov., 1820, married James Farnum of Enfield. 
She became a widow 6 July, 1822, when he was twenty-six, and mar- 
ried second, 29 March, 1824, Nathan Farnum of Enfield, who was 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 459 

born 25 March, 1801. They were farmers in Enfield. She died 8 
Nov., 1832. 

1 Perley-Farnum children: James P.-, Susannah Perley", Sarah 
Ann Amsden*^, Jonathan F.^ 

2 James P.^ was born in Enfield, N. H., 25 Sept., 1821, where he 
became a farmer, and where he married 27 Feb., 1849, Matilda Jones, 
who was born there 24 Nov., 1820, to Jonathan, a farmer, and Polly 
K.-Sawyer Jones. He died in Lebanon, N. H., 28 Dec, 1883; and 
his widow 11 Nov., 1895. Farnum children: Emma Frances, a 
teacher, born 21 May, 1851, married in Lebanon 18 July, 1876, Milo 
L. Stearns, son of George W. and Maria-Shattuck Stearns, and died 
in Lebanon 23 March, 1877; Charles Henry^; Edwin Wymanl 

3 Susannah P.' died at the age of four years. Sarah A. A.^ was 
born in Jan., 1828, and died at the age of twenty-five years. Jonathan 
F.^ died at the age of twenty-one years. 

4 Charles H.'- was born in Lebanon, N. H., 15 Nov., 1853, and 
married there 8 P'eb., 1888, Lucinda Leila Planders, born in Hart- 
land, Vermont, 28 Oct., 1854, to James, a farmer, and Mary Elizabeth- 
Pixley Planders. He is a farmer in Lebanon. 

5 Edwin W.- was born 19 Sept., 1860, and married in Lebanon 1 
Jan., 1884, Nellie Drew, born 7 May, 1865, to Harvey W. and Lizzie 
A. -Page Drew. Their home is Lebanon. Children: James Per- 
ley, born 13 March, 1885; Harry Gould, born 14 July, 1890; Helen 
Mary, born 14 March, 1894. 



FAMILY 310: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17. JACOB-37, J0H>f-75, JOHN-162. 

URI PERLEY was born in Enfield, N. H., 27 Sept., 1803. By 
honesty, hard work and habits of econ- 
omy he became one of the wealthiest y^ 
farmers in town. He married 9 P'eb., Z C)^ U^^. 
1831, Fanny Sawyer of Salisbury, N. 
H., who was born 1 May, 1803. He so be subscribed a letter m ma or so. 

died in Lebanon, N. H., in May, 1886; and she in May, 1896. 

1 Perley children: John Quincy-440, Rebecca Sawyer'-, Isaac 
Newton-441, Moses Sawyer-442. 

2 Rebecca S.^ was born in Enfield, N. H., 8 Dec, 1836. She 
married in Manchester, N. H., 15 April, 1858, Lewis Cass Pattee, a 
lumber merchant, born in Canaan, N. H., 24 Nov., 1832, to David, a 
farmer, and Judith-Burleigh Pattee. He was at one time in com- 
pany with his brother-in-law, Wm. G. Perley-314. He resided in 
Canaan till about 1867, when he removed to Lebanon. He died 29 
Nov., 1900, in Winchester, Mass., where his widow now (1905) 
resides. Pattee issue: Mary Elizabeth, born in Canaan 8 March, 
1859, married in Lebanon 30 Jan., 1889, Frank Elisha Johnson, born 
12 Jan., 1856, in Hartford, Conn., where he now resides, and where 
she died 10 June, 1891, leaving Harold Talmage, born 23 F'eb., 1890; 
Fannie Louisa, born 8 Feb., 1862, died in Lebanon 20 July, 1888; 
Alice Rena, born in Canaan 28 Sept., 1865, residing in Winchester, 
Mass.; Frederic Lewis^; Lillie Rebecca, born 28 March, 1871, died 



470 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



30 Jan., 1873; Rose Belle, bom 10 Dec, 1873, died 27 Jan., 1875. 
3 Frederic L.- was born in Lebanon 16 Oct., 1868. He married 
in Concord, N. H., 26 Nov., 1891, Annie Maria Mugridge, born in 
Concord 20 Aug., 1860, to John Y. and Maria George-Eaton Mug- 
ridge. Mr. Pattee is a lumber merchant. Their home is Win- 
chester, Mass. 



FAMILY 311: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-IT. JACOB-37, JOHN-75, JOHN-162. 

JOSEPH GOODHUE PERLEY was born in Eniield, N. H., 
12 May, 1812, where he became a merchant. He married 29 May, 
1838, Abigail Currier Clough of Enfield, who was born in 1816, and 
died 14 Jan., 1873. Mr. Perley died 30 Dec, 1839. 

1 Perle}' child : Joseph Foster-. 




JOiSKrH FO.STEII PERLEY. 



2 Joseph F.^ was born 8 March, 1837. He was a traveling agent 
for the Walter A. Wood Mowing and Reaping Machine Co.", HoOsic 
Falls, N. Y., fifteen years and more. He was also engaged in farm- 
ing in Enfield. A gentleman in northern 
Vermont, with whom Joseph had extensive 
business relations, told the writer that he 
felt pained to hear of Joseph's death, 
for he was one of the best men he ever 
did business with. Mr. Perley's first wife was Ellen Mary Fuller, a 
milliner, daughter of James of Enfield. F"rom her he obtained adivorce, 



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To a letter iu ISSU. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 47 1 

and 20 Jan., 1880, married Miss Addie Jane Hall, who was born in 
Pearcetown, P. O., 10 July, 1853, to John Hall, a farmer. She died in 
Enfield 22 Jan.^ 1900. Mr. Perley died of apoplexy 5 Jan., 1901. 
Perley children, born in Enfield, but the first : Joseph Baily, 2(5 Jan., 
1881, in Vermont, who graduated from Brewster Free Academy, 
VVolfboro, N. H., 1901, studied at Dartmouth a year, now a cattle 
broker in his native town; Alice Abbie, 11 May, 1885, who graduated 
from St. Mary's School, Concord, N. H., 1905; Theophilus Clough, 
24 Aug., 1886, a student at Brewster Free Academy; Mary Eliza- 
beth, 13 March, 1888, and died 30 April, 1894. 

E. B. Huse, Esq., town clerk, wrote: "Of the large number of 
Perleys in this town forty or more years ago, these children of Joseph 
F. Perley are all that are left of the name, and, I think, of their 
descendants." 



FAMILY 312: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, JOHN-75, JOHX-162. 

DAVID GOODHUE PERLEY was born in Enfield, N. H., 13 
Dec, 1815. He was a farmer in Manchester, N. H. He married 
13 Sept., 1838, Miss Sarah C. Johnson, born 28 March, 1822. 

1 Perley children: Sarah Jane'-, Minnie Horner^ Abby Johnson''. 

2 Sarah J.^ was born 9 April, 1844, in Enfield. Her first hus- 
band, married by Rev. D. S. Dexter, 8 April, 1861, in Barton, Vt., 
was Charles E. Wentworth, a bookkeeper, born in Rumney, N. H., 
in 1832, to John and Lizzie J. Wentworth. Divorced, she married, 
second, 1 April, 1867, in Valparaiso, Ind., Eliphalet Merrill Wiggin 
of Corinth, Vt., who was born 1 June, 1829. Mr. Wiggin was a mar- 
ketman and grocer many years in Newport, N. H. Her child, Mabel 
Perley, was born 6 Jan or Feb., and died 11 Aug., 1872. 

3 Minnie H.^ was born 4 Dec, 1853, in St. Johnsbury, Vt., and 
Jan., 1870, married William Driscoll. They resided in Manchester, 
N. H. Their only child: Jennie P., born 16 April, 1871. 

4 Abbie J.^ was born and died 11 July, 1861, in Hopkinton, N. H. 



FAMILY 313: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, JOHN-75, JOHN-162. 

MOSES PAYSON PERLEY was born in Enfield, N. H., 23 
Dec, 1817. He was an extensive farmer in Lebanon, N. H., and a 
fine man. He married in Grafton, N. H., 18 Feb., 1847, Miss Lucy 
Giles, a teacher, who was born in Grafton 15 March, 1823. She 
died in Lebanon, N. H., 15 Sept., 1890; and he 11 Jan., 1892. 

1 Perley children : Josie E.^ Frank Eugene^ 

2 Josie E.\ born 2 June, 1849, married 24 Nov., 1868, George 
Leonard Stearns, born 11 April, 1844, a stabler, of Lebanon, N. H., 
and had Jennie Maud, born 12 Dec, 1869. 



472 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

3 Frank E/ was born in Enfield 4 Aug., 1858. He is a farmer. 
He married in Lebanon 25 Dec, 1879, Carrie Lucinda Billings, a 
dressmaker, who was born in Lebanon 10 Jan., 18(30, to George 
Beatty and Emily Lockwood-Durant Billings. Their home is Po- 
mona, Cal. 



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FAMILY 814: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIIOMAS-4, JACOB-17. JACOB-37, J0HN-7f), .I()HN-Ui2. 

WILLIAM GOODHUE PERLEY was born in Enfield, N. H., 
4 June, 1820. He began business at the age of fourteen as clerk in 
a country store in Lebanon, N. H. /\fter serving about ten years 
he co-partnershipcd with his employer. By and by he bought his 
partner's interest. When the construction of the Northern Railroad 
was begun he opened branch stores in Enfield and Canaan. He 
prospered. He connected a 

lumber yard with his stores, /y^ y'j 

and still prospered. About // A~^^^-"<— -^ J-^ 
1858 he closed out his entire ^^ /, ^/0<-^ 

business, and removed to j^ 

Ottawa, Ontario, Can. He (/ 

bought extensive timber His subsonpUou to a letler iu ISTO. 

lands, and built a large rnill for the manufacture of lumber. His energy 
and perseverance, business foresight and integrity made him the 
largest and wealthiest lumberman of his time in the Dominion or 
Republic. While in Lebanon he represented the town in the Legis- 
lature, was chairman of Board of Selectmen several years, and in 
many ways was a leading, progressive citizen. 

The publication "Men of Canada" reads: Mr. Perley: — "In 1857, 
he removed to Ottawa, Canada, and commenced lumbering opera- 
tions on a large scale with G. B. Pattee, under the name of Perley 
& Pattee. Their business extended very rapidly, averaging of late 
years over 50,000,000 feet per annum. In 1885 Mr. Perley's son, G. 
H. Perley, and Mr. C. B. Powell, were taken into partnership, which 
continued until Mr. Perley's death, April 1st, 1890. In 1887 he was 
elected member of Parliament for Ottawa, and proved himself a 
worthy representative of that important constituency, being well 
versed in commercial matters generally, and the lumbering interests 
in particular. He was a Conservative, a staunch supporter of the 
National Policy and the late Sir John A. Macdonald, and died in 
harness. In connection with Mr. J. R. Booth and Hon. J. G. Smith, 
he built the Canada Atlantic Railway, which has been such a boon 
to Ottawa, and which has several times been named as a standard of 
excellence by the government, when giving contracts for railway 
construction. In religion Mr. Perley was a supporter of the Presby- 
terian Church, and individually, as well as in his capacity as member 
of the firm of Perley & Pattee, was a liberal supporter of all the 
worthy charities of Ottawa, and of the deserving poor generally. He 
was thoroughly respected for his kindness of heart, and his well- 
known and unswerving probity." 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 473 

Mr. Perley married 14 Sept., 1846, Mabel Elvira Ticknor Stevens 
of Lebanon, who was born 24 March, 1829, to Halsey R. and 
Betsy-Ticknor Stevens, and died in Ottawa 13 Sept., 1863. His 
second wife, married 20 June, 1866, was Georgiana Maria Gale of 
Concord, N. H., who was born 23 Oct., 1841, to Perkins and Char- 
lotte-Wilkins Gale. He died 1 April, 1890. His widow resides in 
Ottawa. 

1 Perley children: Florence Stevens'-, George Halsey^ Mabel 
Ticknor^, Herbert Stevens'". 

2 Florence^ was born 22 Nov., 1848, and died 19 Oct., 1851. The 
following is from the Salem Register of 10 Nov., 1851: "Sad acci- 
dent — An interesting little daughter of Wm. G. Perley, Esq., of this 
village (Lebanon, N. H.) met with a sad accident .some ten days 
ago. She was playing with a penholder — had one end in her mouth, 
when she fell forward upon the floor, driving the penholder far into 
her throat, and injuring her so badly that she died on Sunday last. 
The child was admired by our whole community for her beauty and 
sprightliness. We sympathize deeply with the afflicted parents." 

3 "George H. Perley' was born in Lebanon, N. H., 12 Sept., 
1857. He was educated at the Ottawa Grammar School, St Paul's 
School, Concord, N. H., where in 1875 he ranked first, receiving the 
silver medal, the highest honor, and at Harvard University, Cam- 
bridge, Mass., from which seat of learning he graduated with the 
degree of B. A. in 1878. He has always been in the lumber busi- 
ness, and was a partner in the firm of Perley & Pattee, in which his 
father was senior partner. That firm was dissolved in 1893, and Mr. 
Perley is now the head of the firm of G. H. Perley & Co., with mills 
at Calumet, Que., and large limits on the Rouge river. He is also 
vice president of the Hull Lumber Company, Ltd., which is oper- 
ating largely on the upper Ottawa. The mills are lighted by elec- 
tricity; run night and day; the output of 1901 was 25,000,000 feet. 

"Mr. Perley was for many years vice president of the Canada 
Atlantic Railway Co., is an ex-president of the Rideau Club, and 
president of the Ottawa Golf Club, which office he has held for many 
years. Brought up in Ottawa, ^ 

Mr. Perley has always shown /y /r Cg ^ 

himself deeply interested in ,,/^^rW^ cZ-TV^d-^M^-VX 
anything concerning the wel- A^ y^ 

fare of that city and district. 

Along with the other heirs of his father, he made a donation of the 
beautiful homestead on Wellington street, Ottawa, as a hospital for 
incurables. It is known as 'The Perley Home for Incurables,' and 
fills a long-felt want in the capital city. Mr. Perley has been vice 
president of the Board of Management of that admirable institution, 
and has, moreover, for years taken an active part in the management 
of other leading charities of the city of Ottawa and district. In 1897 
he distributed the large public and private subscription made for the 
relief of the sufferers of the great forest fire in Prescott and Russell 
Ccfunties, doing much to assist in relieving the distress and suffer- 
ing caused by the destruction of the farms and houses of so many 
poor people. In 1900 he was chairman of the Ottawa and Hull Fire 



474 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Relief Fund, and distributed about ^1,000,000 among the sufferers 
by the great fire of April 26th in that year. 

"It seems only natural that a man of the active public spirit of 
Mr. Perley should be known in politics, and in the Dominion general 
elections of 1900 we found him contesting Russell County as a 
Conservative candidate against Mr. W. C. Edwards (another lumber 
merchant) who had represented the County since 1891. Although 
Mr. Edwards, now senator, was elected, it was by a greatly reduced 
majority. A bye-election occurring in the County of Argenteuil, 
Que., in 1902, Mr. Perley had the honor of receiving the Conserva- 
tive nomination, but after a notable contest failed to redeem the 
County. In the general Dominion elections of 1904, however, Mr. 
Perley again contested Argenteuil, and was elected member of Par- 
liament for that County by a substantial majority." 

Mr. Perley married in Berhn, Ont., 4 June, 1884, Annie Hespeler, 
Bowlby, born 7 March, 1862, to Lissie H. -Hespeler and Ward H. 
Bowlby, Esq., K. C. Mrs. Perley is recognized as one of the most 
charming hostesses and leading society women of Ottawa, just as her 
husband is regarded as one of the most worthy and public-spirited citi- 
zens of Canada's national capital. Perley children : Mabel, born 8 
July, 1885, and died 13 March, 1887; Ethel Lesa, born 16 Sept., 1888. 

4 Mabel T.' was born in Ottawa, Canada, 30 Oct., 1860. She 
married there 15 Sept., 1885, Ephraim Elliott Webb, a banker, born 
in Hull, P. O., Canada, 5 July, 1853. He died 7 Jan., 1903, in 
Quebec, where his widow now resides. Webb children, born in 
Quebec: Marjorie Mabel, born 29 May, 1887; Dorothy Louise, born 
30 Aug., 1890; Rachel Perley, born 22 April, 1892. 

5 Herbert S.^ was born in Ottawa, Canada, 13 Feb., 1870. He 
married there 8 April, 1891, Isabel Wadel Forbes, born in Pembroke, 
Ont., 25 Aug., 1874, to Andrew, wholesale merchant of dry goods, 
and Isabel Russel-Forbes. Mr. Perley is a veterinary surgeon. He 
was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., 1882-87; McGill 
College, — veterinary department; and Ontario Veterinary College. 
He is veterinary lieutenant of Princess Louise Dragoon Guards 
and is government veterinary inspector of Ottawa, Ont., and in- 
spector for Vermont Cattle Commission. Perley child : Alan Gor- 
don, born in St. Albans, Vt., 27 Feb., 1895. 



FAMILY 315: PERLEY. 

LINEAL, DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, JOHN-75, JOH^M62. 

EDWIN ALLEN PERLEY was born in Enfield, N. H., 22 
Dec, 1824, and died 25 April, 1893, in Lebanon. He was a charter 
member of the local Grange and one of its most enthusiastic workers. 
His farm, one of the best in town, was always in the highest state of 
cultivation. His first wife, married 24 Feb., 1848, was Mary Ann 
Morse of Enfield. She died 29 Dec, 1855. His second wife, mar- 
ried 7 Nov., 1857, was Cynthia Wyman, born in Hillsboro 17 May, 
1832, to Ebenezer and Betsey-Stanley Wyman of Deering. She 
died in Medford, Mass., 12 March, 1898. 



History and genealogy 475 

1 Perley children: William Goodhue^ Bessie Almena^ John 
Wyman'-. 

2 William G.\ born in Enfield, N. H., 1 Oct., 1850, was a farmer, 
and died in January, 1894. John W/ died in infancy. 

3 Bessie A.^ was born 31 Jan., 1862, in Lebanon, and married 
there (5 Sept., 1888, Henry Luther Pike, born in Chelsea, Vt., 20 
Oct., 1860, to John B. and Mary Louise-Parker Pike. He is a man- 
ufacturer of Lowell, Mass. Issue, born in Lebanon: Lucile Perley, 
15 July, 1890; Dorothy Louise, 24 Oct., 1891, died 12 Aug., 1893, in 
Medford. 



FAMILY 316: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-LALLAN^!, TnOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOK-37, JOHN-75, NATHANIEL-163. 

STEPHEN BARTLETT PERLEY was born in Canaan, N. H., 
18 March, 1806. He left home at eighteen, to learn the shoemaker's 
trade in Newburyport. He was six feet in height, a little stooping, 
and weighed 180 pounds. His father gave him one dollar, his 
mother gave him six pairs of stockings [one for each foot in height], 
and an extra suit of good homespun. Graduating at the bench, he 
went to Salem, where he was employed at "cutting shoes." Getting 
there a little touch of the western fever, the next spring found him 
in Troy, N. Y., in an iron foundry, putting up spikes for one of the 
first railways in the United States. There one of the churches dis- 
covered his fine voice, and employed him in the choir as leading 
tenor. His next place was Pittsburg, where he cut spikes. Next 
he found himself in Ohio, where he contracted fever and ague, that 
threw him out for a year. There his fine voice served him again in 
teaching singing. His health fully recovered, he went to Michigan. 
There his first work was cutting the grass in a forty-acre lot, which 
he accomplished in thirteen consecutive days. Next himself and 
a companion built, a day's journey in the forest, a sugar-camp, and 
had solid sport in making lots of sugar and shooting wild hogs and 
turkeys. The sugar season over, he sought Wisconsin, passing 
through Chicago, a muddy flat with a few log buildings, and located, 
where now is Clinton, on a preempted forty-acre farm. There he 
received the appointment of postmaster. Selling there, he went a 
hundred miles north and bought a two hundred-acre farm with wood, 
grain and grass land, near a beautiful lake. There he was a hundred 
miles from market, and in building a railroad from Milwaukee to 
La Crosse he was one of the largest stockholders. Selling that, he 
removed about 1864 to Wasioja, a mile from town and a good school. 
There he made his permanent home. 

Mr. Perley was kind-hearted, and governed by sympathy and 
love. He was a friend to dumb animals. He loved labor, and often 
wrought by moonlight, and often began the day in the wee sma' 
hours of the morning. His was a sanguine-nervous temperament; 
his head was a little bald, high and long, full in back, but thick in 
front; his eyes were blue; long, deep wrinkles crossed his forehead; 



476 The parley family 

two or three only lined his smooth shaven cheeks; his features Were 
decidedly Grecian; his skin white and soft as a girl's, till browned 
by the sun and age. The manner of his speech was candid and car- 
ried conviction. He was fond of scientific reading, was naturally 
retired, a liberal provider, a kind father. He saw the Indian's 
hunting-ground with its wigwam and log-cabin bud and blossom in 
well-tilled farms, and villages and cities. 

He married 6 April, 1847, Sarah Elizabeth Wells, who was 
born 14 Oct., 1825, in Leraysville, Pa., to Amasa and Mary-Ayer 
Wells of Clinton, Wis. The week before his death, he paid all 
indebtedness. He was stricken with palsy 1 and died 20 March, 
1880. His widow died 14 April, 1880, of hepatitis. She was a 
Baptist, but he was neither politician nor religionist beyond choir- 
singing of sacred songs. 

1 Perley children : George Amasa-44::>, Mary Elizabeth', Dorothy 
Fidelia'^ Charles NathanieP, Ida Gertrude''. 

2 Mary E.' was born in Dayton, Green Lake County, Wis., 13 
April, 1852. She married in VVasioja, Dodge County, Minn., 10 
Dec, 1871, Willard Hopkins Lincoln, a farmer, born in Almena, 
Van Buren County, Mich., 28 Aug., 1843, to George Leonard, a lumber- 
man and farmer, and Sarah Matilda-Bovie Lincoln. Mr. Lincoln en- 
listed in the 10th Minn. Volunteers in 1H&2, intending to go South, 
but the Indian massacre occurring soon after, he went with mounted 
troops. He served nine months, when he was taken seriously ill with 
pneumonia and was discharged for disease of the lungs. He died 
at Hunter P. O., Webster township, North Dakota. His widow re- 
sides in Fargo, N. D., the devoted mother of nine children, educated, 
fond of music, and giving promise of honorable and noble lives. 
The two older boys are in the high school. Children, the first three 
born in New Richland, Minn., the rest at Hunter P. O., Webster, 
Cass County, N. D.: Nellie Isabel"; Fannie Fern, born 2(5 July, 1874; 
Mary Eliza, born 27 July, 1878; Sarah Elysabeth, born 28 Dec, 
1881; Emma Perley, born 30 June, 1884; Leonard Willard, born 22 
Feb., 1888; Charles Herbert, born 12 Dec, 1889; Dorothy Bartlett, 
born 25 Jan., 1895; Richard Stephen, born 20 Oct., 1897. 

3 Dorothy F.^ was born in Markesan, Wis., 14 Jan., 1854. She 
was a school teacher, and married 26 May, 1881, in Mantorville, 
Minn., George Allen Norton, a lawyer, born in Marquette, Wis., 4 
March, 1858, to Ichabod Allen, carpenter, and Luana-Reynolds Nor- 
ton. Their home is Mantorville, where their children were born : 
Myra Elysabeth, 14 July, 1882, a student of the University of Minnesota 
of high standing and of excellent Christian character, esteemed and 
beloved by all, who died in Mantorville 6 Dec, 1902; Allen Perley, 10 
May, 1885; George A., 20 April, 1889; Harrison Edson, 12 Nov., 1892. 

4 Charles N.^ was born 2 Nov., 1856, in Markesan, Green Lake 
County, Wis. He is a section foreman and resides in Cheney, Minn. 
He married 25 Dec, 1883, in Wasioja, Minn., Phebe June Abel, 
born in Fairpoint, Goodhue County, Minn., 16 Jan., 1868, to Morgan, 
a carpenter, and Mary-Eastman Abel. Perley issue, born in Wasioja, 
but the last two in Eden, Minn.: Winnie Gertrude, 29 Jan., 1885; 
Stephen Lewis, 22 Dec, 1887, died 26 Jan., 1888; Roy Orval, 18 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 477 

June, 1889; May Frances, 5 July, 1892; Emma Fidelia, 26 May, 
1895; Ernest Edward, 21 July, 1900. 

5 Ida Gertrude^ was born in Markesan, Wis., 16 April, 1859. 
She is unmarried and resides in Jamestown, N. D. 

7 Nellie Isabel'- was born 26 Dec., 1872. She is a graduate of 
Fargo High School, class of '94. She married in Hunter, N. D., 15 
April, 1901, Charles Frederic Wheeler, clergyman, born in Erie, 
Penn., 15 Aug., 1873, to Charles Newton, machinist, and Rose B.- 
Watson Wheeler. Mrs. Wheeler's life work is in educational lines 
connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their home is 
Williston, N. D. Issue: Helen Elizabeth, born 12 and died 13 
Sept., 1902. 



FAMILY 317: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, JOH'S'15, NATHANIEL-163. 

CHARLES BARTLETT PERLEY was born in Sanbornton, 
N. H., 26 April, 1818. He resided upon the old homestead, — a hun- 
dred and twenty acres of good soil, well tilled. He was a Baptist 
and prominent in church work. He married 24 March, 1844, Sarah 
Ann Wadleigh of the same town, born 1 Aug., 1821, to John, a 
farmer, and Sally-Taylor Wadleigh. She died in Sanbornton 13 Dec, 
1883; and he 5 May, 1885, 

1 Perley children : Georgiana Bartlett', Martha Elmal 

2 Georgiana B.^ was born in Sanbornton 3 Jan., 1848, and mar- 
ried there 25 Sept., 1872, Nathan Joshua Clark, born in the same 
town 24 Oct., 1837, to John Henry, a merchant, and Betsey M.-Taylor 
Clark. Their home is Danvers, Mass., where Mr. Clark is a farmer. 
Mrs. Clark was a teacher before her marriage. Clark issue, born 
in Danvers: William Henry, 2 Jan., 1874, died of scarlet fever 6 Feb., 
1875; Nathan Perley^ Lucy Ashley, 15 April, 1879. 

3 Martha E.^ was born in Sanbornton 2 June, 1856, and married 
there 2 June, 1880, Moses Coffin Burleigh, born there 7 Feb., 1843, 
to Nathaniel, a farmer and Deborah R. -Coffin Burleigh. He was 
thirteen months a soldier — clerk in the Navy, and later a provision 
dealer in Haverhill. He died 30 May, 1885, in Compton, N. H. His 
widow was six years a teacher prior to her marriage, but is now a 
bookkeeper, and resides in Haverhill. 

4 Nathan P.'^ was born in Danvers 7 Feb., 1876, and married 
there 18 Nov., 1903, Mabel E. Hood, born there 26 June, 1877, to 
Joseph Edward, ex-postmaster, and Martha-Gilpatrick Hood. Mr. 
Clark is a market srardener in Danvers. 




FAMILY 318: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4. JACOB-17, JACOB-3r, JOHN-75, NATHANIEl,-163. 

GEORGE PERLEY was born in Sanbornton, N. H., 9 Feb., 
1821. He began his business career as a clerk in Boston. He 
eventually succeeded to the busi- 
ness, and was a grocer for nearly 
half a century on the same site, 56 
Albany street. His later home — 
after he retired from business — was 
in Brookline, where he died 1 June, 
1895. He was a courteous, just 
and noble man. His friends were 
many, because of his kindly dispo- 
sition. He was averse to publicity, ^o he subseribed a letter to the publisher 
. , . ^ -^ ' of this work, not far from 1880. 

but his many generous acts and 

charities are on record above. He was beloved by all who knew 

him ; his memory is cherished. 

He married in Boston 4 June, 1848, Anna Maria Cobb, who was 
born in Cape Elizabeth, Me., 24 April, 1824, to Anna-Mitchell and 
Nathaniel Cobb, a farmer. She died in Brookline 7 July, 1897. She 
was a woman of excellent worth. 

1 Perley children : Emma Bartlett'-, Susie Boyd''. 

2 Emma^ was born 5 March, 185b, and 10 Sept., 1874, married, 
in Boston, Willard Atherton Vose, who was born in that city 20 Nov., 
1851. He is treasurer of the Vose & Sons Piano Co. Vose chil- 
dren: Florence Perley, born 16 June, 1875, and George Atherton, 
born 11 Dec, 1876, manager of piano warerooms, Boston. They 
reside in Brookline. 

3 Susie B.i was born 19 Aug., 1864, and died 13 July, 1865. 



FAMILY 319: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB IT, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-76, ,IOIliS"-104. 

DAVID PERLEY' was born in Haverhill, Mass., 5 Nov., 1784, 
and became a farmer in Enosburg, Vt. He was rather above 
medium height, and inclined to corpulency. He married 19 May, 
1811, Lusena Ovaitt of Pownal, Vt., who was born 17 Sept., 1773, to 
William and Sarah-Munson Ovaitt. She died 8 Oct., 1829. He 
died in Enosburg 5 Jan., 1825. 

1 Perley children : Sophia'-, Sarah Ovaitt'^ Minerva'*, David Mun- 
son-444, Candace Amira'-, Lusena^ 

2 Sophia^ was born in Enosburg 22 Aug., 1812, and died there 
19 June, 1833. She married in Enosburg 14 July, 1830, Willard 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 479 

Wheeler. He married, second, Miss Maria. Page and is now deceased. 
Candace A.^ was born 13 Aug., 1819, and died 24 Jan., 1842. 

3 Sarah O.^ was born 2 March, 1814. She and her sister Min- 
erva^ were called by their mother her "twins." She married 29 
March, 1841, John Bradley Ballard, a carpenter, born in Georgia, 
Vt., to James, a farmer, and White Ballard. He died in San- 
dusky, Ohio, 3 Aug., 1846. She died in Burlington, Vt., 27 Nov., 
1896. Ballard children: James N.'^; Emeroy Calista''; Orville Johnl 

4 Minerva' was born 20 Dec, 1815, in Enosburg,Vt.,and died there 
of apoplexy 17 July, 1874. She married in Enosburg 9 Nov., 1839, 
John Perkins Baker, a farmer, born in Enosburg to Jacob, a farmer, 
and Abigail- Perkins Baker. He fell from a wagon, injuring his spine, 
completely paralyzing his lower extremities, and died the third day 
thereafter, 12 Sept., 1870. Baker children : Henry Jacob"; Wilbur,who 
married Susan E. and resides in Trenton, Mo.; Candace Sophia, 
died aged two years and six months. 

5 Lusena' was born in Enosburg, Vt., 22 July, 1823. She married 
there 4 Oct., 1849, Charles Carroll Curtis, born in Lowell, Vt., 19 
Sept., 1825, to Abel and Sarah-Brigham Curtis. He was a clerk in 
Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and since the war a veteran invalid till he died 4 
Oct., 1875, in Mt. Vernon, where his widow now resides. Their only 
child: Sarah Lusena'^ 

6 James N.^ was born 11 Feb., 1842. He married Esther J. 
Blake, daughter of John Blake, a farmer. She died in Bakersfield, 
Vt. He resides in Morrisville, Vt. (1905). Ballard issue: Carrie 
M., born in Oct., 1870; Charles, born in July, 1872; Amanda L., 
born in Dec, 1873, and died aged fourteen weeks; Nellie, born in 
Jan., 1876. 

7 Emeroy C.^ was born in Sheldon, Vt., 10 May, 1843. She was 
a teacher. She married in Bakersfield, Vt., 30 March, 1869, William 
A. Giddings, a farmer, who was born in Bakersfield 3 Aug., 1839, to 
Thomas H., a farmer, and Clarissa-Kilburn Giddings. She died in 
Burlington, Vt., 27 Feb., 1896. Mr. Giddings is of Enosburg Falls 
(1905). Giddings issue: Harry DeWitt, born in Bakersfield 6 Dec, 
1873, a graduate of Vermont University, sergeant in Co. M, First 
Regiment, Vt. N. G., in Spanish-American War, now (1905) a 
chemist in Philadelphia, Pa. 

8 Orville J.^ was born in Sandusky, Ohio, 25 Nov., 1845. He 
married in Enosburg, Vt., 5 Sept., 1872, Nellie Thompson, who was 
born in Paisley, Scotland, 10 May, 1854, to Charles Thompson. She 
died in Blackhawk, Col., 5 Nov., 1886. Mr. Ballard is a farmer in 
Littleton, Col. Ballard issue: Harland Adelbert, born 21 Nov., 
1873; John Melvin of Blackhawk; Ernest Eugene" of Littleton; 
Thomas Orville of Blackhawk; Fred, of Victor; Ida Nelson of 
Blackhawk; and Trathon — all in Colorado and all married but the 
last. 

9 Henry J."* was born 4 Dec, 1847, in Enosburg, where he was a 
farmer. He married in Johnson, Vt.,14 Dec, 1865, Susan Elvira Stone, 
born there 17 Feb., 1845, to Wilbur Fisk, mail carrier, and Abigail Lee- 
Griswal Stone of Eden, Vt. They removed to Gage, Okla., where 
he died 14 Dec, 1900. His widow resides in Trenton, Mo. Baker 
children: Charles Anson'-; John Wilbur, born in Enosburg 27 June, 



480 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

1872, living in Winfield, Kan.; Adella Minerva^^; Warren Adabert, 
born in Enosburg 17 July, 1878, living in Beloit, Kan.; Edward 
Nelson, born 22 Nov., 1881, living in Trenton, Mo.; Henry Dow, 
born in Scandia, Republic County, Kan., 22 March, and died in 
Sept., 1883; James Seldon, born in Scandia 7 Aug., 1885, living in 
Trenton; Gilbert Orvel, born in Golden Belt, Lincoln County, Kan., 
22 Sept., 1888, living in Trenton; Eva Johanna, born in Geneseo, 
Rice County, Kan., 13 Jan., 1889, living in Trenton. 

10 Sarah L.* was born in Troy, Vt., 17 Nov., 1851, married in 
Mt. Vernon 22 Nov., 1871, John Parvin Kelley, born in Mt. Vernon, 
29 Sept., 1847, to Andrew and Martha Jane-Horner Kelley. Mr. 
Kelley is a merchant in hardware and agricultural implements in 
Kansas City, Mo. They have no children. 

11 Ernest E..' was born in St. Albans, Vt., 14 Feb., 1878. He 
married in Goldfield, Col., 30 July, 1899, Elizabeth May Jacob, who 
was born in Thurman, Iowa, 22 May, 1884, to S. D., a farmer, and 
Irene-Greenwood Jacob. Mr. Ballard is a farmer in Littleton, Col. 
Ballard issue, born in Littleton, but the first in Denver: Charles 
Orville, 24 May, 1900 ; a son, 8 Nov., 1901, died 3 Jan., 1902; David 
Eugene, 16 May, and died 18 June, 1904; Carl Eugene, 17 May, 
1905. 

12 Charles A.^ was born in Enosburg, Vt., 23 July, 1869, and 
married in Avalon, Livingston County, Mo., 24 Feb., 1892, RilHe E. 
Miller, born in Chariton County, Mo., 8 Aug., 1868, to J. A., a car- 
penter, and M. E. -Maine Miller. Mr. Baker is a professor in music. 
Their home is Howard, Kan. Baker child: Susan Frances, born in 
Trenton 24 April, 1896. 

13 Adella M." was born in Enosburg 17 May, 1876, and married 
in Guthrie, Okla., 15 Nov., 1895, Thomas Brewer, a farmer, born 14 
Oct., 1874, to Richard D., a farmer, and Sarah E. -Brewer Brewer. 
She died in Gage, Okla., 16 Jan., 1905. He resides in Hennessey, 
Okla. Brewer children : Sarah Elvira, born in Garfield, Okla., 12 
Dec, 1896; Edward Richard, born in Logan, Okla., 15 Aug., 1898. 



FAMILY 320: PERLEY. 

LINEAL. DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JAC0B-1-. NATHAN-38, NATHAN-TG, JOHN-164. 

JOHN PERLEYwasborninBerlin,Vt., 11 July, 1792. He mar- 
ried in Bennington, Vt., 5 Oct., 1817, Jerusha Fay, born in Benning- 
ton 6 Oct., 1789, to P:iijah Fay. 
She died in East Berkshire, Vt., 
3 Nov., 1847. Mr. Perley was 
a shoemaker and farmer of Enos- 
burg, Vt., where his children were An autograph written for Mrs. Ancierscin-451. 

bornandwherehedied22 Aug.,1874.='° '^^^^^''^°' ^""p'^*^-- "' ^"^^ "°''' «^"^i«««- 

1 Perley children: David Fay-, Julia Maria^ John Lawrence'*' 
Mary Ann^ James Henry^, SamueP. Adoniraml 

2 David F.^ was born' 7 Nov., 1819, in Enosburg, Vt. He was a 
tanner and shoemaker by trade, and a member of the Congrega- 




HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 481 

tional Church. He was an inmate of the Brattleboro asylum for 
the insane more than ten years at different times. His physician called 
his case hereditary mania, perhaps a case of atavism. He married in 
Dunham, F. O., Canada, 21 Oct., 1858, Matilda Morehouse, who died 
in Montreal, Canada. He died in Brattleboro, Vt., 12 Dec, 1888. 
Perley children: John A.; Jerusha Fay, born 27 Dec, 1860; James 
Albert, born 7 July, 1864; Estella Mary, born 27 July, 1870, residing 
in Montreal; Effie Maria, born 20 March, 1873. 

3 Julia M.i was born 18 July, 1818, and married 19 Feb., 1844, 
Alanson L. Titus, a farmer, now deceased. She died in Washington, 
Vt., 23 Nov., 1879. Child: Fayette Perley, who is in Waterbury, Vt. 

4 John L.^ was born 17 July, 1821. He married in Enosburg, 
Vt., 12 May, 1864, Rebecca Webster Perley-323^ born in Enosburg 
27 Dec, 1832. Mrs. Perley died in Enosburg 8 Sept., 1896. Mr. 
Perley is a mechanic by trade. His home is Enosburg Falls. Per- 
ley children: Mary Eda, born 25 Sept., 1867; Ruth Marion, born 
14 Jan., 1872. 

5 Mary A.^ was born 18 March, 1823. She married in East 
Berkshire, Vt., 25 March, 1852, Russell L. Walston, a farmer, born 
in Williston, Vt., 24 Feb., 1821. He died in Frankhn Falls, N. Y.; 
she in Williston 10 Aug., 1899, without children. 

6 James H.^ was born in Enosburg, Vt., 30 Aug., 1824. He 
married in Waltham, Mass., 16 June, 1858, Dorintha Wormwood, 
born in Alfred, Me., 20 Oct., 1828, to William Stone, a farmer, and 
Sarah Brock-Goodwin Wormwood. Mr. Perley was a mechanic by 
trade. He died 15 Nov., 1895, in Waltham, Mass, where his widow 
now resides, without children. 

7 SamueP was born 31 Aug., 1827. He never married; the 
time and place of his death is unknown to us. 

8 Adoniram', "Nerum," was born 18 Aug., 1829. He died, un- 
married, in Freeport, P. O., 28 Feb., 1849. 



FAMILY 321 : PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAS-t, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17. NATHAN-38, NATHAN-76, .TOH^M64. 

NATHAN PERLEY was born in Berlin, Vt., 11 June, 1794. 
He settled a farmer in Enosburg. His first wife was Mary Perkins, 
who was born in Leominster, Mass., in 1793, married in* Bakersfield, 
Vt., 2 March, 1820, and died , 

11 Oct., 1836. He married, /><:^l_ ^^^'/^/ 

second, 9 Jan., 1838, Sarah •^'^^J^^^^^^^^^z-t^ JLyjz^^^'^<^^c^^*^ 
Adams, who was born 29 t:::::^:^^^ -^ 

Sept., 18 05, to Isaac, a Mrs. Aiiderson-451 obtained tWs autograpli m 

_ ^ ' 11- 1 T> 1 • her work as assistant compiler of this geucaJogj' 

farmer, and Sarah -Perkins 

Adams of New Ipswich, N. H., and died suddenly of typhoid pneu- 
monia 18 March, 1879. Mr. Perley was blind for some time before 
his death, which occurred 18 June, 1882, in Enosburg. 

1 Perley children : Harriet-445, Henry-446, Nathan', Albert-447, 
Mary Perkins'^ Sarah MerrilF; Fidelia'-, Ellen'^, Laura Ann-448, 
Ephraim Adams^ Ormond Theodore^ 



482 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

2 Nathan^ died 15 Feb., 1886, aged six months. Fidelia^ died 13 
Aug., 1831, aged seventeen months. Fllen^ died 10 Aug., 1845, aged 
six years, seven months. 

3 Mary P.^ was born on the old home farm in Enosburg, Vt., 1 
Dec, 1825. She married 24 Sept., 1850, and became the second 
wife of Caleb Royce Brewer, a farmer, born in East Berkshire, Vt., 
12 May, 1813, to David Brewer, a farmer. He died at his home in 
Enosburg, Vt., 8 March, 1901. His widow survives him quite en- 
feebled. [Mr. Brewer's first wife was Miss Sophronia Ovitt, 
by whom he had issue: Hobart G., of Tabor, Iowa.] Perley- 
Brewer issue : Mary Louise and Ella, both of whom died in infancy. 

4 Ephraim A.' was born in Enosburg, Vt., 30 Aug., 1844. He 
married in East Berkshire, Vt., 10 Sept., 1879, Susan Paul, who 
was born there 18 Oct., 1846, to Dolphus, a merchant, and Harriet 
Newell-Austin Paul. Mr. Perley, a retired farmer, died 19 Jan., 
1905, in East Berkshire, where his widow resides. Perley child: 
Sarah Pauline, born in East Berkshire 22 Jan., 1888, residing with 
her mother. 

5 Ormond T.' was born in Enosburg 19 Sept., 1846. He was a 
farmer. He married in East Berkshire 5 Nov., 1879, Laura Nettie 
Stone who was born there 25 Sept., 1850, to James Rufus, a harness- 
maker, and Laura-Howe Stone. He died in Enosburg 13 Sept., 1882. 
His widow's address is Enosburg Falls. 

6 Sarah M.^ was born 24 Sept., 1832, and died in Einosburg 18 
Aug., 1879. The local journal thus chronicled her death: 

"In Enosburg, Monday, Aug. 18, at the residence of Hon. C. R. 
Brewer, Sarah M. Perley in the 47th year of her age. She was a 
zealous and untiring worker in church and Sunday school, an earnest 
and consistent Christian, one who had learned to say 'Thy will be 
done,' and from whose lips no murmur of complaint ever came. 
She endured suffering patiently, and was ready to answer the sum- 
mons to another world. She has left a vacant place which no one 
can fill, and her memory will long be cherished with fond regret." 



FAMILY 322: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, .TACOB-17, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-76, JOHN-164. 

JESSE NYE PERLEY was born in Berlin, Vt., 24 April, 1798, 
a twin with Anson. Near by lived Deacon Nye, and when the dea- 
con was bereft of his only child, he begged the companionship of 
Jesse, who was then quite a lad. Remonstrances were futile, and 
Jesse went with the deacon and remained there even when his father 
removed to Enosburg. He took the name of the family and always 
wrote it as above. Mr. Perley lived in Berlin and later was a farmer 
in Barton. 

He married 27 March, 1821, Eliza Emerson, who was born 5 
April, 1801, to Samuel and Rebecca-Webster Emerson of Berlin, 
and was sister to Anson's wife-323. Mr. Perley died 10 Jan., 1870; 
his widow 29 Nov., 1880, both in Barton. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 483 

1 Perley children : John MerrilI-449, Ormond", Samuel Emerson'^, 
Isaiah Edward-450. 

2 Ormond' was born 9 Feb., 1S25, and died, unmarried, in Troy, 
Vt., 9 Oct., 184t); SamueP was born 19 March, 1828, and went West 
about sixty years ago, and has not been heard from for more than 
fifty years. His brother, I. E., tried to find him, but failed in the 
attempt. 



FAMILY 328: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, NATHAN-38, NATHAX-76, JOHN-164. 

ANSON PERLEY was born in Berlin, Vt., 31 May, 1799, a 
twin with Jesse. He built to the parental home and lived there, a 
farmer. He had an excellent voice for singing, and was an apt 
student, especially in grammar, of which he was particularly fond. 
He married 4 Oct., 1829, Eda Emerson, sister to Jesse's wite-322. 
She was born 27 April, 1810. Through apoplexy he suffered a long 
period of second childhood and blindness. He died Friday, 18 
April, 1879. Walking across ^ 

the room, in his usual health yy y^^^^^^J^^ ^ "* 

he exclaimed: "What is this.? i.^^'^T't^ <^'^ ^6/ -^^'"V^ > 

I'm in great pain, ' and ex- This autograph was written for Mrs. Aiider- 

pired immediately. Mrs. An- '•^"-^°^' «««i«tant m compiling this genealogy. 
derson-451 says, "Anson's wife is my favorite, she is as good as she 
is beautiful." Mrs. Perley died 28 Nov., 1889. 

1 Perley children: John Edson-, Rebecca Webster-320^ Isaiah 
Russell^ Eliza Sophia'', Emma\ Anna Emerson'"', Anson Wilberforce', 
Edmond Sayles", Heber SamueP, Van Edmond^. 

2 John E.^ was born 25 Nov., 1830, and died in the summer of 
1885, aged fifty-five years, eight months. Edmond S.^ was born 7 
Nov., 1848, and died 7 July, 1849. 

3 Isaiah R.^ was born 15 June, 1835. He married Elizabeth 
Hubbard, daughter of Judge Hubbard; her mother's maiden name 
was Cull. His death was caused by an explosion of dynamite in a 
mine in Aspen, Col., 11 Jan., 1892, and he was buried in Leadville; 
his wife died in the spring of 1885. 

4 Eliza S.^ was born in Enosburg, Vt., 7 Feb., 1838. She was a 
dressmaker and milliner. She married in Sheldon, Vt., 6 Dec, 1871, 
Francis Newton Bogue, who was born in P3nosburg 15 Feb., 1835, 
to Alexander, a farmer, and Sarah-Clark Bogue. He was a pioneer 
in the West from 1860 — prospecting and building toll roads for the 
Colorado Stage Company and in his last years there was sheriff and 
deputy United States marshal. He died in Pitkin, Col., 26 July, 
1880. His widow resides in Richford, Vt. 

5 Emma' was born 30 Aug., 1840, and 23 Nov., 1869, married 
Stephen Gates Marvin, son of Samuel and Vienna-Gates Marvin. 
He died 22 Dec, 1901 ; his widow resides in Richford, Vt. Marvin 
issue: Laura Vienna, born 22 Aug., 1871, residing at home; Samuel 
Barnard^"; Emma Frances"; Stephen Perley, born 8 March, 1885. 



484 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

6 Anna E.^ was born in Enosburg, Vt., 3 June, 1843. She mar- 
ried in East Berkshire, Vt., 20 April, 1874, James Harlan Shattuck, 
a merchant, born in Bakers field, Vt., 25 May, 1844, to William B., a 
farmer, and Emily-Maynard Shattuck. Their home is Worcester, 
Mass., without children. 

7 Anson W.^ was born 27 April, 1846. The parental homestead 
became his own. He married in Swanton, Vt., 13 Sept., 1888, Ida 
Ranslow Perley-447\ Perley children: Albert Ranslow, born 6 
May, 1890; Arthur Eugene, born 4 March, 1893. 

8 Heber S.' was born 29 May, 1850, and married. His wife died 
in Nov., 1899. 

9 Van E.^ was born 4 Sept., 1853, on the old homestead in Enos- 
burg, Vt., and married in Enosburg 4 Sept., 1883, Anna Lydia 
Skinner, who was born in East Fairfield, Vt., 27 Oct., 1860, to 
Chancey, a stone mason, and Lura-Wheatley Skinner. She lived 
from two and a half years of age till marriage, in family-321^ Brewer, 
and was called by that name, and by that name was married. Mr. 
Perley is a farmer of Richford, Vt. Perley children: Harlan Emer- 
son, born 14 June, 1884, who attended Brigham Academy, Bakers- 
field, Vt., three years and relinquished his studies because of ill- 
health; Allen Brewer, born 24 April, 1888, a promising student of 
Richford High School, class '06. 

10 Samuel B.^ was born 12 May, 1873, and married in June, 1896, 
Eva Combs of Richford, Vt. Marvin issue: Marjorie, born 12 
March, 1897; Ruth, born 11 May, 1898; Stephen George, born 9 
Nov., 1902. 

11 Emma F.^ was born 1 March, 1878, and married 23 July, 
1900, William B. Corliss of Richford, Vt. They are now in Cayuga, 
Ind. 



FAMILY 324: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, XATHAN-38, XATHAN-76, J0H^M64. 

EDWARD PERLEY was born in Berlin, Vt., 21 Nov., 1802. 
He chose a farmer's life, and the virgin soil of the Missisquoi valley, 
and made his home near the village of East Berkshire, Vt. The 
scenery of the vale is picturesque. 
The Green Mountains with their 
peaks and domes shelter one side 
and low gradually sloping hills the 

other, hills of generous fertility Un- Wntteu for ins daueliter as assistant 

1 ,, , iri-i- 1.1 compiler of this book. 

der the hand of diligence and the 

arts of cultivation. There he labored and enjoyed the fruits of toil. 
It was a disgrace in that home of Christian principles to eat the 
bread of idleness, or swerve from the path of rectitude never so 
slightly. In that home was reared a large family whose manhood 
and womanhood have rejoiced the eyes and heart of parental age. 
Besides his extensive farming, he owned a large sugar orchard, and 
shipped large quantities of sugar yearly to the South and West. 





MRS. IRA S. ANDERSON. 



REV. WILBERT L. ANDERSON. 




MR. HERBERT A. PERLEY. 



MISS MELISSA S. PERLEY. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 435 

He married, first, 27 Oct., 1831, Melissa Stone* of Berkshire, 
who was born '26 Feb., 1813, and died 11 July, 1838. His second 
wife, married 3 Sept., 1838, was Hannah Stone, a sister to his first 
wife, born 2 Aug., 1815, and died 10 April, 1905. Their children 
were born in Berkshire. 

1 Perley children: Elvina-451, Hannah Corliss452, Melissa 
Stone^ Betsey Anderson^ Edward Benjamin*, Herbert Arthur^ 
Corliss Stone-453, Charles Wilbert*\ Ruth Alice'. 

2 Melissa S.^ was born in the "new house" upon the Missisquoi 
9 Nov., 1840. "The eloquence of decay" upon the mountain side 
bequeathing a new life and growth in the vale persuaded her to a 
life work for others. The natural trend of her mind was teaching. 
As soon as she had acquired the alphabet, she tried the art upon the 
cat, and lazy Tom from his sleep in the sun or his warm corner by the 
fire was told and enjoined to remember his a, b, c. Unlike the stu- 
dent who despaired of entering the law, there were so many in it, 
she did not despair of the teacher's vocation, though there are many 
ready to work, as she afterwards began, at $1.25 per week and board 
around. Her ambition never quailed ; for the domes and peaks of 
the Green hills had too often assured her of room enough at the top. 

Yet teachers' places ne'er went begging, 

Two dollars weekly, the teachers " found," 
No rest or surcease for the weary, 

Yet "awful nice" 'twas " Boarding Round." — George Conant. 

She was an apt scholar in the district school, where she mastered 
the arithmetic with its addenda, and grammar with its parsing lessons 
in the highest reader. Thus equipped she went out from the associa- 
tions of her district companions and her Christian home, and began 
her life work in a near-by district school. Her effort was a success. 

She was then called to the graded schools of St. Albans, and re- 
mained there for two years. The second year she was supervisor 
of the primary department. It was while there engaged that the pur- 
pose to go higher became a settled conviction. 

For several years she taught summers and winters and pursued aca- 
demic studies autumns. Thus she labored till she was qualified to 
take another and higher step. Then she entered the Oswego Normal 
and Training School, Oswego, N. Y. There she studied two full 
years and graduated with honor. After graduation she accepted a 
position as critic and supervisor in the training department of the 
City Normal School, Dayton, Ohio. There she devoted twelve 
years of patient, dutiful fruitful labor — her love for the work never 
waning, but her over-taxed energies needing rest. 

She took two years for recuperation, and freed her mind from ex- 
acting care and the burden of responsibility. Her health returned, 
her strength • was renewed, and the old desire for active service in 
the outside world again took possession of her mind, and she en- 
tered upon very similar duties in the State Normal and Literary In- 
stitute, Bloomsburg, Pa. While there she attended two terms of the 



*Gen. Chester A. Arthur was named after the physician who attended at his birth, Dr. 
Chester Abell, whose wife was a cousin of Mrs. Arthur. Mr. Arthur has many relatives in 
Vermont, as his mother was a daughter of Washington Stone, a Baptist clergyman. Among 
his cousins in Berlcshire, Vt., are Deacon Mitchell Stone, James R. Stone. Mrs. Deacon Setb 
Anderson, Mrs. Edward Perley and Mrs. A. A. Moore. 



486 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Summer School of Methods in Martha's Vineyard, and she spent 
the summer of 1896 in Europe. In the Pennsylvania institution she 
added another period of twelve years to the already long series of 
years spent in the teacher's profession, resigning in June, 1902. 

She is at the present time with her mother in the home of her 
childhood, in the same "new" house, now old, but new in memory 
still. There she brought her thank-oblation to the eloquent hillsides 
and peaks and domes, and joys in the rural beauty of the picturesque 
vale. There she casts the retrospect of the pathways trod, the bat- 
tles fought, the victories won and the pleasures enjoyed — and would 
not have it otherwise. 

3 Betsey A.^ was born 20 June, 1844, in East Berkshire, her 
present address. She has been a successful teacher. Ruth A.' 
was born 15 March and died 9 Aug., 1856. 

4 Edward B.^ was born 9 March, 1846, and 4 June, 1873, mar- 
ried Emogene Parmelia Rogers, who was born 9 Oct., 1847, to 
Leroy, a farmer, and Parmelia-Burtch Rogers of Antwerp, N. Y., 
where he is a druggist, without issue. 

5 Herbert A.' was born in East Berkshire, Vt., 28 June, 1850. 
He became a merchant in Franklin, Vt. He married in Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 29 May, 1899, Emma Harriet Kirkhuff, who was born in 
Red Creek, Wayne County, N. Y., 23 Oct., 1863, to Jacob Butts, 
a lawyer, and Jane Pllizabeth Sayre-Smith Kirkhuff. They reside in 
Brooklyn without children. Mrs. Perley's mother was a direct de- 
scendant of Thomas Sayre, who came from England to South- 
ampton, L. I., in 1639. Her great-great-grandfather, Joshua Sayre, 
served during the entire war of the Revolution. Her father's family 
came from Utrecht, Holland, to Ramseyburg, N. J., in 1640. Her 
great-great-grandfather, Philip Raub, suffered with Gen. Washing- 
ton that memorable winter at Valley Forge. She had a cousin with 
Dewey on the Olympia, at Manila, in the Spanish War. 

6 Charles W.' was born in East Berkshire, Vt., 4 May, 1854. He 
married in New York City 14 July, 1888, Mary Louisa Laborie, 
who was born in Monroe, Ct., 17 June, 1867, to Sidney Russell and 
Lydia Ann-Wakelee Laborie. Their home is Shelton, Ct. where 
Mr. Perley is a farmer. Perley children, born in Huntington, Ct.: 
Charles Edward, 30 March, 1891; Lydia Anderson, 13 April, 1894. 



FAMILY 325: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-IT, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-76 JOHN-164. 

WILLIAM PERLEY was born in Berlin, Vt., 18 April, 1804. 
He married in Bakersfield, Vt., 20 June, 1832, Lydia Perkins, who 
was born there 21 June, 1809. He was a farmer. He died 25 Nov., 
1891, in Enosburg, where his widow died 24 April, 1894. 

1 Perley children, born in Enosburg: James Adam s-454, William 
Henry-455, Warren'^, Eugene^ 

2 Warren^ was born 11 Nov., 1844. He married in Enosburg 27 
Dec, 1872, Arvilla Adams, who was born there 21 Aug., 1845, to 



HISTORY AND-GENEALOGY 437 

George and Elmira-Stevans Adams. Mr. Perley is a farmer in Enos- 
burg. Perley children, residing unmarried in Enosburg: Martha 
Adams, born 14 May, 1874; Theodore Wood, born 4 Feb., 1877, a 
graduate of Brigham Academy, 1899; Harriet Elmira, born 8 March, 
1878, died 29 Nov., 1885; Florence Elizabeth, born 20 June, 1881, a 
graduate of Brigham Academy, 1900, and of Middlebury College, 1904. 
3 Eugene^ was born 24 Feb., 1851. He married in Berkshire, 
Vt., 28 Dec, 1881, Flora Evelyn Jeffords, who was born in Berk- 
shire 8 March, 1857, to Pliny and Frances Adams Jeffords. Mr. 
Perley is a farmer of Enosburg with post ofifice Richford, R. F. D. 
His wife died in Enosburg 14 Nov., 1904. Perley child, born there: 
Ernest Eugene, 20 June, 1883, a graduate of Brigham Academy in 
Bakersfield, 1901— address, Richford, R. F. D. 



FAMILY 320: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17. NATHAN-38, NATHAN-Tti, JAMES-1(5. 

SAMUEL PERLEY was born in Berlin, Vt., 15 Aug., 1793, 
and married in Fairfield 4 July, 1825, Orretta Sherman, who was 
born 15 March, 1809, to Eli and Polly-Phelps Sherman of Fairfield, 
where Samuel made his home. Mr. Perley was a colonel in the mi- 
litia. He was a veteran of the War of 1812, and was honorably dis- 
charged, receiving "a wound in his foot by having a spike driven 
through it." He studied medicine a while (with his brother), but 
soon relinquished it because distasteful, and became a public school 
teacher and teacher of vocal music. He once represented his dis- 
trict of Fairfield, on the Democratic, ticket [in Vermont !] ; he was 
the collector of taxes seventeen consecutive years, resigning to 
remove to Reading with his son-in-law, where he died 16 March, 1866. 
He published several papers of reminiscences in a historical maga- 
zine in Vermont and had other such papers in preparation when he 
died. His widow died in Cambridgeport 3 Nov., 1874. 

1 Perley children : Emily Adelaide", Frances Adeliza'*, James 
Varnum'', Ginevra Adelaide'', Marion Emily-. 

2 Emily A.^ was born in Fairfield 16 March, 1826, and died of 
erysipelas 20 July, 1838, at Elmore, Vt.; Marion E.^ was born in 
Fairfield 30 Aug., 1845, was a teacher, died in Reading, of paralysis 
of the brain, 5 Aug., 1868. 

3 Frances A.^ was born in Fairfield, Vt., 22 June, 1828, and died 
of consumption in Reading, Mass., her son Oscar says 15 May, 1870; 
Mrs. Moning writes it 15 Nov., 1871. She married 13 Sept., 1853, 
Oscar P'oote of Boston, a dealer in provisions and later in real estate 
in Reading. He died of diabetes 8 Aug., 1894. Their children: 
Oscar Perley", Etta\ Mary Frances, born 9 Aug., 1867, who, unmar- 
ried, is a bookkeeper in the Northwestern Life Insurance Company's 
ofifice in Boston. 

4 James V.^ was born in Fairfield, Vt., 5 Dec, 1836, and died of 
paralysis in the summer of 1895. He married in 1862 Emily Spauld- 
ing of Fairfield. He spent twenty years in the West. There died 



488 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

of tuberculosis his wife and three children: George Henry, Samuel 
Sherman and Marion Emily. Charles, his youngest son, returned 
to Fairfield with his father, and a year later died of the same disease 
as the others. 

5 Ginevra A.^ was born in Fairfield •22 March, 1842. She mar- 
ried 20 Sept., 1876, Frank H. Moning of Berhn, Germany. They 
reside in Boston, Mass., where he is a real estate agent. Moning 
issue: Lillian Perley, born at Parker Hill, Boston, 22 Oct., 1881, who 
is an organist and music teacher. 

6 Oscar P.^ was born in Charlestown, Mass., 21 June, 1850. He 
married in Boston 15 May, 1880, Harriet Fay Otis, born in Chelsea, 
Mass., 18 Jan., 1858, to George H., a dealer in boots and shoes, and 
Sarah Borland-Clark Otis.' Their home is Newburyport, Mass., 
where Mr. Foote is a grocer. Their children: Ruth, born 13 Oct., 
1883; Doris, born 19 Oct., 1892; Francis Perley, born 17 Nov., 1898. 

7 Etta'^ was born in Charlestown, Mass., 28 Nov., 1860. She 
married in Boston 7 May, 1885, and became the second wife of 
Henry Alexander Rich, born in Hardwick, Mass., 19 June, 1833. 
His mother's name was Berthia. He was a dealer in real estate and 
died in Hyde Park, Mass., 25 April, 1900. Mrs. Rich resides in 
Boston. 



FAMILY 327: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIIi>MAS-4, JACOB-17, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-Tti, .JAMES-IGS. 

MOSES GOODRICH PERLEY was born in Berlin, Vt., 2 
May, 1805. He graduated from the medical college of the Univer- 
sity of Vermont, and was a physician in Bakersfield — the first in the 
town. He was for many years a well-known physician of Bowens 
Prairie, la., and later of Hazle Green, la., where he owned a large 
farm. A sketch of his life is found in the history of Delaware 
County, la. He married in Sept., 1885, Louisa Child, who was born 
in Enosburg 18 March, 1811, to Thomas, Esq., and Lydia-Adams 
Child of Bakersfield. She died in Bowens Prairie, la., in 1863. Dr. 
Perley married, second, in Dubuque, Iowa, 10 Aug., 1865, Mrs. 
Mary Agnus-Collins born in Bowens Prairie 22 Nov., 1835, to Wil- 
liam, a farmer, and Kezia-Hogan Collins. He died in Hazle Green, 
Iowa, 7 May, 1879. Mrs. Perley resides in Marion, Iowa. 

1 Perley children : Fannie-, James'-, Chauncy Child-456, Moses'-, 
Proctor^ 

2 Fannie\ born 31 Aug., 1836, died 26 Jan., 1848; James\ born 
20 Dec, 1834, died 25 Dec, 1862; Moses\ born in Bowens Prairie 13 
Oct., 1867, died there 13 June, 1874. 

3 Proctor' was born in Bowens Prairie 2 May, 1869. He married 
in Uniontown, Iowa, 7 May, 1890, Libbie E. Ferguson, a school 
teacher, born 14 Oct., 1869, in Prairiesburg, Iowa, to Samuel, a 
farmer, and Annis Love-Orr P"erguson. He is a farmer in Delhi, 
la. Their children, born in Hazle Green, but the first in Golden: 
Mabel Maud, 13 Feb., 1893; Webster Leroy, 6 Jan., 1896; Marion 
Elizabeth, 26 Dec, 1898; Harriet Madge, 6 Jan., 1901. 



FAMILY 328 : PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-76, JAMES-165. 

JAMES VARNUM PERLEY was born in Berlin, Vt., 7 Nov., 
1809. He married, as his first wife, it is said, Sarah Matilda Sillo- 
way, daughter of Charles, born 6 June, 1824,* married "near the 
year 1840, handsome and attractive in her youth," who married, 
second, Nathan Camp and resides a widow in Elliott, la. According 
to the Boston Directory for 1859, a James V. Perley & Co. were in 
business at 4 New Faneuil Hall Market, and Perley was living in 
Charlestown; for 1865 James V. Perley was a clerk at 27 N. Market, 
and living in Chelsea. By the Boston records: James V. Perley 
died of typhoid fever 22 Oct., 1856. 

1 Perley children: James Corliss^ Annette'', Alma", Frank 
Varnum"*. 

2 Annette^ is not living. Alma' is somewhere in Nebraska. 

3 James C lives about three miles out of Elliott, which is his 
post-office. He is a farmer and has from two to three hundred acres 
in fine condition, productive of the cereals and of live-stock. He is 
very successful and a strong man financially. He is, like many of 
the family, reserved in manner, and happiest when surrounded by 
his own. He married in 1872 Miss Hattie Persons and has three 
children, all living — Ida, Edgar, and Delbert, whose ages are respec- 
tively, twenty-nine, fourteen and eight years. Ida married D. C. Ray- 
nolds and lives in Elliott. 

4 Frank V.' was born in Berlin, Vt., 7 Jan., 1848. He married 
in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 24 Feb., 1866, Alice Elizabeth Grubb, born 
in Lovettsville, Va., 26 April, 1848, to Samuel, a teacher, and Ann 
Rebekah-Frazier Grubb. Mr. Perley is a traveling man. Their 
home is Des Moines, la. Perley children: Harry Varnum*^; Juanita 
Alice, born in Peoria, 111., 8 Jan., 1870, married Edward B. Brande 
of Grinnell, la.; Evelyn Florence Frazier, born in Peoria 13 July, 
1872, who was an artist designer in Chicago, and died 27 April, 
1905; Frank Ethan Allen®. 

5 Harry V.^ was born 8 March, 1868, in Lewiston, 111. He is an 
express messenger, and resides in Chicago. He married in Des 
Moines 27 June, 1888, Flora May Zimbleman, who was born 12 Nov., 
1870, in Boone, Iowa, to Catherine- Leininger and Jacob Zimbleman. 
They have one child : Juanita Cathreen, born in Eagle Grove, la., 29 
Nov., 1895. 

6 Frank E, A.'' was born in Des Moines, Iowa, 7 July, 1881. He 
is in commercial business in Chicago, 111., where he married 29 Nov., 
1904, Elizabeth Pearl Shely, who was born 27 April, 1881, in Lex- 
ington, Ky., to John Daniel, an inventor, and Elizabeth Margret- 
Allen Shely. 



*Thi8 Berlin record reads : Sarah M. Pearley , born 6 June, 1824, as if she had been adopted 
in her father Perley's family and her name changed. 



FAMILY 329: WAY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TnrniAS-4, JACOB-17, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-76, 

EDMUND-167. 

ABIGAIL PERLEY was born 5 Sept., 1798. She married in 
June, 1819, Gordon Way, born 30 July, 1798, to George and Sarah- 
Douglass Way of Lempster, N. H. He was a farmer, and after 1844 
resided in Claremont, N. H., where his wife died of dysenteric fever 

11 Oct., 1848. His second wife was Sophia Lovell, daughter of 
Michael. He died in Lempster 30 July, 1880, of pneumonia; his 
widow 21 Nov., 1885. 

1 Way children, born in Lempster : Mary Eliza'^, Gordon Alonzo^, 
Abigail Eveline\ Sabina^ Edmund Perley^ Sarah Perley'', George 
Osborn^ Edwin P^ranklin®, Emily Maria'*, Orlo Plsk', Lucy A.", 
Osman Baker^ Louisa M.^" 

2 Mary E.^ was born 8 March, 1820, and married in Claremont, 
N. H., 28 Nov., 1850, and became the second wife of Orlando Burr 
Kidder, a farmer, born in Weathersfield, Vt., 14 Aug., 1811, to Moses, 
a native of Weathersfield, who died in Claremont, N. H., and Nancy 
Ann-Goodwin Kidder. His first wife was a Miss Perry. He died 
in Claremont, Minn., 14 Oct., 1881; and she 31 Dec, 1886. 

3 Gordon A.^ was born 2 June, 1821. He was a farmer, unmar- 
ried, in Claremont, Minn., where he was buried, having died while 
on business in Iowa 14 Sept., 185(3. Sabina' was born 8 Sept., 1825, 
and died in Lempster 15 April, 182G. Edmund P.' was born 25 
Sept., 1826, and died in Sanbornton, while a student, 15 Sept., 1847. 
Sarah P.^ was born 19 June, 1828, and died 3 March, 1829. Emily 
M.^ was born 26 Nov., 1833, and died 3 Oct., 1848, in Claremont, N. H. 

4 Abigail E.' was born 11 March, 1823, and married 26 Jan., 1843, 
Eliakim Tandy, a dentist, native of Goshen, N. 11., where she died 

12 Nov., 1848. He married again and died in Lowell, Mass., "some- 
time in 1849," without children. 

5 George O.' was born 14 Nov., 1829, and married in Claremont, 
N. H., 16 Nov., 1857, Sarah Ann Mitchell, born there 23 July, 1831, 
to Horace and Phebe-Jackson Mitchell. They removed to Clare- 
mont, Minn., where Mrs. Way was the first white woman — there 
being no other settlers within twelve miles of their home. He was 
a farmer; was postmaster of the town; helped lay out the first terri- 
torial road from Winona to St. Paul in 1855; was justice of the peace 
eight years; member of the first House of Representatives of the 
State. He died 7 April, 1900, in Minneapolis. His widow resides 
in North Minneapolis. Way issue: Horace McClure"; George A.''^; 
Frank Alden, born 11 May, 1859, and died 4 P'eb., 1861 ; Sherman Ells- 
worth, born 20 June and died 20 Oct., 1863; Charles William, born 
16 July and died 28 Oct., 1868. 

6 Edwin F.^ was born 2 Nov., 1831, and married in Claremont, 
N. H.,31 Dec, 1852, Ruth Ann Augusta Stevens, born in Charlestown, 
N. H., 11 March, 1831, to Henry and Dorothy-Gove Stevens. She 
died in Mantonville, Minn., 7 April, 1893, Mr. Way is a merchant 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 491 

and resides in Claremont, Minn. Way children: George Edwin, 
born 3 Sept., 1858, in Claremont, N. H., where he died 6 April, 1855; 
George Henry'-^; Osmon Franklin"; Eugene Gordon, born 11 Nov., 
1860, and died 26 March, 1879, in Claremont, Minn.; Asbury Perley, 
born 12 March and died 14 Oct., 1865, in Claremont, Minn.; Sarah 
Mabel, born 11 Dec, 1866, in Claremont, Minn., where she resides. 

7 Orlo F.^ was born 24 July, 1835. He is a farmer. He mar- 
ried, first, in Claremont, Minn., 9 Jan., 1862, Melissa Celia Harding, 
who was born in Hornellsville, N. Y., 22 Nov., 1838. She died in 
Claremont, N. H., 23 Dec, 1865. He married, second, in Claremont, 
Minn., 7 Sept., 1867, Emma Frances Gove, born in Goshen, N. H., 
7 May, 1845, to Peter, a farmer of Goshen, and Betsey Dunham- 
Perry Gove of Newport, N. H. Their address is Dodge Center, 
Minn. Their son : Harry Alonzo'^ 

8 Lucy A.^ was born 1 March, 1837, and married in Concord, 
N. H., 16 June, 1863, Rev. Chester J. Hoyt of Sharon, Ct., born in 
Bridgeville, Sullivan County, N. Y.,3 Nov., 1833, to Jonathan, a farmer 
and manufacturer, and Maria-Rundle Hoyt. Their address is Stone- 
ridge, N. Y. Hoyt children: Henry Arthur, born 8 Jan., 1865, who 
was educated at Wesleyan University, taught two years, was five 
years in Australia, three years in Medical School, and is now prac- 
ticing in Watertown, N. Y. (1905); Alice Cornelia, born 15 July, 

1866, who was educated at Hackettstown Institute with degree M. 
L. A., taught three years — two years in Jacksonville Ladies' Col- 
lege — and is now residing in Jersey City, N. J. ; Chester James, born 
16 P'eb., 1868, who was educated at Syracuse University, taught three 
years, spent four years in Y. M. C. A. work, and eight years in the 
Christian ministry, with present address Newark, N. J.; Osmon 
Perley, born 18 July, 1869, who was educated at Syracuse Univer- 
sity, B. S., engaged in Y. M. C. A. work and ten years in the Chris- 
tian ministry, with present address Hillsdale, N. Y.; Gordon Way, 
born 17 Nov., 1872, who was educated at Syracuse University, Chi- 
cago Medical School, and is now practising in Syracuse, N. Y. ; Isaac 
Shaurman, born 21 May and died 6 June, 1874, in Sheffield, Mass. 

9 Osman B.^ was born 22 March, 1840. He fitted for college at 
Meriden, N. H., and graduated from Dartmouth Medical College in 
1865. Previous to entering the medical profession he taught school. 
Since 1 Jan., 1866, he has continuously practiced medicine. He was 
ten years United States examining surgeon ; a member of the Board 
of Education for more than thirty-five years ; a trustee of the Fiske 
Free Library thirty years; director of the People's National Bank of 
Claremont, N. H., since 1892; member of the New Hampshire Legis- 
lature two years ; member of the Constitutional Convention of New 
Hampshire in 1902. He married, first, in Claremont, N. H., 24 Dec, 

1867, Martha Lovell Wightman, a teacher, born in Rockingham, 
Vt., 21 March, 1840, to Hermon, a farmer, and Maria Kimball-Lovell 
Wightman. She died in Claremont 26 Dec, 1868. He married, 
second, in Claremont 22 Feb., 1882, Mary Jane Wightman, his first 
wife's sister, born 19 Jan., 1843. She is a graduate of Kimball Union 
Academy, Meriden, and for many years was a teacher in advanced 
high schools, and in the Gannett Institute, Boston. They have no 
children. 



492 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

10 Louisa M.^ was born 13 Oct., 1843. She was a school teacher. 
She married in Claremont 20 June, 1867, Ira Colby-333\ a lawyer, 
born in Claremont 11 Jan., 1831, to Ira, a farmer, and Polly-Foster 
Colby. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, 1857 ; was admitted 
to the New Hampshire Bar in Sept., 1860; was member of the New 
Hampshire House of Representatives, 1864, 1865, 1881, 1883, 1887; 
of the New Hampshire Senate, 1869, 1870; of Republican National 
Committee, 1876; of committee to revise New Hampshire Statutes, 
1890; solicitor of Sullivan County, N. H., for twenty years and has 
been for the past nine years a member of the examining committee 
for admission of students to the Bar. Their home is Claremont. 
Colby children: Ira Gordon^"; Bertha Maria, born 11 July, 1878, died 
10 Aug., 1879. 

11 Horace M.° was born 4 July, 1855 — the first white child born 
in Claremont, Minn. He married in Northfield, Minn., 1 Jan., 1880, 
Margaret Ann Smith, who was born 31 May, 1860, to John and Mary- 
Hoy Smith. Their home is Kasson, Minn., where Mr. Way is 
a farmer. Way!4ssue: Eleanor Frances, born 20 Oct., 1882 ; Lillian, 
born 20 April, 1886, died in 1890; Frank Alonzo, born 16 July, 1889, 
died in 1901; George William, born 14 Dec, 1892; Mureen Lucille, 
born 18 May, 1899; Margaret Alice, born 30 Sept., 1903. 

12 George A.'^ was born in Claremont, Minn.; 11 May, 1857, and 
married in Northfield, Minn., 7 May, 1882, Alice F. Benham, who 
was born in Prairieville, Minn., 30 Jan., 1860, to Isiac, retired, and 
Harriet-Hillekee Benham. Mr. Way was express agent, clerk of 
court and postmaster at Fort Keogh, Mont. He is a wholesale com- 
mission merchant, 1905. Their home is North Minneapolis, Minn. 

13 George H.''was born in Claremont, N. H., 10 Feb., 1856. He 
married, first, in Faribault, Minn., 25 March, 1877, Mary Lucinda 
Nutting, born in Northampton, Mass., 21 July, 1857, to Henry A, 
and Elizabeth-Nutting Nutting. She died in St. Paul, Minn., 16 
Sept., 1887. He married, second, in Preston, Minn., 3 April, 1889, 
Miriam Kate Dayton, born in Decorah, Iowa, 19 July, 1857, to Silas 
and Rhoda S.-Wells Dayton. Their home is Lake Crystal, Minn. 
Way issue: Perley Willis, born in Waterville, Minn., 16 Dec, 1877, 
died in Dodge Center, Minn., 8 Oct., 1882; Eugene Henry, born 20 
Dec, 1881, in Dodge Center, where he died 4 Jan., 1882. 

14 Osmon F.- was born 16 June, 1858, in Claremont, Minn., 
where he is a physician and druggist. He married in Castle Rock, 
Minn., 6 May, 1886, Jennie Josephine Gordon, a school teacher, born 
in Pine Island, Minn., 21 Nov., 1863, to Isaac, a miller, and Caroline- 
Farrington Gordon. Way issue: Genevieve, born 24 March, 1887; 
P'rances Eula, born 26 Aug., 1889; Osmon Gordon, born 31 March, 
1892; Miriam Kate, born 26 Sept., 1895; Margret Elizabeth, born 
16 Jan., 1900. 

15 Harry A." was born in Claremont, Minn., 22 March, 1864. 
He married in 'Aberdeen, S. Dak., 25 Sept., 1892, Ida Caroline Stahl- 
berg, a teacher, born in Mayville, Wis., 7 Feb., 1867, to John, a 
farmer, and Mary Margret-Kornehl Stahlberg. He is principal and 
owner of the Aberdeen Business College, from which, during his 
principalship, more than a thousand pupils have entered upon life's 
duties. Way issue born: Harriet Avaline, 24 March, 1895; Mar- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 493 

garet Ila, 8 June, 1896; Carol Frances, 6 June, 1900; Marian Eva, 
10 Jan., 1905. 

16 Ira G.^" was born in Claremont, N. H., 11 Jan., 1872. He 
graduated at Dartmouth College, 1894, and at Boston University 
Law School, 1897, and was admitted to New Hampshire Bar in July, 
1897. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1902, 
and is member of the House of Representatives, 1905. He married 
7 June, 1899, in Kansas City, Mo., Mary Agnes Coburn, born in 
Lowell, Mass., 3 Jan., 1874, to James M., a ranchman, and Harriet 
M. -Graves Coburn. Their home is Claremont. N. H., where were 
born their children : Harriet Louise, 15 Nov., 1900 ; Caroline Leland, 
4 Feb., 1903. 



FAMILY 330: BAKER. 



LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-l, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17 NATHAN-38, NATHAN-T6, 
EDMUND-lti7. 

MEHITABLE PERLEY was born 18 Aug., 1811. She married 
24 July, 1834, at Lempster, Rev. Osmon Cleander Baker, D. D., who 
was born in Marlow, N. H., 30 July, 1812, to Dr. Isaac and Abigail 
Kidder Baker. A Concord, N. H., newspaper read : "On the open- 
ing of the Methodist General Biblical Institute in this city in 1847, 
Mr. Baker was appointed one of the teachers in that institution and 
came here to reside. In 1852 he was appointed bishop and retained 
his residence in this city until the time of his death." 

He was stationed at Newbury, Vt., Concord, N. H., and else- 
where. He died in Concord 20 Dec, 1871, of paralysis; his widow 8 
May, 1890. The following is a Concord newspaper notice of her death : 

"Mrs. Mehitable Baker, wife of the late Methodist Episcopel 
Bishop, Osman C. Baker, D. D., died in this city at five o'clock 
Thursday morning after a brief illness of only four days, in her 79th 
year. She was one of a family of six children, all of whom have 
filled honorable and eminently useful positions in life. Fitting her- 
self in early life for a teacher, she was engaged in that vocation in the 
Newbury Seminary for a considerable time, and was highly esteemed. 
Mrs. Baker resided here continuously for 43 years, and enjoyed a 
large acquaintance both in this city and throughout the State. She 
was a lady possessing rare qualities of mind and heart. She was a 
true Christian, devoted to the work of the church in which her hus- 
band was a leader, and gave liberally of time and means to advance 
the cause. She was kind hearted, charitable in the highest degree, 
and her loss will be mourned by a wide circle of friends and 
acquaintances. She had five children, but one of whom survives 
her, Mrs. Dr. S. C. Morrill of this city, and one grandchild, the child 
of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Frances Pitcher." 

1 Baker children : Maria Louisa,"^ Louisa Maria'-, Osman Perley'-, 
Mary Frances,^ Osma Cornelia.'' 

2 Maria L.^ was born 3 Nov., 1837, in Newbury, and died there 

13 April, 1842; Louisa M.\ 22 Dec, 1841, in Newbury, and died there 

14 March, 1843 ; Osman P.\ 16 May, 1844, in Newbury, and died in 
Manchester, N. H., 12 April, 1846. 



494 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



3 Mary F.' was born 20 Oct., 1848, in Concord. She married 2 1 
June, 1869, Rev. P2dvvin Frank Pitcher. She died in Lebanon, Pa., 
27 March, 1872. Mr. Pitcher in 1880 resided in Fairmount, W. Va. 
She had only one child, Grace Emery^ 

4 Osma C.^ was born in Concord, N. H., 7 March, 1855, and 
married there 22 May, 1883, Dr. Shadrack Cate Morrill of that city, 
who was born in Loudon, N. H., 20 July, 1839. Dr. Morrill was a 
physician of the regular school. His father. Dr. Alpheus Morrill, 
was a homeopathist. His mother was Miss Eliza Ann Cate. They 
resided in Concord, where he died 9 Oct., 1904, and where his widow 
resides (1905). Morrill issue, born in Concord: Ashley Baker, 6 
Sept., 1884, a Harvard student; Margaret, 28 Jan., 1886, a student; 
Gladys, 28 June, 1887, a student; Mary Stearns, 22 June, 1892, died 
4 Dec, 1903. 

5 Grace E.^was born in Concord, N. H., 7 May, 1870. She was 
married 11 March, 1893, Herbert Woodbridge Odlin, who was born 
in Boston 2 Dec, 18(59, to John W., a journalist, and Marianna- 
Souther Odlin of Concord, where Mr. Odlin is in the gas business. 
Odlin issue: Harry Niles, born 17 June, 1896, died 10 March, 1899; 
Marian Baker, born 10 Jan., 1903. 



FAMILY 331: MINER. 



LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17 

EDMUND-lf^T. 



NATHAX-38, ^ ATHAN-76, 



SUSANNAH MARIA PERLEY was born 2 Feb., 1815, in 
Lempster, N. H. She was educated for a teacher, and taught with 
marked ability and success. One who well knew her and her home 
gave her this proud encomium: "In all the labors and responsi- 
bilities of her husband she proved a most intelligent, assiduous and 
efficient helper." 

She married 24 Aug., 1836, Alonzo Ames Miner*, who was born 
in Lempster 17 Aug., 1814, to Benajah Ames and Amanda-Cary 
Miner, and was a grandson of Charles Miner, a Revolutionary sol- 
dier, and a descendant in the seventh generation from Thomas Miner, 
who came to this country with the elder Win- 
throp, in 1630, in "the good ship Arabella," and 
removed to New London, Ct., in 1646. 

Dr. Miner was educated in the public schools 
and academies of New Hampshire, and began 
teaching, between terms, at the age of sixteen, in 
Hanover, the seat of Dartmouth College. He 
was principal of Cavendish Academy, Vt., 1834 
and 1835, at the age of twenty, and from 1835 to 
1839 was principal of the Scientific and Military 




MINER ARMS. 



* The origin of the name Miner was at Mendippe Hills, Somerset- 
shire, England, where one Henry Bullraan, a miner, who had fur- 
nished King Edward III a company of one hundred men armed with 
l)attle axes, on the occasion of his ifourth expedition into France, in 
1634, was knighted, had his name changed to Miner, and given these 
arms: " Gules a fess between three plates argent." 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 495 

Academy at Unity, N. H,, with Mrs. Miner as preceptress. He 
delivered his first pulpit discourse in Feb., 1838. He was ordained 
in June and settled over the Universalist parish, Methuen, Mass., 
in November, 1839. He removed and took charge of the second 
society in Lowell, 1842, and succeeded Rev. Dr. Chapin, as colleague 
of Rev. Hosea Ballou, in the School Street Universalist Church, 
now the Columbus Avenue Church, Boston, in 1848, over which 
he presided till his death. In 1881 he was the third in seniority 
among the pastors of Boston of all denominations. 

In 1851 he visited Europe, in 1872 traveled through the south- 
ern states and in 1874 visited the Pacific coast, his wife accompany- 
ing him. He was a member of the school boards of Methuen, 
Lowell and Boston. He was chap- 
lain of the Massachusetts Senate in y / y^^ ' 
1864, was elected member of the Q^,y^-t„yf~x...yy^ ^^<:^.^^^ 
Legislature, a member of the Board „. . , , , ,, .,, . ,„^, 

c y\ '^-._ 1^11 r 1^'* signature to a U'tter wntteu in 1881. 

of Overseers or Harvard College tor 

a term of years, was at death serving his third term of eight years 
on the State Board of Education, the appointee of Governors Claflin, 
Rice and Robinson ; a director in the American Peace Society for 
eighteen years; had been president of the Massachusetts Temper- 
ance Alliance since 1871; president of the Universalist Publishing 
House, which was projected by him; president of the Committee of 
One Hundred for the preservation of our public schools; and 
appointed by Mayor Cobb of Boston chairman of the commission in 
the treatment of drunkenness in the city institutions, whose report 
embodied methods since widely introduced into Sherborn and Con- 
cord reformatories, and in the Police Court by the probation officer, 
and held successively the offices of trustee, secretary, treasurer, and 
president — the last from 1862 to 1875 — of Tufts College, of whose 
executive committee he was chairman at his death. 

He delivered the oration at the laying of the corner stone of 
Tufts College in 1858, the Fourth of July oration before the munici- 
pal authorities and citizens of Boston in 1855, the address at the 
dedication of the Bromfield School — of which he was a trustee — at 
Harvard, Mass., in 1878, and at the dedication of the Clinton Liberal 
Institute at Fort Plain, N. Y., in 1879. During some years of his 
ministry in Boston, the number of orations, addresses and lectures, 
outside of his own parish, was annually nearly one hundred. 

Besides these he attended 2500 funerals and solemnized more 
than 3000 marriages. 

He received the honorary degrees of A. M. in 1861, and of LL. 
D., in 1875, from Tufts College, and of S. T. D., in 1863, from 
Harvard College. 

One who went to hear him says: ''Dr. Miner in the pulpit is a 
picturesque figure; he is tall and rather thin, and a long gray beard 
sweeps his breast. He has (what very few preachers in Boston that 
I ever heard possess in any noticeable degree,) a rich vein of dry, 
caustic wit. 

" His voice is not very loud, or strong, or musical. He sometimes 
mumbles his words, and sometimes halts, but what he says is always 
very forcible, and he has a peculiar charm of delivery that one can- 



496 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

not place one's finger on at any point but which prevades his entire 
discourse upon whatever subject. 

"He is very free and very natural, and gesticulates a good deal, 
and has many quaint movements and expressions that hold one's 
attention pretty closely. He speaks extemporaneously and moves 
about freely upon the platform. He emphasizes points sometimes 
with rapid motions of pinch-nose glasses held between thumb and 
forefinger of his right hand. Very often he assumes a paternal air 
and employs admonitory language after the manner of a kindly 
father. He is rather nervous and rapid in his speech and always 
speaks frankly, sometimes what might be called harshly. What he 
has to say he says without any attempt at euphonism and without 
verbiage. He has abundant command of good English, and his diction, 
while it isn't always most graceful, is invariably picturesque and has 
a charming piquancy to it. He speaks about 30 minutes in delivering 
an ordinary sermon." 

Dr. Miner's will contained bequests of $2000 each for the Massa- 
chusetts State Convention of Universalists, the Universalist Pub- 
lishing House of Boston, the Second Universalist Society of the 
same city, Goddard Seminary of Barre, Vt., Dean Academy of 
Franklin, Mass., Westbrook Seminary of Deering, Me., and the 
Universalist Society in his native town of Lempster; while the 
residue of the estate, amounting to about $40,000, went to Tufts 
College. 



FAMILY 332: FIP:LD. 



LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4. JACOB-17, NATHAX-38, NATHAN-76, 

EDMlTND-167. 

MARIETTA PERLEY was born 30 March, 1823, and 28 Dec, 
1846, became the second wife of Rev. Chester Field, who was born 
4 Sept., 1816, to Sophia-Loveridge and Chester Field, a farmer of 
Deerfield, Mass. His first wife was Louisa Blanchard of Buckland, 
who died in 1845. 

Rev. Mr. Field joined the New England M. E. Conference in 
1839. Among his appointments were St. Paul's, Lynn; Saratoga 
Street, East Boston ; Park Street, Worcester ; Central Church, Lowell; 
and Dorchester Street, South Boston. Besides his service of twenty- 
six years as preacher, he wrote "Scripture Illustrated," published by 
the Harpers and republished in London, England, in 1850; he edited 
"The English Pulpit," Boston, 1848, and for several years he pub- 
lished "A Library Reporter and Book-Buyer's Guide." He had a 
very choice library of 4000 volumes, which, at his death was pur- 
chased by the Wesleyan Wilbraham Academy and Boston Public 
Library. He died in Newtonville of consumption 24 Nov., 1864. 
His widow was living in 1879. 

1 Field children: Leon Chester^ Maria Louisa'-, Charles 
Sumner". 

2 Maria L.^ was born in Newton 28 Nov., 1850 ; Charles S.\ 13 
April, 1856, in Wilbraham, and died in Boston 21 July, 1862. 

3 Leon Chester^ was born in Southbridge 7 Feb., 1847, and 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 497 

married 22 Aug., 1870, Clara Elizabeth Crowell, born 5 Jan., 184G, to 
Lorenzo and Diana C.-Packard Crowell of Ware. 

Mr. Field graduated at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Ct., 
1870; taught as classical professor in Cazenovia, N. Y., 1870-1873; 
was principal of Claflin University, Orangeburg, S. C, 1874, when 
he joined the South Carolina M. E. Conference; was pastor of the 
First M. E. Church, Concord, N. H., 1874-1877; was pastor of Grace 
M. E. Church, Haverhill, Mass., 1877-1879; and in 1880 was in New 
Hampshire. Issue: Leona Miner, born 9 June, 1875; Grace 
Josephine, born 14 Aug., 1878, in Haverhill, where she died 
21 Aug., 1879. 

» 9 t 

FAMILY 333: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-76, 

EDMUND-167. 

ASBURY FISK PERLEY was born in Lempster, N. H., 16 
June, 1825. He was a farmer in East Lempster. He was for a 
long time an officer of the town — several years its treasurer. He 
had fine musical talents and led the M. E. Church choir for nearly 
thirty years. 

An intimate friend of Mr. Perley's wrote to the Argus as fol- 
lows: "Mr. Perley was born in Lempster and spent his whole life 
there except two years in ^^ 

Lowell, Mass. ... He ^..^y ^ 2 y ,^ ^ 
was of a genial and optimis- '-^ ^<-;st^^J^-^ C^^c^," ^rZe^z.^^Cc^ 
tic nature, of strong mental '"'^ ^ 

and moral endowments, and "''''^ ""'''^^"p" ""^ """'^° '"^ " '''''' ^° ''"^ 
a man of marked influence in the community. He took a lively 
interest in matters of education and moral reform, and was well read 
on questions of the day. He served his native town for many years 
in public capacities, as selectman, town treasurer, member of con- 
stitutional convention and member of the school board. Modest and 
unassuming almost to a fault, abounding in good works and practi- 
cal Christianity, he died as he lived, loved and respected by all, with- 
out an enemy in the world, and with a firm faith in God and the 
triumph of His kingdom in the world. 

"He was buried on Sunday, Oct. 25, from the Methodist Church, 
of which he had been a life-long attendant and supporter, and for 
many years a trustee. The church was crowded with mourners and 
friends, many coming from a long distance from neighboring towns. 
Rev. J. L. Harrison of Worcester, Mass., a former pastor of the 
deceased, preached the funeral sermon, and addresses were made by 
Rev. Mr. Felch of Lempster, pastor of the deceased, Rev. Mr. Tyler 
of Marlow, and George E. Perley of Moorhead, Minn. 

" His body rests in the quiet churchyard at East Lempster, bor- 
dering on the beautiful lake, and overshadowed by grand old Lemp- 
ster mountain, the silent companion and friend of a lifetime. In the 
words of Holy Writ, he rests from his labors and his works do 
follow him." 

He married, first, 2 May, 1850, Sarah Jane Dodge, born in Lemp- 
ster 23 Feb., 1830, to John, a lumberman, and Rebecca-Gould 



498 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Dodge. She died 14 Jan., 1882. He married, second, in 1891, Mrs. 
Hannah W.-McCollom Truell, widow of Hiram Wilson Truell, a 
farmer, of Enfield, N. H. She was born in Fairlee, Vt., 12 May, 
1842, to Elbridge W., a merchant, and Mary Ann-Harvey McCollom. 
Mr, Perley died 21 Oct., 1903, in East Lempster, where his widow 
now resides (1905). 

1 Perley children : Maria Rebecca^ and Louise Sarah", George 
Edmund^ Ben Franklin^ Jennie May*', Mary Elizabeth'. 

2 Maria R.\ a twin'', was born in Lempster 5 Aug., 1851. 
She was a school teacher. She married there 27 Oct., 1871, Free- 
man Sargent Gordon of Washington, where he was a manufacturer 
and miller. He was born in New Hampton, N. H., 16 April, 1843, 
to Enoch, a farmer, and Hepzibeth A.-Bickford Gordon. Issue: 
Perley Arthur, born in Enfield, N. H., 28 Nov., 1877, died there 
4 Jan., 1878. They have an adopted son, Bert Arthur, born 15 Aug., 
1879, of Lebanon, N. H. 

3 Louise S.^ was born 5 Aug., 1851, twin^ and married 31 Aug., 
1875, in Lempster, Ira Herbert Adams, born in Pomfret, Vt., 10 
Aug., 1846, to Jarvis, a farmer, and Eunice Hilliard-Mitchell Adams. 
He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and later 
at Meriden, N. H., where he was fitted for college. He studied 
medicine at Bowdoin and Dartmouth medical colleges, gradu- 
ating from the latter institution. In 1874 he began practice in 
Hooksett, removing later to Derry Depot, where until his death, 15 
Sept., 1891, he resided. Adams children : Richard Herbert**; Jennie 
Louise^. 

The Concord Odd Fellow said: "He was a true Odd Fellow, 
and one of the best men I ever knew in all my life." 

Rev. H. E. Allen said: "We have lost not only an able physi- 
cian, but a sympathizing friend. He was a model man in a model 
home." 

Hon. Joseph Kidder said : "As you came to know him you felt 
that he was no common man. He was wise, learned and sympa- 
thetic. His hand and heart were always open to do good." 

Rev. Wm. Ramsden said: "Truly he was a good man. It is dif- 
ficult to disassociate so many social, domestic and kindly traits from 
the bright religious phase of his character." 

Rev. J. H. Nichols said: "His own life was his best obituary. A' 
faithful, conscientious, sympathetic physician is beloved by all, and 
such I believe Dr. Adams to have been." 

Rev. Mr. Atkinson said: "Upon seeing him you would say: 
'There is a man with a large heart of love. There is a man who 
will be a true friend.' " 

His obituary fills seven Columns in the New Hampshire People, 
of 21 Sept., 1897. 

4 George Edmund^ was born 19 Aug., 1853. He graduated from 
Kimball Union Acad- 
emy, Meriden, in 1873, /J f~ /^ n 
and from Dartmouth jC/ ^P^ //V J^ ^ 
College, department of AIy(E,<^-yy £/ ^ ^ io-tl^^^ 
Arts, in 1878, when he . . , , ,-,.,,. ,qao ^ 

', ' __ . An epistolai-y subscription about 1903. 

was class poet. He is a 

fine singer, and he led the Dartmouth Glee Club two years. He 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



499 



was on the executive committee of his class his junior year. During 
his course, he earned a dozen hundred dollars by teaching public 
schools and vocal music. After graduation he taught two and a 
half years, chiefly as principal of the high school of Charlestown, 
N. H. He read law with Hon. Ira Colby-329^'' of Claremont, 
N. H., and was admitted to practice in New Hampshire in 1883 ; 
to the Boston bar in the summer of that year, where he practiced 
till his removal to Moorhead in May, 1884, where he is a leading 
attorney of his county. In connection with the practice of his pro- 
fession in Moorhead, he took up farm loans and real estate. His 
business is eminently serviceable and lucrative. He was a member 
of the City Council four years, and is a member of the Board of 
Education, trustee of Fargo ( N. D.) College from 1897, and at pres- 
ent a member of State Legislature. He is a Republican, a leading 




HON. GEORGE E. PERLEY. 



Congregationalist, and of high social standing and culture. He mar- 
ried 9 May, 1884, in Windsor, Vt., M. Ella Jones, who was born 14 
June, 1858, in Colerain, Mass., to Asa and Clara-Oakes Jones. They 
have one child: Grace, born 14 May, 1886. 

5 Ben Frank.' was born 10 Dec, 1858. He graduated at Meri- 
den Union Academy and taught school. He was studying medi- 
cine with his brother-in-law. Dr. Adams, when in April, 1880, he 
died of fever. He was an estimable young man. 

6 Jennie M.^ was born in Lempster, N. H., 22 Oct., 1862. She 
taught school till her marriage in Derry 24 Oct., 1893, to John 
Warren Corson, a lawyer, born in South Legrange, Me., 11 Oct., 
1861, to Van Rensaler Corson, a lumberman. He is of Seattle, 
Wash., and president of the Corson Gold Mining Company. 

7 Mary E.^ was born 2 July, 1863, and is a teacher of the French 
and German languages. 



500 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

8 Richard H.'^ was born in Hooksett 10 June, 1876. He is 
engaged in the shoe business. He married in Derry 31 Dec., 1902, 
Ethel Maud Payne, a teacher, born in Londonderry, N. H., 8 May, 
1875, to George, a shoe-man, and Carrie-Cornings Payne. . Their 
home is West Derry. 

9 Jennie L.^ was born in Hooksett 15 Sept., 1881, and married in 
Derry 19 Dec, 1901, George Franklyn Willey, born in Jackson, 
N. H., 8 March, 1870, to John, a farmer, and P^Hza-Dearborn Willey. 
He is a journalist. Their home is Manchester, N. H. 



FAMILY 334: BRICKETT. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, NATHAX-38, NATHAN-76, ASA-168. 

LOUISA PERLEY was born 8 Feb., 1820, and 5 Dec, 1844, 
married Daniel Hazzleton Brickett of Haverhill, Mass., who was 
born 6 Nov., 1810, to John and Betsey-Duston Brickett of Sal^m, 
N. H. His mother was of the fifth generation from Hannah Duston 
of Indian atrocity, and was born on the Hannah Duston homestead. 

Mr. Brickett was a shoe manufacturer in Haverhill, 1840-1846, 
when he became a farmer in the North Parish. In 1868 he 
removed to the city proper, and died 9 June, 1874. She remained 
his widow and died in Haverhill 26 Jan., 1901. 

1 Brickett children : Otis Perley-', Ella Josephine*, Florence 
Louisa"', Clarence Augustus'' and Clara Augusta," Sarah Malvina'', 
Frank Elvin'. 

2 Otis P.' was born 27 Aug., 1848. He married 6 Aug., 1871, 
Ella Abbie Wilkinson, daughter of Charles of Plfifingham, N. H. He 
resides in Chelsea and is an employing mason in Boston. She died 
in August, 1889, and he married, second, in March, 1902, Annie 
Dow. Brickett issue: Grace Alice born 20 June, 1874, married 
Fred Greer (now deceased) and had Reginald Perley, born in 1893, 
residing in Haverhill; Charles P2dgar, born 7 Aug., 1876, died in 
March, 1895; George Augustus, born in Sept., 1879, and died at the 
age of two months; P2va Ella, born 25 Aug., 1883, who married 
P'rank H. Fielders, had Earl Brickett, born 31 Jan., 1904, who 
resides in Chelsea. 

3 Ella J.^ was born in Haverhill, Mass., 25 Oct., 1850. She 
married 20 Nov., 1867, Charles Francis King, a McKay shoe ma- 
chine operator, ho was born in Canada 17 Oct., 1855, to Charles 
King. They reside in Haverhill. King issue: Louisa Belle^. 

4 Florence L.^ was born in Hav^erhill, Mass., 9 March, 1854, and 
2 June, 1880, married James Henry Short of Haverhill, who was 
born in Atkinson, N. H., 7 Feb., 1850, to Eleazer Pettengill and 
Elmira-Adams Short. He was a foreman in a shoe shop, stitching 
department, and died in Haverhill 8 Oct., 1885. She married, 
second, 10 March, 1890, and became the second wife of George Allen 
Hayden, who was born in Williamsburg, Mass., 1 June, 1845, to 
Cotton and Rowena-Nichols Hayden. [ His first wife was Ella North 
of Northampton, by whom he had issue: Harry Alexander and 
Mary Ella.] He died 27 July, 1905. His widow resides in Haver- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 501 

hill. Parley- Short issue: Clarence Eleazer, born 24 April, 1882, 
and died in Haverhill 28 Aug., 190-4; Chester Perley, born 30 Aug., 
1888, who is unmarried. Perley-Hayden issue: Perley Brickett, born 
26 March, 1892. 

5 Clarence A.^ was born 28 July, 1856. He married in Boston, 
Mass., 9 July, 1879, Abbie Ella Maberry, a shoe stitcher of Mechanics 
Falls, Me., who was born in Lewiston, Me., 26 May, 1858, to Francis 
Elden and Phebe EUen-Verrill Maberry. Mr. Brickett was a mason 
by trade and worked in Boston with home in Chelsea, Mass." Later 
he was a shoe stitcher in Haverhill, Mass., where he died 15 Feb., 
1897, and his widow resides (1905). Brickett issue: Forrest 
Walter born in Mechanics Falls, Me., 25 Nov., 1880, and died 25 July, 
1882; Charles Francis^"; Clara Belle"; Nellie May, born 30 Dec, 
1887, unmarried, in Haverhill. 

6 Clara A.^ was born in Haverhill, Mass., 28 July, 1856, a twin. 
She married there 15 Jan., 1879, William Leek Adams, who was born 
in Lawrence, Mass., 23 Oct., 1852, to William R., a factory superin- 
tendent, and Marion-Adams Adams. Mr. Adams was educated in 
the common schools. For six years he was license commissioner in 
Haverhill, and a State Representative 1904 and 1905. He belongs to 
the Odd Fellows, Masons and Knights Templars. Adams issue: 
Harry Elwin^". 

7 Sarah M.\ born 28 Feb., 1860, married, first, 17 May, 1881, 
Eustace Chase of Haverhill, now deceased. She married, second, in 
Haverhill, Mass., 25 Dec, 1888, Porter Cowan Croy, a deputy sheriff, 
who was born in Versailles, Ohio, 8 Oct., 1864, to George Croy, a 
blacksmith. They reside in Haverhill, without children. 

8 Frank E.^ was born 28 Nov., 1864. He married in Feb., 1886, 
Phoebe Lynch, and had Iva May, born 11 Feb., 1888. 

9 Louisa B.'^ was born in North Parish, Bradford, Mass., 26 Aug., 
1868. She married in Haverhill 24 June, 1888, Harry Barnard 
Goodridge, a druggist, who was born in Haverhill 24 June, 1868, to 
Moses E. and Sarah Jane-Goodridge Goodridge. She died in Haver- 
hill 24 Aug., 1891. His address ( Sept., 1905 ) is Sahsbury, Mass. 
Goodridge issue: Moses King, born 21 Sept., 1889. 

10 Charles F.'^ was born 17 Dec, 1881. He married in Haverhill, 
Mass., 28 Aug., 1900, Nellie Edith Allen, a shoe stitcher, who was 
born in Marblehead, Mass., 29 Jan., 1880, to Caleb, the superinten- 
dent of the gas works, and Ella-Blaisdell Allen. Mr. Brickett is a 
plumber of Lynn, Mass. 

11 Clara B."^ was born in Haverhill, Mass., 10 June, 1884. She 
married there 31 Dec, 1903, Ernest Ferdinand Hoyt, a musician, 
who was born in Haverhill 29 Sept., 1876, to Ezra, a janitor, and 
Carrie-Washburn Hoyt. They reside in Haverhill, where their child, 
Beatrice Clare, was born 12 April, 1905. 

12 Harry E.*^ was born in Haverhill, Mass., where he is a shoe 
manufacturer. He is a graduate of Haverhill High School and was 
student two years of Bryant & Stratton's Commercial School, Boston. 
He married in Haverhill 16 March, 1902, Elisabeth Wood Kimball, 
who was born 25 Dec, 1882, to Warren, a shoe manufacturer, and 
Lizzie-Chesley Kimball. Adams issue: William Warren, born in 
1903; Kimball A., born in 1904. 



FAMILY 335: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-IT, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-76, ASA-168. 

EDMUND FRANKLIN PERLEY was born in Methuen, 
Mass., 26 June, 1826. He is a hatter by trade, and was employed 
many years in Haverhill. He resided with his brother Nathan 
and they cultivated the old homestead ^in Methuen. He married, 11 
June, 1863, Melvina C. Parker, whose mother was Maria and who 
was born in Methuen. 

1 Parley child: Frank CHfton, born 31 May, 1868. 



FAMILY 336: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIl()MAS-4, JACOIMT, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-7C, ASA-169. 

JAMES PERLEY was born in Methuen, Mass., 23 Sept., 1828. 
His home is about half a mile from his birthplace. He is a hatter, 
and has worked at his trade in Haverhill. He was a journeyman in a 
shoe manufactory and cultivates a small farm. He married 16 May, 
1857, Mary Elizabeth Blake, who was born in Holland, Vt., 10 April, 
1834, to Chandler and Catherine-Bird Blake, She died 10 May, 1895, 
and Mr. Perley resides ( Aug., 1905 ) with his daughter, Mrs. Seaver. 

1 Perley child : Etta Virginia'-. 

2 Etta V.\ born in Methuen 1 Dec, 1858, married in Haverhill 
Mass., 3 Feb., 1883, Willis Woodman Seaver, born in Plaistow, N. H., 
29 Aug., 1859, to Warren, a carpenter and Olive Maria-Emery Seaver, 
He is a shoe manufacturer in Plaistow. Issue: Ardell Rnowlton- 
born 29 April and died 18 Sept., 1887; Olive May, born 5 July, 1888, 
died 6 March, 1901. 

►-♦-. 

FAMILY 337: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, WILLIAM-77, 
HUMPHRFA'-CLARK-169. 

HUMPHREY CLARK PERLEYwas born in Methuen 6 Nov., 
1802. He was more than thirty years a grain and flour merchant in 
New York City. Latterly, as merchant, he lost heavily bybad debts, 
but issued from the trial with a considerable balance in his favor. 

In the Civil War he was commissioned captain of company H of 
the First Regiment of Cavalry of New Jersey volunteers, 27 Aug., 
1861, and mustered in 19 Sept., 1861, for three years. The regi- 
ment was raised under the patronage of his father-in-law. Col. William 
Halstead, and took part in some sixty-odd engagements. Col. 
Halstead was a member of Congress eight years; he was one of New 
Jersey's Broadseal men in 1836, from Trenton; he was national dis- 
trict attorney for New Jersey; he published "Halstead's Reports"; 
and was one of the committee to escort Gen. Lafayette, in 1824, from 
New York to New Jersey. Mr. Parley's religious views inclined to 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



503 



Unitarianism ; he was highly esteemed by the circle in which he 
moved ; his opinions were sought and respected ; he was a broad- 
minded, progressive and patriotic citizen. He spent several winters 
in Louisiana. His last days were spent in Hamilton, N. J., in 
gentlemanly quiet. 

Mr. Perley's first wife, married 10 Feb., 1833, was Hester Mal- 
vinia Wilcox, born 6 April, 1812, in Batavia, N. Y., to Oliver and 
Luna-Jones Wilcox, both born in Alford, Mass. She was talented 
as a poetess and has been critically compared with the sweetness of 
Burns and the imagination and acumen of Byron. Here follow 
specimens of her rhythmic sweetness and uplifting thought : 



THE ANGELS. 

Upon the downy breast of night, 
Hushed by her shadowy wing. 

In refuge sweet from all the world, 
I've heard the angels sing. 

They whisper round my slumbering eoueh. 

They ilit around my bed; 
And I have listened long and oft 

To what the angels said. 

They do not speak of pomp and wealth. 
And fame and gaud and show; 

The might of these to us on earth, 
I wonder if they know? 

They whisper soft, "Oh, being, dear. 

Sent o'er the earth to stray, 
Choose and pursue the high career, 

The nobler, better way. 

"Noblest and best 'tis yours to seek, 

And yours to find and take; 
Permit no faltering to your feet. 

No tampering with your fate. 

You may not idly stay in port. 

You must attempt the deep; 
Keep reason's rudder in your grasp, 

Your course right onward keep. 

"Look to it that the sea-bound bark 
Is taut and trim and manned; 

Choose the Great Pilot, sure and tried. 
Let vigilance command. 

The sun may shine, the ambient skies 

Betraj' no distant speck, 
Yet be ye warned — the rushing winds 

Heed not a puny wreck. 

"There shineth Truth, tlie polar star. 

The attractive fluid Love,— 
And Wisdom is tlie Unity, 

For God is Truth and Love." 

'Twas tlius I heard the angels sing, 

In tones so clear and true; 
And life with happy, holy force, 

Thus sought they to imbue. 

And when the soul in silence longs 

For God with earnest love. 
Have they not these spirit-throngs. 

With good gifts from above? 

Oh question not, for near my couch 
I've heard the rustling wing— 

I've lain and listened long and oft. 
To what they softly sing. 



Tluis cradled on night's downy breast. 
By sixithing shadows hushed, 

I've nestled, by the angels blessed. 
Until the morning blushed. 

LOVE. 

IIow endowed with priceless treasures. 

Crowned with gems of beauty rare. 
Walking 'mid serenest pleasures. 

Breathing balmy fragrant air- 
Soothed by song of crystal waters — 

Founts which gave to music birth; 
And of men's fair sons and daughters, 

None more blessed on the earth ! 

Who is this, so richly gifted. 

Shielded, guarded, armed and blest; 
Above all earth-born sorrows lifted 

Into peaceful, happy rest? 
Not the lordling in a palace. 

Gathering from the world wide marts 
Dainties for each sense's solace — 

For his eyes the ©ems of art. 

Nor the moth who daily flitteth 

Over every rosy Iwwer; 
And who ne'er in silence sitteth. 

With reflection for an hour; 
Nor the jjlgmy delving daily, 

After wealth to crown his home. 
And who dreamoth all securely 

Of his ease in years to come. 

Nor the scholar who consumeth 

Life's own lamp In mystic lore. 
And who moils and toils and longeth 

That his brain may garner more. 
Nor the histrion's rapt expression. 

Kindling passion in a clod; 
Nor the artist's grand creation. 

Like the handiwork of God. 

Nor is't he whom all admiring. 
Laud, caress and adulate. 

With some gift beyond th' aspiring, 
Ranks of men to emulate. 

'Tis not he, whose name resoundeth. 
Warrior-chief or learned sage; 

King of nations, winged genius- 
Wreathed poet of his age. 

Then, who is this truly blest one. 

Strong in sweet o'erflowing rest; 
Spirit faithful, calm, courageous — 

Hope full-orbed, within his breast? 
The boon so rich, so all-sufficing. 

Every soul-thirst and desire 
Is but just the flame arising 

Fi-om Love's pure and heavenly fire. 



504 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

They were separated about 1850-52. She married, second, 7 Feb., 
1853. Monsieur Louvrier. They traveled extensively in Europe with 
home in Nice, France. He died in 1872, Mme. Louvrier died in 
Washington, D. C, 27 June, 1881. A local journal noticed her 
death as follows : "The friends and acquaintances of Mrs. H. M. Louv- 
rier will learn, with deep regret, that on the evening of the 27th of 
June her bright spirit was borne by the angel of Death from their 
midst; and yet while mourning her loss, those whose privilege it has 
been to attend her to the portals of the higher life — for which she so 
ardently yearned — must mingle with their tears thanksgivings to our 
Father in Heav^en for mercifully releasing her from weariness and 
pain. Although her residence in Washington was comparatively 
recent, and her extremely delicate health prevented her from appear- 
ing in the society she was so eminently fitted to grace, her rare com- 
bination of heart and brain drew around her a small circle of appre- 
ciative friends who feel it will be long ere 'they look upon her like 
again.' Her early familiarity with the picturesque scenery of 
Berkshire County, where she passed much of her childhood, fostered 
that enthusiastic tone of the beautiful in nature and art which ren- 
dered her so close an observer during the extensive travels of her later 
years. In addition to an imaginative, sympathetic and affectictnate 
nature, and a mind richly stored with the literature of three languages, 
she possessed in a remarkable degree the gift of expression. This, 
combined with a keen sense of humor, rendered her not only instruc- 
tive, but a most charming companion. After fourteen years' resi- 
dence in different parts of Europe she returned two years ago to her 
native country and settled in Washington, where her friends hoped 
long to enjoy her society, but her strength proved inadequate to the 
duties she assumed, and after languishing many weeks in sickness, 
through which her daughter, the wife of E. L. Gillette, Esq., of 
Chicago, has administered with untiring devotion, she has passed 
to her heavenly rest, leaving a void which will remain unfilled, and a 
sweet remembrance of her bright presence in the hearts of her friends 
never to be effaced." 

Mr. Perley married, second, 8 July, 1854, Harriet Glentwood Hal- 
stead, who was born in Elizabeth, N. J., 15 Aug., 1818, to Hon. William 
and Frances Mary-Bostock Halstead of Trenton. His family had a 
national repute. She sat for one of the leading characters in the 
great painting, "The Embarkation of the Pilgrims," now adorning 
the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, D. C. She was consid- 
ered a very beautiful woman and a favorite in Washington society. 
Mr. Perley died at his home in Lawrence Station, N. J., 31 July,1884. 

1 Perley children: Josephine Mighill-457, Edward Everett^ 
Louis Howard', Frances Mary Bostock Halstead^ 

2 Edward E.^ was born in New York City 10 March, 1836. He 
attended school in New York and in Massachusetts; in 184849 he stud- 
ied in Europe. He graduated from Bryant & Stratton's Mercantile 
College and was afterwards insurance clerk in New York City, and 
later in an importing house. In 1856 he went to Chicago, where he 
was engaged many years in the lumber business under firm names 
of "Dean & Perley" and "P'isher, Perley & Co." In 1881 he went to 
San Francisco, Cal., where he has since been engaged in buying and 
sellino: land and other real estate business. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 505 

3 Louis H.^ was born 80 Dec, 1838. He engaged in the book 
and stationery trade in Chicago, and was some time a dry goods 
merchant. He is now ( 1905 ) retired, unmarried, in Washington, 
D. C. 

4 Frances M. B. H.^ was born in Trenton, N. J., 13 April and 
died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 14 Aug., 1855. 



FAMILY 338: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, WILLIAM-T7, 
HUMPH REY-CLARK-169. 

WILLIAM PUTNAM PERLEY was born in Methuen, Mass., 
2 Dec, 1813. He learned the mason's trade, but spent most of his 
life farming. He lived in Georgetown at his first wife's death, when 
he removed to North Andover, till he bought the Abel Spofford place 
in Georgetown — his permanent home. 

He married 15 Dec, 1840, Sarah Spofford, who was born in 
Bradford 7 Nov., 1815, to Daniel and Hannah-Hardy Spofford of 
Georgetown. She died of typhoid fever 7 Nov., 1846. His second 
wife, married 19 Jan., 1858, was Elizabeth Averill-143'', who was born 
27 Sept., 1819, to Joseph and Elizabeth of North Andover. He died 
27 Jan., 1888. His widow resides in Georgetown (Aug., 1905). 

1 Perley children : Sarah Spofford", William Putnam^. 

2 Sarah S.\ born 7 Nov., 1841, married in North Andover 6 May, 
1875, Patrick Cole, bom 4 Oct., 1831, in Ballinasloe, County Galway, 
Ireland, to Sergt. William of the British Army and Sarah-Moclara 
Cole. He died 7 March, 1905, in Georgetown, where he was a mer- 
chant tailor. Mr. Cole was a much respected citizen. He was a 
veteran of the Civil War and a member of the Everett Peabody 
Post, 108, G. A. R. 

3 William P.^ was born 10 May, 1845, in Georgetown, and died 
there of dysentery 11 Nov., 1847. His portrait was painted a short 
time before his death, and is now in possession of Sherman Nelson, 
Esq.-187^ 



FAMILY 340: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-30, WILLI AM-77, 

WILLIAM-170. 

DANIEL SPOFFORD PERLEY was born 10 Feb., 1801. 
Before his marriage he settled in Haverhill, on Water street. In 
1832 he was one of the twenty-eight shoe manufacturers in that city. 
He was an esteemed citizen, and some time clerk and treasurer of 
the First Universalist Society. He married 20 April, 1828, Sarah 
Willy Whittier, who was born 1 Nov., 1801, to Thomas and Rebecca- 
Bailey Whittier of Haverhill. He died 12 — Haverhill record reads 
7— Sept., 1836. His widow died in May, 1891. 

1 Perley children: William Spofford-458, Warner Francis, who 
was born in April and died 8 Sept., 1835. 



FAMILY 341: PERLEY. 



LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, WILLIAM-77, 

\VILLIA3I-170. 

AMOS SPOFFORD PERLEY was born in Dec, 1804. He 
settled in Haverhill, Mass., before his marriage there 3 Dec., 1829, 
to Mary Rogers, born 15 Nov., 1802, to Robert and Sarah-Somerby 
Rogers of Nevvburyport. He was a bookkeeper and accountant. 
He died 12 — Haverhill record 13 — June, 1836, aged thirty-two. 
She died in Haverhill at the home of her daughter Evans, 7 March, 

1903. She was very active until 
taken ill a week before her death, 
assisting her daughter in household 
duties. She retained her faculties 
unimpaired to the last. She was 
more than 100 years old. 

1 Perley children : Ann Maria"', 
Sarah Whittier-, Ann Maria^ Sarah 
\Vhittier\ 

2 Ann M.^ was born in 1830 
and died in 1832. Sarah W.^ died 
15 Sept., 1834. 

3 Ann M.^ was born 25 March, 
1832, in Haverhill, where she 
married G Jan., 1858, Charles Row- 
ell Evans, a merchant tailor, who 
was born in Salisbury (now Ames- 
bury) 22 April, 1825, to Reuben 
and Lydia-Huntin^ton Evans. [His 
father was in early life a farmer; 
later an overseer and bookkeeper 
in the woolen mills ; and he served 
two or three years as State leg- 
islator, and several years in town 
offices.] Mr. Evans died 11 Jan., 

1898, in Haverhill, where his widow resides. Evans children : Isabel 
Huntington''; Charles Amos, born 29 Dec, 1800; Mary Perley, 
born 21 March, 1866; William Williamson, born 2 Oct., 1867; 
Harold, born 24 March, 1870; these four unmarried, and resid- 
ing in Haverhill; Robert Rogers". 

4 Sarah W.' was born 29 Dec, 1835, in Haverhill, where 28 
Nov., 1854, she married William Francis Day, a shoe manufacturer, 
born 19 March, 1831, to Deacon William, a shoe manufacturer, and 
Rhoda-Cross Day of Bradford, their present address (1905). Day 
children: Albert Grinnell"; Annie Mary, born 5 Feb., 1857, and died 
28 Jan., 1861; Florence Perley^; Mabel Cross'^; Cora Frances, born 
6 Feb., 1865, a school teacher of Bradford. 

5 Isabel H.^ was born in Haverhill 6 Dec, 1858, and married 




MARY-ROGERS PERLEY. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 507 

there 16 Sept., 1874, Andrew James Hartford, a restaurateur, born 
in Fremont, N, H., 22 Dec, 1852, to John FrankHn, a farmer, and 
EHzabeth-Guptill Hartford. Their address is Boston. Their child: 
Annie Perley, born in Haverhill 15 Dec, 1875. 

6 Robert R.^ was born in Haverhill 14 Sept., 1872. He is a civil 
engineer. He married in Haverhill 26 June, 1901, Alice Louise 
Crockett, a bookkeeper, born in Haverhill 1 Nov., 1870, to Frank 
Solomon, a bookkeeper, and Martha Ann-Merrill Crockett. Their 
home is Haverhill, where their child, Somerby Rogers, was born 5 
April, 1902. 

7 Albert G.^ was born in Haverhill 5 July, 1855. He married in 
Bradford 19 June, 1893, Nancy Maria Palmer, who was born in 
Barnstead, N. H., 1 Nov., 1869, to Frank E., a carpenter and builder, 
and Nancy M.-Jenkins Palmer. Mr. Day is an editor. Their ad- 
dress 1905 is Briarcliff Manor, New York. They have no children. 

8 Florence P.'* was born in Bradford 18 April, 18,62. She mar- 
ried there 28 Dec, 1891, John Parker Mills Brown, who was born in 
Loudon, N. H., 27 April, 1864, to John S. R., a farmer, and Achsah- 
Mills Brown. He died in London 21 Feb., 1804. His widow is of 
Pittsfield, N. H. (Sept., 1905.) Brown issue: Earl Day, born 23 
Oct., 1892; Gladys Sarah Perley, born 24 Dec, 1893. 

9 Mabel C.'* was born in Bradford 21 Oct., 1863. She is a mu- 
sician. She married in Bradford 10 April 1888, Arthur William 
Emerson, a journalist, who was born in Sunapee, N. H., 28 Jan., 
1860, to Rev. Joseph Clough and Cicelia-Simpkins Emerson. Their 
address is Briarcliff Manor, New York. Emerson issue : Paul Arthur, 
born 7 Dec, 1889; Cicelia Day, born 18 Sept., 1891; Dorothy Day, 
born 26 March, 1895; Kenneth William Joseph, born 14 Sept., 1896. 



FAMILY 342: WHITTIER. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, WILLIAM-77, 

WILLIAM-170. 

MARY ANN PERLEY was born 30 Dec, 1806, and married 
4 Oct., 1824, Leonard Whittier, born 4 Dec, 1799, to Thomas and 
Rebecca-Bailey Whittier of Haverhill, Mass. He was for many 
years a shoe manufacturer in that city. George Pe.abody, "the Lon- 
don banker," was intimate with this family and often visited them. 
Mr. Whittier died 19 April, 1867; his widow died in St. Louis, Mo., 
30 Dec, 1881. 

1 Whittier children : Sarah Perley", Caroline Matilda^, Leonard 
Edward'*. 

2 Sarah P.^ was born in Haverhill 5 June, 1826, and died there 
15 Jan., 1899. 

3 Caroline M.^ was born 28 Feb., 1828. She married, 1 June, 
1852, Rev. Arthur Savage Train, D. D., of Haverhill, who was born 
in Framingham, Mass., 1 Sept., 1812, to Rev. Charles and Elizabeth- 
Harrington Train. He was pastor in Haverhill, professor in the 
Theological Seminary in Newton Center, and pastor in Framingham. 



508 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Mrs. Train was educated in the Bradford Academy, and was well 
qualified in mind and heart for a pastor's wife. She had no children. 
He died in Framingham of Bright's disease 2 Jan., 1872. His wid- 
ow's home is Haverhill. [ By a former wife, Susan Duncan Beck- 
with, he was the father of Attorney General Train of Massachusetts.] 

4 Leonard E.^ was born in Haverhill 2 Feb., 1833, and 4 Oct., 
1855, married Caroline Duncan Brown, born 8 April, 1832, to Col. 
William and Sarah-Woodward Brown of Haverhill, where Mr. 
Whittier was a shoe manufacturer. Later he engaged in life insur- 
ance in St. Paul, Minn. He died of heart disease 31 May, 1894. 
His widow resides in St. Louis, Mo. Their children: Frederic 
Leonard, born 21 July, 1856, a ranchero, unmarried, in Manden, 
North Dakota, where he died 8 March, 1904 ; Mary Ann\ 

5 Mary A.^ born 2 Feb., 1858, married 1(5 Jan., 1883, in 
Elkhart, Ind., Thornton Knox Alexander, who was born 4 March, 
1857, in St. Charles, Mo., to Joseph Hugh, a bank cashier, and 
Jane-Comforth Alexander. They resided in St. Paul, Minn., but later 
removed to St. Louis, Mo., where he is a fire insurance adjuster. 
Their children: Caroline Whittier, born 6 Dec, 1883, in St. Paul, 
where she died 18 March, 1889; Thornton Whittier, born in St. 
Louis 29 May, 1899. 




FAMILY 343: LAMBERT. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANClS-39, WILLIAM-77, 

PHINEAS-171. 

SALLY PERLEY was born 28 Jan., 1797, and was educated at 
the Bradford Academy, under the celebrated teacher and author 
Benjamin Greenleaf, A. M. She married 8, (town records read 9,) 
May, 1820, William Gage Lambert of Boston, born 29 March, 1798, 
to Jonathan and Hannah-Gage Lambert of Rowley. Mr. Lambert 
studied in the Bradford Academy, and was of the firm of Lam. 
bert & Slade, 27 Kilby street, 
Boston. Later he was in com- 
pany with Abbot and Amos 
Lawrence till 1839 or 40, when 
he removed to New York City, 

and opened the first New England commercial house there. His 
home was in the city, with a summer villa at Chappaqua, N. Y. Mrs. 
Lambert and her children traveled extensively in Europe during 
1847-8. She died 31 Dec, 1875; he, in New York city, 24 Dec, 
1882. 

This ancient name is of honorable descent. It appears first as a 
roving clan of Norway, which became divided — a part going south, 
attracted by the fertile plains of northern Italy and establishing the 
kingdom of Lombardy (from which some derive the name Lambert 
— as long beards) — apart going into France and Spain. If the arms 
hint at the origin of the name, it is the Saxon, lamb-beohrt, lamb- 
fair, having reference, no doubt, to the sprightly activity or mental 
alertness or watchfulness of the man. Rodolph de Lambert went 
into England as armor-bearer to William the Conqueror, and since 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



509 




then the name has been associated there with the titled nobihty — 
with barons and earls 

Their children but the last two were 
born in Boston. 

1 Lambert children : Alfred-, William 
Gage'', James Henry"^, Edward Welber- 
force'', Sarah Perley'', Ellen Louisa'^ 

2 Alfred' was born 5 July, 1822. He 
married 27 Sept., 1849, Elizabeth Sargent 
of Leicester, Mass., who was born in April, 
1824. He was an eminent physician in 
Springfield, Mass., where he died 11 Jan., 
1885. They had no children. James H.' 
was born 8 Aug., 1826, married Josephine 
King of New York City, and died without 
issue in Hudson, N. Y., 9 March, 1885. 
Ellen L.' was born in Brookline 16 May, 
1837, and resides, unmarried, in Stamford, 

LAMBERT ARMS. Q^ 

3 William G.' was born in Boston 8 Aug., 1824. He lived and 
did business in Boston till 1850, when he removed to New York 
City. His weight was once as great as 370 pounds. He married 
Conception Garcia, and had two daughters. He had a summer resi- 
dence at Chappaqua. He died in New York City 9 July, 1884. 

4 Edward W.' was born in Boston, Mass., 15 Feb., 1831. He 
graduated from Yale with class of 1854. He received his degree 
M. D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 
1857, and became Medical Director of the Equitable Life Assur- 
ance Society at its foundation. In 1903 he retired from active ser- 
vice, but remained at the head of the medical department until his 
death, which occurred 17 July, 1904, in New York City, where his 
widow resides. He married in Dorchester, Mass., 9 Sept., 1858, 
Martha Melcher Waldron, who was born in Portsmouth, N. H., 14 
Sept., 1832, to Samuel Wallis and Martha-Melcher Waldron. Lam- 
bert issue, all born in New York City: Samuel Waldron*^; Mary, 10 
Aug., 1860, died 21 Aug., 1862; Alexander'; Elliot Cowdin'^; Sally^; 
Katherine, 27 Nov., 1866, resides, unmarried, with her mother; 
Edith'"; Ruth''; Adrian Van Sindrien'"-; Gertrude, born 28 May, 
1874, died 17 April, 1883, in New York City. 

5 Sarah P.' was born in Brookline, Mass., 20 May, 1834, and 21 
Dec, 1865, married in New York City, Charles Henry Leeds, who 
was born 9 Jan., 1834, to Samuel and Mary Warren-Mellen Leeds 
of New York City. They live in Stamford, Ct. He is a graduate 
of Yale College, 1854, and a manufacturer of straw goods. Issue: 
Edward Lambert''^; Alfred'^; Ellen, born 1 April, 1869, unmarried, of 
Stamford; Norman'''^; Mary War ren'^^; Howard, born 18 Feb., 1876, 
died 10 Aug., 1882; Arthur Russell, born 8 April, 1879, unmarried, 
of Cleveland, Ohio. 

6 Samuel W.'* was born 18 June, 1859. He married 21 Oct., 
1893, Elizabeth Willets, who was born in New York City 11 March, 
1864, to John Titus, a merchant, and Amelia-Underbill Willets. Dr. 
Lambert is professor of applied therapeutics and dean of the College 



510 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, and 
attending physician to New York City Hospital. Lambert issue, 
born in New York City but the last in Port Washington, N. Y. : 
Helen Willets, 8 Jan., 1895; Samuel Waldron, 14 Sept., 1897; 
Martha, 6 June, 1899. 

7 Alexander* was born 15 Dec, 1861. He was educated in the 
schools of New York City, till he entered Yale College, where he re- 
ceived degree A. B. in 1884; Ph. B. in 1885. He studied medicine 
at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons m New York and re- 
ceived degree M. D., 1888, and was interne in Bellevue Hospital from 
April, 1888, till October, 1889. He then went abroad, where he 
renewed his studies, till 1902. Dr. Lambert is a practising physician 
in New York City, and is a member of the New York State and 
American Medical Associations, New York Academy of Medicine, 
and Bellevue Alumni Association ; he is also attending physician of 
Bellevue Hospital, consulting physician of New York Intirmary 
for Women and Children and Perth Amboy (N. J.) Hospital. He 
married in New York City 23 April, 1895, Ellen Waitestill Cheney, 
who was born in Hartford, Ct., 16 Oct., 1863, to Knight Dexter 
and Ednah Dow-Smith Cheney. They have no children. 

8 Elliot C was born 9 May, 1863. He is a graduate of Yale Uni- 
versity, class of 1886. He has been for several years a cotton manu- 
facturer of Manchester, N. H., his present home, 1905. He married 
in Weymouth, Mass., 16 Jan., 1895, Annie Maynard Thompson, who 
was born in Weymouth 25 April, 1866, to Samuel, a farmer, and 
Mary Ann-Eaton Thompson. Lambert issue, born in Manchester: 
Mary Eaton, 26 Oct., 1898; Edward Wilberforce, 4 July, 1903. 

9 Sally\ born 17 Jan., 1865, married 24 April, 1889, Dickin- 
son W. Richards, who is a lawyer in Orange, N. J. 

10 Edith" was born 5 Sept., 1868. She married in New Canaan, 
Ct., 5 June, 1889, William Ransom Barbour, a lawyer, who was born 
in Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada, 17 April, 1858, to Rev. William 
McLeod, D. D,, and Eliza Ann-Ransom Barbour. [Rev. Dr. Bar- 
bour died in Maiden, Mass., 5 Dec, 1899. See obituary notice in 
"Congregationalist" of December, 1899.] William Barbour prepared 
for college at Phillip.s-Pl\eter Academy and entered Harvard College 
in 1876. After a year he entered Yale College, where he graduated 
in 1880. From Yale he received degree LL. D., 1882, and in June 
that year was admitted to the Connecticut Bar. He was admitted 
to the New York Bar Feb., 1884. He removed to Denver, Col., in 
March, 1888, where he practised till April, 1900, when he returned 
to New York and resumed his practice. From March, 1902, he has 
been a member of the firm Barbour, Hare & Holter, 40 Wall St. 
His residence, from June, 1901, has been Yonkers; beginning with 
Oct., 1905, his home will be New York City. Barbour issue, born 
in Denver: Alexander Lambert, 7 Sept., 1891; Edward Lambert, 3 
Aug., 1893. 

11 Ruth* was born in New York City 27 Nov., 1870, and married 
in New Canaan, Ct., 13 Oct., 1896, Knight Dexter Cheney, Jr., a 
manufacturer of silk, who was born 1 June, 1870, in South Man- 
chester, Ct., to Knight Dexter, a silk manufacturer, and Ednah 
Dow-Smith Cheney". They reside in New York. Their child: 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 511 

Knight Dexter, 3d, born 25 July, 1899, in New Canaan, and died 13 
Nov., 1901, in New York. 

12 Adrian V. S.^ born 30 June, 1872, in New York City, where 
he is a physician, married in Hartford, Ct., 1 June, 1905, Miss Mary 
Shipman Robinson, born in Hartford 17 May, 1873, to Henry Cor- 
nelius and Eliza Niles-Trumbull Robinson. 

13 Edward L.^ was born in New York City 14 Sept., 18t)(). He 
married in Ealing, England, 21 Sept., 1904, Helen Elisabeth Graham, 
who was born in England in Sept., 1871, to William H. Graham. 
Mr. Leeds is a mechanical engineer. Their address is London, 
Eng., (Nov., 1905). 

14 Alfred'^ was born in New York City 20 Oct., 1867. He mar- 
ried in Springfield, Mass., 24 Oct., 1894, Louise Morgan, who was 
born there 15 Feb., 1869, to Elisha Morgan, an envelope manufac- 
turer, Mr. Leeds is paper manufacturer residing in Springfield, 
where their children were born: Sally, 9 Dec, 1896^ Mary, 19 May, 
1898; Helen, 10 Oct., 1904. 

15 Norman^ was born in New York City 15 Nov., 1871. He 
married in Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Sept., 1899, Frances Kellogg Fuller, 
who was born in Cleveland 3 April, 1876, to Samuel Augustus and 
Julia Elizabeth-Clark Fuller — both parents now deceased. Mr. 
Leeds is a graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale Universi- 
ty, class of 1895. He is superintendent of the Bridgeport Mallea- 
ble Iron Co., Bridgeport, Ct. Leeds issue: Norman, born 25 July, 
1901 ; Elizabeth, born 3 May, 1903. 

16 Mary W.^ was born in New York City 14 Jan., 1874. She 
married in Stamford, Ct., 25 Feb., 1897, Henry Fairbanks Devens, 
who was born in Charlestown, Mass., 31 Aug., 1867, to Edward 
Fesser, "navy and insurance" and Abigail-Fairbanks Devens. Mr. 
Devens is purchasing agent for the National Cash Register Co., and 
resides in Dayton, Ohio. 



FAMILY 344: TWOMBLY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, WILLIAM-77, 

PHINEAS-171. 

MARY PERLEY was born 18 July, 1798. She was educated at 
the Bradford Academy with her sister. She married 15 April, 1827, 
Hon. Alexander Hamilton Twombly of Boston. Mr. Twombly went 
to Boston from Lee, N. H., in his thirteenth year. He was a mem- 
ber of Dr. Lyman Beecher's church, Hanover street, one of the 
original members of the Central Church, and later of the Mt. Vernon 
Church, Dr. Kirk's, all of Boston. He was president of the Massa- 
chusetts State Temperance Society, was elected in 1857 and 1859 to 
the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and in 1862 to the 
State Senate, where he was chairman of the banking committee. 
His business firm was Twombly & Lamson, which dissolved in 1867. 

Mr. Twombly was of a lively, social disposition, that brightened 
every circle in which he moved ; he gave a sincere Christian service ; 
his memory is fragrant of kindly deeds and acknowledged integrity. 
Mrs. Twombly died 21 Nov., 1844; he 11 May, 1870. 



512 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

1 Tvvombly children: Mary Jane, born 13 July, 1828, and died, 
unmarried, 13 Jan., 1855, and Alexander Stevenson-. 

2 Alexander S.^ was born 14 March, 1832, and 23 Dec, 1858, 
married Miss Abbie Ouincy Bancroft of Boston, where she was born 
21 March, 1833, to Jacob and Martha G. Bancroft. He fitted for 
college in the Boston Latin School, graduated at Yale College, 1854, 
and at the Andover Theological Seminary, 1858. He was ordained 
in the Congregational order, and in 1858 settled in Cherry Valley, 
N. Y. He was installed over the State Street Church, Albany, 
N. Y., 22 June, 1862; over the 

church in Stamford, Ct., in 1867; yT^'T'''^ X /^ 

over the Winthrop Street Church, {yy ^ ^ , A:V2r^t^-<^ 
Charlestown, Mass., 2 May, 1872, ^ , ,^ , , *, • v.*- 

' ' J' ' To a letter early In the eighties. 

and resigned in 1891. He was a 

delegate of the Christian Commission, in 1864, at Fredericksburg, 
Cold Harbor, Whitehouse, Va., and the hospitals in Washington, 
D. C. While at Charlestown Yale College conferred upon him the 
doctorate, S. T. D. From January to June, 1894, he was acting 
pastor of the Central Union Church, Honolulu, H, T. Dr. Twombly 
traveled eighteen months, in 1856-7, in Europe and the Orient, and 
in 1867 spent four months in Europe. He has contributed exten- 
sively to Scribner's Monthly and to various theological reviews. 
Their home is Newton, Mass. Twombly issue: Edward Lambert'^; 
Henry Bancroft^; Alexander Hamilton'; Clifford Gray*'; Howland, 
born in Charlestown, Mass., 13 April, 1875, a lawyer in Newton, 
Mass. 

3 Edward L.- was born in Cherry Valley, N. Y., 14 Oct., 1859. 
He is a graduate of the Boston Latin School in 1877, colonel of 
Boston School Regiment. He received degrees: A. B. from Yale, 
1881; M. D., Harvard Medical School, 1886. After graduating he 
spent a year and a half as student in Berlin, Prague and Vienna. 
He was house surgeon in Boston City Hospital, 1886-1887. He is at 
present (1905) visiting gynecologist to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, 
Boston, Boston Dispensary and Tufts Medical School Dispensary, 
and secretary of the staff of the first named. Dr. Twombly is in- 
structor in clinical gynecology in Tufts College Medical School and 
is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Association and the 
Boston City Hospital Club, etc. He married in Boston 3 June, 1891, 
Fanny Atwill Foster, who was born in Brookline, Mass., 6 Dec, 
185~, to Charles A., a merchant, and Mary-Atwill Foster. She died 
in Boston 27 Aug., 1894. He married, second, 14 Oct., 1897, Juliette 
A.Jenkins. Their home is Boston. Twombly child: Mary Eliza- 
beth, born 15 Aug., 1894, in Boston, where she died 13 May, 1896. 

4 Henry B.- was born in y\lbany, N. Y., 10 Nov., 1862, and mar- 
ried in Charlestown, Mass., 12 Sept., 1889, Frances Doane, who was 
born there 12 Aug., 1860, to Thomas, a civil engineer, and Sophie- 
Clarke Doane. Mr. Twombly is a lawyer of Summit, N. J. 

5 Alexander H.- was born in Albany, N. Y., 10 April, 1866. He 
is a graduate of the Boston Latin School, 1883 ; Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, 1887. He was for some time associated 
with S. D. Warren & Co., paper manufacturers, as engineer and 
later as manager of their mill in Yarmouth, Me. He is now (1905) 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 513 

with Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co., engineers of New York. 
He married in Haverhill, N. H., 29 June, 1892, Sophia Doane Hitch- 
cock who was born in Fitchburg, Mass., 3 May, 1869, to Alfred and 
Ellen Maria-Clark Hitchcock. They reside in Summit, N. J. Twom- 
bly issue, born in Yarmouth, Me. : Alexander Hamilton, 8 Oct., 1896; 
Ellen Clark, 29 Jan., 1890. 

6 Clifford G.^ was born in Stamford, Ct., 7 May, 1869. He mar- 
ried in Holderness, N. H., 1 July, 1897, Edith Balch, daughter of 

Wiggm and Rev. Dr. Balch. He is an Episcopal clergyman 

of Newton Highlands, Mass. Twombly issue: Gray Huntington, 
born 27 April, 1905. 



FAMILY 345: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, WILLIAM-77, 

PHINEAS-171. 

PHINEAS PERLEY was born in Boxford, Mass., 25 Dec, 
1799. He married 5 June, 1832, Sally Hook, who was born 23 Sept., 
1809, to John and Hannah-Fisk Hook of Danvers, where they made 
their home and where she died 31 Dec, 1834. Mr. Perley died in 
1857. 

1 Perley child: Sarah Louisa, born 20 April, 1834, who married 
a Rogers and is now living. 



FAMILY 346: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4. JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, WILLIAM-77, 

PHINEAS-171. 

WILLIAM PERLEY was born in Boxford 10 Feb., 1801. He 
lived in Salem; in 1829 removed to Danvers, and between 1834 and 
1853, was innkeeper in Fall River, New Bedford and Lynn where he 
was proprietor of the old hotel on the Turnpike. He married 28 
March, 1825, Lucy Symonds Chapman, who was born 2 Jan., 1804, 
to Daniel and Sarah-Symonds Chapman of Boxford. He married, 
second, 2 March, 1853, Louisa A. Chapman, who was born in Boxford 
in 1813, to Moses and Betsey-Giddings Chapman of Danvers, where 
she died 18 Jan., 1892. Parson Briggs solemnized the first marriage; 
Parson Braman the second. He died in Lynn 28 Dec, 1859. 

1 Perley children: George Leverett", Alexander Augustus'^, 
Lucy Ann^ Sarah Frances*, Emeline Augusta", Catherine Louisa'', 
Mary Twombly'. 

2 George L.^was born in Salem 30 March, 1826, and died in Sau- 
gus, while attending school there, 5 Jan., 1835; Alex. A.\ 10 March 
and died 8 May, 1828. 

3 Lucy A.' was born 4 Oct., 1829. She married, first, Capt. 
Robbins. She married, second, Arthur Keyes. Robbins issue: 
Samuel Perley, unmarried,- in San Francisco; Gussie married A. 
A. Burton and has a son: Samuel. Keyes issue: a child who died 
young. 



514 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

4 Sarah F.^ was born 21 March, 1832. She married, first, an 
Evans. She married, second, a Crosby. Evans issue: Emma S., 
married Isaac Jessup and hved in San Rafael, Cal. Jessup issue: 
Grace, who married and has children; Eddie; Richard. 

5 Emeline A.^ was born 8 May, 18o4. She married, first, Capt. 
Robbins, brother of Capt. Robbins^ who died within a week of yel- 
low fever. She married, second, Orson H. Keyes, brother of Arthur 
T. Keyesl Keyes issue: William Perley, who married and is now 
deceased. 

6 Catherine L.^ was born 17 Dec, 1855, and 12 Nov., 1874, mar- 
ried in Danvers, Mass., William Scampton, who was born in Eng- 
land in 1850 to Francis and Helen-Hill Scampton. Their issue, born 
in Danvers: Frank Perley, 29 Nov., 1877, died 26 May, 1888; Willie 
Chapman, 17 Jan., and died 10 Oct., 1881; Harry George, 1 Jan., 
1888, married, with A. S. Stowell & Co. of Boston in charge of the 
engraving department; Mary Louisa, 24 Aug., 1886, died 26 Dec, 
1887. 

7 Mary T.' was born in Lynn, Mass., 26 April, 1858. She mar- 
ried in Danvers, Mass., 12 April, 1882, Thorndike Proctor Hawkes, 
a druggist of Tapleyville, Danvers, who was born there 15 Oct., 1852, 
to Mary Ann-Smith and Timothy Hawkes, station agent of the 
place (then known as Danvers Center) some twenty-five years and 
more. Mrs. Hawkes is a graduate of the Holten High School, 
Danvers, class of 1875. Their home is Tapleyville. Hawkes issue, 
born in Danvers : Perley Gillette, 10 May, 1892, a student in Dummer 
Academy, Byfield, Mass., (1905); William Moore, 17 Oct., 1893, a 
pupil inTapley Grammer School, Danvers (1905). 



FAMILY 347: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TnOM.\.S-4, JACOB-17, FRAXCIS-39, WILLIAM-77, 

PHINEAS-171. 

JOSEPH GOULD PERLEY was born in Boxford, Mass., 24 
May, 1805. He lived in Danvers and Saugus and settled in Lynn. 
He married Mary Jane Dodge, who was born in Ipswich 28 Jan., 
1806, to John of Ipswich and Harriet-Dodge Dodge of Gloucester. 
She died 21 Aug., 1867. He died Thursday noon, 19 April, 1883. 

He owned Pine Hill in Lynn, which included a large tract of land 
over which Perley street was built. His business was stabling and 
general trading. Later on 'he bought the old hotel in Lynnfield and 
remodeled it for his home. There he received many patients afflicted 
with rheumatism. His method employed faith and massage or mag- 
netism with remedial agents. He accomplished great good — many 
were enabled to cast away their crutches. Therein he acquired the 
sobriquet of "Doctor." At Boxford in his youth at school he was 
one of forty Perleys out of sixty pupils. Wm. G. Lambert, after- 
wards his brother-in-law, was his teacher the term of 1816-17. Mr. 
Perley was a member of the militia company called the " Boxford 
Washington Guards." 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 51 5 

1 Perley children : Joseph Augustus-459, Sarah Lambert', William 
Henry I 

2 Sarah L.^ was born in Chelsea, now Revere, 6 Feb., 1832. She 
married 20 Dec., 1855, John Henry Chase, a farmer, born in Lynn 6 
Nov., 1833, to Hezekiah and Sarah-Hoyte Chase. He died in Lynn- 
field, Tuesday, 17 Sept., 1901. She resides in Lynnfield on the 
trolley route, near the town line. Chase issue: Joseph Henry, clerk, 
born 16 Feb., 1857, married 1 Jan., 1883, in Medford, Flora Moore 
Ingalls, born 21 April, 1867, to John and Nellie-Tucker Ingalls. She 
died in Lynnfield 21 April, 1895 (1900.?). Their child: Josephine 
Perley, born 30 Jan., 1885. 

3 William H.^ was born 26 Jan,, 1836, and married in Boston 15 
May, 1865, Isabella Lucinda Durgin Tucker of Newburyport, who 
was born 7 April, 1 836, to John Elliott, a shoemaker, and Abigail- 
Locke Tucker. [Mrs. Tucker, Mrs. Perley's mother, was born 12 
Sept., 1810, and even while a nonagenarian was very helpful about 
the house. The Boston Globe published her sketch and portrait 
within a month of her death which occurred 2 Sept., 1904, aged 
ninety-four years less ten days.] Mr. Perley was variously employed 
in Boston about thirty years — several years a real estate broker, and 
at one time landlord-proprietor of the "Pemberton." He was an in- 
ventor in Lynn, where he died 16 Jan., 1899. His widow now resides 
in Saugus. They had no children. 



FAMILY 348: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, WILLIAM-77, 

PHINEAB-171. 

NATHANIEL PERLEY was born in Boxford 26 June, 1813. 
He located as a farmer in Rice County, Kansas, with P. O. at Ellin- 
wood. He married, first, in Ottawa, 111., 4 July, 1847, Miss Mary 
Dougherty of Hannibal, Mo., who was born in St. Louis. He mar- 
ried a second time. 

1 Perley children: Sarah-', William Edward", Charles H.-, Alfred 
Lambert'^ Nathaniel", Phineas Herbert^ 

2 Sarah^ was born 24 March, 1848, and died 6 March, 1851; Wil- 
Ham E.\ 31 July, 1854; Charles H.\ 11 July, 1857; Alfred L.', 23 May, 
1860; NathanieP, 6 March, 1864; Phineas H.\ 9 Aug., 1869. 



FAMILY 349: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, WILLIAM-77, 

OLIVER-172, 

OLIVER WELLS PERLEY was born in Boxford 8 March, 
1804. He married, 20 Sept., 1834, Harriet Newell Perley-161^ She 
was born 17 March, 1815, in Dunbarton, and died at her home in 



516 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Georgetown 14 Oct., 1855. Mr. Perley was in the shoe business. 
He died 14 Nov., 1864. Her epitaph in Union Cemetery reads: 

Thy memory, thou loved one, 
How sacred, how dear; 
Thy virtue shall live 
Though thy dust slumhers here. 

1 Perley children: Caroline Nelson', Jacob Lyman^ Maria Ste- 
phia^ Huldah Woodman'^ Lewis Melvin^ Susan Abbie^ Harriet 
Elizabeth**, Alice Gage". 

2 Caroline N.^ was born 11 Oct., 1835, and died 19 April, 1865, 
leaving no children. She was published 5 April, 1864, to John 
Franklin Hoyt, son of John C. and Hannah P. Hoyt of Groveland, 
and is now deceased. 

3 Jacob L.^ was born 6 June, 1837, and died on returning from 
the war 5 Aug., 1863, by a fall from a high window in Memphis, 
Tenn., and was buried in Litchfield, 111., much beloved by his captain 
and comrades. Huldah W.' was born 16 Aug., 1*^41, and died 3 Oct., 
1862; Susan A.^ was born 1 Nov., 1845, in Georgetown, where she 
died unmarried 30 Oct., 1863. Harriet E.^ was born 31 July, 1850, 
in Georgetown, where she died 2 Aug., 1888. 

4 Maria S.' was born 6 July, 1839. She was published 3 Feb., 
1859, to Enoch Floyd, son of PLnoch and Sarah Floyd of Georgetown, 
and had one child. He and the child died and she married, second, 
Melvin G. Spofford, provision dealer, born in Groveland, Mass, 4 
Oct., 1831, to Gardiner, a currier, and Mary-Platts Spofford. He 
died 25 Aug., 1900, in Georgetown, where his widow resides. Issue: 
Melvin L., born in Georgetown 14 Nov., 1868, who is a farmer; Fred, 
who died young; Helen Perley, born 2 Aug., 1881, who died of con- 
sumption 4 June, 1896, after a decline of more than a year, reputed 
"a bright, beautiful girl, the favorite of schoolmates and teacher, the 
joy of the neighborhood, and the light of her home." 

5 Lewis M.^ was born in Georgetown 17 Nov., 1842 or 44, and 
died, unmarried, in Canon City, Col., 15 Jan., 1884. He enlisted in 
the navy when about sixteen years old and served four years, — most 
of the time with the Gulf squadron, the last two years on the Hartford, 
Admiral Farragut's flagship. After the war he engaged with his 
uncle, Wm. J. Gage, as flour miller. In 1882 he was an owner in 
the "O. K. mills" in Litchfield. After that consumption seized 
upon him, and he went to Dakota and to Colorado for health, but 
fell a victim. He was buried in Litchfield. 

6 Alice G.^ was born in Georgetown, Mass., 5 Oct., 1855, was 
brought up from infancy by her aunt, Mrs. Sewall Woodman of 
Byfield. She married in Byfield 23 July, 1879, Charles Silsbee 
Emmerton, son of Ephram, a merchant, and Mary Ann-Sage Em- 
merton of Salem, where he was born 29 Jan., 1843. He went from 
Dummer Academy, Byfield, to the counting room of D. G. & W. B. 
Bacon, Boston. In the beginning of the war he joined the Salem 
Light Infantry, where he was a sergeant, when it went out in April, 
1861, as flank company of the 8th Mass. Militia, for three months' 
service. In Nov., 1861, he went out again as first lieutenant of Co. A, 
23d Regt,, Mass. Vols. He was on the fields of Roanoke and New- 
Berne; was regimental adjutant in 1862, and that fall became aide- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 5I7 

de-camp to Gen. C. A. Heckman, brigade commander. That place 
he held till the general's capture at Drury's Bluff, and continued in 
it with his successor, Gen. G. J. Stannard, even when Gen. Stannard 
commanded the division before Petersburg. Mustered out with his 
regiment at the expiration of their three years' service, he was com- 
missioned to command a company of cavalry, but the chance for 
active service being over, he resigned. After the war he tried cul- 
tivating long-staple cotton at Gordon, Fla., but satisfied after two 
years that further trial meant deeper failure, he left the South and 
came to Peabody, Mass., where he is a mechanic. Issue, born in 
Peabody: Ethel, 17 May, 1880; Laurence, 21 Dec, 1888; Donald 
Sage, 3 July, 1886; Silsbee, 2 Aug., 1889. 



FAMILY 350: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-t, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, WILLIAM-77, 

OLIVER-172. 

LUTHER DANA PERLEY was born in Georgetown, Mass., 
16 Dec, 1814 or 15, and there made his home. He was at one time 
engaged in shoe manufacture, but later was cutter for Little & 
Moulton. It was his luck to serve as a juror for the criminal term 
of Superior court. He took great interest in the Perley Family 
reunions and history. He was one of the executive committee of 
the first Perley Convention, which was so eminently successful and 
gratifying. He married 26 Sept., 1844, Almira Conant-101\ who 
was born to Daniel and Lucy-Perley Conant of Georgetown. He 
died in Georgeto.vn 14 June, 1889. 

1 Perley children : Lucie Emma", Etta Holt*. 

2 Lucie E.^ resides with her mother in Maiden, where she is a 
teacher in the public schools. 

3 Etta H.i The Georgetown Advocate of 18 Oct., 1885, read: 
"The saddest death that has occured in Georgetown for a long sea- 
son is the decease of Etta Holt Perley 6 Oct., 1885. Her sickness, 
consumption, was unusually flattering and deceitful ; for her mind was 
unclouded and full of the illusions of youth and hope. She was 
beautiful in form and feature, lovely in disposition and rich in natu- 
ral and acquired endowments. She was a member of our high 
school, the class of 1878, a graduate of the Putnam Free School, 
Newburyport, and has taught school successfully and honorably to 
herself and pupils here and elsewhere. Two years ago she relin- 
guished a responsible position." She failed very gradually, slowly, 
surely. "Last Sunday it was observed that the end was near. 
Though extremely weak, her reason was not dethroned for an instant, 
nor was her mind clouded by delirium. It is peculiarly sad because 
she so young, so fair, and so accomplished should have to be cut 
down in the morning of what bid fair to be a long day of sunny 
usefulness." 



FAMILY 351: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, WILLIAM-77, 

OLIVER-172. 

ABRAHAM ADAMS PERLEY was born in Georgetown 21 
March, 1818. "Abram A. Perley occupied a store opposite the 
bank, about 1848-50," reads The History of Rochester, N. H., 
"where he cut shoes and had them made up by such as would take 
them." He was one of the earliest shoe manufacturers of Roches- 
ter. He located his home in Litchfield, 111. His first wife, pub- 
lished 2 Jan., 1847, was Lucretia Foster of Nashville, Tenn., who was 
born in Nashua, N. H., in 1822 and died in 1851. He married, 
second, in Cincinnati, O., 25 Aug., 1863, Angle George Simonds, 
born 7 Nov., 1886, in Charlestown, N. H., to Willard, a machinist, 
and Mary B.-George Simonds. She is an accountant and resides in 
Lowell, Mass. The Georgetown Advocate reads: "Abraham Adams 
Perley died in Kansas City, Mo., June 80, 1885. He was formerly of 
Edwardsville, 111. He was buried in Alton, III, from the Presbyte- 
rian Church. The funeral services were conducted by the pastor, 
Rev. Mr. Gordon, assisted by Rev. E. B. Randle. Mr. Gordon read 
selections of Scripture and made timely comments thereon. Mr. 
Randle, who had been an intimate friend of the deceased during his 
residence in Edwardsville, followed with a brief review of the life of 
Mr. Perley as a business man, a citizen and a Christian, and paid a 
glowing tribute to his many noble and engaging qualities, his integ- 
rity, his genial disposition, and devotion to his family and relatives. 

"Among those present at the services were Mr. and Mrs. D. P. 
Woodman, Senator Southworth, Maj. Zink and Miss Wallace of 
Litchfield; Judge and Mrs. Irwin, Hon. and Mrs. A. W. Metcalfe, 
Mr. and Mrs. A. O. French, Hon. and Mrs. G. M. Cole and others 
of Edwardsville. The remains were interred in the family lot of the 
late R. G. Perley, brother of the deceased." 

1 Perley child: Foster, Kankakee, III, married in 1878. 



FAMILY 352: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCI8-39, WILLIAM-77, 

OLIVER-171. 

RODNEY GOVE PERLEY was born in Georgetown, Mass., 
5 Oct., 1820. He married in Decatur, 111., 23 Nov., 1858, Tempe E. 
Short, who was born 5 Nov., 1882, to Dr. William N. and Nancy-Gillespie 
Short of Decatur. He died 9 Jan., 1879, and an Alton, 111., journal 
reads thus of him : " He received his education at Pembroke Academy, 
New Hampshire. In early manhood he removed to Nashville, Tenn., 
where he engaged in business, and about 1848, went to St. Louis 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 519 

and entered the wholesale shoe store of Tutt & Watson. In 1853 he 
became a member of the firm of Humphrey, Perley & Co., wholesale 
dealers in hats, caps and straw goods and continued that business 
connection for four years. In 1857 he went to New York, intending 
to remain, but the fall of that year found him in Litchfield, 111., 
where he engaged in the lumber trade, under the firm name of 
Perley & Co. In the year 1863 he went to Alton and engaged in 
the same pursuit, under the firm name of Perley & Woodman, asso- 
ciating with his nephew, Mr. D. P. Woodman, still, however, retain- 
ing his business connection at Litchfield. Engaged in important and 
extensive operations, always conducted with rare energy and ability, 
his integrity and success won for him a reputation and regard second 
to that of no business man in Alton. The cardinal principle of his 
mercantile life was to 'owe no man anything.' At his death his 
accounts showed no bills payable. This record maintained through 
life is a commentary in itself, rare as it is noteworthy. Such abilities 
and reputation naturally made him a conspicuous man in the com- 
munity; and he was often solicited to enter public life, but modest 
and retiring in disposition, he uniformly declined, only accepting 
office when a sense of duty to his fellow citizens overcame his prefer- 
ence for private life. He was elected a councilman, 1875, and regu- 
larly each year till his death. His services in the city council were 
of the highest value. As member or chairman of the finance com- 
mittee for several terms, he did more than any other official to raise 
the credit of the city, reduce its indebtedness, and place it in its 
present enviable financial condition. He conducted the monetary 
affairs of the city with the same care, prudence and foresight he 
bestowed upon his private affairs. He cared nothing as to whether 
certain movements were popular or not; if he believed they were 
right and just, and, after careful examination, were for the best in- 
terest of the city, he labored unflinchingly for their success, or stood 
firm as a rock in their defense. 

"The unfaltering integrity of his business life; the faithful dis- 
charge of duty in the service of the public, in posts of honor and 
trust; the genial courtesy of his intercourse with his fellow men; 
the self-sacrifice undergone for the help of friends; the systematic 
charity to the needy, and liberality to all benevolent objects; the 
beautiful home-life, with its tender devotion to wife and daughter — 
all these are recalled, and will live as fadeless memorials. 

" His home was ideal amid beautiful and pleasant surroundings. 
He never carried his business cares and perplexities home. His 
evenings were spent in the family circle, where books and periodicals 
were regularly read and discussed. He was a strong thinker and 
his reading embraced all the leading authors of the day, Whittier's 
'Snow-bound' was his favorite poem." 

His widow's home is Alton. She has been many years officially 
connected with the Alton Public Library and several years its 
president. 

1 Perley children : Helen-, Winthrop Gove", Leila Francesl 

2 Helen^ was born 24 Aug. and died 5 Sept., 1859, in Litchfield; 
Winthrop G.^ was born 15 April, 1862, in Litchfield, and died 14 
March, 1865, in Alton. 



520 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

3 Leila F.^ was born in Alton 28 Feb., 1866. She married in 
Berlin, Germany, 9 June, 1903, Otto Count von Koenigsmarck, re- 
tired officer in Imperial guard, born in Posen, Germany, to Otto, 
Count von Koenigsmarck and Countess Piickler. 



FAMILY 353: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, WILLIAM-77, 
ABRAHAM-173. 

LEVERETT SALTONSTALL PERLEY was born in Box- 
ford, Mass., 15 Jan., 1822. He settled in North Andover. His wife, 
married 25 Sept., 1847, was Phebe Florilla Taggart, who was born 
in Temple, Me., 22 May, 1821, to John, a farmer, and Hannah-Hawse 
Taggart. Mr. Perley was a mechanic. His wife died 22 Jan.-, 1892. 
He died 9 May, 1901. 

1 Perley children: Melvina Luella'-, Frank Alvah'*, Edwin La- 
Forest^ 

2 Melvina L.> was born 25 June, 1848, and 16 Aug., 1866, mar- 
ried in North Andover, Amos Dearborn Carleton, who was born 3 
Jan., 1839, to Daniel, a farmer, and Phebe Kimball-Whittier Carleton 
of North Andover. Only child: Ida Frank, born in North Andover 
10 Oct., 1877, who is a stenographer. 

3 Frank A.^ was born 1 July, 1852, and married 7 March, 1875, 
Lucy Taggart, who was born in 1857 to John and Sarah-T. Taggart 
of Phillips, Me. 

4 Edwin LaForest^ was born 7 July, 1857. He married in Ham- 
ilton 22 Nov., 1882, Nellie May Holmes, born in Holbrook, L. I., 
N. Y., 18 May, 1863, to Richard and Minerva D.-Burbank Holmes. 
He is secretary, and his wife is collector of the Bradstreet Colony, 
United Order of Pilgrim Fathers. Mr. Perley is the railroad station 
agent in North Andover. Perley child : P'orrest Leverett, born 1 
March, 1884. 



FAMILY 354: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, AMOS-80, ISRAEL-178. 

JOHN CHANDLER PERLEY was born in Winthrop, Me., 
12 Sept., 1821. He married 22 Feb., 1848, Eunice Meigs, born in 
Vassalboro, Me., 16 Sept., 1826, to Anson and Anna-Gardiner Meigs. 
He was a farmer in Vassalboro. She died 21 Feb., 1894; and he 
23 Oct., 1897. 

1 Perley children: Charles IsraeP, Anna Meigs\ Carrie^ Ahce 
Maria^ 

2 Carrie^ was born 2 Sept., 1856, and died 13 March, 1873. 

3 Charles IsraeP was born in Vassalboro, Me., 27 Dec, 1848. 
He married 3 June, 1871, Clara Isabel Richardson, who was born in 
Vassalboro 11 Feb., 1854, to John, a farmer, and Cynthia-Cross 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 521 

Richardson. He is a farmer in the town of his nativity, with 
special reference to orcharding. Perley issue, born in Vassalboro: 
Edith Carrie, 12 Oct., 1874; George Augustus*^; Fred BicknelF; 
Anson Meigs, 20 Feb., 1882, who is engaged in the clothing business 
in Augusta, Me. He is a graduate of Coburn Classical Institute, 
Waterville, Me., 1901 ; of Shaw's Business College, 1902; and a 
member of the N. G. S. M., Company M, Augusta. 

4 Anna Meigs^ was born in Vassalboro 5 June, 1852. She mar- 
ried 13 Feb., 1877, Dana Boardman Marden, a farmer, born in East 
Vassalboro 16 June, 1852, to Samuel, a farmer, and Margaret Page- 
Johnson Marden. They live in Vassalboro, where their children 
were born. Issue: Eunice May, 26 March, 1880; Edna Margaret, 
26 April, 1882, died 25 Dec, 1902. Both daughters are graduates of 
the Coburn Classical Institute, Waterville, and Edna was training 
to be a kindergarten teacher in Boston at the time of her death. 

5 Alice Maria^ was born in Vassalboro 26 Oct., 1862. She mar- 
ried 20 Jan., 1885, Elmer Ellsworth Randall, a shoe cutter, born in 
Vassalboro 12 March, 1861, to Eldridge, a farmer, and Palonia 
Frances-Ames Randall. They reside in Easton, Mass. Issue: 
Hazel Marjorie, born 16 Jan., 1899, in Easton. 

6 George Augustus'^ was born 24 March, 1876. He married 13 
Aug., 1899, Bessie Caroline Troy, born in Sebec, Me., 20 Feb., 1878, 
to Mary P.-Robinson Troy. Mr. Perley graduated at the Erskine 
Academy, South China, Me., class of '96, and at Shaw's Business 
College, Augusta, in 1897. He is now a clothier, in Augusta, with- 
out children. 

7 Fred BicknelP was born at Seaward's Mills, Vassalboro, 1 Aug., 
1877. He married in Waterville, Me., 10 Sept., 1902, Ivy Clark, 
a teacher, born in Freedom, Me., 10 Sept., 1882, to George S , a 
butcher, and Imogene Gibbs-Dearborn Clark. He is a graduate of 
the Erskine Academy, South China, Me., and attended the Univer- 
sity of Maine. Mrs. Perley is a graduate of the Coburn Classical 
Institute, Waterville. They reside in Vassalboro, where he is a 
farmer. Perley issue: Ivian, born in Vassalboro 24 Sept., 1903. 



FAMILY 355: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. TIIOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, JACOB-81, JACOB-180. 

JACOB SAMUEL PERLEY was born in Hanover, N. H., 7 
June, 1818. He settled in his native town, where he was a progres- 
sive, substantial farmer, and which he represented several terms in 
the Legislature, and also as a selectman. 

He married 14 June, 1850, in Hanover, Harriet Eliza Fellows 
of the same place, who was born 15 Jan., 1829, to Ira and Abigail- 
Wright Fellows. He died 10 July, 1892. His widow resides in Etna 
with her daughter. 

"He received such education as the schools of that day furnished, 
supplemented by some terms at the Meriden Academy. His occu- 
pation was that of a farmer, in which intelligence and industry made 



522 T'HE PERLEY FAMILY 

him successful. He was one of the selectmen of the town for the 
years 1862, 1863, 1864 and 1873. He was representative of the town 
in 1868 and 1869. He was one of the trustees of the Dartmouth 
savings bank. One of the prominent characteristics of Mr. Perley 
was his intelligence. He was a constant reader, not only of the news 
of the day, but of the better class of books. He had the advantage 
of most readers in a very retentive memory. What he read became 
a possession to him, from whose treasures he readily made such drafts 
as the occasion might demand. He was not alone the gatherer of 
information, but he also was a thinker. The facts he laid up in his 
retentive memory were made to yield to him something of principle, 
or confirmation, or instruction for himself and others. He was a 
most delightful companion. From the stores of his memory, he drew 
incidents and anecdotes, sure to suit the subject in hand, or the 
occasion. He had a keen eye for the humorous aspects of character 
and events, and yet without malice or bitterness he used them pro- 
moting the cheerfulness of others as well as nourishing his own. 
He had a talent for versification. The flow of words was smooth and 
always had pith and point. Some of them founded on early incidents 
in the history of the town ought to be preserved in some permanent 
form. In all human relations he was true, faithful, honest, leaving a 
name without a stain, and a memory which will be cherished by all 
classes and conditions of people. He was a true and ardent lover of 
his country, and no appeal to his patriotism was ever made in vain. 
In most cases no appeal was needed, his interest flowed forth spon- 
taneously. In the great things and subjects of the Christian religion 
he had a deep interest, but like many other good men he was re- 
served and timid upon such matters as far as he was personally con- 
cerned. He was a believer in the Gospel, made its revelations his 
hope and support, but shrank from a public profession of his faith 
lest he should bring any dishonor upon it. Such a husband, father, 
kinsman, friend and citizen as Mr. Perley was, is a rich possession to 
any town, and the regret everywhere expressed among all classes is 
the deserved tribute to a good man." 

1 Perley children : A son'", a daughter'-, Eva Elizal 

2 The son was born 25 and died 28 March, 1851; the daughter 
was born and died 21 July, 1857. 

3 Eva^ was born 20 June, 1858, and 19 Nov., 1884, married in 
Hanover, Irving Powell Fitts, a farmer of Etna, N. H., who was born 
in Hanov^er 26 July, 1856, to Mary Dow-Rogers and Richard Fitts. 
Their children are Perley Richard, born 13 and died 19 April, 1889; 
Perley Irving, born 14 Sept., 1898. 



FAMILY 356: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-att, .TACOB-81, 
.TONATHAN-181. 

JONATHAN PERLEY was born in Salem 30 April, 1809. He 
settled as a book-binder in his native town, and by his skill and faith- 
fulness acquired a wide reputation for taste and excellence of work. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 523 

He was elected register of probate and occupied the office from 

7 Jan., 1857, to 13 April, 1857, when he resigned. He was a 

,, , , ^ ., ,.,1, ,Q,, , Freemason from 8 May, 1855. 

(From the rfalem Rojiisti'i-, Feb. 14, 1841.) . J' 

. ^.„n He married 15 Nov., 1843, Fran- 

joxA. PERLEY. Jr.. rcspeotfuiiy infonus CCS Ann Oakcs, who was Dom 4 

his friends and furmer (ustomers, that he has T,,1,, 1C1" fr\ TVinrriQC anr] Mar-ir 

made arraugeuients with Mr. J. P. JEWETT, JUly, I5l(,l0 i nOmaS ana iViary- 

to conduct liis Booli Bindery, at which place he Hr>\A7Prr1 (^nVpc; nf Splpm '-iViP rliVH 

will be happy to meet those who were formerly •'^OWarCl UakCS 01 ^>aiem. ^.nC OlCa 

his patron.s. Bindery over the Bookstore, op- of COllSUmptlOn 24 Oct., 1850. 

posite the Mansion House. tt • t i -^^ t i -.,t,.« 

He married, second, 21 July, 1864, 

Mary Jane Howard, his first wife's cousin, who was born to John and 
Priscilla-Cheever Howard of Salem 5 June, 181G, and died 4 March, 
1876. Her tomb inscription reads: 

She was faithful in every relation of lite. 

He died 30 April, 1888, of Bright's disease. 

1 Perley children: Edward Lee4(30, Mary Howard'-'. 

2 Mary H.^ was born 5 Jan., 184<3, and 21 Aug., 1866, married 
John Masury Berry, a trader, when he was twenty-three years of age, 
son of George E. and Lydia W. Berry. She died in Minneapolis, 
Minn., 12 April, 1869. Later, Mr. Berry was of Manchester, N. H. 
Berry issue : John Plumley, born in St. Paul, Minn., 26 Sept., 1867, 
and died 6 May, 1873 ; Mary Perley. born in Minneapolis 20 Feb., 
1869, died 31 July, 1870. 



FAMILY 357: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, JACOB-81, 
JONATHAN-181. 

WILLIAM HENRY PERLEY was born in Salem, Mass., 8 
Jan., 1813. He married 5 May, 1845, Margaret Byron Doyle Brown, 
daughter of Thomas and Eliza-Howard Brown, who were both (par- 
ents) born in Salem. She died 15 Oct., 1863. Their son Osmond 
says his mother was Margaret-Henderson Perley. He died 16 
March, 1881, (which was Wednesday); [Boston records read: 17 
March, 1882, aged sixty-nine years and two months.] The following 
is a published notice of his death • 

"Mr. William H. Perley, who died in Boston on Wednesday last 
at the age of 68 years, will be pleasantly remembered by all who 
have been acquainted with him at any period of his life, for his ready 
wit and genial humor. Between fifty and sixty years ago he was 
learning the trade of a printer in the Salem Gazette office. Not long 
after his majority he had an opportunity to go to Andover to work, 
which he accepted, and from there went to Haverhill, and was em- 
ployed on the Haverhill Gazette, then edited by John G. Whittier, 
who took quite an interest in him, he being very ready and apt with 
his pen. From Haverhill, he went to Lynn, and started a weekly 
paper, called the Locomotive, which was very popular for a short 
time. Subsequently he connected himself with the Gloucester Tele- 
graph, where he continued until the proprietor went to Fitchburg 



524 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

and published the Sentinel, Mr. Perley going with him, and assisting 
in editing the same for fifteen years. He had since worked on the 
Quincy Patriot, at Boston offices, and in other places." 

He is in the Lynn directory of 1841 as book and job printer in 
company with Stoneham. 

1 Perley children : Charles Henry-461, William Henry"^ Osmond 
Huntley^ Margaret Flora', Horace Putnam"-. 

2 William H.^ was born 12 [Gloucester records: 3] Nov., 1849, 
in Gloucester, Mass., and died in Beverly 6 Sept., 1850. Margaret 
F.^ was born 5 and died 15 Jan., 1859, and is buried in Pltchburg, 
Mass. Horace P.^ was born 6 Dec, 1860, in Fitchburg, and dying 
6 April, 1863, was buried in Salem. 

3 Osmond H.^ was born in Fitchburg 8 April, 1853. He is a 
painter by trade and has worked for the Heywood Bros, and Wake- 
field Rattan Com.pany of Gardner, Mass., for many years. The fine 
painted sets of furniture that they put out exhibit his skill with 
the brush. He married in Templeton 11 July, 1880, Louisa Maria- 
Williams Flynn, who was born in Templeton, Mass., 8 Aug., 1851, 
to John Hane and Mary Ann-Widdifield Williams, who (the parents) 
were born in Boston. [She was widow of James Studley Flynn, son 
of John B. Plynn, to whom she was published 19 Dec, 1872, when 
he was of Hubbardston. He died 5 Feb., 1875.] They have no 
children. 



FAMILY 358: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JAOOB-17, FRANCIS-39, JACOB-81, NATHAN-184. 

SAMUEL PERLEY was born in Groveland, Mass., 13 Dec, 
1818. He settled in Haverhill in 1850, and was a shoe manufac- 
turer with his brother Nathan-359. He married 10 Nov., 1847, Phebe 
Perry Parker, who was born in 1826 to Capt. Benjamin and Anne- 
Laphan Parker. Her sister Lucy was the wife of Hon. E. J. M. 
Hale-10. 

1 Perley child: Lucy Hale, born 5 July, 1854, and married 
5 Aug., 1872, George W. Campbell, who was born in 1847 to George 
and Helen of Haverhill. He is a shoemaker. 



FAMILY 359: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4 JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, JACOB-81, NATHAN-184. 

NATHAN PERLEY was born in Groveland, Mass., 16 Dec, 
1820. About 1850 he engaged in the shoe business with his brother 
Samuel-358. They manufactured a few years, and he worked at 
shoe cutting. In 1861 he was appointed inspector in the Custom- 
house, Boston, seven or more years. He resided in Haverhill. He 
married 15 Dec, 1859, Harriet M. Johnson, who was born in 1831 to 
Andrew and Ruth of Haverhill. 

1 Perley child : Albert O.- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 525 

2 Albert O.^ was born 27 Feb., 1861. He was a shoe shipper in 
Haverhill. He married 16 June, 1887, Alice L. Longfellow of New- 
bury, who was born 27 June, 1858, to Henry W. and Emeline M.- 
Scribner Longfellow and died Thursday, 31 March, 1898. They had 
Ruth Longfellow and Howard Johnson, who was born 21 March, 
1894, in Georgetown. Mrs. Perley had a remarkable talent for dra- 
matic reading and impersonation. At three years of age she recited 
in public a poem of eighty-eight lines, captivating the house. She 
finished her academic education and studied for the stage as a reader. 
She read in most of the cities and towns of northern Essex county 
and they remember her with delight. She had flattering offers from 
entertainment managers, but was obliged to refuse them unless her 
life was to be given wholly to the stage. 



FAMILY 360: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-3'J, JA('OB-81, FRANCIS-185. 

ENOCH TITCOMB PERLEY was born in Winthrop, Me., 23 
April, 1819. He was a farmer in Winthrop, though by trade a car- 
penter. He married in Thompson, Ct., 3 Oct., 1846, Miss Martha 
Ann Amelia Kirk, who was born 13 Jan., 1827, in Springfield, Vt. 
She died in Lowell, Mass., 26 Dec, 1898. Her parents were Rachel 
A. -Berry and Reuben Kirk. He died in Lowell 27 April, 1874. 

1 Perley children: Josephine Amelia', Edward Kirk'^, Alma 
Annette"'^, George Everett*. 

2 Josephine A.* was born in Lowell 27 March, 1849, and lived with 
her parents till she died, unmarried, 18 June, 1896. Alma A.^ was 
born in Lowell 23 Sept., 1860, and is a bookkeeper in Worcester, 
Mass., for a large insurance house, where she has served many years. 

3 Edward K.^ was born in Lowell 12 July, 1853. He was a 
banker and many years cashier of the Appleton National Bank. He 
married in Boston 19 Nov., 1884, Alna Jane Squire, who was born in 
Lowell to Lucinda-Craigue and Joseph Austin Squire. He died in 
Lowell 16 Feb., 1896. His widow married a Hunt and resides in 
Cambridge, Mass. Their children: Helen Gertrude, born in Boston 
28 Nov., 1885, and died 28 Feb., (Boston records 26 March,) 1886; 
Carl Squire, born 22 Oct., 1891, who is a fine singer, whose talent is 
much in demand as a soloist. 

4 George E.' was born in Lowell 5 March, 1869. He married, 
first, on the evening of 9 March, 1897, Rev. C. E. Fisher officiating. 
Alberta Sawyer, a dressmaker, born in Lowell 21 Sept., 1877, to 
Albert, a druggist, and Anna-Richards Sawyer. She died in Lowell 
13 Jan., 1898. Mr. Perley married, second, 24 Jan., 1900, Fannie 
Fern Jones, a bookkeeper, born in Waitsfield, Vt., 12 Jan., 1879, to 
Albert C. and Etta Augusta-Sterling Jones. He is a clerk in 
Lowell. Issue: Harold Everett, born 12 Jan., and died 20 Aug., 
1898; Albert Sawyer, twin with Harold Everett; Rosalie Frances, 
born 29 Jan., 1904. 



FAMILY 361: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-IT. FRANCIS-39, JACOB-81, FRAXCIS-185. 

FRANCIS PERLEY was born in Winthrop, Me., 17 Dec, 1822. 
He married in Portland 10 Sept., 1852, Harriet Ann Alden, born in 
Jay, Me., 10 Dec, 1885, to William, a farmer, and Louisa Maria- 
Reynolds Alden. He was several years a railroad builder. He laid 
the first railroad track into Winthrop. Later he engaged success- 
fully in farming. He was industrious and was of high moral stand- 
ing in the community. He died in Winthrop 16 March, 1908. 

1 Perley children: Emma Louise'-, Clarence Alden^ 

2 Emma L.^ was born in Winthrop 20 Sept., 1858, and 24 Nov., 
1875, married Millard Fillmore Richardson, born in Monmouth 11 
Aug., 1850, to Jesse P., a farmer, and Sarah F.-King Richardson. 
He is a farmer in Monmouth. Issue: Stella Louise, born 16 Oct., 
1878. 

8 Clarence A.', born in Winthrop 1 May, 1868, married in 
Readfield 1 June, 1898, Augusta Lillian Norton, born in Mt. Vernon 
30 March, 1878, to Alfred Samuel and Mary-Stevens Norton. He 
is a farmer and resides in Winthrop. 



FAMILY 862: JORDAN. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TII()MAS-4, JACOB-17, FRAMriS-39, JACOB-Sl, FUANCIS-ISS. 

MARTHA FOSTER PERLEY (Martha "Titcomb," Town 
records, Winthrop) was born in Winthrop, Me., 26 Sept., 1826, where 
she married 1 Nov., 1847, Robert Jordan, who was born 19 Sept., 
1819, to Nathaniel and Lydia-Cash Jordan. They made their home 
in Ipswich, Mass., where he was a merchant-tailor and dealer in 
ready-made clothing. In process of time the firm changed to " R. 
Jordan & Son," and after some years, the son going West, "R. Jor- 
dan & Co." 

Mr. Jordan's retirement from business suggested to the local 
newspaper the following: — 

"Robert Jordan of the firm of R. Jordan & Co. has sold his in- 
terest in the business to Charles G. Spiller and retired from the 
firm, of which he has been senior partner for many years. Mr. 
Jordan came to Ipswich fifty-three years ago and established himself 
as a custom tailor in the building now occupied as a dwelling house 
by Arthur ¥. Tilton. At that time the house was known as the 
Bank Building. Later, Mr. Jordan removed to the second story of 
Coburn's block, where he worked several years and employed several 
girls in his tailoring rooms. His next move was to the Newman 
block, where he added a large stock of ready-made clothing and 
where he remained until his present store was built. Several times 
his store was burglarized, one party securing considerable clothing 



I 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 527 



and money. During his business career Mr. Jordan has met with 
reverses, but through all his dealings he has maintained the same 

' honest integrity and attention to his business. He well may be 
proud of the half century of his business life. 

"Mr. Jordan is the last of the old business men that held sway a 
few years ago and none have retired with a more worthy reputation. 
"Although never a man of robust frame Mr. Jordan, who is near- 
ing the fourscore mark, has always been able to attend to his busi- 
ness with the same scrupulous care which characterized his younger 

• days. Honor to such men and may the town furnish more like 
him." He died 30 Aug., 1905, aged eighty -six years, less twenty days. 
One who knew Mrs. Jordan well wrote for the local journal : 
"On Friday evening, Nov. 17, (1893), the sad intelligence of the 
death of Mrs. Martha F. Jordan, wife of Mr. Robert Jordan, was 
spread through the town and brought grief and sorrow to many a 
heart. She had been sick some weeks, but was supposed to be con- 

. valescent when death came. Immediately upon her marriage to Mr. 
Jordan she came to Ipswich to reside, and for nearly half a century 
she was the light and life of a happy home. Her life was eminently 
a domestic one. Her home, her husband and her children were the 
dearest things on earth to her; yet she was large-hearted enough to 
sympathize with every one of God's creatures and aid every one in 
distress. She was a woman.' much respected and looked up to for 
advice and consolation. Her clear head at once saw just the right 
thing to be done and her strong personality accomplished it. She 

- was a brave, true-hearted, pure-minded woman, full of delicate shades 
of feeling. She loved the flowers, the trees, the woods, the green 
grass, and the warm sunshine. She had a keen perception of the 
beautiful, and eagerly drank drafts of pure delight in the cultivation 
of the flowers and shrubs of her garden. She was a lovable, gentle 
woman who lived a life of usefulness and good deeds, the incarnation 
of true womanhood. She left a perfume of happiness and love in 

[ the memory. The sands of her life were golden sands. She will be 

I missed in the home, in the commune of friends and in open handed 

I charities." 

1 Jordan children: Mary Ellen', Albert Perley^ Martha Etta'-, 
I Robert Arthur-, Fannie Woods'*. 

2 M. Ellen^ was born 6 April, 1850, and resides, unmarried, in 
! Ipswich; M. Etta^ was born 19 Dec, 1855, and lives, unmarried, 
I with her sister in Ipswich; Robert A.^ was born 6 Aug., 1861, and 

died 23 March, 1862. 

3 Albert P.^ was born 14 June, 1851. He is a vineyardist in 
Fresno, Cal. He married 29 Dec, 1896, in Fresno, Mary Blanton 
Scott, who was born in Fort Smith, Ark., 29 Dec, 1871, to Lidie- 

1 Beauchamp and John W. Scott, a vineyardist and farmer. Her father 
received wounds in the Confederate Army, afterwards entered busi- 
ness in Fort Smith and later in California. Jordan issue: Robert 
' Winfield, born 29 Sept., 1899; Mary Alberta, born 10 Feb., 1901. 
I 4 Fannie W.^ was born 8 Jan., 1866, in Ipswich, Mass., where she 
j married 2 Dec, 1903, William Henry Clifton Noble, a lawyer, who 
j was born in Oxford, Me., 1 April, 1867, to Charles S., a farmer, and 
I Columbia-Perkins Noble. They reside in Boston. 



FAMILY 363: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-l.TUKITHY-O, STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42, ALLEN-9(t, AL,LEN-1«9. 

MARK CRESSEY PERLEY was born in Rowley 10 Aug., 
1817. He was a trader and resided in Rowley, Danvers and Haver- 
hill. He married 29 June, 1843, Ruth Jewett Hobson of Rowley, 
where she was born 10 April, 1821. He died of consumption 30 
June, 1854. 

1 Perley children : Mary Ellen- and Martha Althea* and two 
sons'*. 

2 Mary E.^ was born 7 Oct., 1844. She was a dressmaker by 
trade in Rowley. She died 6 March, 1904. 

3 Martha A.^ was born 7 Oct., 1844, twin with Mary E.^ She 
was a dressmaker. She married in Rowley 18 Nov., 1884, Charles 
A. Houghton, a baker, born in Holliston, Mass., to Lewis, a grocer, 
and Sarah-Messenger Houghton. They reside in Rowley. 

4 The sons' were born 11 July, 1846, and 6 Aug., 1847, and died 
31 July, 1846, and 29 Aug., 1847. 



FAMILY 364: CLINE. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-t, Tn«iTIIV-0. STEraEN-19, ALLEX-42, ALLEN-90, ALLEN 189. 

MARTHA HALE PERLEY was born 1 March, 1819. She 
married 30 Aug., 1846, William Cline, son of John and Margaret of 
Cambridgeport, Mass. He was a native of England, and a cabinet- 
maker by trade. He was employed at the Capitol several years as 
messenger and lived in Boston. 

1 Cline children: Ellen B.''^, William Allen'^ Edna Eliza'' and 
Edward Everett'-. 

2 Ellen B.' was born 1 June, 1847, and died, unmarried, 7 Aug., 
1867. Edward E.^ twin with Edna E.' was born 5 July, 1852, and 
died 11 Dec, 1853. 

3 William A. ^ was born in Charlestown, Mass., 18 Dec, 1848. 
He is in the hardware business. He married in Boston 18 Jan., 
1871, Emily Liscom Sutton, a bookkeeper, who was born in Bos- 
ton 7 Feb., 1847, to Enoch, a jeweler, and Hannah March-Akerman 
Sutton. They were divorced and she married, second, Abner C. 
Hibbard. Cline child: Charles Allen, born 11 June, 1872, who 
graduated from Rice Grammar and English High Schools, Boston, 
and has for some years been salesman for McKenney & Waterbury, 
Franklin St., Boston. He married 5 Feb., 1894, Flora Adella 
Turner and they have had two children : Allen Turner, born 12 June, 
1896, and died 21 March, 1897; Eleanor, born 4 Sept., 1904. 

4 Edna E.^ was born in Boston, Mass., 5 July, 1852, and married 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 529 

there "26 Aug., 1874, Abner Clough Hibbard, a shipper, who was 
born in Lyman, N. H., 15 Oct., 1847, to Frederick, a miller, and 
Rebecca Woodbury-Clough Hibbard. She died in Boston 18 Dec, 
1876, leaving one child. Mr. Hibbard married, second, 1 June, 1889, 
Mrs. Emily L. Clinch They reside in Ashcroft, Mass. Hibbard 
child: Albert Dudley, born 28 July, 1875, who graduated at Oakdale 
Grammar School, and from the Dedham High School, entered the 
employ of S. Ward & Co., Franklin St., Boston, his present business, 
with home in Ashcroft. He married 25 Dec, 1894, Clara F. Nudd, 
and has one child : Perley Nudd, born 27 April, 1901. 



. FAMILY 365: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTIIY-G. STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42, ALLEN-90, ALLEN-189. 

ALLEN PERLEY was born in Rowley 31 May, 1830, where he 
is a farmer. His first wife, married 20 Nov., 1859, was Martha 
Mary Conant, who was born 18 Oct., 1833, to Deacon William Fos- 
ter and Martha- Perley Conant-202 of Linebrook Parish. She died 
of consumption 13 Aug., 1863. Her epitaph: 

Long on Jordan banks she waited, 

List'ning for the welcome call, 
Firm in faith, with joy elated, 

In her Lord, her life her All. 

His second wife, married 13 Nov., 1865, was Mrs. Mary Abigail- 
Pingree Conant-51'^ the widow of Gilbert Roger Conant-51^^ and 
daughter of Proctor and Sarah Hobbs Pingree-51^^ of Linebrook 
Parish, Ipswich, born 8 July, 1832. 

1 Perley children : Edwin Lane'", Lyman Blake'^ Willis\ 

2 Edwin L.^ was born in Rowley 30 July, 1866, and married 
there 25 March, 1897, Emma Condell Smith, born in Bathurst, N. B., 
23 Oct., 1871, to Richard A., justice of the peace, and Elizabeth 
Ann-Smith Smith. He is a street-car conductor. Their home is 
Haverhill, Mass. Perley child: Grace Allston, born 6 and died 7 
Dec, 1897. 

3 Lyman B.^ was born in Rowley 9 Nov., 1869. He married 
there 24 Sept., 1896, Laura Parcher Dow, a bookkeeper, born in Gor- 
ham, Me., 1 May, 1871, to Leander A. and Mary E. -Haven Dow. 
Their home is Rowley. 

4 Willis^ was born 2 (Rowley records "3") Sept., and died 6 Oct., 
1873 — Rowley records: "died 7 Oct., 1874, aged 1 mo., 5 days." 



FAMILY 366: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-6. STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42, ALLEN-90, ALLEN-189. 

WILLIAM PERLEY was born in Rowley, Mass., 4 Aug., 1835. 
He owns the parental estate, where he is a farmer and cattle broker. 
He married 11 Dec, 1862, Julia Augusta Peabody, who was born 26 



530 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Feb., 1843, to Moses and Lydia-Kneeland Peabody of Topsfield, and 
died in Rowley 25 Oct., 1901. 

1 Perley children : Charles Henry-, Bessie Cressey-, Nellie Cline''', 
Elizabeth Rusf*, Ella Augusta', William"-. 

2 Charles H.' was born in Rowley 23 Aug., 1863, where, un- 
married, he is a leather merchant. Bessie C.^ was born 11 Sept., 
1865, and died in Boston, Mass., 19 March, 1882. William^ was born 
31 Aug., 1877, and died in Rowley 12 July, 1895. 

3 Nellie C.^ was born 2 April, 1868, and married in Rowley 26 
Sept., 1884, Frank Marshall Goss, born 25 Dec, 1862, in Isle au 
Haute, Me., to Dr. Charles and Mary Cynthia-Severance Goss. He 
lives in Waltham, a motorman, and has children: Bessie May, born 
17 March, 18—; Frank Perley, born 31 Dec, 1886; Annie Louisa, 
born 14 Aug., 1887. 

4 Elizabeth R.^ was born in Somerville, Mass., 13 Dec, 1870, and 
married in Rowley 3 Sept., 1893, and became the second wife of 
Alexander Smith, who was born 11 Feb., 1864, in township No. 11, 
Poplar Grove, P. E. I., to Hugh, a farmer, and Jemima-McArthur 
Smith. He is a blacksmith in Rowley. 

5 Ella A.^ was born in Rowley 22 April, 1873, and died there 6 
Aug., 1892. She became, in Newburyport 29 June, 1892, the second 
wife of Herbert Franklin Hardy, who was born 11 Dec, 1869, in 
Groveland, to Aaron W. and Lucinda-Hardy Hardy. He is a sawyer 
in a box factory in Georgetown. 



FAMILY 367: HOOD, DODGE. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-G. STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42, ALLEN-90, 
JOSEPH BURPEE-190. 

ELIZABETH GREEN PERLEY was born 26 June, 1838. 
Her first husband was Francis Augustus Hood, married by Rev. 
Milton P. Braman in Danvers 15 May, 1853, and born 1841, to Fran- 
cis and Hannah-Gould Hood-388 of Boxford. He was a general 
trader. He enlisted against the Rebellion, and died 27 June, 1864, 
in Baltimore, Md., from wounds received at Cold Harbor. He left 
one child, Warren A. She married, second, 8 Oct., 1866, in Danvers, 
Judson Ward Dodge, who was born in Wenham 21 July, 1833, to 
Adoniram Judson and Julia Ann Perley-214 Dodge. Mr. Dodge also 
served against the Rebellion. He was mustered in 1 Oct., 1862, Co. 
K, 8th Regiment Infantry, and was discharged at the expiration of 
his term of enlistment, 7 Aug., 1863. He was mustered in a second 
time 26 Aug., 1864, Co. M, 3d Heavy Artillery, credited to Boxford, 
and discharged 17 June, 1865. Mr. Dodge was a bookkeeper, a ster- 
ling man, of good judgment and of great intelligence, and sought 
out for his advice and genial, social nature. Feeble health circum- 
scribed his great usefulness for many years. He died of cancer of 
the stomach 20 Sept., 1896, beloved at home and respected by all. 
His widow resides in Danvers. 

1 Hood and Dodge children : Warren Augustus-, Elmer 
Addison'^ 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 531 

2 Warren^ was born 10 Feb., 1854, and died, unmarried, of con- 
sumption, 7 March, 1879. Elmer A.^ was born 24 March, 1868, and 
was many years a bookkeeper in Boston, but his health requiring 
more outdoor exercise he became a letter-carrier in his home town 
of Danvers. 



FAMILY 368: HALE. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-6. STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42, ALLEN-90, 
JOSEPH BURPEE-190. 

HANNAH SEWELL PERLEY was born 10 May, 1840, and 
16 Aug., 1857, married, by Rev. Anson McLoud of Topsfield, 
Richard Lunt Hale, born 2 March, 1827, to Enoch and Elizabeth, of 
Newbury. He is a carpenter and house-wright by trade. They 
owned real estate in Danvers and lived there before making their 
hom.e in Boston. Mrs. Hale died 10 Nov., 1899. 

1 Hale children : Enoch Perley-, Carrie Ernestine^ 

2 Enoch P.^ was born and died 9 June, 1860. 

3 Carrie E.^ was born 26 June, 1865, in Newburyport. Her 
parents removed to Boston, and she studied in the Franklin Gram- 
mar and Boston Latin schools, and graduated in elocution from the 
New England Conservatory, where she afterwards taught elocution. 
She resigned to give all her time to public reading. She has an ex- 
cellent voice, of great compass and finely cultured. She excelled in 
public. She married 24 April, 1890, Willis Roberts Russ, in Boston, 
where they reside and he is a carriage manufacturer. His business 
card reads: "Builders of landaus, berlin coaches, coupes and 
broughams, and repairers of every description of family and pleasure 
carriages." He was born 30 Oct., 1853, in Bridgeport, Ct., to Chris- 
tian, a carriage manufacturer, and Anna C. -Snyder Russ. The 
following was clipped from The Young Republican of Feb., 1890: 

"Willis R. Russ, a member of the House of Representatives, 
representing Ward Nineteen of the city of Boston, has been, for 
thirty-three years, a resident of the Athens of America. In its ster- 
ling system of public school, he received his early education, gradu- 
ating from the Roxbury High School when only fifteen years of age. 
After completing that course he entered the Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology and studied civil engineering for four years, after 
which he attended the lectures and surgical operations at the Med- 
ical School of Harvard University for one term. Then he succeeded 
to the business of Messrs. Russ & Company, carriage builders in 
Boston, and soon increased the capacity of the establishment to 
double its former extent. 

"In 1888 Mr. Russ received the Republican nomination for election 
to the House of Representatives, and in a district where the regular 
Republican vote had never exceeded 600, but he received 1104 votes. 
In 1889 he was elected. The Speaker assigned Mr. Russ to the 
Committee on Water Supply, one of the most important of the com- 
mittees. Mr. Russ is President of the Roxbury High School Asso- 
ciation, of which he was the first secretary fourteen years ago. In 
the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia he served for three years on the 



532 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

Staff of Maj. Young of the First Battalion of Cavalry, and is one of 
the best marksmen in the Commonwealth, having won almost all of 
the medals and having been presented with medals by Governor 
Long and Mayor Martin. Mr. Russ is one of the members of the 
Republican City Committee, with appointment to the Committee on 
Finance, and of the Boston Marketmen's Republican Club he is also 
a member. 

"He is an Odd Fellow, and was Noble Grand of Putnam Lodge, 
No. 81, in 1884, has been secretary and served as chairman of the 
finance committee five years. He is also a member of Paul Revere 
Encampment, No. 57. He is a member of Benevolent and Protec- 
tive Order of Elks, and of Boston Lodge he has been an officer four 
years, and president. He has been clerk of the Massachusetts Cav- 
alry Association. He is capable, conscientious, earnest, efficient." 
Russ child: Gladys Hale, born 26 Sept., 1891. 



FAMILY 369: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN- 1, TIMOTIIY-6. STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-*'/, ALLEN-90, 
JOSEPH BURPEE-190. 

CHARLES MELVILLE PERLEY was born in Ipswich 3 
May, 1846. He was a railroad man in his teens, and was freight and 
passenger conductor fourteen years. In 1878 he went to live with 
his aged father, and became a farmer and milk dealer. Upon his 
farm is that spot of ground where Allan Perley-1 made his home in 
1651; and the spot can be identified at present. Mr. Perley keeps 
the farm in good condition ; the spacious mansion-house, the 
broad, unbrageous elm, and the general taste and order make the 
homestead particularly noticeable to the passer-by. The farm has 
been particularly given to fruit culture ; but Mr. Perley has given 
special attention to the production and sale of milk, having owned a 
large milk route in town. 

Mr. Perley married 5 Jan., 1871, Angeline Nichols Kimball of 
East Boston, who was born in Lynn 3 May, 1853, to Marshall N. and 
Mary A. Kimball. They were divorced 19 Jan., 1877. He married 
second, in Hampton Falls, N. H., 5 May, 1878, Mary Elizabeth Dow, 
a descendant of the immigrant Henry Dow of Old England County 
Norfolk, who settled first in Watertown and finally at Hampton in the 
old New England County Norfolk, where he died in 1659. Mrs. Per- 
ley's ancestors intermarried with the Weares and other old families of 
the old County, and soon after the death of the last child of Governor 
Mesheck Weare (page 94), her father became the owner of the 
Weare residence and what remained of the governor's great farm. 
When President Washington made his tour through New England 
in 1789, he lodged in the Weare mansion, when passing through 
Hampton Falls. In that house Mrs. Perley was born 15 July, 1856, 
to Zebulon, a farmer, and Mary A. -Lord Dow. [Mrs. Perley 's sister, 
Mrs. Ellen Dow Brown, was a pioneer of trained nurses. She was 
taught by such physicians as Dr. C. H. Sanborn of New Hampshire, 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



533 



Dr. Cowles of the Boston City Hospital and Dr. Weir Mitchell of 
world-wide fame, and practiced in Boston and Philadelphia.] 

1 Perley children: Lawrence Irving", Carrie May- and Helen 
Evangeline.^ 

2 Lawrence\ born 13 Oct., 1879, died 12 Sept., 1880, of cholera 




rilAKLKS M. rKULEX'S RESIDENCE. 

The letters A and 15 are explained in " Prefatory Notes," under the title, "The Plan of 

Jacob Perley's Homestead." 

infantum. Carrie M.\ born 15 Feb., 1890, died an infant. 

3 Helen E.\ born 15 Feb., 1890, is a student in the Perley Free 
School, Georgetown, Mass. The following metric gem — "A Mem- 
ory" she wrote when she was thirteen years of age. It is noticeable 
in one so young for its spirit of poesy and its uplifting sentiment : 

Those days long years ago have passed me by, 

When I so often heard the stories old. 
At mother's knee, and looked into her eye, 

As she in accents sweet the stories told 

About my Saviour; then the book she'd fold 

To linger o'er the thought and shed a tear : 
To rest in peace at last is more than gold 

To those who daily seek the higher sphere 
And who with lowly hearts their Heavenly Father fear. 



FAMILY 370 : CLAPP, PARKER. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-l.TIMOTIIV-fi. STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42, ALLEN-90, 
JOSEPH HURPEE-190. 

LAURA ANNETTE PERLEY was born 10 Dec, 1850. She 
married in Ipswich, Mass., 26 May, 1867, Frederic Augustus Clapp, 
who was born 10 Sept., 1846, to Isaac Paul and Harriet-Moore Clapp 
of Maiden, later of Topsfield. He and his brother were "Clapp 
& Brother," shoe manufacturers in Danvers. His health failed in 
1878; he retired from the firm in Oct., 1879 ; he went to Florida for 
recuperation ; he grew worse and returned. He died of consumption 
3 Dec, 1879. He left one child, Frederic Lester. 

Mrs. Clapp married, second, Charles Shattuck Parker of South 
Groveland, 17 May, 1882. Mr. Parker's father, Amos, was a grocer, 
and the son succeeded to the same business in the same place. He 
was born 22 July, 1841; his mother was Miss Louisa Shattuck; and 
his first wife was Miss Sophia Kimball, who died without issue. He 
is now retired. 

1 Clapp child: Frederic Lester-. Parker children: Maud Isa- 
belle^ Charles Harold-. 

2 Frederic L.' was born in Ipswich 5 May, 1876, and died in 
Groveland 29 Aug., 1896. Charles H.^ was born 22 July, 1891, in 
Groveland and died there 17 March, 1892. 

3 Maude I.^ was born in Groveland 25 Feb., 1883. 



FAMILY 371: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTIIY-C.. STEPHEN-19, ALLEX-42, ALLEN-90, 
ABRAHAM-191. 

"DAVID TULLAR PERLEY, the extensive farmer and Essex 
County cattle-broker, died very suddenly last Sunday morning," says 
the Ipswich Independent, "at the age of 67 years and 7 months less 
one day, having been born Jan. 17, 1824. Arriving at his majority, 
he came to the large estate left him by his father. He applied to it 
his native energy and enterprise, and enrolled himself among the 
richest men of the County. 

"As a farmer he ranked among the first. The old meadows were 
reclaimed, the upland soil was enriched from his extensive herds, his 
crops were grown from selected seeds, and his farm was the largest 
and most productive in the County, all through his untiring energy. 

" Mr. Perley was the only cattle-broker in the County, if extent of 
business makes one; for no one began to approach him in magnitude 
of traffic. It was no uncommon thing for him to own the stock of 
half a dozen milk-farms, at the same time. Probably at his death, he 
had a thousand cows scattered upon Essex County farms. 

"Mr. Perley's barn is one of the notable things as you pass that 




DAVID T. PERLEY. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOaY 535 

way. Its length is 120 feet, and it has all the appliances and 
appointments necessary to the easy condu'ct of his business. Within 
a few years he built a residence, second to none in the County for 
quality, and suited to his need, a comfort he but a short time enjoyed. 

"His home was next to the little parish church. He had a pro- 
found respect for religion and firjnly believed in its uplifting social 
and moral influence. He contributed liberally in support of preach- 
ing, was one of the largest purchasers of pews when the present 
house was built, and by his will left $2,500, to augment the church 
fund — page 185. Thus it is to-day: two Ferleys make stated relig- 
ious service possible in the ancient parish. 

"Mr, Perley was a temperate, honest, and hard working man. 
He was educated at Topstield and Dummer Academies. He never 
had any desire to engage in office of any kind, seeing more money 
and less friction in minding his own business. He was a very just 
man. A customer knowing the kind of creature he wanted but not 
able to judge of the creature, could trust Mr. Perley to select, and 
that the price would be fair. He had hundreds of customers who 
felt a keen regret at his death. His disease was measles; the im- 
mediate cause of his death was heart-failure. He died 16 Aug., 
1891." He has a fine monument to his memory in the parish ceme- 
tery; but another to the man in his home, more beautiful, is the 
memory and affection of his widow and children. 

His first wife, married 17 June, 1851, was Sophronia Osgood 
Plummer-9r\ who was born 27 July, 1824. She died 14 March, 1853, 
and was buried in Newbury-Oldtown. His second wife, married 16 
May, 1861, when she was thirty-five years old, was Mrs. Abigail 
Searles Kent-Stevens of West Newbury, who died of cancer 19 June, 
1879, and was buried in West Newbury. Her parents were Sarah- 
Carr and Joshua Kent, a wagon manufacturer of West Newbury. 
His third wife was Elizabeth Ann Lavalette, who was born 15 Feb., 
1857, to Elizabeth CarroU-Cheever and Nathaniel Howard Lavalette, 
a blacksmith by trade and a farmer by occupation, of Linebrook, 
Ipswich. This lady and her husband were born in the same house. 
The children were all born in Linebrook. 

1 Perley children: Oscar Wentworth-462, David Sydney463, 
Roscoe Damon-464, Carrie Sophronia'-, Chester Garfield*, Mabel 
Alice^ Bertha Cheever^ Harrison Otis\ Helene Louisel 

2 Carrie S.^ was born 18 Oct., 1865. She graduated from the 
Manning High School, Ipswich, and attended Willard Hall 
School, Danvers, and afterward took a course at Wellesley College, 
making a specialty of music, which study she continued in Boston. 
She was two years connected with Boydton Institute, Virginia. She 
is a lady of cultured talents, eminent leisure and Christian graces. 
Her home is Ipswich, where she has for several years sung for the 
Episcopal Church. 

3 Chester G.^ was born 13 Nov., 1881. He was educated at the 
Manning High School, Ipswich, and is a graduate of the Salem Com- 
mercial School. He had a lucrative clerkship in Boston, but chose 
the more congenial occupation of farming and cattle brokerage with 
his brother, D. Sydney-463. He married, in Ipswich, 26 April, 1905, 
Rev. John Edward Charlton^ officiating, Sadie Louise Dow, a teacher, 



536 s THE PERLEY FAMILY 

born in Kensington, N. H., 31 Aug., 1882, to Fred Howard and 
Clara Isabella-Austin Dow. Their home is Linebrook, Ipswich. 

4 Mabel A.^ was born 19 Aug., 1883. She is a graduate of the 
Manning High School. She married, in Ipswich, 6 June, 1905, Rev. 
John Edward Charlton, a Methodist Episcopal minister, who was 
born in Leeds, Yorkshire County, England, 2 April, 1878, to Jona- 
than, a traveling agent for a wholesale tea and coffee house, and Jane- 
Walton Charlton. He is at present located as pastor in Newton 
Highlands, Mass. 

5 Bertha C.^ was born 18 Oct., 1886. She is a graduate of the 
Ipswich Manning High School, class of 1905, and is now a stu- 
dent in Boston University. Harrison O.^ was born 30 Sept., 1888, 
and died 9 Feb., 1890. Helene L.' was born 13 July, 1891, and stud- 
ied at the Ipswich Manning High School till her mother removed 
to Maiden, Mass., where she continues her studies in the high school. 



FAMILY 372: CLARK. 



LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-O STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42, ALLEN 90, 
DANIEL JEWETT-192. 

EMMA JANE GARDNER PERLEY was born 14 Aug., 1829. 
She was a dressmaker. She married 9 April, 1854, Orrin Clark, 
born 6 April, 1822, in Hallowell, Me., to Thomas, a farmer. He was 
a lumberman and resided in Oldtown. He died 14 April, 1892, in 
Dover, Me., where his widow now (1905) resides. 

1 Clark children : Maria Antoinette'-, Joseph Melville^ Ora^ Allen 
Perley''. 

2 Maria A.' was born in Oldtown, Me., 6 Aug., 1854, and 27 July, 
1872, married Eugene H. Decker, a scaler, in Stillwater, Me., where 
he was born 27 March, 18 — , to Henry and Emeline-Braydon Decker. 
After a divorce, she became, 30 Aug., 1904, in Stillwater, the second 
wife of Charles A. Mills, a butcher, who was born in Milford, Me., 6 
May, 18 — , to John and Hannah -Wilbur Mills. They reside in Milli- 
nockett, Me., Decker issue: Fred. Eugene, born 6 March, 1873, 
who is married and resides in Oldtown. 

3 Joseph M.^ was born 9 Jan., 1857, and died 6 Oct., 1859. Ora^ 
was born 6 April, 1859, and died 10 April, 1S61. 

4 Allen P.' was born in Oldtown 27 March, 1860. He married 
in Dover, Me., 1 Dec, 1892, May Taylor, a dressmaker, born in 
Sebec, Me., 22 Jan., 1865, to Henchliffe, a wool-sorter, and Rachel- 
Hanson Taylor. Their home is Dover, Me., where Mr. Clark is of 
the dry goods firm of Ober & Clark. Clark children : Harold Allen, 
born 4 Aug., 1896; Howard Taylor, born 20 July, 1899; Philip Perley, 
born 29 Aug., 1902. 



FAMILY 373: GRAY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-G. STKrilEN-lO, ALLEN-42, ALLEN-90, 
DANIEL .TEWETT-l!i2. 

ELIZA HOWE PERLEY was born 1(3 Dec, 1841, and 13 Sept., 
1868, married Charles Harmon Gray, who was born 23 Jan., 1844, to 
Hartson Harmon and Eunice-Brown Gray of Oldtown, where he is a 
merchant in dry goods. Hartson Gray made two long voyages to 
California via Cape Horn in 1849, and to Australia across the Isth- 
mus in 1852, returning in 1854. 

1 Gray children: Alice Elma^ Hortense Eugenia^ William Fol- 
som^, Charles Perley^ 

2 Alice E.^ was born 26 Feb., 1869. She graduated at the high 
school at the age of seventeen. It is understood she pursued a col- 
legiate course. She married 25 Feb., 1890, in Oldtown, Me., Robert 
Sewall Browne, born 31 July, 1866, to Rev. Sewall and Minerva- 
Meader Browne of Tenants Harbor. He is a stenographer, Norfolk, 
Va, They have one child, Carl Meader, born 16 Jan., 1891, in 
Roanoke, Va. 

3 The other children were born in order, 14 May, 1871; 13 Feb., 
1873; and 31 Jan., 1875. 



FAMILY 374: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TnTOTITV-r, STErHEN-19. ALLEN-4'.', ALLEN 90, 
DANIEL JEWErr-192. 

ALLEN PUTNAM PERLEY was born in Oldtown, Me., 8 
March, 1845. He started in life as a clerk and later engaged in 
lumbering, in which he has been very successful. He is interested 
in nearly every large corporation in Williamsport, Pa., and vicinity, 
and is highly esteemed in business and social circles. He is presi- 
dent of the West Branch National Bank and director in many indus- 
trial corporations. 

"In a conflagration that swept the business portion of the city, 
Howard, Perley & Howard's lumber yard lost about 1,000,000 feet 
of lumber." 

He is a warden in the Christ Episcopal church. 

He married, in Gardiner, Me., 30 Sept., 1869, Clara Scott Love- 
joy, who was born 10 Aug., 1845, to Albert, an express clerk, and 
Margaret-Shaw Lovejoy of Gardiner. She died in Williamsport, Pa., 
10 Jan., 1886, of blood poison. His second wife, married 2 Aug., 
1888, was Mrs. Ann-Higgins Stowell, widow of George, and daughter 
of Edmund C. and Delaney-Reese Higgins. She was born in An- 
gelica, N. Y. Their home is "Greystone," Vallamont, Williamsport. 
te^ 1 Perley children, born in Williamsport: Margaret Lovejoy^ 
Harriet Shaw^ Mary Gray*, Frederick Allen^ Martha Caffey\ Oliver 
Watson^, Allen Putnam." 



538 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

2 Margaret L.' was born 23 April, 1871, and married in Williams- 
port 27 June, 1893, Andrew Thomas Page, who was born in Athens, 
Pa., 15 March, 1868, to Maria-French and Frederick North Page, 
who is engaged in furniture business. Mr. Page is secretary of the 
Williamsport Furniture Company, manufacturers. Page issue: Mar- 
ion Margaret, born in Newtonville, Mass., 31 May, 1895; Allen Per- 
ley, born in Williamsport 1 June, 1897 ; Anne Louise, born in 
Williamsport 30 Sept., 1901. 

3 Harriet S.^ was born 8 April, 1872. She married in Williams- 
port 16 April, 1896, and became the second wife of William Herbert 
Crockett, a lumberman, who was born in Pennsylvania 26 Aug., 
1865, to Pearl and Nancy-Reeser Crockett. His first wife was Nona 
Huffman. Their home is Allendale, Cambria County, Pa. Crockett 
issue: Allen Herbert, born in Williamsport 26 Feb., 1897; Clara 
Perley, born in Allendale 23 July, 1899. 

4 Mary G.^ was born 27 Sept., 1875, and died 29 July, 1876, in 
Williamsport. Oliver W.' was born 3 Jan. and died in July, 1881; 
Frederick A.^ was born 19 Dec, 1876, and is a civil engineer in 
Washington, D. C. Allen P.' was born 7 Aug., 1884, and is (1905) 
a student at Princeton College. 

5 Martha C.^ was born 23 Jan., 1879. She married in Williams- 
port 28 April. 1903, Charles Cochran, son of Senator J. Henry Coch- 
ran, a lumberman and banker. His mother was Avis Anne Rouse. 
He was born in Driftwood, Pa., 3 April 1873. Mr. Cochran is sec- 
retary of a railroad, and resides in Vallamont, Williamsport. Cochran 
issue: Martha Perley, born 26 March, 1904, in Williamsport. 



FAMILY 375: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-0. STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42, JOHN-9'2, SlLAS-iy5. 

MARTIN VAN BUREN PERLEY was born in Linebrook 
Parish, Ipswich, Mass., 26 Nov., 1835. He married in Concord, N. 
H., 6 March, 1860, Miss Lydia Maria Pearson, who was born 19 Oct., 
1838, to Isaac and Sally-Martin Pearson of Albany, Vt., and died in 
Springfield, Mass., 12 June, 1880. Secondly, he married, in Tops- 
field 3 May, 1881, Miss Laura Elizabeth Pearson, a cousin to his first 
wife, born in the same house in which his first wife was born, to 
John and Eleanor-Jenness Pearson, 20 Dec, 1841. 

Mr. Perley spent his youth upon the farm in the irregularly al- 
ternating experiences of farmer, shoemaker and butcher. Those 
were the old-fashioned days of farming and shoemaking and butcher- 
ing. He attended the district school only one term after his twelfth 
year. He left home at the age of twenty, and began study in the 
Topsfield Academy, having no thought of a course of study at the 
time. The second winter following he taught in the sixth district, 
Roylston, Mass. — his first term. The four subsequent winters he 
taught in his native district. Afterwards he taught in Boxford, also 
a grammar school "at town," in Ipswich, and one term of the boys' 
winter school in Gloucester, where and when another school of the 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 539 

same grade was kept by an instructor and a policeman. He was 
twelve years a teacher of youth. 

He entered and graduated with the class of '63 in Dartmouth 
College. He was a Delta Kappa Epsilon, a Social Friend, a 
"Theolog," a theological trustee, was elected class poet, but retain- 
ing the honor declined the service and was granted the master's 
degree in 1883. Much to his disadvantage, he lost all his junior 
year but nine weeks, the summer term, by his father's death and 
the consequent detention in caring for the business and settling the 
estate. During his senior year he was drafted for service against 
the Rebellion, but was exempted for physical disability. 

While visiting in Orleans County, Vermont, the fall after gradu- 
ation, he responded to a general request of the citizens to teach a 
term in the old Brownington Academy. Thus introduced to the 
higher grade of schools, he was enabled to effect a contract with the 
trustees of the Danville ( P. Q. ) Academy, and the spring term fol- 
lowing he opened that institution as proprietor and principal. He 
took the school with thirty-seven scholars and at the end of the fall 
term, 1865, left it with one hundred and twenty. His teachers' class 
was very successful. The examinations of those students before 
the County Board of Examiners for teachers' diplomas, the local 
journal said, were a "high compliment to both the candidates and 
their instructor." The labor commensurate with these results and 
the want of robust health conspired to effect a change in employment. 

On St. Valentine's Day, 1866, he located in Gloucester, Mass., 
and began trade in millinery and ladies' furnishing goods. He was 
successful in this also. In a few years he opened a second store in 
Lawrence, and did the second largest business of the kind in the 
County. In 1872 he combined both of his stores in one in Lewiston, 
Me., but in less than a month, a fire consumed nearly all and ren- 
dered worthless the rest. His insurance was among the risks ren- 
dered valueless by the great Boston fire of that time and he lost all. 

His next venture was to resuscitate the Gloucester Telegraph, 
but wanting ample means and a knowledge of how-to-do-it, success 
failed to crown the effort. 

For several years he sustained in " The Cove Village," Glouces- 
ter, a religious service and a Sunday school. It was a Sunday and 
Wednesday evening work, with an audience of from fifty to eighty 
persons. In the Sunday school he had the assistance of church 
members living there. The general work was a social pleasure and 
to the churches at town religiously helpful. l~his memory is among 
his most gratifying ones, and the silver fruit of the Christmas trees 
is among his choicest mementos. 

Removing, then, to Springfield, Mass., he was variously engaged, 
but chiefly with Forbes & Wallace, wholesale merchants in dry 
goods, and with the Fisk Mfg. Co. With the latter he was travel- 
ing agent for the introduction of their celebrated Japanese soap. 
He conducted for three years, through the New England States, 
three men and the handsomest four-in-hand team of dapple grays, on 
the road. With the death of the managing partner in the company 
perished a design to canvass the State of New York and the West, 
and Mr. Perley returned to his native home. 



540 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

In 1883 he was principal of the Academic Institute, Topsfield, 
Mass., but after a few months resigned and engaged as a principal 
in the public schools of Ipswich, where he remained four years, re- 
signing only for a position as editor of the Ipswich Chronicle, where 
he remained till the paper changed proprietors. He was then vari- 
ously employed as correspondent of Boston and Salem newspapers, 
as maker and publisher of directories, as editor of the Ipswich In- 
dependent, as computer and publisher of a farmer's almanac for a 
series of years beginning with 1890, as substitute principal of the 
Topsfield High School, a year or more, while the principal was sick, 
and as publisher of The Essex-County Historical and Genealogical 
Register, — till the fall of 1898, when he went to the management 
of The Haven House, Portsmouth, N. H., where he served the pub- 
lic till the fall of 1902. Since the latter date he has done no work, 
except the compiling of this history and genealogy, the same disa- 
bility that drove him from the farm in 1855, and that exempted him 
from martial service in 1868, now confining him to the house. 

Mr. Perley has written little except of an ephemeral nature. He 
delivered the address at a public anniversary of Neptune Temple 
of Honor, at Gloucester, and, on another and similar occasion, a 
poem, both of which were published. His address before an Essex 
Institute field-meeting, at Linebrook, was published by The Insti- 
tute. His concise history of his native town was published in J. W. 
Lewis & Co.'s two-volume History of Essex County. He was city 
and correspondence editor of The Salem Telegram. His historical 
address before the reunion of Topsfield Academy students was em- 
belished with portraiture and published by the Topsfield Historical 
Society. He has written volumes of society gossip, many articles of 
local history, and has done much editorial work, all within the 
province of the weekly and daily newspapers. These all served 
their day with fair acceptance. 

Mr. Perley looks very much like his photograph ; the sealer of 
weights and measures in 1897 placed his avoirdupois at 184 pounds; 
Uncle Sam measured off five feet and eight and a third inches ot 
him in 1863; he has drank no liquor and eschewed tobacco; he has 
held no political office, and never asked a man to vote for him; he 
is an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Malta; he was a long time a 
Sunday school superintendent and teacher, several years sustained a 
mission service, and has been more than forty years a member of the 
Linebrook church. 

His first wife was educated at the Craftsbury (Vt.) Academy 
and the Topsfield (Mass.) Academy, where she took a teacher's 
diploma. She taught the Linebrook school in Ipswich, with marked 
success. She was preceptress of the Brownington Academy with 
her husband as principal and was only by family cares prevented from 
occupying the same office at Danville. She was a good scholar, 
acquired knowledge easily and was apt in imparting it. 

The gentle qualities of her mind and heart won esteem and made 
lasting friends. While at Linebrook, during many years of her 
young womanhood, she cordially co-operated with those of her years 
and younger in their plans and purposes, and at the same time was 
particularly social with the older people, among whom, and worthy 




CARKIE. 

WARRE^^ HOUACE. 

EDITH. 



EDDIE. 



HERBERT, 
LOTTA. 



OUR SEVEN. 





MISS EDITH F. I'KULKY. 



WARREN H. PERLEY. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 54I 

of special mention, was Mrs. Ruth Conant (page 88), who had been 
the lustrous star of her church and society, and whose lingering twi- 
light was radiant with Christian love. 

While in her girlhood she became spiritually thoughtful; she 
loved the gospel story; her conversion is believed to date as early as 
her tenth year. At the age of thirteen she was considered eligible 
to church fellowship and was admitted 4 July, 1852. Her walk was 
blameless; she lived a life of faith and prayer. In prosperity she 
was modest and thankful; in adversity, patient and hopeful. She 
was a true friend, a careful housewife, a dutiful, affectionate and 
praying mother, a devoted wife. Her epitaph reads: "Faithful to 
the Lord." 

His second wife was for many years a milliner and fancy goods 
dealer in Craftsbury, Vt., where, 3 March, 1867, she became a mem- 
ber of the Congregational church. For four years she was proprie- 
tress of The Haven House and Cafe, Portsmouth, N. H. In com- 
ing to this family, she became the motherly guardian of several 
young children, and their- mature life is a living monument to her 
Christian character, her social worth, her observance of duty and 
motherly care; and it is a gratifying encomium that the children, in 
their maturity, regard her with filial love. 

1 Perley children : Eugene Horace465, Warren Healy^ Carrie 
Elizabeth^ Edwin Goethe"*, Van Herbert-466, Edith Florence'^ Lotta 
Ella-467. 

2 Warren H.^ was born 7 Oct., 1862, in Linebrook, and died in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., through a drug-clerk's mistake, 5 June, 1884. He 
was a telegrapher, and loved the work. When learning he walked 
eight miles each way each day for the sake of practice under the skillful 
guidance of his Aunt Sarah M. Pearson. In the work he was am- 
bitious to excel as a rapid and reliable operator. The Springfield 
(Mass.) office commended him thus: "W. H. Perley has been em- 
ployed here as operator for the last year. He is a steady young 
man and reliable." A New York office wrote: "Warren H. Perley 
has been employed in this office as operator one year and a half, 
during which time his conduct has been in every respect unre- 
proachable. I strongly recommend him as a very fine operator and 
thoroughly reliable." 

The local journal reads: "Mr. Perley was a telegrapher. He 
began as messenger-boy and ended as assistant-manager of the Wall 
Street office (New York City) of the Bankers & Merchants. He 
was competent in all the intermediate steps, and manipulated with 
ease the various instruments used in common and rapid telegraphy. 
He was said to be one of the very few most rapid operators in New 
England. He also learned to write and speak the Spanish language, 
and was a fair stenographer. His life, though short, was long, 
because he toiled long. In his nineteenth year, he entered New 
York City a stranger and alone, and succeeded where thousands 
fall. His associates were generally those of mature age, in business 
life and of settled character. He was well known in several of the 
leading mercantile houses, among whom he hoped to have a reputa- 
tion when his language attainments might command for him an 
attractive salary as confidential clerk. He worshiped with Mr. 



542 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

Beecher's people, and has left a gratifying hope that he rests in 
peace. 

3 Carrie' was born 26 Sept., 1864, in Danville, and died in Glouces- 
ter 5 Feb., 1868. She was a gentle and affectionate spirit. Her 
death was caused by a severe burn. Mrs. Ellsworth-51^" pays her, 
in the Salem Gazette, the following tribute : 

LITTLE CARRIE. 

Sweet 1)11(1 of promise! Mortal eyes 

Shall ne'er behold thy bright unfolding. 

Transplanted to a genial clime, 

Thy loveliness shall far exceed 

ICarth's fairest flowers. Angelic forms 

Shall bend, with wondering joy. 

O'er thy expanding charms, and learn, 

Trom thy celestial grace, of Him, 

Whose hand thy radiant beauty formed. 

O glorious destiny! 

To leave this cold, dark world so soon! 

Not here to feel its chilling blast. 

Not here to droop 'neath scorching suns; 

Kut spring, eternal spring, shall give 

Eternal beauty there. 

4 Edwin^ was born in Gloucester 27 Aug., 1866, and died there 
of cerebro-meningitis 27 May, 1872. He was a chubby, sweet-faced, 
dutiful, pleasant-mannered boy of hopeful promise. 

5 Edith' was born in Gloucester 7 June, 1874. She graduated 
in the class of '93 of the Ipswich High School. She taught one and 
a third years in the Willowdale District of that town and then three 
years in the Linebrook District. [The school in this district was 
established during the childhood of her great-grandfather. In that 
school her great-grandfather, her grandfather and grandmother, her 
father and herself were taught, and of that school her grandmother, 
her mother, her father and herself were teachers.] Leaving Line- 
brook, she taught two terms in the public schools of Reading, when 
she resigned and accepted a position as assistant in the grammar 
grade of" Lancaster (N. H.) Academy, where the following year she 
became teacher of history and English in the high school depart- 
ment and directress of music and drawing in the grades. She has 
taught eight consecutive years and lost, during that long period, 
only two days. 



FAMILY 376: BIXBY. 



LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-!, TIIIOTITV-O. STEPHEX-19, ALLEX-4:.', JOHX-9..', JOH^M96. 

LYDIA ANN PERLEY was born in Topsfield 7 April, 1828, 
and Nov., 184.5, married George Bixby, who was born 3 Aug, 1822, 
to Daniel and Sarah-Towne Bixby of Topsfield. They lived many 
years in Topsfield, later in Bradford. He was a shoemaker. 

1 Bixby children: Elvira'-, Georgianna^ Lewis Lester^ Lydia 
Ann'^ John Perley.^ 

2 Elvira' was born 14 April, 1846. She became 3 May, 1863, 
the second wife of Isaac Henry Clapp, brother to Frederic-369, and 
born in Boston, 1839. They resided in Lynn. She joined the Con- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 543 

gregational church in Danvers in July, 1876. His first wife was 
a Crowell of Topsfield, who left one child, Henry Frederic. He was a 
shoe cutter by trade. Bixby-Clapp issue: Florence E., born 9 May, 
1864, in Georgetown, where she died 11 May, 1864; Charles or Clarence 
Franklin, born 9 June, 1865, and died of lung-congestion 6 July, 
1865; Harriet Etta, born 18 Jan., 1867; Jennie Elvira Julia, born 16 
Oct., 1869, in Boxford; Charles Granville, born 26 Feb., 1872; Lizzie, 
born 15 and died 17 Sept., 1873, in Georgetown. 

3 Georgianna^ was born 19 April, 1848. She was educated at 
Georgetown High School. She married John Elliot of Bradford, 
Nov., 1870. He joined the Portland Street Baptist Church, Haverhill, 
1874. He is by occupation a school teacher and shoemaker in Brad- 
ford. Issue: Florence Ann, Miriam Alberta, Mabel Luella. Per- 
haps the following refers to this family: "Mrs. Elizabeth Elliott, 
wife of George Perley Elliott of Manchester, N. H., married, 6 Oct., 
1904, was taken sick, while spending their honeymoon in Grafton, 
Mass., and, having been removed to a hospital in Worcester, Mass., 
died there 24 Nov., 1904." 

4 Lewis L.^ was born 25 April, 1850, and some years ago from 
mental alienation was taken to the asylum. John P.^ was born 
6 June, and married a Smith of Georgetown, where they reside with- 
out issue. 

5 Lydia A.^ was born 19 May, 1851, and 6 Nov., 1871, married 
Edward O. Douglass of Plaistow, N. H. He was a blacksmith, with 
shop in Haverhill and home in Bradford. They are members of the 
Baptist church, Plaistow, and of a Temperance Reform Club. She 
was educated at the Georgetown Pligh School. He served in the 
Navy against the Rebellion, and is a member of the G. A. R. Their 
children : Georgia Maud, Bessie Frances. 



FAMILY 377: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. TrMOTHY-G. STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-4^, JOHN-9'.i, 
HUMl'HREY-197. 

ELBRIDGE PERLEY was born S Aug., 1847, in Topsfield. 
He settled in Boxford, and was for many years of the firm Perley 
Bros., blacksmiths and carriage builders. They were skillful in their 
manufacture and faithful in the quality of their work. He has a fine 
property there, the fruit of his handicraft. He has held no civic 
office except that of constable. 

Mr. Perley married 6 Aug., 1874, P'annie Rebecca Danforth, 
born in Salem 20 Oct., 1854, to John and Agnes-Nason Danforth of 
Boj'ford. 

1 Perley children : Agnes Eunice'-, Grace-, Helen Josephine.'^ 

2 Agnes' was born 22 Feb., 1878, and died 7 Feb., 1880; Grace' 
was born 22 Dec, 1880. She was educated at the Salem Normal 
School, and is a successful school teacher. 

3 Helen J.' was born 16 March, 1884. She married in Boxford 
29 July, 1902, Leverett Lincoln Eaton of Ipswich, where he is, by 



544 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

trade, a gardener. He was born 29 July, 1882, in Hamilton, to 
Mary Elizabeth-Dodge and Abraham L. Eaton, a carriage builder. 
Eaton issue: Elbridge Perley, born in Ipswich 10 Sept., 1905. 



FAMILY 378: CHASE. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-l,TIM0TnY-6. STEPHEN-19,ALLEN-42, JOHN-92. 
HUMPHREy-197. 

EMILY JANE PERLEY was born 24 Sept., 1849, in Tops- 
field. She married 15 Jan., 1882, in Topsfield, Frank William 
Chase, who was born in Haverhill 30 June, 1854, to Amos Parker 
and Elizabeth Allen-Rowe Chase. They succeed to the estate of her 
father in Boxford as their home. 

1 Chase children: Mary Lizzie*, Humphrey Perley'', Eunice 
Florence'^ Amos Parker*. 

2 Mary^ was born in West Newbury 24 Sept., 1882; EuniceVin 
Georgetown 9 Feb., 1886; Amos\ in West Boxford 24 Jan., 1889, 
where he died 26 April, 1890. 

3 Humphrey^ was born in Georgetown 19 March, 1884. He 
went to sea, visited England, Africa and the West Indies, and was 
lost in a storm about 1900. 



FAMILY 379: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-l.TIMOTIIY-fi. STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42, JOHN-92, 
HUMPHREY-1t«7. • 

HUMPHREY PERLEY was born in Topsfield 25 Nov., 1854. 

He is a blacksmith by trade, and was for many years associated with 
his brother Elbridge in carriage building. Their business and work 
were in good repute over the County. After his marriage he located 
in Haverhill, in the same work. 

He married, in Groveland, 30 May,- 1901, Mrs. Martha Helen- 
Torr, born in Newmarket, N. H., 14 May, 1862, to Anna-Robinson 
and Vincent M. Torr, a merchant tailor. They reside m Groveland, 
without children. 



FAMILY 380: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTHY-6. STEPHEN-19. ALLEN-42, JOHN-92, 
HUMPHREY-197. 

SIDNEY PERLEY was born in Boxford, Mass., 6 March, 1858. 
He was educated in the public schools of his native town, by private 
study, and at Boston University Law School, from which he grad- 
uated in 1886, with the degree of LL. B. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk Bar 20 July, 1886; and opened a law office in Salem in Sep- 
tember following. For the first five years and a half his office was in 
the King block, 256^ Essex street, and since 16 Jan., 1891, in the 
Holyoke building, 114 Washington street. He has a large and 
lucrative practice, having attained high rank in the profession. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 545 

The only elective public offices he has held are auditor of his 
native town from 1881 to 188(5, and member of the board of education 
of the city of Salem, 1900 to 1903, serving on the drawing committee 
and as chairman of the committee on examination of teachers. 

In politics, he was identified with the Prohibition party, being its 
candidate for attorney general, councilor and clerk of courts; and for 
the last three or four years has voted the Republican ticket. On 
the no-licerise ticket he has, also, been a candidate for mayor and 
alderman in the municipal elections in Salem. 

He was the president of the Hadley Rescue Mission, which 
carried on a work of far-reaching and powerful influence in the last 
decade. He has always been active in Christian work of every kind, 
though, because of his firm belief in the necessity of the unity of 
the church, he has joined none of the sects. Few men in Salem are 
more highly regarded for democratic ideas, integrity, character and 
subservience of all things to the higher life. 

Mr. Perley indulges his pen as an artist and a poet. His skill and 
taste are shown by several illustrations in this history, and by maps 
and other illustrations in his and other publications. His poetry of 
description or sentiment is attractive in style and ennobling in 
thought. The following is a specimen never before published : 

THE EBB OF LIFE. 
The tide has turned! An hour ago 

I seemed upon Its flood to be; 
But now the ebb begins to flow 

And slowly moves me out to sea. 

The tide has turned! How long it seemed 

Since reaching manhood's early prime; 
Life knew no bounds; I scarcely dreamed 

That I was limited by time. 

The tide has turned! I worked and planned 

And lived and thought as though the day 
Would always last; but from the land 

The waters bear me now away. 

The tide has turned! Old friends I had 

Have on the former billows gone ; 
Alone I start, thoughtful and sad; 

Oh, favoring wind, speed thou me on! 

Behind I leave but little now: 

Seaward I turn without regret; 
My only fear, that I allow 

Too much of earth to hold me yet. 

Oh, glorious day, when earth and sense. 

Their limitations I shall flee; 
No more to learn my impotence! 

Nor want be longer known to me. 

Oh, precious da.v,when love is free. 

And he that lovest most is king; 
And naught exists to hinder me 

From any noble thought or thing. 

Mr. Perley became interested in genealogical and historical in- 
vestigation at the age of seventeen, and his effort in this direction 
has increased with the years. He published his History of Boxford 
at the age of twenty-one, dating the preface on his twenty-first 
birthday. For the last twelve years, as time permitted, he has 
searched the titles to land in the present city of Salem, to show the 



546 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



location of the early lots of land, houses, streets, lanes and 
original water boundaries, and the work is nearly completed. He 
has done a similar work in the center of Haverhill and Newbury- 
port, and in parts of Georgetown, Ipswich and Topsfield. He has, 
also, far-advanced the preparation of a genealogical dictionary of 
Essex County, to the year 1800. No one is as well acquainted as he 
with the history, genealogy and localities of the County. He is one 
of the founders and editor of The Essex Antiquarian, a quarterly 
magazine devoted to the biography, genealogy, history and antiquities 
of Essex County. This is a work now in its tenth year, with growing 
reputation, authority and usefulness. Most of the contents of the 
magazine are from his pen. He has done royal work in the records 
for the Perley Famil}^ History. 

Mr. Perley was admitted a member of the New England Historic- 
Genealogical Society at the age of nineteen, and of the Essex Insti- 
tute at the age of twenty-one. As a member of the Institute, he 
has been one of the Library and Publication Committee for many 
years, and is chairman of the Committee on History. 

Few men can point to greater activity and usefulness in their life 
work. Besides the editing of several historical works, and the con- 
tributions of hundreds of articles that do not bear his name, he is 
the author of the following described bound volumes: 

"History of Boxford, Mass.," 1880, cloth, illustrated, octavo, 410 
pages. 

"Goodridge Memorial," 1884, cloth, illustrated, large octavo, 78 
pages. 

"Poets of Essex County, Mass.," 1889, 
cloth, small octavo, 214 pages. 

"Historic Storms of New England," 1891, 
cloth, octavo, 341 pages. 

"Dwellings of Boxford, Mass.," 1893, cloth, 
illustrated, octavo, 275 pages. 

"Law of Interest," 1893, .sheep, octavo, 
483 pages. 

"Adjudicated Forms," 1895, sheep, oc- 
tavo, 593 pages. 

"Mortuary Law," 1896, sheep, small 
octavo, 220 pages. 

" Practice in the Probate Court of Mas- 
sachusetts," 1898, sheep, small octavo, 377 
pages. 

"Practice in Personal Actions in the 
Courts of Massachusetts," 1902, sheep, octavo, 
728 pages. 

Mr. Perley married, 11 June, 1889, Harriet 
Hood Spofford, who was born in Georgetown, 
Mass., on the original Spofford homestead, 10 Dec, 1861, to George 
Milton and Sarah Peabody-Hood Spofford-87^ Mrs. Perley is a 
graduate of the Georgetown High School, and subsequently a special 
student in the State Normal School at Salem. She taught school 
for several years in East Bridgewater and Carlisle. She is a mem- 
ber of the P'irst (Congregational) Church in Georgetown, and is 
interested in missions. 




SPOFFORD ARMS. 




SIDNEY PERLEY 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 547 

Their home is in Salem at 21 Fairmount street, and they are 
attendants at the Tabernacle Church, where both are teachers in 
the Sunday school. 

1 Perley children : Eleanor Spofford'-, Richard Hood^ 

2 Eleanor^'was born 9 Oct., 1894; Ricbard\ 17 Oct., 1898. 



FAMILY 381: SCOTT. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. TIMOTHY-6, STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42, JACOB-94, JACOB-'.;00. 

MARY JEWETT PERLEY was born 26 May, 1844, in Ips- 
wich and 22 April, 1866, married in Boxford Benjamin Smith Scott, 
who was born 28 Feb., 1836, to Samuel and Mary-Smith Scott of 
Rowley. He was a farmer, who for his skill and diligence harvested 
excellent returns. He was esteemed in his neighborhood, beloved 
in his family, a yeoman citizen. He died of pneumonia 2 Oct., 1883, 
in Rowley, where his widow resides. 

1 Scott child : Ella Frances^ 

2 Ella F.^ was born 7 May, 1869, in Rowley. She married in 
Rowley 28 June, 1894, William Francis Addison of Newton, N. H., 
who was born 7 Feb., 1867. He is a miller by trade; they reside in 
Rowley. 



FAMILY 382: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-t, TIMOTHY-G. STEPHEN-19, ALLEN 42, JACOB-94, JACOB-200. 

ORRIN WESTON PERLEY was born in Rowley, Mass., 20 
June, 1849— Rowley records 1848. He married 9 Oct., 1875, Mary 
Augusta Saunders, who was born in Ipswich 18 Feb., 1856, to Lucy 
Perkins-Hobbs and Amos Nelson Saunders, a farmer. A divorce 
was granted 25 March, 1895. Their children were all born in Rowley. 
[Mrs. Perley married, second, 6 Sept., 1904, Frank L. Frost, a 
blacksmith, aged forty years, son of Julius B. and Sarah A. -Weeks 
Frost of Rowley.] 

1 Perley children : Mary Augusta'-, Raiter Weston^, Ella Marena*, 
John Pickard^ Hattie EtheP. 

2 Mary A.^ was born 25 Dec, 1876, and married in Rowley 12 
Sept., 1892 — Rowley records 1893, — John Frederic Leavitt, a heel 
cutter, born m Portland, Me., 16 Feb., 1866, to John and Mary-Berry 
Leavitt. Leavitt issue: PYederic Perley, born Saturday, 30 Dec, 
1893 ; Ethel May, born Thursday, 21 March, 1895 ; George Lawrence, 
born PViday, 12 June, 1896; Levi Weston, born 8 July, 1897; 
William H., born 21 Oct, 1898 ; Charles Malcolm, born 5 Nov., 1899; 
Annie Frances, born 27 Feb., 1901; Harold, born 29 Sept., 1902. 

3 Raiter W.^ was born 1 Nov., 1878. Hattie E.' was born 10 
Jan., 1885. 

4 Ella M.' was born 21 Dec, 1880, and 19 Feb., 1898, married 
Walter S. Smith, a heel cutter, aged twenty, born in Georgetown, 
Mass., to Edward F. and Annie F.-Currier Smith. Smith issue: 



5^8 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Ella Perley, born 31 March, 1899; Austin William, born 29 Nov., 
1900; Beatrice Gertrude, born 9 Aug., 1902. 

5 John P.^ was born in Newbury, Mass., 29 Dec, 1882. He mar- 
ried in Rowley 30 Jan., 1904, Bertha Arvilla Ricker, who was born 
16 July, 1884, to Edward M. and Frances Lillian-Spiller Ricker. He 
is a heel cutter by trade. They reside in Rowley. 



SEVENTH GENERATION. 



FAMILY 383: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, .TOIIX-2. THOMAS-8. AMOS-20, NATHANIEL-46, AMOS-95, 

CHARLES-iice. 

THOMAS WOOD PERLEY was born in Boxford 21 Jan., 1831. 
He was always a cripple. Many years he kept a restaurant in Tops- 
field. He married 16 Dec, 1857, Harriet Lake Gould, daughter of 
Andrew and Mary Prudence-Lake Gould of Topsfield. Her birth 
was in Boxford 17 May, 1837. He died in Topsfield 9 Feb., 1871, 
and she married, secondly, Calvin W. Fuller, son of Benjamin and 
Esther- Wilkin s Fuller of Topsfield, 24 Aug., 1873. Fuller, a native 
of Hudson, N. H., in 1835 was shoemaker in Topsfield. 

1 Perley child: Charles Proctor, born 30 Aug., 1859, and died of 
congestion of the lungs, 26 Dec, 1866. 



FAMILY 384: KNIGHT. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOHN-2. TIIOMAS-8, .\.MOS-20, XATHANIEL-46, AMOS-95, 

I-'REDERIC-ms. 

ALMIRA PUTNAM PERLEY was born in Topsfield 5 July, 
1827, and married 11 June, 1849, in Nashua, N. H., Williard Knight 
of Wakefield, Mass., where he (1905) resides. He was born in 
Middleton, Mass., 19 May, 1824, to Phihp and Annie-Simonds 
Knight. She died in Wakefield 24 Nov., 1897. 

1 Knight children : George Williard", Wallace Perley'\ Mira 
Perley^ Frederic Proctor^ Charles Greenleaf^ Willie'^ and Willis'^, 
Clarence Putnam'"', Arthur Philip'', Ernest Amos^ Mary Alice". 

2 George W.' was born in Middleton 22 July, 1849, and married 
9 or 20 March, 1875, Eva Louise Thomas of Boston, where she was 
born 20 March, 1855. (As Nellie Louise FuUerton, she was adopted 
by Jacob Fullerton, a wholesale dealer in tea and coffee and a deacon 
of the Old South Church, Boston.) Their home was Newton High- 
lands. Mr. Knight was a traveling salesman of silks and died in 
Mattapan 8 Sept., 1894. His wife died in 1893. Knight children: 
Lillian Studley'; Edith Mary and Ethel Almira, born 4 April, 1877 — 
the latter died 19 Aug., 1877. 

3 Wallace P.^ was born in Salem 9 Aug., 1851, and died in Dan- 
vers 18 April, 1873. Mira P.^ was born 17 June, and died 19 Sept., 



HISTORY AlSfD GENEALOGY 549 

1853, in Salem. Charles G.^ was born in Salem 25 Sept., 1856, and 
died in Wakefield 24 Dec., 1875. Willie^ and Willis\ twins, born 29 
June, 1858, in Salem, died there 31 July, the same year. 

4 Frederic P.^ was born in Salem 13 Nov., 1854. He is unmar- 
ried and is engaged in the real estate business in Chicago, 111. 
Arthur P.^ was born in Peabody, Mass., 28 Dec, 1868. He is a 
leather salesman, living in Wakefield. Ernest A.^ was born in Pea- 
body 5 Aug., 1867, and has been for many years with a wholesale 
drug firm in Boston. His home is Wakefield. 

5 Clarence P.^ was born 26 Sept., 1859, in Salem, Mass. He 
married in Brooklyn, Ct., 17 Nov., 1900, Mary Louise Geer, a 
teacher, who was born in Plainfield ( Central Village), Ct., to David, a 
farmer, and Eunice-Witter Geer. Their home is Hartford, Ct., where 
Mr. Knight is engaged as steward in the American School for the 
Deaf. Knight children, born and died in Hartford: Dorothy Cary, 
27 Oct., 1901, died 16 Aug., 1904; David Putnam, 7 Jan., 1904, died 
at birth. 

6 Mary A.^ was born in Peabody 12 Dec, 1869, and married in 
Wakefield 17 Oct., 1894, George P^oster Nowell, cashier B. &M. R. R., 
who was born in Salem, Mass., 23 Jan., 1870. Their home is Read- 
ing, Mass. Nowell children: Foster, born in Salem 26 Aug., 1895; 
Helen, born in Reading 25 Oct., 1898; Bartlett, born in Reading 2 
April, 1900. 

7 Lillian S.' was born 20 Feb., or April, 1876, and married Harold 
Brown of Boston, an electrical engineer. Brown children : Donald 
P'ullerton, born in Boston; Richard Stewart, born in Melrose; Lin- 
coln Torrey, born in London, England, 1903. 



FAMILY 385: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, J()nN-2, TIIOMAS-8, AMOS-20, NATHANIEL4G, AMOS-95, 

FREDERIC-208. 

GREENLEAF PROCTOR PERLEY was born in Topsfield 
13 Oct., 1832. He married. Rev. Daniel Fitz officiating, 29 Nov., 
1860, Anna Charlotte Giddings, daughter of Charles and Charlotte- 
Fellows Giddings of Ipswich, where she was born 16 Dec, 1841, or 
18 Oct., 1842. Their home was Danvers, where he was a shoe man- 
ufacturer. He died 17 Jan., 1900, aged (sic) sixty-six years; she 8 
Oct., 1886. Their estate on Franklin street was bought in June, 
1890, by the Misses Mary and Abbie Kirby. 

1 Perley children: Hattie Proctor'^ Charles William Giddings^ 

2 Hattie P.^ was born 25 or 23 June, 1863, and died of cholera in- 
fantum 15 Aug., 1863. 

3 Charles W. G.' was born in Danvers, Mass., 30 May, 1865. 
He married in Somerville, Mass., 27 March, 1890, Lena May Wash- 
burne, who was born in Brattleboro, Vt., 13 Oct., 1873, to George 
Washington and Stella Beulah- Adams Washburne. Dr. Perley re- 
sides in Somerville; his dental office is in Boston. 



FAMILY 386: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOIIX-2. THOMAS-S, AMOS-20, NATHANIEL-46, AMOS-95, 

AMOS PROCTOR-;i09. 

CHARLES NATHANIEL PERLEY was born in Danvers 20 
Feb., 1851. He was educated in the public schools of his native 
town. He succeeded to the "old corner" grocery business in 1886. 
After graduating from the Holten High school he commenced his 
business career with his father. He owns the building in which his 
store is located and the building — the post office building — adjoining. 
He was appointed postmaster by President Cleveland in 1886 and by 
President McKinley in January, 1896. He made a very exemplary 
and efficient postmaster in introducing reform and systematizing the 
business. He is a member of Mosaic Lodge of Masons, is a Reader 
in the Episcopal church, has been a number of years selectman of 
the town, and a representative to the Legislature. He takes a just 
pride in the ancestral "old corner," conducts an extensive busi- 
ness, and is very popular with the people. 

He married in Dan vers, 13 Dec, 1876, Ella P"rances Woodbury, who 
was born in Dan vers 16 Nov., 1852, to Tristram and Sarah Wilds- 
Wallis Woodbury. 

1 Perley children, born in Danvers: A son'", Bertram Proctor^, 
Marian Woodbury'^ Sarah Edith-, Rollin Harmon'-, Charles Nathan- 
iel'-'. 

2 Bertram ?.\ 29 July, 1879, a grocer, residing in Danvers ; Marian 
W.\ 20 July, 1880; Sarah E.\ 24 Dec, 1882; Rollin H.^, 18 March, 
1886; Charles N.\ 18 March, 1891; a son', stillborn 2 June, 1878. 



FAMILY 387: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOIIN-2. THOMAS-8, A3IOS-20, NATHANIEL-16, JESSE-J:6, 

FRANCIS-210. 

OSGOOD PERLEY was born in Boxford 13 April, 1815. He 
was a farmer and a teamster in Topsfield most of his life. Later he 
was engaged in an express business. He married, 7 April, 1840, Rev. 
J. F. McEwen officiating, Ann Maria Lake, daughter of Silas and 
Phebe-Batchelder Lake of Topsfield. She was born in Middleton 
25 Oct., 1818, and died 12 Aug., 1875. He died 8 Jan., 1886, aged 
(sic) seventy years, six months, fourteen days. 

1 Perley child : Francis Eugene.'- 

2 Francis E.^ was born 30 Oct., 1845, in Topsfield. He began on 
his own account as clerk in Medford, Mass., and is now a commercial 
traveler. He married 16 Dec, 1874, Geraldine Aretta Cudworth, 
born 6 Jan., 1852, to William Marshall, a ship-wright, and Mary Cath- 




C. N. PEIILEY. 




C. N. PERLEY'S STORE. 



55'2 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

erine-Benton Cudworth. She is a lineal descendant of Thomas H, 
Benton of the U. S. Senate. Perley child: William Marshall, born 
in Medford 1 June, 1870. He is a chemist. He married 26 April, 
1899, Margaret Blackhurst WTiitworth, who was born in Boston 23 
Feb., 187(j, to Thomas and Emma-Blackhurst Whitworth. Their 
child: IMargaret Cudworth, born 23 May, 1901. 



FAMILY 388: HOOD. 



LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOHX-2. THOMAS-S, AMOS-20, NATHANIEL-46, JESSE-96, 

FRAXCIS-L'IO. 

LOUISA PERLEY was born 20 Sept., 1816, and 20 Oct., 1837, 
married her neighbor, George W. Hood, who was born 9 Jan., 1808, 
to Francis and Hannah-Gould Hood-367 of Boxford. They lived 
first in Topsfield, then in Putnamville, Danvers. He died in Dan- 
vers 9 Feb., 1892; she 23 Aug., 1902, aged (sic) eighty-three years, 
eleven months and three days. 

1 Hood children: Caroline Amanda-, Charlotte Augusta^ 

2 CaroHne A.^ was born 9 April, 1839, and 27 April, 1860, mar- 
ried Elias Putnam Peabody of Danvers, who was born in Topsfield 
17 Oct., 1836, to Ebenezer and Abigail-Perkins Peabody. He was a 
shoemaker in Danvers. They had no issue. 

3 Charlotte A.^ was born in Topsfield 18 March, 1843, and 11 
April, 1867, married Addison Webb Putnam of Danvers. She died 
16 Sept., the same year, aged twenty-six years and six months. Mr. 
Putnam was a shoemaker in Danvers. 



FAMILY 389: WAITE. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOnN-2. TnOMAS-S, AMOS-ltl, NATHAXIEIr46, JESSE-96, 

FRAXCIS-L'IO. 

CHARLOTTE PERLEY was born 16 Dec, 1818 or 1820, and 
about 1841, in Providence, married William Waite, who was born 21 
Sept., 1811, to William and Elizabeth-Wildes Waite-207 of Tops- 
field, Mass. Mr. Waite's father was drowned at sea 22 Sept., 1817, 
when himself was six, and his sister Elizabeth-207, two years old. 
Mr. W^aite was many years proprietor of the Topsfield and Salem 
express. For eight years previous to his death he was blind from 
cataract. He was a good business man, genial and highly respected. 
He died 2 Aug., 1888. She died 17 Nov., 1843, aged twenty-two 
years. 

1 Waite child : William Francis*. 

2 William F.^ was born in Topsfield 17 Oct., 1843. He married 
in Bethel, Me., 19 July, 1882, ]\Iiss Marietta Frederica Frye, a mil- 
liner, who was born in Bethel 16 July, 1844, to William, a lawyer, 
and Lois-Twitchell Frye. He was shipping clerk for the Snow Flake 
Axle Grease Co., Boston, Mass. He died in Boston 13 Dec, 1900. 
They had no children. His widow married Sidney F. Abbot and 
resides in Andover, Me. 



FAMILY 390: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOIIN-2, THOMAS-8, AMOS-'20, NATHANIEL-46, JESSE-9G, 

FRANCIS-210. 

JOHN FRANKLIN PERLEY was born in Boxford, Mass., 11 
Nov., 1824. He was a carpenter by trade and resided in Topsfield, 
where he owned a small farm. Louisa Ann Whitaker, born in Salem, 
N. H., to Robert and Mary Ann, 13 May, 1822, became his wife 29 
April, 1854, and died 31 July, 1881. He died 15 Nov., 1893, of paral- 
ysis. 

1 Perley children : Mary Louisa-, Wyman Franklin'', Charles 
Lemuel'^ Alice Carrie"*, Lennie Gould'''', Bessie Upton*^, Augustus 
Woodward''. 

2 Mary L.^ was born 24 June, 1854, and married a Roundy and 
resides in Haverhill. Charles L.^ was born 10 March, 1858, and 
died in Topsfield 5 Dec, 18(J0. 

3 Wyman ¥.^ was born in Topsfield 9 May, 1856. He married in 
Dan vers 15 Sept., 1879, Lucinda Cole Morse, who was born in Marble- 
head 17 June, 1861, to James Levi and Carrie-Stone Morse, He is a 
shoemaker and resides in Beverly, Mass. Perley children : Allie May, 
born 1 Feb., 1879, and died aged two years, one month and three days; 
Frank Wyman, born 2(5 July, 1882 ; Arthur Albert, born 11 June, 1888; 
Bessie May, born 11 June, 1893, and died aged twenty-one months. 

4 Alice C was born in Topsfield 8 May, 1859, and married in 
Haverhill, Mass., 15 June, 1881, Butler Noris Glover, a carpenter, 
who was born in Nottingham, N. H., 14 May, 1856, to George, a 
shoemaker, and Lousina Shaw-Tuttle Glover. He died in Exeter, 
N. H., 18 May, 1898. His widow resides in Haverhill. Glover 
issue: Ralph VVyman*'; Ray Winifred"; Blanche Izette, born 7 June, 
1886, in Nottingham, died in Exeter 31 May, 1892; Roswell Wilham, 
born in Nottingham 9 Dec, 1889; Burnice Ina, born in Nottingham 
26 Sept., '1891. 

5 Lennie G.^ was born in Topsfield 17 Aug., 1861. She is by 
trade a shoe stitcher. She married in Haverhill, Mass., 17 July, 
1881, George Atwood Hussey, born in Charlestown, Mass., 30 May, 
1859, to Franklin and Abbie Hussey. Their children, born in Eliza- 
beth City, N. C: Ina Louise, born 19 Feb., 1889; Pearle Bradford, 
born 7 March, 1891, residing at home in Topsfield. 

6 Bessie U.' was born in Middleton, Mass., 29 May, 1863. She 
married in Topsfield 1 Sept., 1882, Albert Munroe Tozier, a shoe- 
maker, who was born in Merrimac, Mass., 15 June, 1860, to Charles 
William, a shoemaker, and Helen Cymanthe-Seaver Tozier. They 
reside in Haverhill, Mass. Tozier issue, born in Plaistow, N. H., 
where the first two died: Charles Perley, 9 March, 1883, died 30 
Aug., 1883; Walter Eugene, 17 April, 1884, died 23 July, 1901; 
Clyde Munroe, 5 April, 1886; George Harold, 24 Sept., 1888; Wil- 
liam Mahlon, 3 Oct., 1890 ; Allen Dudley, 10 Jan., 1895. 



554 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

7 Augustus W.^ was born in Topsfield, Mass., 25 July, 1866. He 

married in Haverhill, Mass., 2 Aug., , Helen Marie Alger, a trained 

nurse, who was born in Northfield, Vt., 25 May, 1867, to William 
Eames, a shoemaker, and Helen Marie-Whittaker Alger. Their 
home is Haverhill, where he is a dealer in meat and provisions. 
Perley children: Everett Alger, born in Plaistow, N. H., 29 Oct., 
1887; Edna Frances, born in Lynn, Mass., 12 July, 1889; Alvah 
Woolcott, born in Rochester, N. Y., 18 April, and died there 15 
July, 1891; John Franklin, born in Rochester 80 March, and died 
there 27 Aug., 1892; Nellie Marion, born in Lynn H Sept., 1895; 
Edwin Augustus, born in Lynn 11 Aug., and died there 14 Oct., 
1896; William Wilfred, born in Haverhill, Mass., 11 Sept., 1903. 

8 Ralph W.^ was born in Haverhill, Mass., 25 May, 1882. He 
married in Exeter, N. H , 4 Sept., 1904, Margaret May Warden, who 
was born in Lawrence, Mass., 16 May, 18SI, to David, a tunnel con- 
tractor, and Mary Jane-O'Connell Warden. Mr. Glover is a shoe 
cutter of Haverhill. 

9 Ray W.-* was born in North wood, N. H., 18 June, 1884. He is 
a shoecutter in Haverhill, Mass. He married in Stratham, N. H., 
29 Jan., 1904, Anna Carter Weeks, who was born in Exeter, N. H., 
16 March, 1885, to Nathaniel Oilman, a shoemaker, and Elizabeth 
Narcissa-Custin Weeks. Glover issue: Dwight Butler, born 18 Aug., 
1905, in Haverhill. 



FAMILY 391: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOliN-2, TIIOMAS-S, AMOS-20, NATHANIEL-46, JESSE-96, 

FRAJsXIS-210. 

NATHANIEL PERLEY was born in Boxford in May, 1827. 
His home was Topsfield, where he died 8 April, 1864. His first wife 
was Mary Ann Moore, born in 1829 to Thomas and Lois-Knowlton 
Moore of Topsfield. She died 20 Oct., 1857. His second wife was 
Mary E. Crowell, born in 1838 or 9 to Josiah and Elizabeth-Phillips 
Crowell of Topsfield, married 28 April, 1863. He died of consump- 
tion 8 April, 1864. His widow married 6 April, 1871, Ira Warner 
Kneeland, son of Aaron Porter and P21izabeth O. -Phillips Kneeland 
of Topsfield, where he was born in 1838. 

1 Perley children: Lois Ann", Nathaniel^ William Nathaniel^ 

2 Lois A.^ was born in Topsfield, Mass., 28 May, 1848, and mar- 
ried there 9 Aug., 1868, Allen Wells Dudley, a farmer, who was born 
in Beverly, Mass., 30 May, 1838, to Josiah, a shoemaker, and Sally- 
Wells Dudley. Their home is Danvers, without children. 

3 NathanieP was born 28 July, 1857, and died 21 May, 1858. 
William N.^ was born 30 Sept., 1863, and died 30 Aug., 1868. 




D. A, PERLEY. 




D. A. PERLEY'S RESIDENCE. 



FAMILY 392: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOHX-2, THOMAS-S, A3IOS-20, NATHANIEL-46, JESSE-96, 

rRAJsrcis-210. 

DEAN ANDREWS PERLEY was born in Boxford, Mass., 31 
Dec, 1830. At the age of fourteen he went to learn the trade of 
blacksmithing with Henry Long-288, Topsfield, working seven years 
for board and clothes. In 1851 he went to California via the Isthmus, 
and remained a year or more. Returning to TojDsfield he copartner- 
shiped with Mr. Long in blacksmithing and stabling. In 1860 he 
bought a blacksmith shop in Dan vers and in 18(53 occupied it. In 
1868 he built his present commodious shop, where, in the business 
of shoeing and repairing, he employs five competent journeymen. 

Mr. Perley married 9 May, 1854, Nancy Adams Towne, born 6 
Sept., 1833, to Samuel, a shoemaker and farmer, and Charlotte- 
Fletcher Towne of Boxford. When they had been married fifty years 
their neighbors came in upon them bearing their good wishes and 
substantial presents and the men of the shop brought a beautiful 
vase. His honesty, genial disposition and diligence in business 
have rewarded him with a competency for the autumn of life. 

1 Perley children: Wallace Holman'-, Annie Gertrude^, Ella 
Marial 

2 Wallace H.' was born in Topsfield 20 Aug., 1855, and died in 
Danvers 14 Dec, 1864. Annie G.^ was born in Topsfield 4 May, 
1858, and is a teacher in the public schools of Danvers. 

3 Ella M.^ was born in Danvers, Mass., 17 Oct., 1864, and mar- 
ried 13 June, 1889, Walter Channing Dunnels, a salesman, who was 
born in Danversport, Mass., 16 Oct., 1863, to John Mender and 
Ellen-Carney Dunnels. They reside in Danversport, Mass. 



FAMILY 393: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JonN-2, THOMAS-8, AMOS-'.iO, NATHANIEL-46, JESSE-96, 

JESSE-211. 

EDWARD PAYSON PERLEY was born in Boxford 10 Nov., 
1836. He was a teamster and expressman in Danvers, Mass. 
Martha P. Barker, born in Danvers 25 Oct., 1831, became his wife, 
12 June, 1861. 

1 Perley child: Pxlward Barker, born in Danvers 20 March, 1862, 
and died 30 Nov., 1863. 



FAMILY 394: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, JOnN-2, TIIOMAS-S, AMOS-.iO, NATHANIEL-46, 
NATHANIEL-97, RICHARI)-213. 

NATHANIEL PERLEY was born 4 March, 1837, in Water- 
ville, Me., to Richard and Hannah-Parker Perley. He was burned 
to death in the hotel, 115 Washington Ave., Minneapolis, Minn., 6 
Jan., 1901, and buried at Chicago, 111. He followed the trade and 
business of his father — ornamental painting. He was a soldier in 
Co. G, 3d Maine Regiment, in the Civil War, where he contracted 
rheumatism so as to unfit him for labor. 

In Waterville, now Oakland, Me., he was married by Rev. A. 
Hitchings, at the parsonage, 12 Dec, 1857, to Florilla Maria Toby, 
who was born in Fairfield 1 Jan., 1841, to Nancy C.-Holbrook and 
Samuel Toby, a contractor. His widow is living in Minneapolis, 
Minn. 

1 Perley children : Frank Holbrook^, Elfreeda Hannah'*, Sherlock 
Henry^ Paul Wellington'-, Caroline Maria'', Richard Nathaniel'', 
Queenie Mary'-, Nancy Eveline'. 

2 Paul W.\ born 13 April, 1868, died at Clinton, la.; Richard 
N.\ born 4 Feb., 1873, died at Oak Park, 111.; O. Mary\ born 4 Oct., 
1875, died at Oak Park, 111. 

3 Frank Holbrook^ was born in Waterville, Me., 27 Dec, 1858. 
He married in Joliet, 111., 11 March, 1880, Gertrude Henrietta Belleas, 
born in Berlin, Germany, 13 May, 1859, to Charles, a farmer, and 
Lena-Boreazel Belleas. He is a landlord in Oak Park, 111. Perley 
issue, born in Oak Park but the last: Gertrude Florilla*'; Adeha 
Florilla (Lena.'') born 31 July, 1883; Annie Bertha, born 2 July, 
1885; Frank Nathaniel, born 1 Nov., 1887, in Harlem, 111., died there 
27 Feb., 1892. 

4 Elfreeda H.^ was born in Waterville, Me., 3 Nov., 1861. She 
learned the dressmaker's trade. She married 5 Jan., 1898, in Minne- 
apolis, Minn., as his second wife, Charles Frederick Scott, who was 
born 28 June, 1857, in Hamburg, Erie County, N. Y., to Hannah-Huff 
and John Scott of Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. Scott is an engineer, and 
resides in Oakland, Cal. Their child, Helen Adelia, was born 18 
May, 1901. 

5 S. Henry^ was born in Waterville, Me., 27 Feb., 1866. He is 
a grocer's clerk. He married 16 April, 1896, in Hudson, Wis., Mrs. 
Anna Marie-Olson Davern, who was born 19 Dec, 1869, to W. H. 
Olson, a farmer, of Sweden. She had one daughter. Hazel, born 5 
Feb., 1890. Perley child: Anita Bernice, born 22 Oct., 1900. 

6 Caroline M.^ was born in Oak Park, 111., 3 April, 1870. She 
married in Osceola Mills, Wis., 25 June, 1893, Charles Henry Dike, 
a machinist, who was born in Osceola Mills 30 June, 1872, to Eva- 
Staples and Henry B. Dike, a lawyer. Their home is Minneapolis, 
Minn., without children. 



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THE PERLEY FAMILY 



7 Nancy E.^ was born in Oak Park 10 Dec, 1877, and married 
in Minneapolis 28 April, 1900, Emerson Engiles Townsend, who 
was born in Newcastle 19 April, 1865, to John and Elizabeth-Welton 




MRS. * ilAi;L,i;.S H. DYKE. 

Townsend. His business is drayage. They reside in Minneapolis, 
Minn. Townsend issue: Helen, born 4 Feb., 1901; Evelyn, born 14 
June, 1903. 

8 Gertrude Florilla'\ born 17 March, 1881, married in Chicago, 
111., 4 Aug., 1900, Charles E. Vanderblue, clerk in R. R. office, born 
in Chicago, 111., 13 Oct., 1873, to Nicholas, a grain inspector, and 
Adelaide-Walters Vanderblue. Issue, born in Oak Park: Frank 
Edward, born and died 5 June, 1901; Sherlock Perley, born 1 Aug., 
1903. 



FAMILY 395: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-S, SAMUEL-12, DAVID-27, JOHN-48, DAVID-102, 

DAVID ERI-2'21. 

JOHN MONROE PERLEY was born in Rowley 12 Jan., 1844. 
In November, 1860, he removed to Georgetown. There he was ex- 
tensively engaged in buying wood and timber lots, and cutting and 




HON. OSBOUNE l". PERLKV. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 559 

marketing their products. He is now located in Wakefield, Mass., 
in the wood and coal business. 

He married, 27 April, 1876, Margaret Howe, born to William 
Appleton and Ruth-Bartlett Howe of Boxford 31 March, 1853. 

1 Perley children : Ethel Howe", Alice Cressey". 

2 Ethel H.' was born in Boxford, Mass., 4 Feb., 1877. She grad- 
uated at Abbot Academy, Andover, in 1898. She married in Wake- 
field, Mass., 22 Oct., 1900, Selden Williams Tyler, born in Haddam, 
Ct., 27 Aug., 1873, to A. Williams, a farmer, and Melissa-Usher 
Tyler. Mr. Tyler is a graduate of Yale College, 1895. He is en- 
gaged in manufacture. Their home is Melrose, Mass. 

3 Alice C.^ was born in Georgetown 13 Nov., 1881, is a student 
in Wellesley College, and resides with her parents. 



FAMILY 396: BRADSTREET. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3, SAMUEL-12, DAVID-27, JOHN-48, DAVID-102. 

DAVID ERI-221. 

MARTHA SCOTT PERLEY was born in Rowley, Mass., 5 
Feb., 1848, and 25 April, 1867, married George Scott Bradstreet, a 
heel manufacturer, born in Ipswich, Mass., 17 Sept., 1842, to Deacon 
Nathaniel and Elizabeth-Scott Bradstreet of Rowley. They lived in 
Beverly until about 1878; then settled in Georgetown. Their 
home (1905) is Beverly. 

1 Bradstreet children born in Haverhill but the last, and all now 
living in Beverly : Ellen May-, Frederic Perley'^ Martha Eval 

2 Ella M.^ was born 9 March, 1868, a bookkeeper; Fred P.\ 21 
Feb., 1870; Martha E.,^ 12 April, 1887, a student. 



FAMILY 397: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3, JOHN-IS, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-52, 
SAMUEL-105, LUTHER LEWIS-227. 

OSBORNE POTTER PERLEY was born in Harrison, Me., 
13 July, 1852. He was an orphan at six years and was tenderly 
cared for in the family of his uncle, David L. Perley. He was edu- 
cated in the Bridgton and Norway Academies, and taught school at 
the age of seventeen years. 

Leaving Maine at the age of nineteen, he became a clerk in a 
general store till 1 May, 1872. At that date he copartnershiped 
with his uncle, A. Thomas Potter, under the firm name of Potter & 
Perley, and conducted a dry goods and groceries trade in Rowley, 
Mass. He purchased his partner's interest 13 July, 1873, and con- 
tinued the business till Sept., 1876, when he sold to Boynton Bros. 
While in Rowley he was called to one of the most important civic 
services in the gift of the town — that of the school board. While 



5tJ0 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

there his business prospered and he grew in public esteem; but the 
sphere of his activity was circumscribed, he was made for broader 
fields of toil, greater activity and a wider range of usefulness. 

Leaving Rowley, he was for a while extensively engaged in ship- 
ping produce from Maine to Boston. Christmas, 1877, he returned 
from a prospecting tour in the West, and the next year, soon follow- 
ing his marriage, he located in Lincoln, Neb. There he was en- 
gaged in farming and buying, raising and selling stock for eight 
years, and prospered. He next located in Broken Bow, County Cus- 
ter, and remained there about seventeen years. The town had a 
rapid growth and was a hustler in business. It was located about 
sixty miles from railroad facilities and was the business center for a 
large suburban territory. There Mr. Perley estabhshed a large de- 
partment store of three floors more than a hundred feet deep. He 
was one of the foremost in organizing the city government and was 
the first mayor, and held the office two terms. He was president of 
the Council for more than six years. He was among the first to rec- 
ognize the need, and to advocate the institution, of a national bank. 
When it came he was among the first officers in the organization. 
He was a director seventeen years, assistant cashier a number of 
years, and ten years a vice president. 

Mr. Perley has shown in ev^ery place a decided ability to handle 
large interests, and even now, having returned to the locality of his 
early business life and located in Ipswich, he is not content with the 
largest store in the town, but has others even larger in other towns. 
His ability has been tried and proved, by years of success, in a wide 
range of experiences. 

Mr. Perley married in Ipswich 10 April, 1878, Mrs. Emma Jose- 
phine-Pickard Bailey of -Rowley, born in Ipswich 30 Jan., 1853, to 
Luther Calvin and Lavinia Day-Spiller Pickard. She married, first, 
30 July, 1874, Leroy Bailey of Rowley, who died 10 Sept., 1874. 
They have no children. 



FAMILY 398: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-S. JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-5^, 
NATHANIEL-] 06, NATHANIEL-229. 

PELEG STONE PERLEY was born in Livermore, Me., 14 July, 
1829. He graduated at Bowdoin College in 1850, and taught school 
for a considerable time. He studied law in Portland, and going 
West settled in the profession in Henry, 111. He removed to 
Phoenix, Ariz., in 1887. 

He married in Sheffield, 111., 8 July, 1858, Nancy Eliza Morrison 
who was born in Ogden, N. Y., 16 Feb., 1836, to Rev. Asa Currier 
and Nancy-Hilton Morrison of Sanbornton, N. H. He died 3 March, 
1898, in Phoenix, Ariz., where she, also, died 25 Dec, 1900. 

1 Perley children, born in Henry, 111. : Nathaniel", Bruce^ Anne 
Morrison^, Grace'', Polly-. 

2 NathanieP was born 8 Aug., 1859, and died 18 Jan., 1862. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 561 

PoUy^ was born 31 Dec, 1873, and died of consumption 3 Nov., 1896. 
Another correspondent says her name was Harriet. 

3 Bruce^ was born 8 April, 1861, and is a mining accountant in 
Bisbee, Arizona. Anne M.^ was born 28 Jan., 1865, and is a decora- 
tor, late of Philadelphia, and is soon to locate in New York (July, 
1905.) 

4 Grace^ was born 20 Feb., 1870. She married in Phoenix, Ariz., 
27 June, 1894, William H. Robinson, secretary of Phoenix Trust 
Company, who was born in Lexington, 111., 24 Sept., 1867, to Henry 
Martyn, a merchant, and Anna Adaline-Fulwiler Robinson. They 
are of Iron Springs, Ariz. Issue born in Phoenix: Dorothy, 5 April, 
1895; Bruce Perley, 2 Sept., 1899. 



FAMILY 399: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL 3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-52, 
NATHANlEL-106, NATHANIEL-229. 

JOHN ALPHONZO PERLEY was born in Livermore, Me., 15 
Oct., 1833. He writes: 

" Born in Maine, my boyhood was as uneventful as could well be 
imagined. In 1855 I migrated west. I arrived in Illinois with little 
money and less brains. I loaned my money at 2 per cent, a month, 
and never a nickel returned. I married in 1860, and located in 
Lacon in the hardware trade, and subsequently in Ambory, Polo 
and Aurora, operating two liveries at Lacon and Henry. This car- 
ries me to 1866, with a boy baby just born, and about $75,000 in 
worldly goods. Laboring under the hallucination that I was smart, 
and engaging in some big enterprise, might get rich, as other men 
were doing, I sold all my stores, stables, etc., in 1868, and engaged 
in the wholesale hardware trade in St. Joseph, Mo. It took me just 
five years to lose $50,000 cash and an A] credit. In August, 1873, 
I failed for $120,000, and paying $92,000 obtained a complete release. 
My self-conceit all knocked out of me, we traded some real estate in 
Illinois valued at a few thousand dollars and belonging to my wife, 
for farm-land in Kansas, where we removed and I have since been a 
' Kansas Rancher,' with indifferent success. I have now 1500 acres 
of good land near Sabetha, about half improved ; 200 head cattle, 
600 hogs, 50 horses, etc. I make a specialty of fine trotting horses, 
and grow about 15,000 bushels corn yearly, etc., etc. 

"I am forty-five years old, five feet ten and a half inches in height, 
weigh 170 lbs., have dark hair, blue eyes, big, sorrel moustache, and 
am decidedly good looking. I have the best wife and finest boy in 
the world, and am myself only Jno. A. Perley." 

Mr. Perley married in Rutland, Vt., 15 Aug., 1860, Lodoisha 
Ashley Bagley, born in Milton, Vt., to Solon B. and Bulah-Woodruff 
Bagley, 28 Sept., 1834. Their home (1905) is Wibaux, Mont., where 
he is a cow and horse rancher. 

1 Perley child: Howard King, born 24 Aug., 1866, in Providence, 
R. I., is a cow rancher, unmarried, in Wibaux, Mont. 



FAMILY 400: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-5^, 
NATHANIEL-106, NATHANIKL-2;^9. 

SAMUEL FRANKLIN PERLEY was born in Livermore, Me., 
4 April, 1837. He was a merchant in his native town; he retired 
several years ago. He married 18 Nov., 1865, Sarah Deborah 
Brettun, born 3 Dec, 1838, to Wm. Henry, Jr., a trader and banker, 
and Mrs. Deborah-Williams-Washburn Brettun of Livermore. Wm. 
Henry Brettun, Jr., was brother to Clarinda-107\ 

1 Perley child: P^lizabeth Brettun, who, born 29 Oct., 1868, lives, 
unmarried, with her parents in Livermore. 



FAMILY 401: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-S. JOHN-13. SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-5?, 
ABRAHAM-108, GEOKGE-23'2. 

MARTIN VAN BUREN PERLEY was born in Gray, Me., 
23 July, 1838. For himself he has always written his name Martin 
Perley and he is known in his business and in official station by 
that name only. Early in life he located in Michigan in lumbering. 
His firm was "Martm Perley & Co.," Muskegon, steam mill-sawyers 
and manufacturers of and dealers in lumber. Later he was engaged 
in building and repairing mills. He served his municipality in sev- 
eral civic offices, and was treasurer of Muskegon County, 1869 to 
1872 inclusive. In 1897 he was manufacturing shingles in Cedar- 
ville. County Mackinac, spending only a short time home winters. 

Mr. Perley married in Muskegon 3 Jan., 1865, Ellen Mattison 
Ruddiman, who was born there 18 Oct., 1844. She died in March, 
1889. 

1 Perley children: Susan, George, Mary Ellen'-. 

2 Mary E.^ was born in Laketon, Mich., 5 Oct., 1869. She says, 
" I am the first student enrolled in the Western State Normal School 
at Kalamazoo, and am in charge of the W^oman's department on the 
Kalamazoo Gazette." She is the editor of that department, a place 
of responsibility and ability. 



FAMILY 402: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-S, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-52, 
ABRAHAM-108, GEORGE-232. 

ROSCOE PERLEY was born in Gray, Me., 10 June, 1841. His 
home is his native town where he is baggage master of the Gray 
station, (1905). 

He married F'rances Louisa Porter, who was born in North Yar- 
mouth 1 Aug., 1844, to Maj.-Gen. Barbour Bartlett and Mary Hale- 
Parsons Porter, and died at her home 20 Sept., 1899. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 563 

1 Parley children, born in North Yarmouth: George Martin^ 
Delia May^, Sumner PennelP, Helen Louise'', Frankie Larabee\ 

'z George M.' was born 15 April, 1868. He married in Boston, 
Mass., 17 Dec., 1895, Matilda Ethel Potter, who was born in Leeds 
Junction, Me., 7 April, 1869, to Silas Holman, a railroad section- 
foreman, and Mary Ann-Hoburn Potter. Mr. Perley is a locomotive 
engineer on the Grand Trunk Railroad and resides in Portland, Me. 
Perley child: Anna Louise, born in North Yarmouth 27 Nov., 1897. 

8 Delia M.^ was born 12 Oct., 1872. She married in Portsmouth, 
N. H., 20 Jan., 1904, George Frank Libby, who was born in Free- 
port, Me., 15 March, , to Greenleaf Rogers and Sarah Roberts 

Libby. Their home is Yarmouthville, Me., where was born their 
child : Philip Caroll, 3 Nov., 1904. 

4 Sumner F.\ born 4 Feb., 1875, is of East Gray. Frankie L.^ 
was born 28 March, 1879, and died in North Yarmouth 4 Dec, 1880. 

5 Helen L.^ was born 13 May, 1877. She married in North 
Yarmouth 3 Oct., 1904, Edward Hollis True, who was born in Port- 
land, Me., 29 Aug., 1875, to Hollis, a farmer, and Elvira Agnes- 
Tomlinson True. Their address is Cumberland Center, Me. 



FAMILY 403: PERLEY. 

LINE.\L DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3. JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, SAMUEL-52. 
ABRAHAM-108, JOHN HUMPHREY --'33. 

ALBION STARBIRD PERLEY was born in Gray, Me., 8 
March, 1843. He was brought up on a farm. When eighteen and 
nineteen he taught in the town schools. About this time, the farm- 
buildings and the stock to the value of some $500 belonging to him 
were burned. His earnings of five years had vanished and he was 
$150 m debt. This determined him, in accord with a long cherished 
desire, to go West. He obtained money for that purpose, thus doub- 
ling his indebtedness, and sailed, via Panama, for San Francisco, 
Cal., 21 April, 1863, a passage of twenty-eight days. He was at that 
time beginning his twentieth year. He obtained employment in the 
lumber business, and continued therein till 1870, when he made an 
eight months' visit to his nativity. Returning, he entered the water 
business, and continued therein. His health requiring a change of 
climate, North Yarmouth, Me. /j ^ 

San Francisco, Cal., in 18 80 ^t^i^iio^^ ^ ^^^'^'^-^-^ ^^^^^^ 

he had crossed the continent ten Thus hp sul>scnbed a photograph a score of 

times. In 1880 he was elected ^'''''^ "s" 

to represent in the Legislature the Yarmouths, for two years. He is 

now engaged in real estate in San P'rancisco (1905). 

He married 19 Feb., 1875, Matilda Hull Cobb. She was born in 
Gray 28 June, 1848, to Ebenezer and Hannah Chase-Haskell Cobb 
of Gray. 

1 Perley children: Albion Edward'% Maud Louisel 

2 Albion E.^ was born in San Francisco, Cal., 17 Aug., 1876, and 
married there 19 Aug., 1903, Ella Lagoni, born in same city 11 April, 



564 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



, to Hans and Dorothea S.-Claussen Lagoni. Their home is 

San Francisco. Perley child: Albion Edward, born 1 Oct., 1904. 
3 Maud L.i was born 21 Aug., 1886. 




ALIUOX STAKHIltl) riOKLlOV 



FAMILY 404: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEiL-3. JOHN-13. SAMUEL-30, SAMnKL-52, 
ABRAHAM-108, JONAS HUMPHREY-236. 

HARRY OTIS PERLEY was born at Portland, Me., on the 
13th of November, 1852. He graduated from the Park Street 
Grammar School, 1864; from the Portland High School, June, 1869; 
entered Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., in the class of 1873. 
His family moved to Detroit, 
Mich., in 1870, and he left 
Bowdoin College and entered the 
sophomore class of the Univer- 
sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 
where he graduated June, 1873, 
with the degree of B. A. He 
took his master's degree in June, 
1876. He began the study of 
medicine 1873, at Detroit Medi- 
cal College, and graduated with first honor-s of his class, April, 1876. 
He then went to Paris, France, for study, and returned in August, 
1876. 

Dr. Perley then entered the army as 1st lieutenant and assistant 
surgeon. He was placed on duty at Fort Monroe, Virginia, at Fort 
Pembina, Dakota, at Fort Assinniboine, Montana, from 1876 to 1881, 




Written a score of years ago. 





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HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 565 

, and at Governor's Island, New York, as staff surgeon for Gen.W. S. 
Hancock, U. S. A. 

From Governor's Island, Capt. Perley (promoted 5 Aug., 1881,) 
returned to the department ot Dakota, serving from June, 1883, 
to August, 1887, at Forts Pembina, Maginnis and Snelling. He 
was then ordered to Fort Wayne, Mich., and served there until 
1890, when he crossed the continent with the 5th U. S. Artillery, 
and was stationed at Fort Mason, Gal. He served as staff surgeon 
on the staffs of Generals Nelson A. Miles, John Gibbon and Thomas 
H. Ruger of the United States Army, when he was ordered to the 
War Department, as one of the assistants to the surgeon general of 
the army. From 1892 he was on duty at Plattsburg Barracks, N.Y., 
until 1894, when he had a year's study at Johns Hopkins Medical 
College, Baltimore, Md. In 1894 he was ordered to command the 
Army and Navy General Hospital, at Hot Springs, Ark., and was pro- 
moted to major and surgeon, U. S. Army, 7 Dec, 1895. While on 
this duty, at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, 1898, he 
examined all the Arkansas Volunteers, and was presented by the 
State with a sword-belt, saddle and bridle, for his services. In 
August, 1899, he was relieved from the Army and Navy General 
Hospital, and ordered to command the hospital ship Relief. He 
was in command of the ship for two years, in the Philippine Islands, 
Japan and China, during the China Relief Expedition. He returned 
to America in Sept., 1901. He was then stationed at Plattsburg 
Barracks N. Y., and at St. Louis, Mo., as medical purveyor for the 
army, at Fort Riley, Kans., and at Fort Logan, Col. In August, 
1904, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and deputy surgeon gen- 
eral of the United States Army, and ordered to West Point, N. Y., 
as chief surgeon of the Military Academy. He now occupies the 
chair of Military Hygiene in the United States Military Academy 
at West Point, a new department (the first new one since 1857) 
lately established by executive order. 

Col. Perley is a member of the Colonial Wars of New York, of 
the Revolutionary Society of New York, of the Society of Foreign 
Wars, and of the Order of the Dragon. 

He married in Governor's Island, N. Y., 23 June, 1883, Kate 
Brooke Baylor, only daughter of Col. Thomas Gregory Baylor of 
the Ordnance Department of the U. S. Army, a grandson of Gen. 
Baylor of Virginia, who served as aide-de-camp to Gen. George 
Washington through the Revolutionary War. She was born at Fort 
Monroe, Virginia, 23 Feb., 1860. Her mother was Louisa Emerson 
Gait, daughter of Maj. John Gait, Ordnance Department of U. S. 
Army. Mrs. Perley was a graduate of Packer Institute, Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 1880. She died at Hot Springs, Ark., 18 March, 1898, leav- 
ing an only child. 

Col. Perley married, second, in Governor's Island, N. Y., 5 Oct., 
1904, Martha Reed Jenks, who was born in Detroit, Mich., 24 Dec, 
1869, to Edward Watrous, M. D., LL. D., and Sarah Reed-Joy 
Jenks. Mrs. Perley is a graduate of the Detroit Classical Institute, 
1890. She is a direct descendant of Reed the Massachusetts signer 
of the Declaration of Independence. 

1 Perley child: Lois Baylor, born 26 July, 1897. 



FAMILY 405: PERLEY. 

Lineal descent— allan-i. samuel-3, john-is, samuel-30, nathaniel-54, 
ebenezer-113, james-241. 

JAMES PERLEY was born in Alexandria, Va., 3 July, 1833. 
The following is clipped from the Jeffersonian Republican of July, 
1890:— 

"James Perley, the proprietor of the large furniture store located 
on corner of Main and Greene streets, is a well-known business man 
and citizen of Charlottesville. He has been engaged in the furniture 
business for thirty-five years, and has gained a reputation for fair 
dealing of which any man could well be envious. He is the pioneer 
of the cabinet making business in Middle Virginia. 

"During the war he was a member of Pickett's famous division. 
After the war he returned to Charlottesville and labored as faithfully 
in the mercantile life as he had bravely in conflict of arms, and as a 
fruit of his labor has built up one of the largest businesses in the 
furniture line in Middle Virginia. Mr. Perley's establishment is 
fully adapted and equipped for the business, and his stock is large 
and well selected. He also conducts the sombre industry of under- 
taking, in which he has been engaged for twenty years. This branch 
is complete in every detail. In business he is assisted by his sons, 
J. V. and John W. 

"Mr. Perley has for many years been treasurer of Charlottesville 



rector of the People's National /I ^,,,,^^v_--c-^ ^*-^^-^ 
Bank and a steward of the Meth- v ■^'^'^'-'*'^^-''^ 



Lodge, A. Y. A. M., also a di- 

odist church. Personally he is / 

genial, kind -hearted, refined, a Iptter subscription within a decade of the 

courteous and public - spirited, «"^ ^^'^''\ convention, istt. 

and very popular with the citizens of Charlottesville." 

Mr. Perley married 26 April, 1855, Mary Jane Moonsy of Al- 
bemarle County, Va., where she was born 20 Sept., 1833. 

1 Perley children, born in Charlottesville, Virginia: James Vin- 
cent'-, Annie Elizabeth^ John William'-, Charles Moses'', Rosa Lee*, 
Mary Virginia'^. 

2 James V.' was born 25 June, 1856; Annie E.\ 11 Sept., 1858; 
John W.', 9 March, 1861 ; Charles, M.\ 29 April, 1866; Rosa L.', 26 
June, 1868; Mary N .\ 29 Oct., 1870. 



FAMILY 406: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-S, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, NATHANIEI.-54. 
SAMUEL-114, SAMUEL-242. 

JAMES PEACOCK PERLEY was born in New York City 7 
Feb., 1830. He was named for James Peacock of whom his father 
learned the printing business. In the printery, he was "devil," 



»*^ 





SAMUEL PEULKV,lltli (ieneration. 



JAMES r. ri;i;i.i:V, Ttli (ieneration. 





FRANK L. PEKLEY, 8th Generation. 



FRANK, a. PERLEY, 9th Generation. 



THE FIRST-BORN OF FOUR GENERATIONS. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 567 

compositor, proof-reader, editor, publisher. He was some time edi- 
tor of the Kalamazoo Gazette, displaying ability and business enter- 
prise. He has had some experience upon "the deep blue ocean." 
He was one of the earliest to enlist against the Rebellion War. He 
was commissioned captain in the 18th regiment of Michigan volun- 
teers, and resigned in March, 1S65, rendering a service of more than 
four years, including nineteen months in Libby, Macon, and Ander- 
sonville rebel prisons. Following the war, he secured a position in 
the Treasury Department, Washington, D. C. He died in Washing- 
ton 12 June, 1899, and reposes in Arlington Cemetery, in that city. 
He came out of the war a "physical wreck." He declined a pen- 
sion while receiving a salary. He could have received thousands of 
dollars. 

He married Lydia Almira Baker, 10 July, 1855, in Erie, Pa., 
where she was born 13 Dec, 1837, to Almira-Hunt, a native of Glens 
Falls, N. Y., and Charles Baker, a carpenter and builder, native of 
North Pownall, Vt. She resides in Washington, D. C. (1905.) 

1 Perley children: Frank Lee^ Charles Larrimore'^ Herbert 
Haskell^ Gale Washington', Glennie Howard'^ Morrison Waite^ 

2 Charles L.' was born — Aug., 1859, and died — April, 1861. 
Gale W.^ was born — May and died — Nov., 1866. Glennie H.' was 
born 15 Jan., 1870, and died 21 April, 1892. 

3 Frank L.' was born in Erie, Pa., 21 April, 1856. He was edu- 
cated in the Washington Public Schools, the Spencerian Business 
College, and he read law with Col. M. Thompson, a distinguished 
attorney of Washington, afterwards graduating from the Law De- 
partment of Columbian University. 

When only fourteen years old, young Perley, who had a natural 
talent for music, organized an amateur orchestra. The money he 
earned in that manner served to pay for his education as a lawyer. He 
was admitted to the Supreme 
Court of the District of Colum- 
bia and the Erie County 
Pennsylvania and then 
to New York to practic( 
profession. Office C( 
ment making out-of-doors em- 
ployment necessary, he obtained the position of contracting agent 
for the Batchellor & Doris Great Inter-Ocean shows. Then he be- 
came press agent of W. C. Coup's shows, and subsequently joined 
Barnum & Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth," and the Ringling 
Brothers "World's Greatest Shows." He was with Barnum & 
Bailey's shows for seven years, and he traveled with them abroad in 
1889 and 1890. No manager has made more friends in England and 
America and he became one of the most distinguished show man- 
agers in both hemispheres. P'or the valuable services performed, 
Barnum & Bailey gave him an interest in and the management of 
the "Fall of Babylon," produced in Boston in 1890. The death of 
P. T. Barnum in 1891 terminated his contract which contemplated 
the production of other spectacles for a term of years, and in 1893 
he left the circus world and undertook the management of dramatic 
and operatic productions. Among those associated with his manage- 



Supreme 

f Colum- ^ /I ^--^"^ 

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568 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

ment have been Madame Modjeska, Fanny Davenport, Mrs. John 
Drew, Agnes Booth, Rose Coghlan, Cora Tanner, Effie Ellsler, 
Marie Cahill, H. H. Stoddard, William Collier, Robert Hilliard, 
Jerome Sykes, the Alice Neilson Opera Company, Frank Daniels 
Opera Company, The Bostonians, The Chaperons Opera Company, 
the Conreid Opera Company, "When Knighthood was in Flower," 
"The Bonnie Brier Bush," "The Sporting Duchess," Dockstader's Min- 
strels, and many other well-known attractions. He has all along 
been an active newspaper man on New York, Philadelphia and 
Pittsburg journals and an expert advertising writer. He is also 
financially interested in several prosperous corporations. He be- 
longs to several clubs and is a 32d-degree Mason, affiliated with Pa- 
cific Lodge of New York, the New York Consistory and Mecca Tem- 
ple. Mr. Perley is one of the cleverest and best known operatic 
and theatrical managers in America at the present day. He is de- 
servedly popular. 

Mr. Perley married in Philadelphia, Pa., 2 July, 1884, Ida Made- 
line Glenn of that city. They separated legally (i F^eb., 1898, and she 
married Wm. Turner. Mr. Perley married, second, in Anoka, Minn., 16 
May, 1894, Marguerite Eisfeldt, a singer of celebrity, born in Gratz, 
Austria, 25 March, 1871, to Gustav, a professor of languages and polit- 
ical economy, and Carolyn-Gugubauer P^isfeldt. Perley child : Frank 
Glenn, born 10 Dec, 188.5, a student of mining engineering in Lehigh 
University in South Bethlehem, Pa., where he is a member of the 
Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity and member of the la crosse and 
base ball teams, with home in the P"raternity house. 

4 Herbert H.' was born in Erie, Pa., 24 Jan., 1862. He married 
in 1896 Rosa Belle Jones, a prima donna, who was born in Memphis, 
Tenn., 20 Oct., 1875, to John, a lawyer, and Agnes-Morrison Jones. 
Mr. Perley is a composer and a director of opera. Mr. and Mrs. 
Perley are professionally known as Herman Perlet and Belle Thome. 
They reside in New York City. Perley child : Mildred Belle, born 
27 Sept., 1896. 

5 Morrison W.' was born in Washington, D. C, 19 Jan., 1874. 
He married in Washington, 12 Oct., 1897, Plorence Gertrude Hall, 
who was born there 20 June, 1877, to George W. and Annie M.- 
Woods Hall. Their home is Washington, where Mr. Perley is clerk 
for the Pullman Company. Perley children, born in Washington : 
Allan Hall, 23 Dec, 1898; Frank Morrison, 30 July, 1902. 



FAMILY 407: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3. JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, NATHANIEL-54, 
SAMUEL-114, SAMUEL-242. 

FRANCIS MACARTNEY PERLEY was born in New York 

City , 1834. He was educated in the common schools and 

going to Cincinnati in 1853, in Gunoley's Commercial College and 
in attendance upon medical lectures. Returning to New York City 
in May, 1855, he took a department charge in the publishing house 
of Derent & Davenport. In Sept., 1856, he went into the publishing 




FRANK E. PERLEY, ESQ. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 569 

department of the Episcopal Sunday School Union. In January, 
1857, he opened a bookstore, on his own account, opposite or under 
the Cooper Institute, and continued eleven years. Then he went to 
Red Bank, N. J., and established a store of general merchandise. 
He continued there some years and was very prominent in the Epis- 
copal church. In Nov., 18(38, going to Erie, Pa., he became associate 
owner with his brother, Seth Todd Perley, of the Despatch, and 
spent the following winter in Washington, D. C. In Aug., 1869, he 
became publisher and business manager of the daily Ohio State 
Journal, Columbus. In 1875 he removed to Franklinville, N. Y., 
and published the Weekly Argus. He later established the Frank- 
linville Chronicle, and soon after that a newspaper in Oswego, both 
of which he published till his death. "He engaged in the publi- 
cation of a daily newspaper in Washington," apparently while en- 
gaged with his brother Seth Todd in Erie. Mr. Perley was a man 
full of business, capable in large enterprises, energetic, and of high 
character and estimation. 

Mr. Perley married in Eatontown, N. J., 29 Sept., 1863, Priscilla 
Augusta La Fetra, who was born in Eatontown 29 June, 1844, to 
Edward B. and Mary-DeWitt La Fetra. Mr. Perley died in Waverly, 
N. Y., 21 Aug., 1894. His widow resides in Franklinville, N. Y. 

1 Perley children: Frances Elizabeth^ Charles A.^ Harriet 
Augusta'', Frank Elliott", Josephine La Fetra". 

2 Frances E.^ was born in Eatontown, N. J., 12 July, 1864, and 
resides, unmarried, in P"ranklinville, N. Y. 

3 Charles A.^ was born in Eatontown, N. J., 29 Jan., 1867. He 
married in Franklinville, N. Y., 24 June, 1903, Belle Donnell Sexton, 
who was born in P>anklinville to Ehsha D. and Eliza A. -Sexton 
Sexton. Mr. Perley is the publisher and editor of the P"ranklinville 
Chronicle. Perley child, born in Franklinville ; Ellwood Norton, 
24 Sept.,- 1904. 

4 Harriet A.^ was born in Girard, Pa., 20 April, 1869. She 
married in Franklinville, N. Y., 23 July, 1901, Ernest Ralph Baker, 
a merchant of Olean, N. Y., their home (1905), who was born in 
Petroleum Center, Pa., 20 June, 1871, to Ralph, a master me- 
chanic, and Emily-Smith Baker. Baker issue : Philip De Witt, born 
in Olean 13 Feb., 1904. 

5 Frank E.^ was born in Columbus, Ohio, 20 Nov., 1871. He is 
first introduced to us as one of the leading political writers of West- 
ern New York. His first residence at the Capital was as corre- 
spondent of the Buffalo P2xpress. About eight years ago he went to 
New York City and was assistant city editor of the Herald. Six 
years ago he engaged with the World, and for five years was one of 
the most valued members of its staff. Again at the Capital he was 
chief of The World Bureau. He has a national reputation as a po- 
litical writer of marked ability. He is deservedly popular with the 
political leaders of both parties and enjoys their confidence and 
respect. He was offered the secretaryship to Mayor McClellan and 
declined it. Gov. Higgins offered him the position of private secre- 
tary, and he is now in that office. Pie married in F'ranklinville, N. Y., 
8 Aug., 1894, Anna Augusta Robeson, who was born there 26 July,1872, 
to John Edward, a merchant, and Emerancy-Cherryman Robeson. 



570 



THE PERLEY FAMiLY 



Perley children, born in Franklinville : Harry Robeson, 11 Sept., 1896; 
La Fetra, 8 Dec, 1898. 

(5 Josephine La F.^ was born in Columbus, Ohio, 10 Oct., 1874. 
She married in Franklinville, N. Y., 11 July, 1900, Guy Clarence 
Ames, who was born in Great Valley, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., 5 
Oct., 187B, to Edson David, a farmer, and Clementine C(»rolin-Hart 
Ames. Mr. Ames is engaged in insurance and real estate business 
in Franklinville, where their children were born : Elizabeth Perley, 
12 Sept., 1901 ; Russell DeHart, 30 Jan., 1904. 



FAMILY 408: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. SAMUEL-3. JOHN-13, SA.\lUEL-30, NATHANIEL-54, 
SAMnEL-114, SAMUEL-24'2. 

SETH TODD PERLEY was born 28 May, 1840, in Erie, Pa. 
A local paper thus speaks of him : 

" An American statesman whose long career as senator, cabinet 
and foreign minister made him authority, declared the printing office 
to be the poor man's college. Mr. Perley's life adds another corrob- 
oration to the truth of this 
now conceded apothegm. His 
father was from Massachu- 
setts, his mother from Dublin, 
each possessing some charac- 
teristics conspicuous in their 
son. The family came to Erie 
in 1840 to aid by a campaign 
paper the cause of Tippe- 
canoe. His early years were 
spent in the Erie and Girard 
academies. During his ad- 
vancing years he aided in the 
issue of the P^rie Chronicle 
and Girard Republican, and 
later was interested in the 
Dispatch and Argus. At the 
firing on Fort Sumter he vol- 
unteered but was not ac- 
cepted. It was well, for he 
soon found a far more useful 
field. Some weeks afterward 
he was appointed a clerk in 
the Treasury Department, 
where he remained four years. 
He was a charter member of 
Tyrian Lodge, F. & A. M. 
He was agent for Pennsyl- 
vania and secretary of Pennsylvania State Association at Washington. 
Many Erie County volunteers were in camp near Washington, others 
in the hospitals. To relieve the necessities of these and to communi- 
cate with their friends was his voluntary undertaking. Thus he 




SETH TODD PERLEY. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 571 

earned the lasting gratitude of hundreds of Pennsylvania soldiers. 
As the war closed, having become familiar with the routine of ob- 
taining arrears and pensions, etc., he made it his business. His 
clientage was large, his volume of applications augmented through 
many branch offices, and continued for twenty-three years. Of 
thousands of claims some were without merit and unsuccessful, but 
in the untiring, persistent prosecution of the majority to allowance 
very much of good has been accomplished. In the urging of these 
claims and defense of his clients before the several bureaus. Con- 
gressional committees and courts, Mr. Perley has had distinguished 
success. Always pertinacious for his case, often aggressive and 
never despondent, he has led many despairing applicants to renew 
their effort. And now, still in the prime of life with a business rep- 
utation extending across the continent, with an acquaintance sur- 
passed by few outside of public life, he has the satisfaction of seeing 
around him those whose subsistence has depended upon the results 
to which his life-work has been devoted. A consciousness of these 
facts is a priceless possession, their realization his just reward." 

There are always impediments to success and as a matter of 
course, Mr. Perley encountered one of massive proportions — the 
United States Government. 

"It will be remembered," says the Erie Globe of 25 Oct., 1891, 
"that Pension-Agent Perley 
of Erie and J. C. Blake of 
Fairview were charged by 
the third auditor of the treas- 
ury with presenting a fraud- 
ulent and fictitious claim to 
a pension for ^839.33, due 

Mrs. Shannon of Fairview, deceased. The claimants demanded the 
money to reimburse them for services alleged to have been rendered 
the woman during her last illness, and for money expended for sup- 
plies, doctor's care and funeral expenses. On the first trial the de- 
fendants were convicted, but a new trial was granted on a writ of 
error. On the second trial in 1888 the jury disagreed. A large 
number of witnesses were subpoenaed for the trial last week. United 
States District Attorney Lyon and Assistant District Attorney 
David Cameron conducted the case for the government, and Con- 
gressman Wm. A. Stone and Ex-Congressman Brainerd of Erie the 
defense. 

"The examination of witnesses for the prosecution was lengthy 
and the cross-questioning sharp. When the testimony had been fin- 
ished Perley's counsel presented a demurrer to the testimony. They 
claimed that the testimony was insufficient to convict, and asked that 
the judge so charge the jury. Judge Reed sustained the demurrer, 
and in his charge to the jury told them the testimony was not enough 
for a conviction. United States District Attorney Lyon stated to the 
court that if Perley was acquitted he could not well ask for the con- 
viction of J. C. Blake, who was jointly indicted with him, when Perley 
was the principal and Blake only an accessory. 

" In accordance with the judge's charge the jury returned a verdict 
of not guilty as to both Perley and Blake. In consequence of this. 




572 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

two Other cases against Perley, Blake and Dr. E. D. Gates, that had 
arisen out of the same transaction, were nol. pros'd. Only witnesses 
for the prosecution were examined and in view of this fact the justice 
of the acquittal is overwhelmingly in favor of the defendant Perley." 

The Commercial Gazette of 24 Oct., 1891, said that this case, 
"after a third trial lasting four days, came to an abrupt termination 
when the testimony for the prosecution only had been submitted. 
Perley's counsel filed a demurrer, asking on the evidence for the 
prosecution, an acquittal. The court after argument by counsel for 
both sides ruled that Mr. Perley was entitled to acquittal, having 
done only what, as an attorney, he had a right to do." 

The Gazette said editorially, "the case against Seth Todd Perley, 
Esq., reached an important conclusion yesterday, breaking down of 
its own weakness." 

Mr. Perley was a long time executive agent of the Pennsylvania 
Soldiers' Relief Society, and warmly endeared himself to the citizen 
soldiery of the Keystone State. He was the organizer of the Soldiers' 
and Sailors' Republican Club of Erie, and its secretary and an execu- 
tive officer. It did valiant work in sever-al campaigns. It is now 
"mostly retired." He is believed to have been the youngest mem- 
ber of the great convention that nominated Grant at Chicago in 1868. 
Simon Cameron asked Secretary Chase for Mr. Perley's appointment 
to a clerkship in 1861, which was immediately made. When Mr. 
Cameron went as minister to Russia he offered Mr. Perley the private 
secretaryship, but the latter deferring to his father's wishes, declined 
the offer. During the Civil War, he was made corresponding secre- 
tary of the Pennsylvania Soldiers' Relief Association, that cared for 
tens of thousands of the brave boys in Blue. The Pennsylvania 
Legislature almost unanimously recommended him as United States 
Commissioner of Pensions. He wrote in 1908: "I have successfully 
practised law since 1865, and am now preparing a case against 
Kaiser William's Germany." 

Mr. Perley married, first, in Meadville, Pa., 15 Nov., 1864, Geor- 
gianna McFarland, born in 1839 to John McFarland. Her father 
was for forty years a merchant and for many years was president of 
the Merchants' National Bank till his death. He served forty years 
as treasurer of the Alleghany College at Meadville. Her mother 
was a daughter of Senator Atkinson of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Perley 
died in 1879 in Erie, Pa. He married, second, Mrs. Barbara A.- 
Heintz Becker, daughter of Michael, a contractor, and Toerch Heintz. 

1 Perley child: Seth Todd, born in Erie 15 July, 1889. 



FAMILY 409: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-S, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, NATHANIEL-54, 
SAMUEL-114, CHARLES-243. 

EDWARD MATTHEWS PERLEY was born in New York 
City 11 Feb., 1832, where he made his home. He was captain of a 
troop attached to Co. E., of the Seventh Regiment, New York 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 573 

National Guards and received an honorable discharge. He was a 
shipwright by trade. He died 26 Oct., 1891. 

He married 1 Dec, 1859, Jane Maria Gilfillan, who was born 12 
April, 1833, to George, a merchant, and Mary Anne-Matthews Gil- 
fillan. She died 1 Jan., 1905. 

1 Perley children: Virginia-, Edward Matthews^ Isabella Mat- 
thews'-, Lincoln^ William Hood Gilfillan-, Joseph Livermore'-. 

2 Virginia' was born 31 Aug., 1861. She is employed with Har- 
per and Bros., publishers, and resides with her sister Isabella\ who 
was born 8 Feb., 1863. Joseph L.' was born 4 March, 1869, and 
died 8 Jan., 1877. William H. G.' was born 21 Nov., 1867, married 
Katherine O'Toole, and resides in Corona, L. I., with children. 

3 Edward M.' was born in New York City 8 Oct., 1861. He mar- 
ried in New York City 10 Nov., 1886, Harriet Elizabeth Dobbs, who 
was born there 1-4 July, 1867, to Washington, a carpenter and builder, 
and Sarah-Brummel Dobbs. She died 15 March, 1900. Mr. Perley 
is an engineer. Perley children, born in New York City: Viola 
p:iizabeth, 10 Dec, 1887; Edward Matthews, 28 and died 31 Dec, 
1889; Maud Harriet, 17 Dec, 1890; George Edward, 28 Nov., 1892; 
Irene Sarah, 9 Aug., 1895, died 30 April, 1902; William Brummel, 
3 June, 1897; Harriet Elsie, 11 March. 1900. 

4 Lincoln' was born in New York City 21 June, 1865. He mar- 
ried there 22 June, 1887, Mary Lavinia Barringer, who was born in 
New York City 27 Nov., 1868, to Mathias and Helen Amelia-Crooker 
Barringer. They reside in New York City, where Mr. Perley is an 
engineer, and where their children were born. Perley children: 
Isabel Virginia, born 11 March, 1888; William Mathias, 29 Oct., 
1889; Lincoln, 25 Dec, 1892. 



FAMILY 410: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, NATHANIEL-54, 
SAMUEL-114, rHARLES-243. 

CHARLES SABBATON PERLEY was born 14 Aug., 1834, 
in New York City, where he resided. He was skillful as a me- 
chanic : he was a member of the Board of Education several years. 

He married, 18 March, 1857 [?), Mary E. Stoughtenberg. He 
died in 1865. His widow was a school teacher in the city. 

1 Perley children : Carrie, George Allen'^, Florence, Minnie. 

2 George A.', born in 1856, is a fine stenographer and employed 
in the city comptroller's office. 



FAMILY 411: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCHNT— ALLAN-1. SAMUEL-S, JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30, NATHANIEL-54, 
SAMUEL-114, CHARLES-L>43. 

JOSEPH LIVERMORE PERLEY was born 4 Aug., 1836, in 
New York City, where he located his home. He is a mechanical 
engineer. 

"At a very early age he displayed a marked liking for the life of 



574 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



a fireman and an unusual zeal and intelligence in the performance 
of fire duty. In 1856, when twenty years old, he became a member 
of Live Oak Engine Co. No. 44. After four years active service, he 
was in 1860 elected assistant foreman; his capacity was so noticeable 
that in 1862 he was elected an assistant engineer of the volunteer 
force. On the organization of the Metropolitan Fire Department, in 
1865, he was appointed first assistant engineer, being thus placed 
second in command to the chief, Mr. Kingsland. 

"Being a practical machinist, thoroughly conversant with the 
workings of steam fire machinery, he was chosen as the proper officer 
to organize a bureau for repairs. Under his supervision the exten- 




HON. JOSEPH L. PERLEY. 

sive repair shops of the department have grown; all of the appar- 
atus was placed in complete order, and many improvements intro- 
duced. In the year 1867 he was relieved from duty as superin- 
tendent of repairs, and assigned to the command of that department 
lying north of 23d street and extending to Harlem river, the chief 
engineer performing duty only below 2.Sd street. He was in this 
position so faithful and competent, that, upon the resignation of Mr. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 575 

Kingsland, in December, 1869, he was appointed by the commis- 
sioners, and served as chief engineer. He held this post with 
marked executive ability until May, 1873, at which time, upon the 
reorganization of the fire department, he was appointed by Mayor 
Havemeyer, president of the Board of Fire Commissioners for six 
years. 

"During his service at its head the New York Fire Department 
has constantly become more efficient and has long been admitted to 
be without a rival. This gratifying result has been more due to Mr. 
Perley than any other one man. He has been continually seeking to 
improve the discipline and working capacity of the force, and has 
found time also to make great improvements in the machinery and 
appliances for extinguishing fires. His appointment as president of 
the Board of Commissioners was only a just reward for long, faithful 
and intelligent services. His appointment — although a great sur- 
prise to the politicians, who believe it impossible that a responsible 
public office should be given to a creditable record and eminent fit- 
ness — was entirely understood and appreciated by the men of the 
fire department, whose confidence and respect he has always pos- 
sessed, and gave universal satisfaction to the citizens. Among the 
number of daily papers published in New York there was not one 
whose editors did not commend his appointment as a most deserved 
recognition of his abilities. When his name was presented to the 
Board of Aldermen for confirmation, the vote was unanimous in his 
favor, many of the aldermen complimenting Mayor Havemeyer upon 
his selection of one so well qualified for this very responsible office. 

"At the age of 22, he was elected a member of the Common 
Council. He joined the 71st New York State Regiment in 1854, 
served seven years and at the beginning of the Civil War, went to 
the front with his regiment. 

"He is a cultured gentleman of quiet demeanor, unexceptionable 
habits and refined appearance and manner, and is therefore well 
fitted to adorn the high office which he so ably fills, as well as to dis- 
charge its duties to the satisfaction of the public." 

Mr. Perley married Sarah Gilfillan, sister of Jane Maria-409, of 
his native city, 2 Oct., 18 — , who was born 29 Dec, 1836, in New 
York City. She was a school teacher. Her parents were Mary 
Anne-Matthews and George Gilfillan, a merchant. 

1 Perley children : Charles Hamilton*, Minnie Isabella^ 

2 Charles H.^ was born in New York City 20 April, 1857. He 
married in P^aston, Mass., 3 Aug., 1876, Alice Pool, who was born 
there 10 March, 1856, to Charles and Phila-Gardner Pool. Mr. Per- 
ley is a mechanical engineer of Brooklyn, N. Y. He ranked as 
captain in the fire department of New York City more than twenty- 
five years. Perley child: Alfred Putnam, born 20 April, 1877, a 
clerk, unmarried, residing in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

3 Minnie I.' was born in New York City 25 Nov., 1857. She 

married there 3 Oct., , Henry George Man dell, a photographer 

and engraver, who was born in Stockholm, Sweden, 20 May, 1863, 

to and Agnes C.-Lundberg Mandell. He died 29 May, 1892, 

in New York City, where his widow now resides. Mandell issue: 
Henry Joseph, born Thursday, 30 Jan., 1890; George Perley, 5 
March, 1894. 



FAMILY 412: PERLEY. 



LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, SAMUEL-3. JOHN-13, SAMUEL-30. NATHAMEL-54, 
SA.\IUEL-114, CHARLES-243. 

JOHN KEYS PERLEY was born 13 Dec, 1843, in New York 
City, where he resided. In the spring of 1860, when not quite six- 
teen years old, he joined a company of Zouaves, organized shortly 
after the celebrated P211sworth Zouaves of Chicago gave an exhibition 
in New York City. Upon President Lincoln's call for troops in 
Aug., 1861, they tendered their services to Gov. Morgan, who ac- 
cepted and advised the formation of a regiment with the original 
company as officers. The advice was adopted; the regiment was 
mustered in 23 April, 1861, and known as the Ninth New York 
Volunteers, Hawkins colonel. They left for Fortress Monroe 5 June, 

1861. Perley was a second lieu- 
tenant. The regiment served 
under Gen. Burnside the first 
year, afterwards in the Ninth 
Army Corps, Army of the Po- 
tomac. They won laurels at 
Hatteras, Roanoke Island and 
Camden, in North Carolina; 
South Mountain and Antietam, 
in Maryland ; P^edericksburg 
and Suffolk, in Virginia. They 
made the first successful bayo- 
net charge of the war at Roan- 
oke Island, and at Antietam lost 
two-thirds of their men. The 
regiment left New York 1000 
strong, received about 1000 re- 
cruits and returned with a few 
more than 500 men. 

After the muster-out of the 
Ninth, Lt. Perley assisted in 
organizing the 113th Regiment, 
afterwards known as the 1st 
Regiment, N. G. S. N.Y.( Hawkins Zouaves). Of this regiment Lt. Per- 
ley became lieutenant colonel. Upon the retirement of Col. Hawkins, 
Lt. Col. Perley was unanimously elected to the colonelcy. His com- 
mand received the commendation of the inspector general of the 
State for its efficiency. 

Col. Perley was a Democrat and was equaled by few in his attach- 
ment to party principles. He was printer, stationer and blank-book 
manufacturer. 

When nineteen years old he was commissioned ensign of 9th 
New York State Volunteers, 13 May, 1861; first lieutenant 15 Feb., 




JOHN K. TEKLEV. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 577 

1862; captain 113th Regiment, 3d Brigade, 1st Division National 
Guards New York State, 13 Nov., 1865; lieutenant colonel 1st Reg- 
iment, 23 Nov., 1865; colonel, 23 Feb., 1869. He was honorably 
discharged 31 July, 1871. He was one of the organizers of the 
Grand Army of the Republic; was its first adjutant general of the 
State, and commander of Kimball Post, No. 100. He was also secre- 
tary of the Board of Excise, New York City, and a member of the 
military order Loyal Legion. He was general marshal of the grand 
parade of the G. A. R., in 1877. 

He married in New York City 11 June, 1868, Mary Louisa Todd, 
who was born 23 Feb., 1845, to James L. and Louise Marietta- 
Hartman Todd. He died in New Rochelle, N. Y., 19 Jan., 1901. 

1 Perley children, born in New York City: Henry Clay'-, Carlisle 
Norwood^, Mary Louise^ John Marshalll 

2 Henry Clay^ was born 29 May, 1869, and married in Bingham- 
ton, N. Y., 8 Sept., 1897, Lena Maud Stanley, born in Binghamton 
14 Feb., 1868, to Anson and Diantha-Morey Stanley. He is a man- 
ufacturing jeweler. He enlisted 7 Jan., 1890, in 11th separate com- 
pany. National Guards, N. Y. ; transferred to Company G, 7th Regi- 
ment, 29 March, 1891; elected corporal 15 Dec, 1892; honorably 
discharged 7 Jan., 1897; re-enlisted Company G in March, 1899, and 
is now in active membership. He resides in New Rochelle, N. Y., 
where their child, Muriel Lynette was born 6 Jan., 1899. 

3 Carlisle N.^ was born 30 Jan., 1873. He married in New 
Rochelle, N. Y., 16 April, 1902, Marguerite Chrystal Carpenter, 
who was born there 25 April, 1881, to Robert Purser and Martha 
Jane-Chrystal Carpenter. Their home is New Rochelle, where he is 
a manufacturing jeweler, and where their child, Jeanette Chrystal, 
was born 22 June, 1903. 

4 Mary L.^ was born 22 Feb., and died 2 Aug., 1875. 

5 John M.^ was born 7 March, 1877. He is a bank clerk and 
resides in New Rochelle. He married there 10 April, 1901, Alice 
Gorsline Hubbell, who was born in Central Mine, Mich., 19 June, 
1875, to Seymour Landen, an upholsterer, and Fannie Malvina-Baker 
Hubbell. They have no children. 



FAMILY 413: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16. THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57, 
ISRAEL-115, CHARLES STRANGE-244. 

DANIEL PERLEY was born near city of Hamilton, Ont., Do- 
minion of Canada, 5 Dec, 1820. His home was Paris Plains, near 
city of Brantford, Brant County, Ontario, where he was a farmer and 
breeder of the famous South Down sheep. He served against the 
Rebellion of 1837. 

Mr. Perley married 24 April, 1845, Elizabeth Jane Nelles, born in 
township of Brantford, Ont., 8 July, 1822, to John E. and Jane-Eakins 
Nelles. He died in Paris Plains 13 Dec, 1882. His widow's home 
is Brantford. 



578 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

1 Perley children: William Frederic468, Alfred Daniel'^ Alice 
Mary'. 

2 Alfred D.* was born in Brantford, Brant County., Ont., 2 Sept., 
1850. He married in Paris, Ont., 21 Dec, 1876, Ellen Ashton Yeo, 
born in Paris 19 Jan., 1851, to Benjamin, a farmer, and Patty-Ashton 
Yeo. Mr. Perley is a commercial traveler and has resided in Brant- 
ford for the past eighteen years. He owns his father's old home- 
stead. There is a schoolhouse on the farm called Perley's school- 
house. Perley children : Clara Maud^ ; Charles Alfred, born 25 Aug., 
1880, is unmarried in London, Ont. 

3 Alice Mary^ was born in Brantford 5 Aug., 1855. She married 
in Paris, Ont., 10 June, 1886, Malcolm Chisholm, born in Brantford 
23 June, 1856, to John, a farmer, and Jennette-Campbell Chisholm. 
Mr. Chisholm is a woodworker. Their home is Brantford. Chisholm 
issue: Osborne Earle, born 22 May, 1887; John Perley, born 26" 
Oct., 1890; William Clarence Burt, born 31 Jan., 1892; Grace Eliza- 
beth Marguerite, born 7 March, 1893; Alice Jean Hope, born 10 
Feb., 1895. 

4 Clara Maud^ was born at Paris Plains (near Paris) 1 Sept., 
1878. She married in Toronto, Canada, 9 Nov., 1901, Arnold Ben- 
ford Caswell, a journalist, born in Toronto 31 Jan., 1874, to Louise- 
Woodall and Rev. D. J. Caswell, Ph. D. Their home is Montreal. 
Their child: Arnold Perley, born in Toronto 13 March, 1903. 



FAMILY 414: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCBNT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4. TIIOMAS-16. THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-67, 
ISRAEL.-115, CHARLES STRANG E-i!44. 

CHARLES PERLEY was born in Ancaster, County Went- 
worth, Ontario, Canada, 19 April, 1831. He was a farmer in Burford, 
Brant County. 

He married in Niagara, Ont., 19 Nov., 1859, Lucy Maria Law- 
rence, born in Niagara to Benjamin, a farmer, and Eliza-Haines 
Lawrence. He died 5 Sept., 1872. His widow is of Saginaw, Mich. 

1 Perley children : Mary Allan*, Allan Thomas^ 

2 Mary A.^ was born in Burford, Ont., 7 Sept., 1860. She mar- 
ried in Toronto, Ont., 25 April, 1895, Joseph Edward Brethour, born 
in Oakville, Ont., 26 Aug., 1861, to Joseph, a farmer, and Mary Ann- 
Laugtry Brethour. Their home, without children, is Burford. He is 
a breeder of pedigreed stock. 

3 Allan Thomas' was born in Burford 17 April, 1863, and mar- 
ried in Paris 20 Dec, 1888, Jennette Wight, born in Paris 1 July, 
1863, to Hugh, a farmer, and Mary-Miller Wight. They reside in 
Putnam, Ont., where Mr. Perley is railway station agent. Perley 
issue, born in Putnam: Eva Mary, 27 Sept., 1890; Allen Hugh, 21 
Jan., 1899. 



FAMILY 415: PERLEY. 



LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57, 
ISRAEL-115, CHARLES STRANGE-244. 

THOMAS PERLEY was born in Burford, Brant County, On- 
tario, Canada, 25 June, 1836. He was a farmer. After 1870 he re- 
moved his home from Burford to Brantfcrd. 

His wife was Mary Ann Burns, daughter of Maj. D., a farmer, 
and Elizabeth, born in Blenheim 27 April, 1835, married 9 Feb., 
1859, in Princeton. Mr. Perley died of blood poison 26 Nov., 1878. 

1 Perley children : Elizabeth Helen'-^, Elsie McCall'-, Frederic 
Thomas"^, Charles Strange'^. 

2 Elizabeth' was born 15 Nov., 1863; Elsie\ 5 Feb., 1867; P>ed- 
eric\ 15 March, 1869, died 26 Oct., 1891; Charles', 15 June, 1874. 
These 15's are correct as given. 



FAMILY 416: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16. THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57, 
THOMAS-116, GEORGE SIMONS-246. 

CHARLES AUGUSTUS PERLEY was born in Maugerville, 
N. B., in March, 1839. He was a farmer in New Brunswick. He 
married in Maugerville 14 Sept., 

1866, Letetia Upton, sister of John 
Robert-246^ who was born in Shef- 
field, N. B., 19 Dec, 1843, to 
George Samuel, a farmer, and 
Mary Helen-Day Upton. 

Mr. Perley died in Maugerville 
14 Aug., and his widow a month 
later, 14 Sept., 1899. 

1 Perley children: Georgia^ 
Walter Seward^ Charles Fred- 
eric^ Mary Helen^ Frank Dow'', 
Bertha Mildreds 

2 Georgia' was born 8 Dec, 

1867. She is by trade a dress- 
maker. She married in St. John, 
N. B., 4 June, 1894, William Allen 
McLean, a shipmaster, who was 
born in Grand Lake, N. B., 18 
March, 1865, to Hector, a farmer, 
and Elizabeth-Cameron McLean. 
They reside in Portland, Me., 
without children. 

3 Walter Seward' was born 30 
Dec, 1870, and was drowned 12 
Dec, 1887, breaking through the 
ice while skating. Frank Dow' 
was born 8 Feb., 1876, and died 
the 24th of December of the 
same year. charles a. perley. 




580 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

4 Charles F.^ was born 19 Dec, 1872. He married 14 Sept., 
1898, Elsie S. Earle, and they reside in St. John, N. B. 

5 Mary H.' was born 5 Jan., 1874. She married 6 Aug., 1898, 
James S. Upton, of Lakeville Corner, N. B., an expressman, and 
they reside in Oldtown, Me., and have one child. 

6 Bertha M.' was born 18 Feb., 1883. She is a stenographer and 
resides, unmarried, in Portland, Me. 



FAMILY 417: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-l,TI'(iMAS-lfi, TH(>:MAS-4. THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57, 
SOLOMON-117, JAMES EI)WIN-248. 

JAMES FREDERIC PERLEY was born in Fredericton, N. B., 
1 Nov., 1845. He married "Willie Smith" and died in June, 1868. 
1 Perley child : Frederic. 



FAMILY 418: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4. THOMAS-16, THOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57, 
SOLOMONM17, JAMES EDWIN-248. 

GEORGE PERLEY was born in Fredericton, N. B., 29 April, 

1849. He married in lone City, Cal., 1 March, 1871, Caro Pendleton 
Cookson, a school teacher, who was born in Islesboro, Me., 17 P^eb., 

1850, to Thomas, a preacher, and Roxana-Farrow Cookson. Their 
home is Modesto, Cal., where their children were born. Mr. Perley 
is a searcher of records. ' 

1 Perley children : Charlotte Augusta""^, George Edwin-, Mabel". 

2 Charlotte A.' was born 9 Jan., 1872, and died 8 Feb., 1873. 
George E.' was born 30 Oct., 1873, and is unmarried in Seattle, 
Wash. 

3 MabeP was born in Modesto, Cal., 2 June, 1875, and married 
there 8 June, 1904, Burrill Foster Stone, a farmer, born in Sparta, 
Tenn., 30 April, 1870, to Walter Scott, a farmer, and Susan-Cameron 
Stone. They reside in Modesto. 



FAMILY 419: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TriOMAS-4. TMOMAS-IG. THOMAS-33, ISRAEI/-57, 
WILLI AM-118, WILLIAM EDW A RD-25-'. 

WILLIAM DELL PERLEY was born in the parish of Glad- 
stone, County Sunbury, N. B., 6 Feb., 1838. His home was Mauger- 
ville, until he removed, in 1882, to Wolseley, N. W. T., Canada, his 
present home. Mr. Perley was educated in the best schools of the 
Province, including his collegiate course at the Baptist Seminary. 

In the matter of business and legislation he is a true son of his 
father. They are to him natural as a habit ; and the larger the en- 
terprise the more he is at ease. In his native Province he was 




HON. WAI. 1). I'KIJLEV. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 581 

twenty-two years farmer and lumberman, and by diligence, integrity 
and affability he garnered prosperity, a happy home and a good 
name. He has always been public-spirited and a man of unusual 
energy, qualities which early commended him to civic office and trust. 
His first experience was in his native County. He had seven succes- 
sive elections to the Municipal Council, and carried with him into 
his new home in the West the reputation of a just man and a wise 
legislator. His ability and experience easily made him a leader. 
In Wolseley he became very popular, and has left his impress 
for good upon every department in its civic growth. He was one of 
the organizers of the municipality in 1884; was elected first coun- 
cilor, and the first chairman of the Council. 

In Sept., 1885, after the division of the old councilor district, Mr. 
Perley was elected first member of the local Legislature for the 
new district ; was chairman of the first delegation to Ottawa on bet- 
ter political relations and conditions. This body was known as the 
North West Council. For his services at the federal capitol, he 
was banqueted on his return. A year or so later he was asked to 
resign his seat in the local Council and accept a nomination to a seat 
in the House of Commons for the Riding of East Assiniboia. It 
was for their first representation in the federal Parliament. He ac- 
cepted the office and contested the seat, and the March following 
(1887) he was elected first member with a majority of 7'2ti in a keenly 
contested canvass. In Parliament he soon won a respectable place 
and exhibited qualities worthy of distinction in any legislative body. 
He seldom speaks, but never fails of pointed, well-directed, plain, 
forceful argument and of close attention. He is independent in 
thought and courteous in expression. After two years he was asked 
to resign his seat in the House of Commons for a seat in the Senate. 
His seat in the Senate is a promotion by the Government ; it is a 
life tenure; and is worth ^2,500 a year; he occupied it 3 Aug., 
1888. The position of commissioner for the North West Territory 
at the World's Fair in 1893 was almost forced upon him. 

Mr. Perley has the equivalents of genius — affability, sobriety, in- 
tegrity, nobility of character, energy and ability, which combined are 
sure to win. 

He married in Hampstead 20 Sept., 1860, Phebe Auguste Slipp, 
born 20 Oct., 1840, in Hampstead, County Queens, to James, a 
farmer, and Phebe-Merritt Slipp. 

1 Perley children: James Edward'^ Edith Elizabeth^ Mabel 
Mauds Bertha Blanche'^ Arthur Allen'', Ernest Edward^ 

2 James E.^ was born 13 and died 31 Aug., 1862. Bertha B.^ was 
born 30 March, 1868, and died 7 May, 1877. 

3 Edith E.i was born in Maugerville, N. B., 18 Sept., 1863. She 
married in Wolseley, N. W. T., Canada, 13 Jan., 1886, Edwin Ashley 
Banbury, who was born in Cannington, Ontario, 2 Feb., 1858, to 
Richard, a rej;ired gentleman, and Mary Ann-Ashton Banbury. Mr. 
Banbury is a Rimber merchant and land owner. Their home is 
Wolseley, where were born their children : Richard Dell, 23 June, 
1887, died 19 Nov., 1893; Roy Ashton, 25 March, 1889; Ellen Maud, 
7 Jan., 1891 ; Ernest Carey, 25 March, 1893 ; Lloyd Ashley, 22 June, 



582 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

1894; Perley, 5 Oct., 1898; Phoebe Elizabeth, 29 Jan., 1900, died 11 
Dec, 1902. 

4 Mabel M.' was born in Maugen-ille 20 Oct., 1865. She mar- 
ried in Wolseley 4 March, 1884, Levi Thomson, a lawyer and crown 
prosecutor, born in Hillsburgh, Wellington County, Ont., 17 Feb., 
1855, to John, a farmer, and Sarah-Mac Millan Thomson. They re- 
side in Wolseley, where their children were born and near which 
place he owns an extensive farm. Thomson children: Harold Fran- 
cis, 22 May, 1885, a law student; Allan Perley, 22 April, 1888; Edwin 
Ernest, 18 Nov., 1890; Florence Maud, 24 Oct., 1896; Arthur Mac- 
Millan, 10 Nov., 1901. 

5 Arthur A.' was born in Aug., 1871. He married Emma 
Bronsted of Kentiss, N. W. T. Perley children : Richard Dell, and 
three daughters. 

a Ernest E." was born in Maugerville, N. B., 23 Dec, 1876. He 
married in Winnipeg, Man., 19 Nov., 1902, Orythia Louise Clint, 
who was born in Arnprior, Ont., 5 Dec, 1877, to Dr. Gabriel John, 
a dentist, and Rachel Ann-Hitcheson Clint. Mr. Perley was edu- 
cated in the Wolseley public schools and at Wesley College, Winni- 
peg. Mrs. Perley was educated in Winnipeg High School and is a 
collegiate. Their home is Wolseley, Sask., where Mr. Perley is en- 
gaged extensively in agriculture. Perley child, born in Wolseley: 
Ernest Clint, 25 Jan., 1905. 

These two young men are among the most enterprising citizens 
and the wealthiest. Their farms are the best, and the best labor and 
skill are employed in their cultivation. They adjoin and are located 
near the town. They have an area of 6,000 acres, and buildings 
on each worth $10,000, and they produced last year 32,000 bushels of 
wheat, and 15,500 bushels of oats. Each son has his own farm, and 
his horses to drive afield in supervising the business. Thus these 
two mints coin Saskatchewan dollars. 



FAMILY 420: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16. THOMAS-33, ISRAKL-67, 
WILLI AM118. WILLIAM-EDWARD-'i52. 

GEORGE ALBERT PERLEY was born 22 April, 1843, in 
Blissville, N. B. He resides in Maugerville, in agricultural pursuits. 

He married, 30 Oct., 1872, Lizzie Jane Good, who was born 17 
March, 1841, to George and Jane- Wood Good of Jacksonville, Carleton 
County, and died of congestion of the lungs 26 Dec, 1878. She was 
a most estimable person, esteemed by all who knew her. He mar- 
ried, second, in Jacksonville, N. B., 12 Jan., 1880, Ann Hastings 
Harper, born there to James and Mary Ann-Nevers Harper, 31 May, 
1851. 

1 Perley children: William Edward'^ Mary Harper', Laura 
Blanched 

2 William E.^ was born in Maugerville 29 July, 1876. He mar- 
ried in Lake\-ille, Carleton County, N. B., 19 Sept., 1900, Minnie 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 583 

May Anderson, born in Farmerton, N. B., 1 May, 1878, to Robert, a 
farmer, and Emma Clare-Nicholson Anderson. He is a farmer of 
Maugerville. Perley children : Roy Anderson, born in Lakeville 6 
Oct., 1901 ; Daisy Emma Lizzie, born in Maugerville 28 July, 1904. 

3 Mary H.' was born 20 Oct., 1882; Laura B.^ was born 3 Oct., 
1891. Both reside in Maugerville. 



FAMILY 421: BRIDGES. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMA.S-4. THUMAS-16. 'rHOMAS-33, ISRAEL-57, 
WILLIAM-118, WILLIAM EDWARD-252. 

CHARLOTTE HAYWARD PERLEY was born 27 March, 
1845. She married 2 Jan., 18(i7, Thomas Bridges, born 22 March, 
1829, to Thomas and Margaret-Whiteside Bridges of Sheffield, N. B., 
where he is a farmer. 

1 Bridges children: Thomas Edward', Carrie Cornelia", William 
Duncan'', John Dow^ George Whiteside^ Sarah Shalve*, Lizzie 
Perley''. 

2 Thomas E.^ was born in Sheffield 24 Feb., 1868. He married 
in Gagetown, N. B., 14 Oct., 1896, Jennie Murry Hoben, born in 
Gagetown 24 Nov., 1868, to Joseph, a farmer, and Elizabeth-Esta- 
brok Hobeii. He is a farmer, in Maugerville, where their children 
were born: Donald Maurice, 2 Aug., 1899; Clarence Murry, 10 June, 
1900. 

3 Carrie C.^ was born in Sheffield 1 June, 1869, and married 
there 12 July, 1898, James William Miles, a farmer, born in Mauger- 
ville 13 Oct., 1870, to John T. and Lousia-Plummer Miles. Their 
home is Maugerville. Miles child : James Edward, born in Mauger- 
ville 24 April, 1899. 

4 William D.^ was born 1 Aug., 1871, and is unmarried. George 
W.' was born 20 Nov., 1874, and died 25 April, 1880. Sarah S.^ was 
born 14 Oct., 1876, and is unmarried. 

5 John D.^ was born 27 July, 1873. He is a farmer in Sheffield. 
He married in Norton, N. B., 29 Sept., 1896, Florence Parker Earl, 
born 11 March, 1877, to Sylvester Z., a carpenter, and Theresa-Earl 
Earl. Bridges children were born: John Dow Earl, 21 April, 1897; 
Florence Perley, 24 April, 1898; Mary Theresa, 23 Sept., 1903; 
Allen Whiteside, 27 Feb., 1905. 

6 Lizzie P.^ was born 14 April, 1878, and married in Maugerville 18 
Sept., 1903, Paul Malcom Briggs, a farmer, born in 1875 to Emery, 
a bridge contractor and builder, and Fannie-Vandine Briggs. Their 
home is Lakeville Corner. They have one child: Dow Wendall, 
born 6 Sept., 1908. 



FAMILY 422: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOMAS-33, OLIVER-59, 
MOSES-120, MOSES HENRY-257. 

HENRY FULLERTON PERLEY was born in St. John, N. B., 
5 March, 1831. The Toronto World, 17 July, 1897, has the following 
comment and sketch of his life: — 



581 THE PB3RLEY FAMILY" 

"London, July 16: — Maj. Perley, the well-known Canadian, died 
of bronchitis last night at Bisley. He was a civil engineer by pro- 
fession and was sent to Bisley by the Dominion Government to super- 
intend the erection at Bisley of the permanent building for the ac- 
commodation of the rifle team which goes annually to the great 
shooting contest. Maj. Perley served for several years in the 43d 
Battalion and retired with the rank of major, though placed on the 
reserve of officers some time since. He was a member of the Council 
of D. B. A. and took a great interest in rifle-shooting, being the 
author of many newspaper articles and letters on the subject. To 
many of the Toronto militia force he was well known, and his loss 
will be greatly regretted. 

"Maj. Perley was educated in private schools in St. John, and 
the Collegiate Grammar School of Frederic ton, and served as pupil 
with John Dilkinson, member of the Institute of Civil Engineers. 
He entered the public service of New Brunswick in 1848, and was 
employed on exploratory surveys for a perfected system of railways, 
four years. Messrs. Betto, Bettis and Brassey recognized his ability, 
and in 1852 engaged him for surveys in New Brunswick and Nova 
Scotia, and for two years from 1854, he superintended the construc- 
tion of the Grand Trunk Railway from Montreal to Brockville. 
Again he served New Brunswick from 1856 to 1860, on the European 
and North American Railway. From 1863 he served the govern- 
ment of Nova Scotia, till he engaged with the contractors of the 
Metropolitan Underground Railway of London, Eingland. This con- 
tract completed in 1870, he returned to St. John, N. 1?., and for the 
government took charge of the improvements in the freighting facil- 
ities of her railways. From 1872 he was engineer in charge of all 
maritime works of the Provinces, till 1879, when in recognition of his 
ability and judgment he was appointed chief engineer of the De- 
partment of Public Works in the Dominion of Canada. He con- 
ducted large works with facility and success: The dry dock at Es- 
quimault, B. C, the deep-water channel of the St. Lawrence, making 
ocean steamers possible at Montreal, the Quebec Harbor works, the 
Louise embankment, the wet basin and dry dock at Levis, et al. 
His last work, which stands as a memorial of him, was the designing 
and building of the dry dock at Kingston, Ontario, said by leading 
engineers to be the finest work of its kind in North America. 

" Mr. Perley in his early days took great interest in military 
affairs. He organized the St. John engineers and the New Bruns- 
wick engineers, which became a rifle company. He was appointed 
on the governor general's staff and as engineer officer in chief. He 
was well known as one of the best rifle shots and as an expert in 
explosives. His lectures and books on these subjects were approved 
of by military men and schools in Canada and England. In 1897 he 
was sent to Bisley, Eng., to oversee the building of a house for 
the Canadian rifle team, during its yearly visits there, to take part in 
the matches of the National Rifle Association. 

" It was hoped the change of climate and the ocean voyage might 
benefit his health; but alas, he 'fell on sleep,' the 15th of July, and 
was buried, with full military honors, in the Bisley churchyard 
Surr)', Eng." 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY , 585 

The Toronto World further says: "In 1891 the disclosures made 
in connection with the McGreeby-Connolly case resulted in his re- 
tirement from the position of chief of public works. His friends 
always stoutly contended that he was innocent of anything that 
might be construed as wrong doing, although he might have been 
open to the charge of neglect of duty. While under examination 
before the Parliamentary committee at Ottawa he broke down, and 
for several months subsequently was under medical treatment. The 
loss of his position in the circumstances under which it occurred 
affected Maj. Perley very seriously. He never recovered his former 
health, and his constitution sustained a blow from which he never 
fully recovered." 

We can ask no better proof of Mr. Perley's integrity and honesty 
of purpose than the abiding sorrowful effect the judicial proceedings 
had upon his mind. Rogues are not affected that way. We have 
observed too often, in political life, honest men unconsciously taxed 
for the promotion and gain of others. Mr. Perley was the soul of 
honor and nobility of character. He would sacrifice himself rather 
than tarnish the fair fame of his kindred and friends. The sacrifice 
was made on that fatal, sorrowful 15th of July, 1897. His vindication 
is complete, and he stands before us a man of literary tastes, of ripe 
judgment, of brilliant professional ability, and accredited honor. 

Mr. Perley's biography can be found in Business Men of Canada, 
and some of his publications are in the Boston Public Library. 

Mr. Perley married 28 Dec, 1853, Julia Elizabeth Fairweather, 
who was born in St. John, N. B., 11 Dec, 1830, to Joseph, a mer- 
chant, and Jane-Whittaker Fairweather. She resides in Ottawa. 
Their children were born in St. John, but the second in Shediac, 
and the last in London, Eng. 

1 Perley children : Norman Allen- George Edwin^ Ada Louisa^ 
Mary^ Henry MacKinley''. 

2 Norman A.^ was born 20 Feb., 1856. He married in St. John, 
N. B., 15 Dec, 1880, Georgina Fielders, born in St. John in 1860 to 
John Fielders. Mr, Perley was connected with the Department of 
Public Works, St. John, on the engineering staff as draftsman. 
He died in Ottawa" Canada, 29 June, 1881. His widow died in St. 
John 11 April, 1892. 

3 George E.^ was born 21 June, 1857. He graduated from the 
Royal Military College of Canada in 1880 as a civil engineer. He 
was employed with the Chicago, Burlington & Ouincy Railroad for 
three and a half years, and afterwards was employed on the engineers' 
staff in the Public Works Department of Canada. In 1892 he was 
appointed cement expert for the Dominion of Canada, which posi- 
tion he now holds (1905). He married in Croswell, Mich., 4 Aug., 
1880, Mary Emma Smythe, born in Grenville, 111., 29 March, 1860, 
to Rev. William Herbert, an Episcopal minister, and Matilda Emma- 
Meen Smythe. They reside in Ottawa, Canada. Perley children : 
Bessie Herbert^; George Fullerton, born in Ottawa 23 Jan., 1886, who 
is with the Canada Atlantic Railway Company, passenger department ; 
Florence Marion, born in Kingston, Ont., 30 July, 1891. 

4 Ada L.i was born 5 Jan., 1859, and married 8 Aug., 1877, George 



586 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Otty Dixon Otty, barrister-at-law, Hampton, N. B., where she died 
25 April, 1878. He is now of St. John, N. B. 

5 Mary^ was born 8 April, 1860, and married in Ottawa, Canada, 
8 Dec, 1883, Clarence Martin, from whom she separated about eight 
years ago. She is an insurance broker and resides with her mother. 
She signs her name M. Perley-Martin. Perley-Martin children: 
Frank, died about nine months old; Maud D., born 19 Oct., 1886; 
Marjory G., born 13 March, 1888; Harry, born 25 Jan., 1890; Julia, 
born 15 July, 1892; Nora H., born 11 March, 1893. 

6 Henry M.^ was born 1 June, 1867, and died, unmarried, in 
Ottawa, Canada, 5 May, 1903. 

7 Bessie H.-' was born in Chicago, 111., 9 Dec, 1881, and married 
in Toronto, Ont., 18 Aug., 1903, Aubrey Burleigh Rowan-Legg, a 
traveling salesman, born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland, 
12 April, 1879, to Edward Lutwidge, a civil engmeer, and Jane 
Elizabeth-Burleigh Rowan-Legg. Their home is Milwaukee, Wis. 



FAMILY 423: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, TIIOMAS-16. THOMAS-33, OL1VER-5S*, 
MOSES-120, MOSES HENRV-257. 

GEORGE HAYWARD PERLEY was born 17 Dec, 1832, in St. 
John, N. B. He was a civil engineer, and was for many years secre- 
tary to the Imperial Fisheries Commission, with home at St. John. 

He married 7 Sept., 1858, Charlotte l^llen Ormond, youngest 
daughter of Lt. Col. H. S. Ormond of the Imperial Army. She 
was born in Sunderland^ County Durham, Ping., 3 P>b., 1844, Mr. 
Perley died in St. John 17 Oct., 1870 ; his widow in (Dec. ?), 1904, 
at the home of her son Harold. "She was in her sixtieth year." 
She "had many friends and is well remembered as one of the favor- 
ite vocalists of St. John in her younger days. One of her sisters 
married Hon. John H. Gray, a leading New Brunswick politician 
at the time of confederation, and another married Gilead Gray of 
Ottawa." 

1 Perley children : Henry St. George-, Harold Ormond-. 

2 George^ was born 16 July, 1859, was a well-known newspaper 
man in St. John, where he died, unmarried. Harold^ was born 23 
Oct., 1861. 



FAMILY 424: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOMAS-33, AARON-62, 
ISRAEL-125, AUGUSTUS-261. 

THOMAS AUGUSTUS PERLEY was born in Scotch Plains, 
N. J., 15 Sept., 1845. He enlisted in the Rebellion 24 Aug., 1862, 
and was mustered in on his seventeenth birthday for nine months 
in Company A, 50th Regiment, Gen. Banks' division. He was at 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 587 

New Orleans, Baton Rouge, at Port Hudson, 27 May and 14 June, 
1863. He was mustered out 24 Aug., 1863. 

Mr. Perley settled in Trinidad, Col., where he engaged in sheep- 
raising. He had, at one time, a flock of 3000 sheep. He and an 
associate owned several ranches and a township six miles square. 
He went West for his health and obtained health and wealth. Ill- 
health once more overtaking him, for several years past he has been 
retired from business. He married. Rev. D. D. Marsh officiating, 
9 Sept., 1880, Mary Angelina Chaplin, who was born 2 Sept., 1851, 
to George W. and Charlotte Eustis-Spofford Chaplin of George- 
town, Mass. Their home is Colorado Springs, Col. 
1 Perley child: Clara Chaplin, born 3 March, 1893. 



FAMILY 425: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-l,TH0MAS-4, THOMAS-16, THOMAS-33, AARON-62, 
ISRAEL-125, AUGUSTUS-'261. 

ISAAC SHEPARD COLE PERLEY was born in New York 
City 9 Sept., 1849. 'He was a shoemaker and manufacturer in 
Georgetown, Mass., many years. He was greatly interested in the 
Perley Family Gatherings, and was an important factor in their suc- 
cess. He was a member of the executive committees and of the 
Publishing Committee, chosen at the Gathering, in June, 1877. He 
is a shoe cutter by trade and is now engaged in Rowley, Mass. 

Mr. Perley married Emma Frances Currier 23 Oct., 1870, in 
Boxford. She was born 9 July, 1849, to John Joseph and Olive- 
Davis Currier of Georgetown. Her father was a wheelwright. 
She died 5 Aug., 1877, in Georgetown. His second wife, married 27 
July, 1889, was Mary Blackington Kimball, born 14 Aug., 1855, to 
George and Edna Richards-Blackington Kimball. She died 27 Jan., 
1899. Mr. Kimball is a grocer in Rowley. Mr. Perley married his 
third wife, Mary Ada Hardy, 15 Oct., 1899. She was born in Row- 
ley 21 Aug., 1860, to Gorham H. and Mary-Dresser Hardy. 

1 Perley children : Thomas Edwin'-, Mary Edith'^, George Kim- 
balP, a daughter\ 

2 Thomas E.^ was born in Georgetown, Mass., 23 Aug., 1871. 
He married there 29 April, 1896, Rev. H. R. McCartney officiating, 
Grace Evelyn Brown, who was born in Ipswich, Mass., 17 Jan., 1870, 
to Walter, a boot freer, and Evelyn-Kimball Brown. Mr. Perley is 
a woodworker with home in Wollaston, Mass. He has in his pos- 
session a cane that belonged to his ancestor Thomas Perley-4, an 
heirloom since 1686. Perley children born in Wollaston: Evelyn 
Kimball, 26 March, 1900; George Thomas, 28 Aug., 1902. 

3 Mary E.^ was born 6 Sept., 1873, in Georgetown, where she 
died 31 July, 1875. 

4 George K.^ was born 2 Sept., 1892. A daughter^ was born and 
died 28 Aug., 1900. 



FAMILY 426: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16. ASA-35, ASA-64, DUDLEY-132, 

ASA-265. 

PHILIP BREMNER PERLEY was bom in Chatham, N. B., 
15 Oct., 1847. He located his home in Chatham, where he died 2 
Oct., 1881. 

He married 20 Oct., 1875, Margaret Ellen Marquis of Chatham, 
where she was born 15 July, 1850, to Hugh ancl Mary-Mclndoe 
Marquis. His widow married George J. Dickson and resides in 
Chatham. 

1 Perley children : Asa Alexander'-, Campbell Thomas Marquis-, 
Mary Mclndoe'-. 

2 Asa A.' was born 19 Dec, 1876, and died 9 July, 1878. Camp- 
bell T. M." was born 24 Nov., 1878, was second engineer on board 
the Admiral Sampson. Mary McL' was born 8 April, 1880, and re- 
sides with her mother. 



FAMILY 427: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-IG. ASA-SS, ASA-64, I)UDLEY-132, 

AMOS-'.'67. 

DANIEL BULMAN PERLEY was born 8 Dec, 1850, in 
Chatham, N. B. He is located in Lucan, Ontario, Canada, where 
he is a house carpenter and builder. 

He married 22 Nov., 1876, Jane Maria Ellwood, who was born 3 
July, 1858, in County Middlesex, Township McGillivray, to Mark, a 
farmer, and Ann-Brown Ellwood. 

1 Perley children, born in Lucan, Ont. : Edward Williston'-; Nel- 
son Wilbert-; Robert Henry'-, George Ellwood-, Clara Helen'-. 

2 Edward W.^ was born 13 Jan., 1877, and is now of Vancouver, 
B. C; Nelson Wilbert\ 19 July, 1878, of Lucan, Ont. ; George Ellwood', 
3 and died 4 April, 1888; Clara Helen\ 19 May, 1893, now a student; 
Robert H.' was born 24 Feb., 1886, and is a clerk in the Standard 
Bank of Parkhill, Ontario. 



FAMILY 428: DAMERY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16. ASA-35, ASA-64, DUDLEY-132, 

AMOS-'267. 

ABIGAIL WILLISTON PERLEY was born 5 Jan., 1857, in 
Chatham, N. B. She merits the thanks of the Family for her effort 
in gathering data of her branch for this work some years ago. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 589 

She married in Chatham 15 June, 1882, WilHam Damery, a lum- 
ber merchant, who was born in Carleton, County St. John, N. B., 1 
March, 1856, to Thomas, a carpenter, and EHza-Cockran Damery. 
They reside in Chatham. i , a • 

1 Damery children : Williston Perley-, George Burnaby^ Annie 
Elise', Edith Bulman^ Josephine Maryl 

2 WilHston P.' was born in Black Brook, N. B., 19 June, 1883. 
He married in Chatham 24 June, 1903, Barbara Groat, who was 
born in Chatham to John, a fisherman, and Barbara Allen-Stuart 
Groat Mr. Damery is a surveyor of lumber m Chatham. Issue: 
Barbara Abigail, born 22 and died 24 June, 1904, in Chatham. 

3 George B^ was born in Black Brook, N. B., 10 Feb., 1885; 
Annie E.\ in Black Brook 12 Feb., 1887; Edith B.\ in Chatham 31 
Oct., 1888; Josephine M.\ in Chatham 1 May, 1891. 



FAMILY 429: PERLEY. 

LINEAL. DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-i, THOMAS-16, ASA-35, HENRY 69, HENRY-141, 

ALBERT-284. 

SAMUEL AUGUSTUS PERLEY was born 24 Oct., 1851. in 
Boxford, Mass. He is a mason by trade, but makes a business of 
teaming wood, timber, lumber, etc. 

He married Lucy Gurley 15 April, 1877, born to Samuel P. and 
Ellen J.-Toomey Gurley of Boxford 13 Oct., 1859. They reside in 
Boxford. 

1 Perley children : Osmore'-, Albert", Katharine^ Alberta^ 
SamueP, Mary Abbie'-. 

2 Osmore' was born in Boxford 27 March, 1878, and is a ma- 
chinist in Danvers, Mass. ; Albert', 16 Dec, 1879, and died 24 Nov., 
1880; Alberta', 9 Sept., 1883; SamueP, 25 July, 1885; Mary A.', 26 
Jan., 1893. 

3 Katharine' was born in Boxford 25 Oct., 1881. She married 
18 Nov., 1903, Freeman Smith Phillips, teamster, born in Lynn in 
Jan., 1881, to Benjamin Franklin and Carrie J.-Smith Phillips. 
Phillips child: Arthur Perley, born 16 Nov., 1903. 



FAMILY 430: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, JACOB-73, 
JOSHUA-148, JOHN-295. 

JOSHUA EATON PERLEY was born in Wilton, Me., 29 Oct., 
1827. He resided in Boston, Mass., where he was a milkman and 
later a grocer. He died of phthisic 24 Feb., 1861, and was taken to 
Milo, Me., for burial. His widow, Angella C, was appointed admin- 
istratrix of his estate. In the assets were notes of "unknown 
value." 

He married in Wilton, Me., 19 May, 1853, Angella C. Frost, who 
was born in Milo 16 Sept., 1830, to Willard (born in Wayne) and 



590 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

Jane (born in Livermore) Frost. She died of pneumonia 16 Feb., 
1864, aged thirty-five years and five months, in Boston, and was 
buried in Milo. 

1 Perley children : Henry Estes'^ Clara Gertrude'^ Arthur Lee^ 

2 Henry E.^ was born 25 May, 1854, in Boston, Mass. He is a 
carpenter, and resides in Riverside, Cal. He became, 2 Feb., 1891, 
at Riverside, the second husband of Mrs. Mary E.-Burton Thompson, 
who was born 9 July, 1861, at Leescreek Mill, Highland County, 
Ohio, to Mary-Pope and James Burton, a miller. They have a room- 
ing-house, Ferris, Cal. Their child : Lucy Madeline Gertrude, born 
in Ferris 31 May, 1894. 

3 Clara G.^ was born 7 Sept., 1856. in Boston, and 17 April, 1881, 
in Riverside, Cal., married as his second wife, Henry Lincoln Roland 
Stiles, who was born in Springwater, N. Y., 11 Aug., 1830, to Eliza- 
Cheesbro and Roland Stiles, a lumberman. Mr. Stiles is a merchant 
in Los Angeles, Cal. Their children, born in Los Angeles but 
Claude in Norwalk: Leo Bertrand, 4 May, 1885; Claude Perley, 31 
May, 1886, and died 30 June. 1898; Elton Ray, 30 Sept., 1888; 
Coulter Claire, 20 June, 1894, and died 2 April, 1896. 

4 Arthur L.^ was born 19 P^cb., 1860, in Boston, where he was a 
clerk in 1878. He went to California in 1880. He is a watchman 
and resides in Los Angeles, Cal. He married 23 Nov., 1881, at 
Riverside, Cal., Miss Alphia Aruba Notewarl, who was born 16 
Aug., 1864, in Apalachin, Tioga County, N. Y., to Polly Maria- 
Dobson and Calvin Ward Notewarl, a farmer. They have two chil- 
dren: Myron Calvin* and Charles Gilbert, born 14 Aug., 1885. 

5 Myron C.^ was born 28 Sept., 1882. He married in Los An- 
geles, Cal., 1 Jan., 1903, Fugenia Gary, who was born there 24 June, 
1881. Mr. Perley is artist for the American Journal, published in 
New York City, his present home. 



FAMILY 431 : PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, JACOB-1". .TACOB-37, ,TACOB-73, 
JOSHU.\-14,H, ,IOHN-295. 

JOHN ESTES PERLEY was born 12 July, 1829, in Wilton, 
Me. When fifteen his mother died. He found employment in a 
mill in Lowell, Mass. In six months he returned to Wilton, and his 
father having broken up housekeeping, worked for a neighbor for 
his board and attended school. At the age of eighteen, and for two 
and a half years, he drove a milk-cart in Boston. His father now 
having married again, Estes returned to his native farm. In a year 
or two, he went to East Wilton, and in about two years learned to 
manufacture scythes. Then, Sept., 1853, at Bath, he engaged in 
the soap and candle manufacture. At Bath his business was lucra- 
tive and he was held in high esteem, but a " Western fever," for which 
there was no panacea but Western experience, took him in March, 1 859, 
with his grandfather Perley and others to Kansas, where they founded 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 59 1 

the town of Farmington ; but the war of the RebeUion so interfered 
with their enterprise that it was abandoned and Estes returned to 
Wilton. 

Sept. 10, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, 28th Maine Regiment 
of Volunteer Infantry, and reported at Augusta. The regiment was 
ordered to Fort Schuyler, N. Y. Estes was detailed as nurse in the 
hospital and later as cook. Nov. 27, 1862, the regiment was in 
Brooklyn, with hospital in Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's church. 
There he had the entire care of the sick and for nine days and nights 
his duty was incessant, and sleep a deserter. The ladies of the city 
vied in their attentions upon the sick, some devoting time and money 
without stint. Mr. Perley received from Mrs. Beecher drawers and 
a dressing-gown, which latter is a choice memento of the lady's 
motherly devotion. At East New York he was detailed assistant 
steward of the Port Hospital, drawing rations, compounding pre- 
scriptions, etc. The steward, Capt. Jennings, remarked of the abil- 
ity, devotion to duty, and integrity of his assistant Perley. It was 
Perley's pleasure, "not to destroy men's lives, but to save them." 
He was mustered out 5 Feb., 1863, and returned to East Wilton. 

About 1870 he purchased a farm in Industry and in 1876 sold 
and bought another in Farmington, where he was a thrifty farmer 
and carpenter. He was a charter member of the John F. Appleton 
Post 25 in Farmington. He was a town surveyor for several years 
and served on the grand jury one year. He was a staunch Republi- 
can and a strong temperance advocate, and a man of acknowledged 
integrity. He died at his home in Farmington 10 Nov., 1894. His 
funeral services were conducted by the local post of the Grand Army. 

Mr. Perley's first wife, married in Wilton 27 May, 1856, was 
Esther Frances Perham, born in Boston, Mass., (.'') 28 Sept., 1835, 
to Josiah and Esther-Sewell Perham of Wilton, where she died 23 
March, 1867. His second wife, married 6 April, 1868, was Dorcas 
Helen Grover, born 6 April, 1832, to Edsel and Mary- Walker Grover. 
She now (1905) resides in Carthage, Me. 

1 Perley children : Charles Estes", Esther Lucilla**. 

2 Charles E.' was born in Bath, Me., 23 April, 1857. He married 
in Farmington, Me., 22 April, 1883, Effie Leone Farrand, born in 
New Vineyard, Me., 7 Sept., 1864, to Wilson, a farmer, and Pilema- 
Kennedy Farrand. Mr. Perley is a shoemaker of y\uburn. Me. 
Perley children, born in Brockton, Mass. : Florence Madelene, 28 
Jan., 1884: Ethel Leone, 16 July, 1885; Alice Frances, 22 March, 
1888. 

3 Esther Lucilla^ was born 21 June, 1861, and died 5 Jan., 1864. 



FAMILY 432: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4. JACOB-17. JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74, 
BENJAMIN-155, BENJAMIN-298. 

WARREN PERLEY was born in Dunbarton, N. H., 7 April, 
1822. He came to Massachusetts in 1855 or 56, and for several 
years was a shoe manufacturer in North Andover. He was later a 



592 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

shoe cutter in Haverhill, with home in Bradford. In Oct., 1885, he 
was appointed postmaster of Bradford. 

His first wife, married 5 May, 1844, was Clarissa T. Kidder of 
Dunbarton, born in 1825, and died 20 Feb., 1848. His second wife, 
married 13 Oct., 1850, was Martha N. Fish of North Andover, born 
29 Oct., 1827, to Ebenezer and Abigail Angier Fish. He died 8 
March, 1895, in Bradford. 

1 Perley children : Charles Warren-4t)9, Charlotte Luella^ 
Frank P.'-, Hannah M.*, Stephen D.'- 

2 Frank P.' was born 19 Dec , 1854, in Goffstown, N. H., and 
died of diphtheria 18 Oct., 1862; Hannah M.\ 13 Dec, 1856, in An- 
dover, and died of dropsy of the head 13 P'^eb., 1862; Stephen D.\ 
19 May, 1860, and resides in Haverhill. He has been employed in a 
sole leather factory there. In Nov., 1890, he received a permanent 
injury to his hand on a rolling machine. 

3 Charlotte L.' was born 24 Dec, 1852, and married in Bradford, 
Mass., John Goodell,who was born there 11 April, 1851, to Hon. Walter 
and Sally-Washburn Goodell. Mr. Goodell is a machinist of Brad- 
ford, where their children were born: Warren Perley, 3 Dec, 1881, 
who is a clerk in Knowles' grocery, Bradford ; Vivian Luella, 20 
Aug., 1885. 



FAMILY 433: PERLEY. 

LINKAL DESCENT— ALLAN-t, THOMAS-4, JACOB-l". JACOB-37, BEXJAMIN-74, 
BENJAMI>M55, BEXJ A MIX-«W. 

CHARLES PERLEY was born in r:)unbarton, N. H., 2 Sept., 
1823. He located in West Boxford, Mass., as a farmer. He owns 
one of the best farms for which that section is noted. Besides ex- 
tensive farming, he was a member of the firm Kimball & Perley, 
grocers and provisioners, in Haverhill. He also runs a milk team 
into Haverhill. He was in 1873-4 a member of the State Legisla- 
ture. He was one of the promoters of the Perley Family Gather- 
ings, was elected to the executive committee, and the publishing 
committee at the Perley Convention in June, 1877. He now resides 
retired in Bradford. 

Mr. Perley married 15 Sept., 1858, P^mily Ann Day, daughter of 
John and Emily A. -Kimball Day of West Boxford, born 5 Sept., 
1832, and died of pneumonia 1 Jan., 1874. She was an estimable 
lady and esteemed by all who knew her. Their only child was but 
for a day, 28 Aug., 1863. 



FAMILY 434: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4. JACOB-17. JACOB-37, BENJA.MIN-74, 
BENJA.MIN-155, BENJAJMIX-'-ltS. 

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS PERLEY was born 11 Feb., 1828, 
in Dunbarton, N. H. He settled in life in Goffstown, N. H., where 
he is a farmer. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 593 

He married 8 July, 1856, Hephzibeth Woodbury, daughter of 
Amos (born in Bow, 1797) and Marcy A.-Annis Woodbury of Bow. 
His second wife was Silvia Hadley, born in Goffstown 21 March, 
1840, to Nathaniel, a farmer, and Frances-Jones Hadley. 

1 Perley children: Quincy Woodbury"^, Natt Hadley^ George 
Henry*, Fannie\ Hannah MabeP, Caroline Ann", John Arthur*, 
Henry Edward*. 

2 Quincy W.\ born 17 March, 1857, in Goffstown, married in 
Boxford, Mass., Mary Fowler Greenwood 1 Jan., 1880. She was a 
daughter of Samuel M., an ice dealer, and Sarah Greenwood, of North 
Andover, born in West Boxford 5 Aug., 1856. Mr. Perley was 
a clerk in his uncle Charles' store, in Haverhill. He died there 
27 Jan., 1897, and his remains were interred in Linwood cemetery, the 
prelate ot Palestine Lodge, K. of P., conducting the ceremony at the 
grave. His widow resides in North Andover. Perley children, 
born in Haverhill: John Woodbury, 12 April, 1881, who is a mechan- 
ical draftsman; Howard Quincy, 29 July, 1882, who is a clerk; Alice 
Greenwood, 14 June, 1889. 

3 Natt H.^ was born in Goffstown 4 Feb., 1861. He married 
there 31 March, 1885, Jennie Stinson, born there 13 March, 1864, to 
William, a carpenter, and Catherine-Carr Stinson. Their home is 
Goffstown. Mr. Perley is a mechanic. Perley child: George 
Arthur, born 21 Nov., 1886, a student (1905) in the New Hampshire 
State College at Durham. 

4 George H.\ born 3 April, 1863, and John A.\ born 22 Jan., 
1875, reside, unmarried, in Goffstown. Henry E.^ was born 12 
March, 1878, and died 21 May, 1879. 

5 Fannie^ was born in Goffstown 1 Dec, 1865, and married there 
21 Sept., 1886, Willis Thomas Ryder, a mechanic, born in Dunbar- 
ton, N. H., 17 Sept., 1859, to Thomas Caldwell, a farmer, and 
Roena-Paul Ryder. Their home is Goffstown, without children. 

6 Hannah M.^ was horn in Goffstown, N. H., 28 Oct., 1868, and 
married in Manchester, N. H , 6 Sept., 1893, Edwin Whipple Mer- 
rill, a clerk, who was born in Manchester 5 July, 1867, to Joseph E., 
a currier, and Ellen A. -Brown Merrill. Their home is Manchester. 

7 Caroline A.\ born 31 March, 1871, married Harry B. Buxton 
of Goffstown. 



FAMILY 435: BATEMAN, LINCOLN. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, JAOOB-17. JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74, 
BENJAMIN-155, GILMAN-300. 

SARAH JANE PERLEY was born in New Rowley, now 
Georgetown, 15 Jan., 1827. She married 26 Nov., 1846, John Battis 
Bateman, a shoe cutter, who was born to John B. and Betsey-Merrill 
Bateman of Georgetown, Mass., and died 18 Feb., 1852. She mar- 
ried, second, Thomas Lincoln, who was born in Norway in 1822 to 
Christopher and Ellen of Georgetown, where he died 13 Aug., 1874. 

"Lars Christensen of Elsineur, Kingdom of Denmark, became a 
citizen of the United States 7 July, 1851. His papers were signed 



594 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

the 19th of July, 1851, by Thomas W. Phillips, clerk of the Munici- 
pal Court, City of Boston. He took the name of Thomas Lincoln." 

1 Bateman children : Frank Eldon^ John Melvin*. Lincoln chil- 
dren : Oilman Christopher^, Mary Ellen^ Annie Frances^ 

2 Frank E.^ was born in Georgetown 6 Feb., 1847, and married 
there 30 Aug., 1873, Mary D. Poole of Rowley, who died in George- 
town. He married, second, Mrs. Catherine Duncan, widow of 
James, who was born in Inverness, Scotland, 25 March, 1855. They 
reside in Georgetown, where he is a shoemaker. Mr. Bateman was 
in the 17th unattached company, Mass. Vol., one hundred days; and 
in the 3d Mass. Cavalry, one year. Bateman issue: Bessie Ann 
Perley, born 1 Aug., 1874. 

3 John M.^ was born 5 Aug., 1848. . He married, first, in George- 
town, in Nov., 1872, Martha Ann Hinkson, who was born 28 Dec, 
1852, to Benjamin and Abigail-Hardy Hinkson of Groveland, Mass., 
and died in March, 1877. He married, second, in Groveland, in 
May, 1880, Estelle Jane Organ, who was born in Dover, N. H., 17 
Jan., 1858, to Benjamin Grafton, a mechanic, and Clara Marie-Card 
Organ. Mr. Bateman is a laborer of Georgetown. Issue: Mabel 
Josephine, born 22 Aug., 1873, died in Groveland in Dec, 1877; Lin- 
nie Gertrude, 25 July, 1875; Boyd Leslie, 26 Nov., 1880; Bernice 
Ellen, 15 Dec, 1881; Charles Grafton, 27 Sept., 1886; Clara Perley, 
2 Aug., 1888, died 9 May, 1889; Jessie Hale, 2 April, 1894; John 
Perley, 9 May, 1896. 

4 Gilman C.^ was born 4 Sept., 1855, and died 23 Oct., 1878. 
Mary E.^ was born 7 April, 1860, and died in Georgetown 18 April, 
1885. Annie F.^ was born in July, 1862, and died 14 Sept., 1870. 



FAMILY 436 : PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN 1. THOMAS-4, JACOB-17. JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74, 
BENJAMIN-155, G1LMAN.300. 

RENTON MELVIN PERLEY was born in Bradford, Mass., 7 
June, 1832. Pie resided with his parents till 1853. He located in 
Newburyport, Mass., and began the business of a distiller and whole- 
saler of liquors. It is said that some days during the Rebellion his 
revenue tax was a j^lOOO per day. 

Mr. Perley married in Georgetown, Mass., 7 April, 1853, Caroline 
Maria Perry, who was born in Newbury, Mass., 17 June, 1834, to 
Henry, a hotel keeper, and Caroline-Rogers Perry. She died in 
Newburyport, Mass., 13 Feb., 1903. 

1 Perley children : Susan Josephine^ Henry Gilman'. 

2 Susan J.^ was born in Georgetown 7 Aug., 1853. She married 
in Newburyport 20 May, 1873, Hudson Savory Harriman, who was 

born in Georgetown 9 April, , to Charles A., a farmer, and Judith 

Savory-Thurlow Harriman. She died 14 Feb., 1904, in Newbury- 
port, where Mr. Harriman and his family now reside, 1905. Harri- 
man children, born in Newburyport: Blanche Perley, 29 Nov., 1874; 
Carolyn Judith, 9 Nov., 1876; Josephine Hudson, 10 Jan., 1884. 

3 Henry G.' was born 9 April, 1856, in Newburyport, where he 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 595 

died 24 Nov., 1896. He married Mary Constantine, when both were 
residents of Newburyport, and had CaroHne Jane, born 21 Oct., 1879. 



FAMILY 437: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74, 
BENJAMIN-155, GILMAN-300. 

JOHN LOVERING PERLEY was born 21 Dec., 1837, in 
Georgetown, Mass. He was a pedler. He Hved in Georgetown 
and in Boston. He married 7 April, 1859, Jane M. Meader of 
Portland. Me., born 5 Sept., 1838, in South Boston, to George and 
Louise. He died of yellow fever in Florida 15 Nov., 1865. She died 
in Boston 27 June, 1894. His brother Renton was the administrator 
on her estate, which was inventoried at $2506.99. 

The Georgetown Advocate says: "Capt. John Perley of Andrews' 
Sharp Shooters lost his life in a cavalry charge on the Potomac, and 
was one of the best officers in the mounted service." 

1 Perley child: Alice M., born 21 Jan., 1860, died 18 March, 1862. 



FAMILY 438: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74, 
BENJAMIN-155, ELBRIDGE-302. 

WILLIAM ELBRIDGE PERLEY was born in Boxford, Mass., 
2 or 12 Oct., 1842. He is a stone-mason by trade and is consider- 
ably engaged in teaming. He has been a town constable. He was 
a soldier, enlisting for three years 2 Aug., 1862, in Company F, 
35th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. He was in the battles 
of South Mountain, Antietam, at the capture of Jackson, Miss., the 
surrender of Vicksburg and fought at Knoxville. 

He married, 13 Nov., 1866, Elizabeth Gravier, born in Honolulu, 
Sandwich Islands, 25 May, 1842, to Lewis N. and Hannah Gravier. 
The first three children were born in Boston, the rest in Boxford. 
She died of consumption 18 Nov., 1885. The local journal said: 
" She was born of a French father and a native mother on the Sand- 
wich Islands. She with others, came to West Boxford many years 
ago and early won and always held the esteem of her townspeople 
and acquaintances." 

1 Perley children: "^j ^, Agnes Evelyn^ Clarence", 

Nathan ieP, Howard Gravier^, Edith Graced Katharine Gravier^. 

2 The two first' were stillborn 5 Aug., 1867, and 20 June, 1868. 
Clarence^ born 28 June, 1871, died of heart disease 4 July, 1871. 
NathanieP, born 11 Dec, 1872, died of jaundice 27 Jan., 1873. How- 
ard G}, deceased. 

3 Agnes E.' was born 2 P"eb., 1870. She married, first, Charles 
Carey, who died in California. She married, second, in Sept., 1897, 



596 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

and became the second wife of Frederick Jones, who was born in 
Assinippi, Norwell, Mass. They reside in Quincy, Mass. ( Sept., 1905 ) . 
Jones issue: Clara Evelyn, born 6 Sept., 1898; William, who died a 
few days old; Clarence, born 29 March, 1902. 

4 Edith G.' was born 23 March, 1879. She married 10 Nov., 
1904, David M. Schreiter of Kittery, Me., an employe of the govern- 
ment navy yard. They are now in California. 

5 Katharine G.^ was born 27 March, 1882. She married 30 Sept., 

1904, John Frederick Benson, who was born 6 Sept., 1874, to 

and Coroline Frederica-Nelson Bensen. Bensen issue: Elizabeth 
Frederica, born 5 July, 1905. 



FAMILY 439: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-l,TH0MAS-4, JAOOB-17 JACOB-37, BENJAMIN-74, 
JOHN-159, PROCTOR JEFFERSON-305. 

ELBRIDGE GERRY PERLEY was born in Peabody, Mass., 
4 (the records say 5) July, 1834. He was named for his uncle, a sea 
faring man for many years. He also was a sailor and made long 
voyages to Africa and the East Indies. He was by trade a sign and 
ornamental painter and grainer and was a long time in the employ 
of Bruce & Co., Boston. He was a soldier in the Plrst and Fifth 
Massachusetts Regiments and experienced hard service in Virginia 
and North Carolina. He was mustered in for Chelsea 23 May, 1861, 
and was discharged for disability 22 July, 1861. He received a pen- 
sion, which was continued to his widow. 

He married in Chelsea, Mass., 17 Jan., 1858, Elizabeth M. Tune, 
a seamstress, who was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, 19 Jan., 1839, 
to John, a sailor, and Elizabeth-Hooper Tune. He died 14 Jan., 
1890, in Chelsea, where his widow resides (1905). 

1 Perley children: Mary Ella'-, Lucy Maria^ Grace Rena^ 

2 Mary E.^ was born in Chelsea 16 Jan., 1860. She is a dress- 
maker. She married in Chelsea 23 Jan., 1890, and became the 
second wife of James Oscar Davis, a surveyor of lumber, who was 
born in Newburyport, Mass., 6 July, 1856, to James and Mary F.- 
Berdge Davis. Their home is Chelsea, where their children were 
born and where two died. Mr. Davis' first wife was Mary Wilson. 
Davis issue: Oscar Perley, born 10 and died 21 Dec, 1890; James 
Whitney, born 24 Dec, 1891; Lucy Althea, born 28 Oct., 1894, and 
died in March, 1895. 

3 Lucy M.^ was born in Chelsea 14 Aug., 1861. She is a sales- 
woman. She married in New York City 17 March, 1884, Charles 
Henry Whitney, manager of a clothing store, who was born in 
Provincetown, Mass., 11 Dec, 1854, to Dr. Isaiah and Hannah E.- 
Freeman Whitney. He died in Boston, Mass., 24 March, 1905. His 
widow resides in Chelsea. 

4 Grace Rena^ was born 9 March, 1883. 



FAMILY 440: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, .TOHN-75, JOHN-162, 

URI-310. 

JOHN QUINCY PERLEY was born in Enfield, N. H., 27 
Nov., 1832. He was many years a merchant and dealer in lumber 
in Canaan, N. H., where he was postmaster fifteen years. In 1872 
he sold his business in Canaan and became the popular landlord of 
the Ottawa Hotel, in Montreal, Canada. In 1878 he engaged in the 
hotel business in Peoria, 111. He is now (1905) of Riverside, Cal. 

He married in Ogdensburg, N. Y., 1 Oct., 1859, Elizabeth Dow 
Pattee of Canaan, born 1 Oct., 1838, to Daniel and Judith-Burley 
Pattee. 

1 Perley children : Charles Allen^, Ida Frances*, Mary Belled 

2 Charles A.^ was born in Canaan, N. H., 5 Aug., 1860. He 
married in Chicago, 111., 29 Aug., 1898, Alberta Furrey, born in Can- 
ton, 111., 17 April, 1876. Mr. Perley is a manufacturer of agricultu- 
ral implements. Their home is Monmouth, 111. 

3 Ida F.' was born in Canaan, N. H., 28 Sept., 1862. She mar- 
ried in Monmouth, 111., 17 Oct., 1888, Henry Reynolds Green, Jr., a 
fruit shipper, born in Delaware, 111., 17 Oct., 1861, to Henry Rey- 
nolds and Mary-Brown Greene. They reside in Riverside, Cal. 
Greene issue : Elizabeth, born 16 June, 1891. 

4 Mary B.^ was born in Canaan, N. H., 8 Oct., 1866, and married 
in Monmouth, 111., 17 Oct., 1894, Charles William Girdlestone, a 
physician, born in Windsor, Canada, 7 Aug., 1866, to George Wil- 
liam and Louisa Rosalie-Baby Girdlestone. Their home is River- 
side, Cal. Their child : Constance, born 19 July, 1895. 



FAMILY 441: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17. JACOB-37, JOHN-75,JOHN-16U, 

URI-310. 

ISAAC NEWTON PERLEY was born 17 Jan., 1839, in En- 
field, N. H. He graduated at Harvard Medical College, 1865. He 
is located in Lebanon, N. H., as physician and druggist. We are 
grateful for his assistance on this work, in furnishing data of his 
branch. 

He married 1 Oct., 1867, Miss Kate E. Sturtevant of Lebanon, 
who was born 14 Feb., 1846, to J. C, a manufacturer, and Caroline- 
Cole Sturtevant. 

1 Perley children: Harry Sturtevant'-^, Carrie Cole^, Charles 
Raymond^ 

2 Harry S.S born 18 Aug., 1868, died 28 July, 1869. Carrie C.\ 
born 20 Aug., 1870, died in Lebanon 28 Jan., 1890. Charles R.^ 
born 26 March, died 19 Aug., 1875. 



FAMILY 442: PERLEY. 

LI.VEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-l, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, JACOB-37, JOHN.75, JOHN-162, 

URI-310. 

MOSES SAWYER PERLEY was born 31 March, 1842, in 
Enfield, N. H. He was called "one of the Grafton County early 
settlers." He received his education in the Canaan Academy. He 
then became a progressive farmer and made it pay. His acres num- 
bered two hundred and seventy-two. In 1882 he sold out and joined 
his brother-in-law in lumbering in Lebanon. He was a Republican, 
some years a selectman and a member of Social Lodge of Masons, 
No. 50. He died 15 Aug., 1885, of typhoid fever. 

He married 13 May, 1869, Sarah Jane Harris, a teacher, born in 
Canaan 14 Aug., 1846, to William Lothrop, a farmer, and Sarah- 
Pierce Harris. 

1 Perley child : Sarah Fannie'-. 

2 Sarah F.^ was born in Enfield 13 March, 1870, and is a teacher 
of modern languages in Springfield, Mass. 



FAMILY 443: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALiLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17. JACOB-37, JOHN-7.'>, 
NATHAN I EL-163, STEPHEN BARTLETT-316. 

GEORGE AMASA PERLEY was born 18 Nov., 1849, in 
Marquette, Wis., and resides in Flandreau, S. Dak., where he is a 
very busy man. Besides the care of his extensive arable acres, he 

is the secretary of the 



I-^armers' Mutual Fire 
and Lightning Insur- 
ance Association of 
Moody County, and is 
employed by the na- 
tional government as 
local statistician and 
as observer for the 
weather bureau, — and 
withal he finds time 
to indulge his taste 
for lyric poetry and 
writing music. Two 
lyrics are here given. 
His "Sacajawea," (an apostrophe to Cazarwea of the Shoshone 
Indians, who guided Lewis and Clark over the Rockies), a song ar- 
ranged for the piano, apropos the late Lewis and Clark exposition 
at Portland, Ore., proved very popular. 




'^^^,^h 






A SOD HOUSE 
Typical Fanii Residence in Moody County, 1879. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



599 



DAKOTA LAND. 

(Copyrighted.) 
My home, my own, Dakota land, 

With skies Italian blue, — 
Thy breezes, gr.ind at every hand 

Make lifeless air as new. 
I love thy bright and shining hours. 

Thy pure refreshing air. 
Thy river-crept and shady bowers, 

And rolling prairies fair. 

Chorus : — 

Go travel east, 

Go travel west. 
The wide world 'round with glee. 

Go see the north. 

Go sec the south. 
And the islands of the sea. 
Of places all that there may be, 
What better place is there to see 
Than this our good Dakota land. 
With open hand, inviting all? 

I love thy rough and rugged hills 

With riches hidden there; 
Thy hills of gold the mints will mold 

And scatter everywhere. 
Thy cold and deep artesian rocks 

Will pour their waters free. 
In streams of plenty for the flocks 

And onward for the sea. 
Chorus:— 

I love thy fields of grain. 

Thy herds and flocks untold, 
And see quite plain the sweet refrain 

Is gr.Tsses, grain and gold.— 
Thy sons to brave, so strong and true. 

Thy daughters bright and fair, 
Will prove the state to public view 

And ask it over here. 
Chorus: — 



A HARVEST-TIME REVERIE. 

It is raining, raining, raining, 

But we should not go complaining, 

ThoTigh the shadows chase the sunshine from 

the door; 
For It is the taste of bitter 
That makes the sweet the sweeter, 
'Tis shadow makes the sunshine much more 

lovely than before; — 
Then we'll never mind the shadow 
And we'll never mind the rain 
While the purifying deluge turns the losses 

Into gain. 

Chorus: — 

So we may sing of sunshine, 
Of song-birds and of flowers. 
Of luUabys and kisses. 
And laughing happy hours; 
But facts of life ane real. 
Our joys are mixed with pain. 
The world has hills and valleys, 
'Tls better so than plain;— 
So let us have the sunshine 
And let us have the rain. 

They are falling, falling, falling. 
And at first it seems appalling. 
When our light and dreamy castles topple o'er; 

But it Is the same old story. 

That makes the wreck a glory, 
'Tis the building from the ruins even better 

than before; 
Then we'll never mind the trouble; 
It may be our lot to know 

Like the sunshine with its shadow, we should 
let It come and go. 

Chorus: — 



In 1882 Mr. Perley was a delegate from Moody County to the Cit- 
izens' Constitutional Association of Dakota. He was first vice pres- 
ident ; he was second on the committee on permanent association 
and future meetings, and third on the committee on taxation and 
municipal indebtedness. The following is taken from a pamphlet 
titled "Flandreau." Mr. Perley writes of his "Little Forest Farm": 
"As your committee desire my experience in Moody County, 
will say that I was attending school at the seminary at Wasioja, 
Dodge County, Minn., and lacked about one year of graduating, 
when all of a sudden, in the month of April, 1876, I became 
impressed with the idea that the most independent life I could 
lead was that of a farmer out of debt, and so I packed my valise 
and started for a land of free homes in a healthy climate. I 
landed at Worthington, Minn., which was the railroad terminus 
nearest the Sioux Falls land ol^ce. From there I penetrated 
seventy miles inland on foot, and by catching rides on freighters' 
wagons. I passed over a good deal of government land that I 
might have taken, but did not find what suited me in the lay of 
the land and character of the soil and subsoil until I reached 
Moody County. I located here in May, 1876, entered 326 acres 
of land as a free claim and homestead, and with a stiff upper lip 



600 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



and a jack-knife commenced business by changing three days' 
work for an acre of breaking. I got 26 acres of breaking done 
and paid for the first season. My first dwelling was made of sod, 
which I cut from the furrow with my jack-knife while the break- 
ing teams were resting and feeding. I borrowed rails and made 




GEO. A. PEULEY. 



a hay roof and with a borrowed scythe I cut hay for one week, 
boarding myself in my palatial residence, using for fuel the 
unburned weeds that were left on the gopher knolls, placing the 
fire in the corner of the house. The most valuable of my cook- 
ing utensils was a frying-pan. Not a neighbor's house was in the 
range of vision. I went back to the States to earn money in 
harvest with my only shirt almost worn out and my boots tied 
together with willow bark, but feeling that I was well off. I 
rented the land I had broken, and by the time the crop was 
threshed I had earned me a team, and thus one step after another 
was taken, and meanwhile keeping out of debt I have reached a 
condition where it would take no small sum to induce me to step 
out of my shoes. Ten head of horses, sixteen head of cattle and 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



601 



five head of swine is my stock. I have about all the kinds of 
machinery needed to run a farm successfully. I have 120 acres 
under the plow, thirteen acres in trees, and the balance in pasture 
and hay land. By May and June burning I can cut two and 
three tons blue joint hay to the care, on land that was destitute of 




Bird's Eye view of the Dwelling of G, A. Perley in Territorial Days, now hidden by a 
thrifty Artificial Grove of mixed Forest Trees. 

hay when I came here. I have a piece of timothy and clover that 
has been cut every year for nine years without any sign of failure 
yet. Small fruits, including cherries, grapes and blackberries, 
have done well with me. So also have bees. I have house room 
equal to 30x40, and out-building room equal to 40x40. I would 
not exchange, acre for acre, for Eastern farms. It is really the 
poor man's paradise." 

Mr. Perley married 21 July, 1880, in Sioux Falls, Dak. Ter., 
Emma Rosetta Irish, a school teacher, born in Milton, Dodge County, 
Minn., 29 Sept., 1857, to Washington Rollins and Helen Loretta- 
Gilbert Irish. Mr. Irish claims that his earliest ancestor in this 
country was in the employ of Miles Standish. He was of Welsh 
descent. 

1 Perley children : Iva Chrysoma'', Stephen Eltonl 

2 Iva C.^ was born 14 July, 1881, in Flandreau. She graduated 
at the State Normal School in Madison, S. Dak., and has a lucrative 
position teaching in Dell Rapids. She has a fine musical voice and 
excels as a vocalist. 

3 Stephen E.^ was born 12 March, 1883, in Flandreau. He was 
educated at the State Agricultural College, and will remain another 
year at least on his father's 400 acre farm. He has a cabinet of 
medals he has taken for excellence in athletics. He stands six feet 



602 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

and two inches tall. He stood highest in the whole college — in high 
jump, hurdles, "the gloves," and wrestling. A common farm fence 
is a mere step-over. He was a good scholar and has ability to fill 
any place he would prefer. 



FAMILY 444: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-I, JACOB-17. XATHAN-38, NATHAX-76, 
JOHN-164, DAVIDJ19. 

DAVID MUNSOX PERLEY was born in Enosburg, Vt., 30 
April, 1817. His father died when he was six, his mother when he 
was thirteen years old, and his uncle, Anson Perley, became his 
guardian. At the age of sixteen he went to Worcester, Mass., with 
a horse drover. While in Massachusetts he learned the chair-maker's 
trade. After some years he went to St. Albans, Vt., and established 
the firm of Church & Perley. When about forty-three, he returned 
to Enosburg, cultivated the old farm and opened a chair shop. In 
the old residence he and his sister and his four children were born. 
After some years he gave over the chair business and rented the 
farm, and was eight years a traveling salesman for Fairbanks & Co., 
St. Johnsbury, Vt. His health failing, he went back to the farm, 
which, in 1866, he sold to his cousin Henry Perley, and bought an- 
other on the north side of Missisquoi river, his permanent home, 
with address: East Berkshire. 

Mr. Perley was a mai> of medium size, slightly stooping, weighed 
180 pounds, had black hair silvered with age. He was always a 
temperate man, except in his young days he indulged freely in to- 
bacco and its pipe. 

He married, 30 Aug., 1843, Laura Ann Parmelee, an estimable 
lady, born 2.5 April, 1819, m Granville, N. Y., to Rev. Moses and 
Hitty-Chapin Parmelee of Jericho, Vt., where her father was a Con- 
gregational clergyman. She died 12 Feb., 1882, in Enosburg, where 
he also died 3 May, 1897. 

1 Perley children : Moses Parmelee-470, Martha Anne^ Candace 
Amira^ Walter Emerson^ 

2 Martha A.' was born 18 April, 1847. She married in Enos- 
burg 31 Dec, 1884, and became the second wife of Homer Fletcher 
Comings, a farmer, bom in East Berkshire, Vt., 21 Oct., 1852, to 
William A. and Mary-Fletcher Comings. Mr. Comings has been super- 
intendent of schools of East Berkshire for a number of years. He was 
nomineeof the Prohibition Party ( 1904) for governor of Vermont. He 
was town clerk and town treasurer of Wheatland, County Mecosta, 
Mich., previous to his second marriage. They have an adopted 
daughter, Frances Anna, born 7 May, 1894. 

3 Candace A.' was born 12 April, 1855. She married in East 
Berkshire, Vt., 30 Aug., 1893, William Daniel McClaflin, a farmer, 
born 8 April, 1857, to Lucius, a carpenter, and Mary Maria- White 
McClaflin. They reside in Enosburg Falls, Vt., without children. 

4 Walter E.' was born 13 Feb., 1865. He married in Enosburg 
Falls 10 June, 1891, Sarah J. Dunham, born in Montgomery, Vt., 6 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 603 

June, 1866, to Norman, a farmer, and Mary L.-Mc Arthur Dunham. 
Their home is Bristol, Vt. Mr. Perley is a traveling salesman. 
Perley child: Laura Margaret, born 17 May, 1892. 



FAMILY 445: ANDERSON. 

LINEAL, DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JAOOB-17, NATHAN.^, NATHAN-76, 
JOHN-164, NATHAN-321. 

HARRIET PERLEY was born 15 Feb., 1822, in Berkshire, Vt. 
She married 2 Nov., 1842, Robert Stevens Anderson, who was bom 
9 July, 1817, to Robert and Ruth-Stevens Anderson of Bakersfield, 
Vt. Mr. Anderson was a farmer with post office address East 
Berkshire. He died 27 Oct., 1889, and his widow 1 Sept., 1894. 

1 Anderson children: Florence Isadore', Flora IsabelP, Robert 
Stevens\ 

2 Florence I.^ was born in East Berkshire 27 Nov., 1849. She 
was a school teacher and dressmaker. She married 1 May, 1873, 
James Langdon Hadley, a teacher, born in Waitsfield, Vt., to George 
and Emily-Newton Hadley. She died in East Berkshire, Friday, 13 
Dec, 1878, "a lady of quiet manner and exemplary virtues." "Bit- 
ter indeed is the cup to her many friends and relatives, yet the re- 
membrance of her many genuine and unostentatious virtues is an 
unalloyed satisfaction and solid comfort." He has removed to Areata, 
Cal. 

3 Flora I.^ was born in East Berkshire 8 Feb., 1851, and 12 April, 
1870, married Ira James Sweat, a mechanic, who was born in Bolton, 
Canada, 31 July, 1836, to Ivory and Lydia-Powell Sweat. They reside 
in Los Angeles, Cal. Sweat issue : Ira Leon, born in Richford, Vt., 
2 Sept., 1873, a carpenter, builder and architect in Los Angeles. 

4 Robert S.^ was born in Berkshire, Vt., 25 Aug., 1865. He is a 
wood-turner and band sawyer with address Richford, Vt. He mar- 
ried in West Berkshire 9 Dec, 1903, Marian Agnes Garrett, who 
was born in East Franklin, Vt., 23 June, 1886, to Charles L., a far- 
mer, and Arvilla Garrett. 



FAMILY 446: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JAOOB-17, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-76, 
JOHN-H54, NATHAN-321. 

HENRY PERLEY was born 28 March, 1824, in Berkshire, Vt., 
where he remained till twenty-one, teaching singing schools winters. 
He then began an ice trade in Boston, Mass. After marriage he 
resided in Danville, Vt., till May, 1855, when he removed to Mel- 
rose, Mass. In 1858 he retired from the ice traffic and became grist- 
miller in Wheelock, Vt. Selling the mill in 1866, he removed to 
Hardwick, Vt., and ran a grist mill there for seven years. Selling 



g()4 T^HE PfiRLEY FAMILY 

that, on account of a troublesome asthma, he gave his time to pro- 
bate matters and as referee and arbitrator. He was a justice of the 
peace twenty years, (called the oldest justice in the State,) and a 
judge of County Court six years. 

He married in Derby, Vt., 11 May, 1851, Miss Almira Stetson, 
born in Newport, Vt., 7 June, 1829, to Thomas G., a miller, and 
Hannah-Adams Stetson of Wheelock. He died 6 April, 1890, in 
Hard wick, Vt., where his widow now resides (1905). 

1 Perley children : Ella May^ Frederick Henry^ Frank Clayton^ 
Clara*, Albert\ 

2 Ella M.,^born 5 May, 1855, in North Danville, Vt., married 14 
Aug., 1878, James Henry McLoud, born in Calais, Vt., 5 April, 1842, 
to Enoch Cate, a farmer, and Sophia-Lilley McLoud. They were 
the principal teachers in the Hardwick Academy. She was a music 
teacher. Her ambition was to teach; she began in the common 
schools at seventeen. She was educated at Hardwick and Morris- 
ville Academies. She was tall and slim, had a fair complexion, light 
hair and blue eyes, and moved with a grace and dignity becoming 
her station. They had no children. She died 1 Oct., 1898, in Hard- 
wick where Mr. McLoud is now a merchant. 

3 ClaraS born in Wheelock 7 Aug., 1860, died there 14 March, 
1862. 

4 Frederick H.^ was born in Melrose, Mass., 2 Oct., 1856. He 
married in San Francisco, Cal., and died in Tombstone, Ariz., 16 
Oct., 1908. Albert' was born in Hardwick, Vt., 8 July, 1867. He 
was a lawyer and a member of the Caledonia County Bar, Vt. He 
practiced in New York City. 

5 Frank C was born in Wheelock, Vt., 22 Sept., 1858. He 
married in Plymouth, N. H., 12 Nov., 1902, Emma Amelia Babcock, 
a clerk, born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., 16 July, 1877, to Albert Wood- 
bury and Adwina-Astle Babcock. Mr. Perley is engaged in mining 
at Gleason, Ariz. 



FAMILY 447: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. THOMAS-4, JAOOB-17, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-76, 
JOHN-164, NATHAN-321. 

ALBERT PERLEY was born in Enosburg, Vt., 7 May, 1829. 
In the spring of 1855 he removed to Avon Station, Iowa, where he 
purchased a farm of 240 acres, seven miles south of Des Moines. 
Their address, 1905, is Carlisle, Iowa. 

He married in Sandwich, Mass., 3 Oct., 1854, Georgiana Ranslow, 
daughter of Rev. George W. and Anna Mead-Parmelee Ranslow of 
Georgia, Vt. Mrs. Ranslow was daughter of Rev. Simeon Parmelee 
of Oswego, N. Y., a brother of Rev. Moses Parmelee. 

1 Perley children, born in Avon Station: Helen Winnefred^ Ida 
Ranslow*, Cornelia Isabella^ 

2 Helen W.^ was born 15 Dec, 1856, and is a music teacher, un- 
married, in Carlisle. Iowa. 

3 Ida R} was born 27 July, 1859, and married 13 Sept., 1888, 
Anson Wilberforce Perley-323'. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 606 

4 Cornelia I.' was born 22 Dec, 1861, and married in Des Moines, 
Iowa, 25 Dec, 1884, Levi Myers, a farmer, son of George, a farmer, 
and Mary - Hegsher Myers. Their home, without children, is 
Indianola, Iowa. 



FAMILY 448: SMITH. 



LINRAL DESCENT— ALLAN-!, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-76, 
JOHN-164, NATHAN-3'21. 

LAURA ANN PERLEY was born in Enosburg, Vt., 8 March, 
1841, and 21 Feb., 1865, married Capt. Edward Henry Smith of 
Montgomery, Vt., of the firm E. H. & J. E. Smith, manufacturers 
of church and parlor organs. He was born in St. Armand, Quebec, 
24 Aug., 1837, to Isaac and Sarah-Clark Smith. Mrs. Smith died 
suddenly 14 Jan., 1879, in Brome, P. Q., leaving an infant but a few 
weeks old. Her remains, accompanied by many Canadian friends, 
were brought to her father's house, where the funeral took place on 
Friday the 17th, Rev. Homer White officiating. She was buried 
in East Berkshire, not far from the home of her childhood, and a 
large number of relatives and friends sorrowfully followed to her last 
resting place one who was endeared to all who knew her. Mr. 
Smith died in Montgomery, Vt., 30 Jan., 1889. 

1 Smith children: Maggie Louisa^ Agnes Laura^ Nathan 
Perleyl 

2 Maggie L.^ was born 20 Nov., 1869, and died 21 April, 1870. 
Nathan P.' was born 21 Dec, 1878, and died 21 Jan., 1885. 

3 Agnes L.^ was born in Montgomery, Vt., 17 Dec, 1871. She 
married in Enosburg, Vt., 22 Nov., 1892, John Robinson Cassidy, a 
farmer, who was born in Montreal, Quebec, 17 April, 1866, to 
Thomas and Sarah-Robinson Cassidy. Their home is Enosburg 
Falls, Vt., (1905). They have no children. 



FAMILY 449: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4. JACOB-17, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-76, 
JOHN-IM, JESSE NYE-322. 

JOHN MERRILL PERLEY was born 3 Jan., 1822, in Berlin, 
Vt., and became a farmer in Barton Landing. He married 21 Dec, 
1852, in St. Johnsbury, Miss Esther Roxalana Gilbert, who was born 
in Brownington, Vt., 25 May, 1827, to Clarissa-Mellish and Harvey Gil- 
bert, a shoemaker. Mr. Perley and his wife are still living (Oct., 
1904). They occupy the same farm on which his parents lived and 
died, and are enjoying a happy and peaceful old age. Arthur and 
Albert are the farmers. The farm is picturesquely situated upon a 
commanding hillside, entirely in Barton. It has been in the Perley 
name since 1850. 

1 Perley children: Clara Eliza^ Ella Lucina«, Arthur MerrilP, 



606 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Albert Harmon'*, Edward Harvey^ Ormond Franklin", Genevieve'', 
Florence ArieP, Harold Gilbert^. 

2 Clara E.^ was born 3 March, 1854, and married 27 Dec, 1881, 
Lewis Patch Smith, who was born 13 May, 1848, to Isaac Cushman 
and Sarah-Burnham Smith of St. Johnsbury. Mr. Smith was a 
mechanic in the Fairbanks scale factory. He died in St. Johnsbury 
25 Jan., 1898. Mrs. Smith is now, and has been since the death of 
her husband, living with her parents. Her only son was Cushman 
Perley, born 27 and died 28 June, 1886. 

3 Ella L.^ was born in Barton Landing 28 Dec, 1855. She 
married in Barton 14 Dec, 1880, Richard Rufus Brennan, a black- 
smith, born in Parkhurst, Quebec, 28 April, 1848, to William and 
Ellen-Grady Brennan. Brennan child : Ethel Meta"\ 

4 Arthur M.^ was born 13 Feb., 1858, and Albert H.\ 4 June, 
1860. Both are unmarried and own and cultivate the ancestral acres. 

5 Edward H.^ was born in Barton, Vt., 11 April, 1863. He mar- 
ried 13 Sept., 1893, Emma Jane Howard, born in Coventry, Vt., 17 
March, 1867, to Henry, a farmer, and Annette-Nye Howard. Mr. 
Perley is a dealer in hardware and their home is Barton Landing, 
Perley children, born in Barton Landing: Esther Doric, born 9 July, 
1897; Kenneth Howard, born 20 April, 1901. 

6 Ormond F*.^ was born 21 Nov., 1865, and when of St. Johns- 
bury, Vt., married in Barton 2 Oct., 1894, Myrtie Estelle Stimpson, 
who was born 17 June, 1866, to Nathan Lewis, a farmer, and Julia 
Viola-Hill Stimpson. He was the contractor of figuring scale beams 
for the Fairbanks scales. He died in St. Johnsbury 22 July, 1903. 
His widow resides in Barton Landing. 

7 Genevieve^ was born in Barton Landing 28 May, 1868, and 
married there 26 May, 1902, Rev. J. B. Lyman officiating, Walter 
Harvey Pope of Dorchester, Mass. 

8 Florence A.' was born 25 April, 1871; and Wednesday noon, 
25 Sept., 1901, Rev. Joseph Lyman oflficiating, she became the second 
wife of Arthur Milton Hook, a merchant, born in Boston, Mass., 16 
Nov., 1862, to Aaron, retired merchant, and Levey Anstice-Robinson 
Hook. They reside in Groton, Vt. Hook issue: Arthur Milton, 
born in Concord, N. H., 5 May, 1903. 

9 Harold G.' was born in Barton Landing, Vt., 18 Nov., 1873. 
He married in Barton, Vt., 10 Nov., 1897, May Lucinda Rowell, 
born in Albany, Vt., to K. William, a merchant, and Lois-Rowell 
Rowell. Mr. Perley is a foreman in an underwear factory. Their 
home, without children, is Barton. 

10 Ethel M.'' was born in Barton, Vt., 13 April, 1881, and 24 
June, 1903, married Wallace Elbridge Sawyer, a printer, of Millbury, 
Mass., where they reside. He was born in Lowell, Vt., 24 Oct., 
1880, to Elbridge J., a motorman, and Mary-Gochey Sawyer. 



FAMILY 450: PERLEY. . 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, NATHAN-38, NATHAN-76, 
JOHN-164, JESSE NYE-322. 

ISAIAH EDWARD PERLEY was "one of the oldest, ablest, 
and most respected business men of Emporia," wrote the Emporia 
Weekly Gazette, 19 July, 1894. 

Mr. Perley was born in Berlin, Vt., 12 March, 1834. He jour- 
neyed to Kansas in 1856, located in Topeka and engaged in the 
general merchandise business. In 1858 he removed to Emporia and 
engaged in the same business. In 1864 he went to St. Louis and 
formed the wholesale grocery firm of Perley, Hill & Pearce. In 
1868 he returned to Emporia, where he was a banker and later a 
merchant in musical merchandise. He was very successful in busi- 
ness and was one of the wealthiest citizens of the County, and the 
owner of much valuable real estate. He served in the City Council 
some time and on the board of County Commissioners. He was a 
Mason, a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and a 
Knight of Honor. His life insurance aggregated about ^17,000. 

Mr. Perley was drowned 11 July, 1894, while fording the river 
with his team on his way home from his farm, about ten miles dis- 
tant from the city. The water was up to the horses' sides, a piece 
of the harness was broken, and it is thought he was thrown out ; but 
all is a mystery. Rev. Dr. Cordley preached his funeral sermon. 
The doctor said, "Mr. Perley never blustered — never had anyone 
go before him to sound a trumpet when he was about to do any- 
thing." He illustrated the statement in his own case of setting up 
housekeeping, in the building of their church edifice, in enlarging 
the public library, in the sanitary measures of, and in whatever would 
improve or beautify, the city. 

The Gazette devoted five columns to Mr. Perley's untimely taking- 
off and to his character, and concludes: "During his years of active 
business life he maintained his reputation as a man of the highest 
moral character, integrity and uprightness. Those who knew him 
intimately loved him for his kindly sympathy, his practical mind, 
and the firmness with which he was endowed. His word was as 
good as gold, his life was consistent and his reputation spotless." 

Mr. Perley married in Rushford, N. Y., 23 Aug., 1857, Mary 
Jane Allen, who was born in New Hudson, N. Y., 23 July, 1839, to 
Asaph K., a merchant, and Isabel-Trary Allen. 

1 Perley children : Allan Haskell'^ Lyman Ormond*, Maude 
HaskelP, Jennie HaskelP. 

2 Allen H.' was born 16 Dec, 1862, and died 16 Aug., 1864, in 
Emporia. 

3 Lyman O.^ was born 28 Feb., 1866, in Emporia. He gradu- 
ated at the Northwestern University with the degree of B, S., 1886, 
and at the Yale Law School, 1890, with the degree of LL. B., magna 



(JOS THE PERLEY FAMILY 

cum laude. He is an attorney-at-law in Omaha, Neb., and has in- 
vestments in live stock. He married in Omaha 10 Dec, 1895, Nora 
Racel Gibson, who was born 24 July, 1869, to Edgar Milton, a live- 
stock broker, and Julia Ann-Lawrence Gibson. Perley children, 
born in Omaha: Edward Gibson, 11 Oct., 1896; Constance, 12 
March, 1902; Anne Macgregor, 8 Oct., 1904. 

4 Maude H.^ was born in Emporia 1 Sept., 1869. She married 
there 17 Oct., 1888, Francis Albert Brogan, who was born 6 Dec, 
1860, in DeWitt, Iowa, to Francis, a farmer, and Ann-Cummins 
Brogan. Mr. Brogan is an attorney-at-law in Omaha, Neb. Their 
home is Benson, a suburb of the city. Their children are Albert 
Perley, born 22 July, 1889; Maurice Perley, born 20 Nov., 1896. 

5 Jennie H.^ was born in Emporia 19 Jan., 1878, where she mar- 
ried 16 Jan., 1901, Justin R Soden, who was born in Emporia 4 
Aug., 1870, to Wm. T Soden (a merchant-miller and banker)* and 
Jane- Weaver Soden. Justin is a merchant-miller in his native town 
and is proprietor of the Emporia water mills. Their children, born 
in Emporia: William Theodore, 17 Aug., 1902; Margaret Perley, 12 
Oct., 1903. 



FAMILY 451: ANDERSON. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. TaoMAS-4, JACOB-lT, KATHAX-38, NATHAN-TC, .IOHN-164, 

El)WARI)-3'.>4. 

ELVINA PERLEY was born 18 Aug., 1832, and 1 June, 1853, 
married Ira Stone Anderson, born 27 May, 1881, to Seth P. Ander- 
son of East Berkshire, Vt. His firm, Anderson & Lewis, are manu- 
facturers of lumber, butter tubs, feed, etc., with mill in Montgomery. 

"There was a surprise," said the local newspaper, "P'riday night 
at Ira S. Anderson's in honor of his fiftieth birthday. About 75 
persons were present, seven of whom were between 48 and 52 years, 
etc" 

Mrs. Anderson collected material for all the early families in 
northern Vermont — a cheerful service well done. Consonant with 
a thought treated in one of her letters, she penned the following 
pearl of wisdom: "Let us welcome the frost of age, as it gathers on 
the brow; for often by its unseen power the heart and life are beau- 
tified, and life's evening glorified, even as the first mystic touch of 
winter's frost brightens and beautifies the autumn leaves." 

1 Anderson children: Annette'-, Wilbert Lee'', Mary Perle^ 

2 Annette' was born in East Berkshire, Vt., 15 July, 1855. She 
is unmarried and has always lived at home. 

3 Wilbert L.' was born in East Berkshire 21 July, 1857. He 
was educated in the common schools, Oberlin Academy and St. 
Albans Academy. He graduated at Oberlin College, 1879. His 
oration at graduation was "Man, an Automaton." A journal com- 
menting upon the occasion said " Mr. Anderson's oration was one of 
the best of the day. It was keen and vigorous." Mr. Anderson 
espoused the negativ^e of the question : " Is there Sufficient Reason to 
Fear for the Permanence and Success of our Republican Govern- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY (i09 

nent?" This also received high commendation. He graduated at 
i(^ale Theological School in 1882 and in June of the same year be- 
came pastor of the Congregational Church at Stowe, Vt., where he 
vas ordained and installed 1 Feb., 1888. Many clergymen from 
various parts of the State were in attendance. He remained there 
ill September, 1890, when he became acting pastor (not installed) 
)f the First Congregational Church, Muskegon, Mich., where he re- 
nained two years. In June, 1893, he went to Exeter, N. H., where 
le is now located, as pastor of the First Congregational Church, and 
vas installed 15 Feb., 1894. 

He married in Sandusky, C, 14 Aug., 1883, Dorinda Ann 
^eattie, a teacher, born in Sandusky -io April, 1858, to John Yates, 
I machinist, and Sarah Elizabeth-Deely Beattie. 

4 Mary P.' was born 9 June, 1864, in the farm house by Trout 
;liver bridge. East Berkshire. She graduated from Mt. Holyoke 
Ilollege, South Hadley, Mass., 1890, and adopted the teacher's pro- 
ession. She taught in Presbyterian College, Independence, Mo., 
.890-94; High School, Plymouth, Mass., 1894-95; English High 
school, Somerville, Mass., 1895-1902; supervised science and nature 
;tudies in University School for Girls, Chicago, 1902-04; was in- 
itructor in nature study in Columbia University, New York City, 
;ummer of 1903, and in State Summer Schools of Vermont, summers 
)f 1902 and 1904. Since her graduation, 1890, she has studied in 
Vlassachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, and in Biological 
Laboratory, Wood's Holl, Mass., and two years in Chicago Univer- 
sity. She has always taught some branch of science— generally 
30tany, and in the botanical department of Mount Holyoke College 
jhe is now teaching. 

In 1904 she contended for a Caroline and Olivia Phelps Stokes 
orize for the Preservation of Native Plants and won the first prize — 
went3^-five dollars. 



FAMILY 452: SMITH. 



LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOi[AS-4. JACOB-17, NATHAN-;i«, NATHAN-76, 
JOHX-ir.4, El)WAP.D-324. 

HANNAH CORLISS PERLEY was born 14 Dec, 183(5, and 
married 24 Dec, 18(33, Ezra Biley Smith, who was born 21 March, 
1830, to Elisha Winsor and Lydia Taylor- Wedge Smith of Enos- 
burg,Vt., where he is a farmer, with post office address East Berkshire. 

1 Smith children, born in Enosburg: Anna Melissa'-, Martha 
Eliza^ Edward Winsor'', Homer Lyman", Herbert Ezra". 

2 Anna M.' was born 10 Oct., 18(j4. She married 27 Dec, 1883, 
Frederick Manly Carpenter, a photographer, who was born in Lock- 
port, 111., 23 April, 1858, to Giles Manly, a carpenter, and Mary 
Rosetta-Oviatt Carpenter. Their post office address is Enosburg 
Falls. Carpenter issue: Jessie Guendolin, born 20 Sept., 1886; 
Helena Bell, born 1 Oct., 1888 ; Louanna Estelle, born 27 Nov., 
1889; Winnifred Beatrice, born 8 June, 1893. 

3 Martha E.' was born 4 March, 1867, and married in East BerH-: 



(jlQ THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

shire 13 Feb., 1895, William Seymour Rublee, a general merchant, 
who was born in East Berkshire 24 Aug., 1867, to Amherst Wil- 
loughby, a merchant, and Susan-Smith Rublee. Their address is 
East Berkshire. Rublee issue: Raymond Seymour, born 23 May, 
1889; William Ezra, born 26 Dec, 1903. 

4 Edward W.' was born 24 May, 1869. He is a farmer with post 
office address East Berkshire. He married there 12 Oct., 1S92, 
Edith Loverin, who was born in P^nosburg 6 Dec, 1872, to Hiram, 
a farmer, and Mary-Stevens Loverin. Smith issue: Margaret, born 
3 March, 1894; Carl Edward, born 23 Feb., 1899. 

5 Homer L.' was born 22 March, 1873. He is a farmer, with 
post office address East Berkshire. He married there 28 Sept., 1898, 
Frances E. Allen, who was born in Enosburg 31 July. 1872, to 
Charles, a farmer, and Fanny-Sykes Allen. They have no children. 

6 Herbert E.' was born 30 Jan., 1877. He is a clerk. He mar- 
ried in Enosburg Falls S Feb., 1905, Lena May Hutchins, who was 
born in Stanstead, Canada, 2 June, 1x82, to Oliver, a hotel-keeper 
and Martha A. -Beach Hutchins. Their address is East Berkshire. 



FAMILY 453: PERLEY. 

LINKAL DKSCENT— ALLAN-1. TIlOMAS-4. JACOH-IT, NATIIAN-;i« NATHAX-TG, 
.TOHN-1H4, EDWART>-3'24. 

CORLISS STONE PERLEY was born 1 Feb., 1S52, in Berk- 
shire, Vt. He is a farmer in East Berkshire. He married 14 Sept., 
1874, Mary Ann Smith, in Enosburg, where she was born 11 Oct., 
1855, to Homer M., a merchant, and Charlotte-Hull Smith. 

1 Perley children : ]\Tabel Ellen'^ Grace Mary''. 

2 Mabel E.' was born in East Berkshire 15 Oct., 1877. She 
was a teacher before her marriage in P)erkshire 22 June, 1902, to 
Homer Rawson Cramton, a farmer, who was born in Enosburg 24 
Aug., 1874, to William Coburn, a farmer, and Harriet Adell-Rawson 
Cramton. Their home is East Berkshire, where was born their 
child: William Perley, 29 Dec, 1904. 

3 Grace M.', born 29 Oct., 1889, is at home in P2ast Berkshire. 



FAMILY 454: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-l.THOMAS-4, JACOB-IT, XATHANaiS, NATHAN-7G. 
JOHN-IW, \VILLIAM-3.i5. 

JAMES ADAMS PERLEY was born in Enosburg, Vt., 27 May, 
1835. He married in Black Hawk, Col., 10 April, 1864, Charlotte 
Virden, who was born in Grant County, Wis., 30 March, 1846, to 
John Hemming and Jane-Hunt Virden. Mr. Perley is a farmer and 
miner of Morrison, Col. 

1 Perley children, born in Black Hawk: Warren Eugene'-, J^mma 
Josephine'^ Eliza Gertrude^ Martha Ann\ Lydia Adelaide'', James 
Henry". 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 611 

2 Warren E.' was born 26 March, 1866. He married in Black 
Hawk, Col., 12 July, 1893, Ethel Gertrude Giddings, who was born 
in Bakersfield, Vt., 27 Feb., 1869. William A. and Emeroy C.- 
Ballard Giddings-319' were her foster parents. Mr. Parley is a miner 
with home in Black Hawk. 

3 Emma J.^ was born 23 Nov., 1869. She married in Golden, 
Col., 15 July, 1897, William Beauchamp Beall, a miller and miner, 
who was born in Kentucky 15 Nov., 1865, to William and Anna-Bell 
Beall. Their home is Black Hawk, Col., where their children were 
born: Charles Beauchamp, 18 June, 1898; James Perley Cox, 21 
June, 1900. 

4 inizaG.' was born 14 Feb., 1871. She married in Breckenridge, 
Col., 27 May, 1889, Charles Henry Cox, who was born in Tavistock, 
England, 4 Aug., 1867, to James Cox. He is engaged in mining 
and milling in Black Hawk. Cox child: Newton Perley, born in 
Black Hawk 11 Dec, 1892. 

5 Martha A.' was born 8 April, 1873. She married 11 Aug., 
1898, in Morrison, Col., David Joseph Rusk, a locomotive engineer, 
who was born in Areola, 111., 24 Nov., 1870, to A. F., a miner, and 
Jennie-Watson Rusk. They reside in Chama, New Mexico. Rusk 
issue: Adelaide, born in Morrison, Col., 28 Jan., 1900; John Cleves, 
born in Chama, New Mexico, 29 Sept., 1901. 

6 Lydia A.^ was born 19 July, 1875, and married in Golden, Col., 
17 Sept., 1902, P>nest Hill, a farmer, who was born in East Bradford, 
Me., 21 Oct., 1875, to Jo.seph, a farmer, and Abbie A.-Gould Hill. 
They reside in Littleton, Col. 

7 James H.' was born 20 Nov., 1879, and married in Denver, Col., 
28 June, 1901, Ida Leoti Tuttle, who was born in Golden, Col., 18 
Jan., 1876, to Charles, a farmer, and Mary-Wilson Tuttle. Mr. Per- 
ley is a farmer of Morrison, Col., where their child, George Henry, 
was born 9 Aug., 1902. 



FAMILY 455: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TH<)MA«-4. JA('OB-17, NATHAN-.3H, \ATHAN-7(5, 
•lOHN-UU, WILLIAM-a2.'). 

WILLIAM HENRY PERLEY was born in Enosburg, Vt., 27 
July, 1839. He married in P'airfield, Vt., 20 March, 1867, Florence 
E. Sherman, who was born there 5 May, 1847. Mr. Perley was a 
farmer. He died in P^nosburg 22 Aug., 1878, and his widow in Fair- 
field 20 June, 1880. 

1 Perley child : William Sherman'. 

2 William S.^ was born 22 Sept., 1872, and is unmarried. His 
post office address is Richford, Vt. 



FAMILY 456: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-l,TH0MAS-4. JACOB-17. XATHAN-38, XATHAN-T6. 
JAMES-165, MOSES GOODRICH-327. 

CHAUNCEY CHILD PERLEY was born in Bakersfield, Vt., 
16 Oct., 1841. He was an academic or collegiate graduate, and prior 
to his marriage he was long time a teacher. He was a Union soldier, 
and was with Sherman on his march to the sea. He was compelled 
to leave the army on account of ill-health. He had an honorable dis- 
charge. He was a liberal contributor to the Congregational church 
at Bowens, la. After the war he engaged in farming; and by his own 
energy, industry and perseverance he, at the time of his death, 
which came in comparatively early life, owned one of the most finely 
improved farms in County Delaware. He never cared for office; 
he was content to live high in the esteem of his neighbors and ac- 
quaintances. 

He married in Bowens Prairie 14 March, 1S66, Sarah Thayer 
Penniman, a teacher, who was born in Pltzwilliam, N. H., 7 March, 
1839, to Joseph Adams, a farmer, and Catherine-Loker Penniman. 
Their son Burton gives the following very honorable descent of his 
mother from John Alden of Pilgrim fame: — John Alden's youngest 
daughter, Ruth, married John Bass of Braintree, now Ouincy, and 
Bass' daughter, Sarah, married Ephraim Thayer, who had a son 
Christopher, father of Deacon Christopher of Peterboro (N. H.), 
father of Elihu, one of fourteen children. The deacon's daughter 
Sarah, born 12 Feb., 1779, married Elihu Penniman, Jr., and died 10 
March, 1807, aged twenty-eight years, and they were the parents of 
Sarah Thayer Penniman above mentioned. 

She lived her last sixteen years or more in Monticello, la., 
where she was very prominent in church work. The new Congre- 
gational Church of that place contains a large memorial window to 
her memory. Mr. Perley died in Bowens Prairie 16 March, 1879, 
and his widow in Monticello 18 April, 190(>. 

1 Perley children born in Bowens Prairie: James Adams^ 
Catherine Louisa^ Chauncy Burton'', William Charles^ Sarah\ 

2 James A.^ was born 23 Jan., 1867. He was educated in Iowa 
State College and graduated 1887. He adopted the profession of a 
civil engineer, a Western land surveyor, a work of high ciWc impor- 
tance, but uneventful. In Dec, 1900, he went to North Carolina 
where his profession is in demand in opening up the territory for 
farms, plantations and summer homes. He there owns a plantation 
of oyer a hundred acres, located about a mile from the courthouse 
of Pittsboro. That is in the region of healthful climate, gratefully 
temperate without extremes. He married in Menominee, Wis., 26 
July, 1898, Harriet M. Rumsey, a teacher, born in Fall City, Wis., 
23 May, 1873, to Norman, a farmer, and Lucy-Burch Rumsey. She 
was educated in the schools of Menominee, her home, and taught in 




CHAUNCEV C. I'ERLEV 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY (5I3 

graded schools there five years. Perley issue : Harriet L., born in 
Menominee 14 Sept., 1899; James A., born in Pittsboro 11 March, 
1901 ; Sarah P., born 30 Dec, 1902. 

3 Catherine L.\ born 7 Nov., 1868, is unmarried in Berwyn, 111. 
Chancey B.\ born 31 July, 1871, unmarried, is a mechanical engineer 
in Chicago, 111. 

4 William C.\ born 13 July, 1874, died 20 Dec, 1876. Sarah', 
born 31 July, 1877, died 20 Dec, 1878. 



FAMILY 457: GILLETTE. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANCIS-39, WILLlAM-77, 
HUMPHREY CLARK-169, HUMPHREY CLARK-337. 

JOSEPHINE MIGHILL PERLEY was born in New York 
City 27 June, 1834. She married 23 Oct., 1860, in Chicago, Edwin 
Lewis Gillette, who was born in Penn Yan, N. Y., 7 Feb., 1816, to 
Jeremiah and Elizabeth-Hoyt Gillette. His father conducted an 
extensive milling business and owned large grist mills in Penn Yan, 
where they resided till 1854, when he entered into the lumber trade 
in Chicago. He was also engaged in real estate. He retired, and 
they spent six years in Europe, returning in 1879. He died 8 Oct., 
1892, in Chicago, where his widow resides, 1905. 

Mrs. Gillette has a set of teaspoons that descended to her from 
her great-grandparents Blackmer, bearing the Blackmer armorial 
crest. She has another crest from her grandparents Jones, a pea- 
cock in his pride. The former, the one she uses, is a female bust, 
having the face upturned to the sky and resting upon a scroll, with 
the motto: "Ad sidera vultus" — face to the stars. 

1 Gillette children, born in Chicago: Orville Dewey'^ Edwin 
Eraser^ Delphine May^ 

2 Orville D.' was born 29 July, 1861, and died 12 June, 1864. 

3 Edwin F.' was born 19 Oct., 1863. He graduated at the 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y.,1884, and took a post 
graduate course. He is at present engaged in architecture and real 
estate in Chicago. He married in San Francisco, Cal., 27 Oct., 
1902, Mabel Hyde, who was born in Oakland, Cal., 13 Dec, 1871, to 
William Birelie, a civil engineer, and Marietta-Butler Hyde. He is 
a member of the Sons of the Revolution since 1895. 

4 Delphine M.' was born 24 April, 1867. She married in Chicago, 
111., 31 Oct., 1892, Wilham Shippen Jenks, who was born in Phila- 
delphia, Pa., 3 Aug., 1859, to Courtland Fell, a dry goods commission 
merchant, and Caroline Henderson-Leeds Jenks, both now deceased. 
Mr. Jenks is secretary and treasurer of the Strang Engine Co., of 
Chicago, his home. 



FAMILY 458: PKRLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALL AN- 1. TiIOMAS-4, JAfOB-lT, FRAN(IS-:;;i, WILLIAM-TT. 
WlLLIA.M-170. DANIEL SPOFFORI)-340. 

WILLIAM SPOFFORD PERLEY was born in Haverhill, 
Mass., 2 Aug., 1888. He was a shoe cutter by trade and worked in 
Haverhill. He married in Framingham, Mass., 8 Nov., 1868, Rev. 
Dr. Train officiating, Ada Byron Merrill, who was born in Haverhill 
20 June, 1848, to Charles and Adrianna-West Merrill. He died 21 
Jan., 1893, in Haverhill, where his widow resides. 

1 Perley child: Helen M., who was born in Haverhill 11 Jan., 
1878, and resides with her mother. 



FAMILY 4r)ti: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. TnOMAS-4. JACOB-l". FRAN<lS-:«t. WM.LIAM-TT. 
rilINEAS-171. .lOSKFH OOILI) .T47. 

JOSEPH AUGUSTUS PERLEY was born 21 Oct., 1829, in 
Danvers, Mass. In l.sr)() he was a bookkeeper in Boston. Later he 
lived in Lynnfield, where, he was, it is said, a farmer or farrier and 
general trader. His first wife was Lucy Ellen Simonds of Maiden, 
Mass., who died 1 Oct., 1852. His .second wife, married 9 Sept., 
1858, was Emma South wick of Peabody, born 1 1^'eb., 1882, to James 
and Eliza-Hutchinson Southwick. He died in Lynnfield, where his 
widow now resides with her son, Frank. 

1 Perley children : P^mma Gould-, Frank Simonds^ Jennie Dodge\ 
Lizzie Aber\ Annie Osborne'. 

2 P2mma G.' was born in Lynn 2H Aug., 1859. She married 22 
Jan., 1885, Clarence Henry Moulton, a shoe manufacturer, who was 
born in Lynnfield 5 Oct., 1854, to Joseph Smith, a shoe manufac- 
turer, and Mary Silver-Aborn Moulton. Their home is Lynnfield. 
Moulton children: Annie Aber, born 28 Aug., lS8(i; Perley (iould, 
born 18 Aug., IS 98. 

8 Frank S.' was born in Lynn, Mass., 2 Jan., isoi. He married 
in Lynnfield Center 26 April, 18S6, Ro.se Burton Wiley, born in 
Lynnfield in March, 1S70, to Joseph Wiley, brother to Emily L.'' 
Perley children, born in Lynnfield: Rose Frances, 12 Sept., 1886, 
who graduated at the Peabody High School, 1904, took a post grad- 
uate course and is now attending the Salem Commercial School ; 
Joseph Augustus, 29 Sept., 1887. 

4 Jennie D.' was born 26 or 28 May, 1868, and died in Lynnfield 
28 July, 1875. Lizzie A.', born in Lynn 7 Nov., 1865, is a book- 
keeper, residing in Lynnfield. 

5 Annie O.' was born in Lynn 19 Sept., 1867, and married in 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



(515 



Lynnfield 18 June, 1890, Harry Wingate Monroe, a shoe cutter, born 
in Lynnfield 20 May, 1859, to Luther Simonds and Emily Louise- 
Wiley Monroe. Issue: Wesley Wingate, born 21 Sept., 1896; Emily 
Crosby, born 2(i Sept., 1899. 



FAMILY 460: PERLEY. 

UNEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOxMAS-4, JACOB-17, FRANriS-39, .JACOB->*l, 
,rONATHAN-182, JONATHAN-356. 

EDWARD LEE PERLEY was born 1 March, 1844, in Salem, 
Mass., where he now resides. He was educated in the public schools 
and graduated at the Salem High School. He then associated him- 
self with his father in the business of bookbinding till his father's 
death when he succeeded to the business. He is a member of the 
Masonic F'raternities and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. 
He married 29 Dec, 1874, Alice Odell, in Salem, where she was born 
4 April, 1855, to James A. and P^mily-Johnson Odell. 

1 Perley children: P^dward Howard^ Mary Howard'-, Frances 
Ann'\ Alice Elizabeth-. 

2 Mary H.^ was born 12 Oct., 1878; Frances A.\ 20 June, 1881 ; 
Alice E.\ 28 May, 1884; all are living in Salem and unmarried. 

3 E. Howard^ was born in Salem, Mass., 10 Dec, 1875. He was 
educated in the public schools of his native city and graduated at 
the Salem High School. He 
then entered upon duties in the 
ofifices of the Chicago, Burling- 
ton & Quincy Railroad Com- 
pany, and continued in that 
employ three years. He then 
entered the Boston ( Mass. ) 
University, Department of Law, 
and graduated in 1900 with the 
degree of LL. B. The same 
year he was admitted to the 
Essex Bar with ofifices in Salem 
and Boston. He is Master in 
Chancery for the County of 
Essex. He has represented his 
ward in the Common Council 
of Salem since 1908 and has just 
(Dec. 1905) been elected for 
another term. He is a member 
of the Water Board. He has 
taken an active interest in church 
work, being a member of boards 
and committees, and for a num- 
ber of years conducted Sunday services for struggling societies 
under license from the Iipiscopal bishop of Massachusetts. He is 
affiliated with the Ma.sonic P^aternities, the Royal Arcanum and the 
Foresters of America. 




E. HOWARD PERLEY. 



FAMILY 461: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALL AN-1. THOMAS-4. JACOB-17, FRANCIS 39, JA('OR-8l. 
.TONATHA>M81, WILLIAM HENRY.35-. 

CHARLES HENRY PERLEY was born in Salem, Mass., 20 
July, 1846. Salem records read 1815. He learned the printer's 
trade with his father on the Reveille of Fitchburg. From 1S70 he 
was a hotel clerk, beginning in the Rollstone House in Fitchburg. 
■In 1873 he went to Greenfield. He clerked there and in Palmer and 
Amherst. He returned and made his home in Greenfield, where he 
was made an Odd Fellow and where his children now reside. He 
was a fine looking man; his manners were natural, polite, agreeable; 
his speech was social, facetious, pleasing, and in his work he was 
reliable and efficient and in every way fitted for his station. He 
married 2 or 20 March, 1S72, Julia Ann Whitcomb of P'itchburg, 
who was born 7 or 9 Sept., iSaO, to John, or Andrew A., an express- 
man, and Mary ( born in Greenfield ) Whitcomb. Mr. Perley was sick 
only three days and died 80 May, 1897; his wife died 80 Oct., 1888. 

1 Perley children, born in Greenfield : William Andrew'-, Helen 
Rebecca Dickinson*, Mary Louisa^, Julia Ann^ 

2 William A.\ born 8 March, 1876, is located in Chico, liutte 
County, Cal. (Sept., 1905), and purchasing agent for the Diamond 
Match Co. Mary L.', born 29 Jan., 1881, is a teacher in Mark Hop- 
kins Training School, North Adams, Mass. 

8 Helen R. D.' was born 2.S Sept., 1S7S. She married in Green- 
field 22 May, 1901, William Billings Keith, who was born in Greenfield 
9 Oct., 1870, to Charles, a grocer, and Delia-Pierce Keith. Mr. 
Keith is teller in the PVanklin County National Bank. Their home 
is Greenfield. 

4 Julia A.' was born 10 Oct., 1883. She married in Deerfield, 
Mass., 81 Dec, 19o2, Arthur Henry Upton, a motorman, who was 
born in Greenfield, Mass., 9 Oct., 1880, to William S. and Effic M.- 
Ilastings Upton. Their home is Greenfield. 



FAMILY 462: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTIIV-O. STEPIIEN-19. ALLEN-42, ALLEN-90, 
ABRAHAM-191, DAVID TULLAR-371. 

OSCAR WENTWORTH PERLEY was born 3 March, 1853, 
in Linebrook Parish, Ipswich, Mass. He went West in 1877, and 
subsequently settled in Omaha, Neb. An Ipswich newspaper reads: 
"Mr. Perley is a cattle broker and butcher. He has extensive stock 
pens in Chicago, and frequently runs in there whole train-loads of 
cattle all his own account. 




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HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 617 

Mr. Parley married in Omaha 1 April, 1886, Miss Dora Melissa 
Moss, who was born in Marysville, Mo., 27 Feb., 1870, to Rebecca- 
Draper and Solomon Moss. 

1 Perley child: Leta Gertrude, born in Lincoln, Neb., 20 Feb., 

1887. 



FAMILY 463: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. TI.MoTHY-ti. .-^TEPHEN-ia. ALLE^M'A ALLEN-9(», 
A1?R AHAM-19t, DAvil) TULLAR-371. 

DAVID SIDNEY PERLEY was born in Linebrook, Ipswich, 
21 Feb., 1862. He succeeded to the business of his father and oc- 
cupies the parental home. His is one of the most attractive estates 
on the Ipswich-Andover road. A very noticeable feature, besides 
the "big barn " and spacious mansion, is the substantial face-wall he 
has built from the church to the schoolhouse on both sides of the 
highway. He has extended the labor his father began of reclaiming 
the ancient unproductive meadows, and greatly expanded the limits 
of his business area. He owns the productive element of several 
milk-farms, and in some instances he owns the farms themselves. 
He is a man, "diligent in business, fervent in spirit, serving the 
Lord," and cares little or nothing for public office, believing as his 
father did, that his large farming interests and his extensive and 
growing trade in cattle demand all his time. Yet he is a leading 
man in his parish and generous to its needs. He is a citizen who 
believes in the best for his state and country and never fails to 
express his choice by his ballot. He has an interesting family of 
children devoted to their home. 

Mr. Perley married 21 Feb., 1887, Miss Anna Louise Hart, who 
was born in Bradford 5 Sept., 1865, to Marietta-Hayden and Franklin 
Everett Hart, a shoemaker. 

1 Perley children, born in Linebrook: Marion-, Carrie Abbie'^ 
Sidney Harold\ Evelyn Louise^ Davida Virginia*. 

2 Marion* was born 7 Jan., 1888. She is a student of the Man- 
ning High School, Ipswich, class of 1906. Carrie A.* was born 11 
Aug., 1889; is a student of the Manning High School. The sisters 
are pursuing courses in vocal and instrumental music, to which latter 
study Carrie is devoted. In September, 1906, they will enter Brad- 
ford Academy to take a preparatory course for Wellesley College. 

3 S. Harold^ born 23 Feb., 1894, and Evelyn L.', born 24 April, 
1895, are students in the public schools of Ipswich. Davida V.' was 
born 20 Jan., 1905. 



FAMILY 464: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1. TIMOTIIY-6. STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42, ALLEN-90, 
ABRAHAM-191, DAVID TULLAR-371. 

ROSCOE DAMON PERLEY was born 11 Aug., 1864. He 
maiTied in Boxford, Mass., Thursday, 22 June, 1899, Charlotte 
Bronte Matthews, who was born in Boxford 5 Feb., 1872, to Wm. 



018 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



George, a farmer, and Catherine Bronte Matthews. She is a gradu- 
ate of the Putnam and Training Schools of Newburyport, Mass., and 
taught five years previous to her marriage. Dr. Perley was educated 
in the Manning High School, Ipswich ; Dummer Academy, Newbury; 
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., and the medical department of 
Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., graduating from the latter insti- 
tution, 1896. Following graduation he was connected with the Boston 
City Hospital for six months. He was house physician and surgeon 
of the Worcester (Mass.) City Hospital 1897-8. After locating in 
Melrose in 1898 he was connected with the out-patient department 
of the Massachusetts General Hospital for three years. He is a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He is on the hospital 
staff and is visiting surgeon of the Melrose City Hospital, and is 
medical examiner in the northern district of Middlesex County. He 
is a member of the Masonic fraternity. 

1 Perley children, born in Melrose: Charlotte Catherine-, Ro.scoe 
Lawrence-. 

2 Charlotte C was born Ki April, ]9U(i; Koscoe L.' was bom 12 
Sept., 1902. 



FAMH^Y 4(55: PERLEY. 

MNKAI. DESCENT— ALLAN-t. TJMOTIlY-li. STFil'lIEN-lS. AI,LEX-42, .TOHN-!)-', 
SILAS-195, MARTIN VAN UU RKN-.375. 

EUGENE HORACE PERLEY was born 18 May, 1861, in 
Linebrook Parish, Ipswich, Mass., on the farm once owned by our 
immigrant ancestor, Allan-l. His birthplace, here pictured, is only 




a few rods from the site of the ancestral dwelling. His education 
was obtained in the public schools of Gloucester, Mass. He began 
his business life at the age of seventeen in a telegraph office in 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 619 

Springfield, Mass., in charge of the messenger boys, but soon ac- 
cepted an opportunity to take up newspaper work, which he has fol- 
lowed ever since. The first three years were spent with the Spring- 
field Union. Since then he has been with the Brooklyn Eagle, the 
Brooklyn Citizen, the New York Herald, and the Boston Globe, 
with the latter paper since twenty-four years ago ( 188'2 ). Profession- 
ally he is a proof-reader, in charge of the Globe's proof department, 
though he has been both type-setter and editor, and for a number of 
years in conjunction with his father published a weekly paper in his 
native town. 

Mr. Perley was the originator of a system of co-operative banking 
designed to benefit large bodies of employes, which is being copied 
in many large establishments. The Boston Globe, with a thousand 
employes, presented an ideal field for its demonstration, and from its 
humble beginning of a dozen members it has grown under his man- 
agement to embrace nearly half the employes, and to do a business 
of more than a hundred thousand dollars a year, and to yield returns 
averaging twelve per cent, per annum. After thirteen years' suc- 
cessful operation, it is now before the Massachusetts Legislature 
with the idea of making the method of operation statute law. 

Mr. Perley has always taken much interest in church work, and 
identifies himself with the Episcopal faith, in which church he 
has been vestryman and dele- 
gate to the diocesan conven- 
tions for some years. He con- 
ducts the Bible class in Emmanuel 
church in Wakefield, and in 
1905, during the illness of Rev. 
Mr. Learoyd-208^ and after that 
rector's resignation, he acted un- 
der Bishop Lawrence's license 
and conducted the Sunday ser- 
vices in that church for about 
nine months — until a new rector 
was installed., '^ 

T.^ T, , . , . „, SI SIK 1. HOUI) AND E. HORACE PERLEY 

Mr. Perley married in lops- Before thou- maniag.^ 

field, Mass., 17 Jan., 1882, Susie 

Isabel Hood, who was born 9 Feb., 18()o, to Salmon Button and Per- 
thena Calista-Pearson Hood of Topsfield, where Squire Hood has 
been very prominent in town affairs, having been for thirty years or 
more justice of the peace, assessor, overseer of the poor and select- 
man, as well as being the town's representative in the Legislature one 
year. Mrs. Hood is sister to Laura E. Pearson-:575. Mrs. Perley 
was mother of all but one of the children, and died in the Massachu- 
setts General Hospital 15 May, 1898, from blood-poisoning following 
a surgical operation. The following is an extract from the local 
journal's obituary notice of her: — 

" Mrs. Susie I. Perley, daughter of S. Button Hood, Esq., of 
Topsfield, and wife of E. Horace Perley, Esq., late proprietor 
of the Independent, died last Sunday at the age of thirty- 
five years. She was educated in the Haverhill High School. She 
married in Topsfield, and made her new home in Springfield, where 




620 



THE PERLBY FAMILY 



her husband was engaged on the Springfield Union. Some eighteen 
years ago he went upon the staff of the Boston Globe, residing in 
Maiden till two years ago, when they removed to their rural home 
in Georgetown. 

"Mrs. Perley was a gentle, quiet, amiable person — a wife and 
mother devoted to her home— to its social joys and comforts, and its 
mental and moral growth, bearing always kindly sentiments for all. 
She loved rural life, the flowers of spring and the fruits of autumn; 
and stern old winter could not chill the warmth of the social ameni- 
ties of her Christian home. She went out when the apple blossoms 

were prettiest, when the myriad 
flowers of the field spotted with 
beauty the waving green grass. 
She entered upon her new life, 
when nature entered upon its 
new life. She leaves an inter- 
esting family of children, the 
youngest about five months old, 
and a husband, to mourn their 
great loss." 

Mr. Perley's second wife, 
married 10 Oct., 1899, is 
Eliza Esther Howe, born 8 
Sept., 1861, to Edward Everett 
and L y (1 i a Sanborn-Leavitt 
Howe* of Boxford. They were married in their newly purchased 
home in Reading, Mass., located about a mile and a half from 
"Parly bridge" referred to in Family-1. Mrs. Perley's father was a 
shoe manufacturer, with factory near his home in Boxford. Up to 
her marriage she was always prominent in the work of the church, 
being a teacher in the Sunday School from girlhood, and an equally 
long time a member of the church choir. She is an ideal mother 
and housewife, and the children she came to care for love and respect 
her as though they had known no other. 

1 Perley children : yVda Isabel", Arthur Warren", Albert P^dward*, 
Helen Hood*^, Reuben NoeP, Robert Reuel", Rachel 01ive^ Laurence 
Titcomb^ Dorothy Dudley^ 




KI.IZA K. HOWIC AND K. HORACE PERI-KY 

Hct'orc tht>ir iiiniriago. 



♦Howe, or Hon, .signifies a Iiigh place, a liill : critically, a bill in 
a Talle.v. De la Howe, "from the hill," was originally the name of 
the family. "These hill-dwellers went into England with William 
the Conqueror," 

Howe al.so signifies knowe, whence Knolls, Knowles, Knox and 
Knee, 

Gae bring my gude auld harp ancc iiiair. 

Gae bring it free and fast : 
For I maun sing anither sang. 

Ere a' my glee be past. 
And trow ye as I sing, my lads, 

The burden o't .shall be 
Auld Scotland's howes^ and Scotland's knou'cs. 

And Scotland's hills for me ! 
I'll drink a cup to Scotland yet, 

Wi' a' the honors three," 

Of the several arms to the name Howe, differing in color and 
metal, but all having the wolf's head, we select this for this ancestor, 
l>ecause it Is old enough and belonged to a Howe of his County. 

"Howe, (Counties Essex and Suffolk) : — Ar., a eliev. between 
three wolves' heads couped sa. Crest : — Out of a ducal coronet or, a 
unicorn's head gu,, attired and crinud of the first." 




HOWE ARMS, 



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17i 

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17 



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'simon Bradstre«t 
16ei*-17-tl 

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1048—1728 

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17( 

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Died 17U0 

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1075—1724 

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1608—1745 

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11 



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ila 



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n 12 March 1883 
las iJoiace bavy*^ 
1884— 18U0 
r Howe Sawytt 
8 Karle Sawyer 
t Uamlltou Sawyei 



lartln Colby 
1 June 1882 



ly Dudley Perley 
21 May 1901 



saliel Perley 
u 23 Nov. 18S2 



iiiin.. Ai,,.''' ^^'srren Perley 
iTTPi \i ■' Edward Perley 
Aleicy H J fij^oj Perley 
II * n 19 April 1887 

^ Ai f'O ^'oel Perley 
Edward SJ „ 6 Dec. 1889 
- , , „ ^ It Reuel Perley 
John Peat q 5 p^b, 1592 

Wei Olive Pi'rley 
•n 26 Aug. 1894 
;nce Titcoaib PerleJ 
n 13 Noy. 1897 

■ Thomas 1 ^ „, , „ 

11 >d Gladys Perley 
11 1 15 March 1805 

IIEunice 1 

■ iiSea Isra 



tab Coker, b. 1682 
Fowler 



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3 Pearsou 1702-78 

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■ Moody 

II II 

)as Dudley 

a Dwiiiell, d. 1732 
I II 



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Eaton Hood 
Ilauuah A-n G Sept. 1882 

II Is Loon Hood 
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•n 2 Aug. 1899 



' Mai-y Due 

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Joseph Jei 



Mjirrled, 1706 
knlel Hood 
\ 1669—1748 



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1878-1883 



■John Hooc 

Ml Imerson Hood 
Mary Kit 1 16 Nov. 1895 
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HISTORY AND GENBALOGY 621 

2 Ada I.^ was born in Waltham, Mass., 25 Nov., 1882. She was 
educated in the high school, and is clerk in the Globe Employes' 
Bank in Boston. 

3 Albert E.^ was born in Topsfield, Mass., 17 Oct., 1885. He 
was educated in the high school, and is taking a course in marine 
engineering on the steamship Enterprise of the Massachusetts Nau- 
tical Training School. 

4 Reuben N.^ was born in Melrose Highlands, Mass., 6 Dec, 
1889, and graduates from the Wakefield High School in 190tj. He 
has been active in his school regiment. In his fre-shman year he 
won the prize medal of his battalion for excellence in drill, and 
during his course rose from the ranks to be first lieutenant of his 
company. He is preparing for examination for entrance to the U.S. 
Naval Academy at Annapolis. 

5 Laurence T.' was born 18 Nov., 1897, and died, after two days' 
illness of diphtheria, 5 Feb., 1906. He was a bright, genial and 
sturdy lad, and well merited the tribute paid to his memory in the fol- 
lowing impromptu lines by a relative the day after his sudden death : 

"Goodbye," I heard the child's voice ringing clear; 
"Goodbye," again he called in accents sweet. 
I did not dream that farewell to my ear 
Meant parting till in realms above we meet. 

But ere one week had passed, in shades of uight. 
Wlien trembling hearts their anxious vigil kept. 
To su<lden watch came God's Angel of Light, 
And ill her arms our darling Laurence slept. 

She liorc liim hence from tliis world's dreary night 
To outstretched arms upon the Heavenly shore. 
And she who 'waited him in realms of Light 
Beheld him wake — in bliss forevermorc. 

. His world was flUed witli smiles and happy ways ; 

■ ^ His gentle voice, his mirtli, we all .shall miss. 

P Anil, when the darkness deepens o'er the days. 

The 'ncircling arms and imprint of Iiis kiss. 

His span of innocence to us was giv'n. 
His promise doth unfold in Life above ; 
Of such as he the Kingdom is of Heav'n ; 
He waits our coming — ilwells in .lesus' love. 

6 Arthur W.^ was born 23 April and died 18 Sept., 1884, in Tops- 
field ; Helen H.^ was born 19 April, 1887; Robert R.\ 5 Feb., 1892; 
Rachel 0.\ 26 Aug., 1894; Dorothy D.\ 21 May, 1901. 



FAMILY 466: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT-ALLAN-1. TIMOTHY-6. STErHEN-19. ALLEN-42, ,JOHN-92, SlLAS-195, 
MARTIN VAN BUREN-375. 

VAN HERBERT PERLEY was born in Gloucester 4 Nov., 
1869. He was a linotype compositor for the Boston Daily Globe. 
He died in Springfield 3 Dec, 1896. The following is from a testi- 
monial of his as.sociates on the Globe : — 

"As a man he was of sterling character, known for his honesty 



(322 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

of purpose, having gained the utmost respect of all with whom he 
was brought in contact; as a fellow workman he was always ready 
in time of need to stretch forth a helping hand ; as a man devoted to 
home interests and his family, he commanded the greatest respect 
from all; as a friend, those who knew him best can attest to his 
worth; and no hesitation is made in claiming him to be a worthy 
addition to any plane on this sphere, which, had God spared him, he 
might have reached." 

The Ipswich Independent said : — "At the age of seven years 
(1876), he went with his parents to Springfield, where he attended 
the public schools for six years. The first of January, I'^SB, the 
family removed to Ipswich, and Herbert continued his studies in 
the public schools, the Topsfield Academic Institute, and the Ipswich 
High School, as a member of the class of '87. He did not graduate. 
He considered the great distance to walk and that the last year 
might be more expensiv^e than particularly valuable, and decided to 
write his own diploma. 

"He began the art of type composition at home, with home in- 
struction and an occasional suggestion from an older brother. In 
August, 1887, he engaged with the Newburyport News, where, with 
the exception of a few weeks on the Salem Telegram, he remained 
till the early spring of 1889, when he became an attache of the Bos- 
ton Globe, where he labored for seven years. 

" His services were esteemed. He considered it a part of his 
duty to stand for his employer's business reputation. He gave an 
honest, diligent, faithful service. He was punctual, prompt and 
efficient, and counted among the most rapid and accurate. 

"His habits of life were worthy of maturer age and experience. 
He regarded quality, and that principle he exercised in his dress and 
deportment, in the choice of books and companions, in his pleasures 
and pastimes. He had no use for the club room, and never used 
profanity, tobacco or licjuor. He loved pleasure and enjoyed much 
of it, and with keener relish when some member of his family was 
his companion. He read much of the best papers and magazines, 
and was well informed in the current progress in science and busi- 
ness. He enjoyed the society of old people, and sought and enjoyed 
long evenings, listening to their quaint recitals of weird traditions. 
He was fond of nature, — the hills, the woods, the streams, and par- 
ticularly the flowers. With camera in hand he brought to his home 
many choice bits of natural beauty which beautifully illustrate his 
taste. 

"His ambition was a home, the abode of happiness and comfort; 
he had already begun the foundation, and his early savings, when the 
returns for his labor were small, were to contribute to it. 

"He was ever thoughtful, judicious, charitable, kind, and con- 
scientious, referred tenderly, upon his death bed, to the parental 
counsel he received when he left home for himself. He knew of no 
enemy, his acquaintances respected him, those intimate with him 
loved him. The beautiful banks and bouquets of flowers and the 
rich floral designs, that graced his casket, were the redolent signa- 
tures of love subscribed to his diploma. 

"He wrought nine years, without the needful support of robust 




MR. AND MRS. JOHN A. PERKINS AND SON. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



«23 



health, and rehnquished his task only when his condition was beyond 
the skill of the physicians. Consumption laid his swift hand upon 
him; the attack was made when he thought himself physically 
strongest; and in four short months he rested from his labors. 

. "A few weeks before his death, he signed the necessary papers 
to close his business; talked with his wife about his funeral and her 
future, and with tearless emotion that shook his frame, he said : ' I 
am ready to go when God calls: I only wish to live for you and 
Mildred.'" 

"A short time before the dissolution, he pointed with his trem- 
bling hand and said something about 'golden street.' A little later, 
he placed the hand of a watcher upon his forehead and turning to 
his sisters whispered, 'sing;' and with the sweet melodies of 'Jesus, 
Lover of my Soul,' 'Rock of Ages,' and 'Safe in the Arms of Jesus,' 
he fell asleep — 'he was not, for God took him.'" 

Mr. Perley married in Brant Rock, Marshfield, Mass., 2 Sept., 
1892, Miss Grace Gertrude King of Springfield, Mass., who was born 
24 Sept., 1873, in Warren, Mass. They resided in Boston. Her 
parents, Peter King, born in Amherst 7 Nov., 1834, a blacksmith on 
fine work in Boston & Albany railroad car-shops in Springfield for 
more than thirty years, retiring in 1906, and Emma Artimicia- 
Root, born in Belchertown, Mass., 29 Aug., 1844, were married 4 
Oct., 1863. Her second husband, married 20 March, 1898, is 
Raymond Eugene Morse of Springfield, born in Belchertown 21 
Dec, 1873. They reside in West Springfield and have one child, 
Fayolyn King, born 2 April, 1900. 

1 Perley child : Mildred Gladys, born 15 March, 1895. 



FAMILY 467: PERKINS. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, TIMOTIIY-C!. STEPHEN-19, ALLEN-42, JOHN-'.)2, 
SILAS-195, MARTIN VAN BUREN-375. 

LOTTA ELLA PERLEY was born in Springfield, Mass., 25 
March, 1877. She graduated at the Manning High School, Ipswich, 
in the class of 1895. In 1895 and 6 she studied in the Boston Con- 
servatory of Music, vocal department. She then spent a year with 
relatives in California. Returning East she took a course of study in 
stenography and typewriting, and was two seasons office clerk to the 
proprietor of Gray's Inn, a popular summer resort at the White 
Mountains, Jackson, N. H. Then she took a course in the same 
department at Burdett's Commercial College, Boston, and was 
awarded the usual "certificate." Soon thereafter she engaged as 
office correspondent of the Badger Fire Extinguisher Company, 
Boston, where she was employed two and a half years. 

She married 15 June, 1904, in Ipswich, John Atkins Perkms born 
there 4 Dec, 1878, to Isaac Edward Burnham, a merchant in boots 
and shoes, and Drusilla Atkins-Smith Perkins Mr. Perkins is a 
graduate of the Manning High School, Ipswich, the English High 
School, Boston, the Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, and Burdett s 



624 THE PERLBY FAMILY 

Commercial College, Boston. He is a professional bookkeeper and 
accountant and excels in penmanship and accuracy. His character 
as a man and his ability in his chosen profession commend him to 
responsible and lucrative positions. He was engaged with the Earle 
Fruit Company of San Francisco and Boston five years and declined 
an offer to go with ^ ^ ^— y^ \ 

them on their re- ( V // / / A ' 

moval to New Kl/j-^yryt/ ^ Lyl.^^^^:^^^^?^^ . 




York City. He is 
now with one of the 
largest retail grocery companies in Boston. 

Mr. and Mrs. Perkins are both members of the Methodist Epis- 
copal church, wherein, in Ipswich, both were very helpful as choir 
singers and members of the Sunday School, of which he was five 
years the superintendent. Their present home and church relation 
is in Melrose, Mass. 

1 Perkins child: John Perley, born in Melrose 28 Oct., 1905. 



FAMILY 4(J8: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4, THOMAS-16. THOMAS-33, ISUAEL-57, 
ISRAEL-115, CHARLES STRANGE-244, 1)ANIEL.413. 

WILLIAM FREDERICK PERLEY was born 28 May, 1847, 
in Brantford, Brant County, Ontario, Canada. He is a Methodist 
clergyman. He was assigned to Kingston, then (1880) to Lyn, 
Ont. He is now located in Gananoque, Ont. He was one of the 
great Perley Convention, 1877, and opened the formal business of the 
day with reading of Scripture and prayer. 

He married in Glenvale Valley, Ont., (i June, 1876. Mrs. Han- 
nah-Birmingham Sharpe of Kingston, Ont., where she was born 8 
July, 1838, to George Birmingham, a farmer. 

1 Perley children : P'rederick Nellis'-, Elleda Mary", Daniel Milton"*, 
Alfred Ray'^ and George Ray'-. 

2 P>ederick N.', born in Tamworth, Ont., 7 March, 1877, died in 
Lyn 11 Nov., 1881. Alfred R.' and George R.', born 11 Feb., died, 
the former 2, the latter 10, Sept., 1886, in P>elyhsburgh, Oue. 

3 Elleda M.', A. T. C. M., born 6 Feb., 1879, is a "gold medalist" 
of Ontario Ladies' College, Whitby, in vocal music, a graduate of 
Toronto Conservatory of Music, and the soloist at St. Andrew's, 
Kingston. 

4 Daniel M.\ born 21 Aug., 1882, is an Honor graduate in arts 
( B. A.) of Toronto University, and at present is a missionary in the 
mining town of Phoenix, B. C. 



FAMILY 469: PERLEY. 

LLNEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMA.S-4. JACOli-lT. ,JACOH-a7, JiEN.IAM]N-74, 
HEXJAMIN-156, BENJAiMIN-2U8, WARREX-43'.i. 

CHARLES WARREN PERLEY was born in Dunbarton, 
N. H., 29 Jan., 1848. He is a farmer and teamster and resides in 
Danville, N. H. (1905). He has worked in Salem, Bradford and 




HON. MOSES P. PEULEY. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 625 

Haverhill, Mass. He is a veteran of the Civil War of Company A, 
4th Massachusetts Cavalry, Second Battalion. 

He married, in Manchester, N. H., 4 Jan., 1S68, Margaret Nellie 
Morey, born in Canada, to John and Margaret Morey 29 May, 1844, 
and died in Hook^et, of cancer, 29 July, 1878. His second wife, 
married 25 Dec, 1874, in Salem, was Mrs. Mary Eliza- Williston 
Chase, widow of George Chase of Salem, where she was born to 
Samuel S. and Rebecca P.-Powers Williston 4 Nov., 1844. She died 
in Hookset, of quick consumption, on her thirty-fourth birthday. 
His third wife, married in Bradford, Mass., 31 Dec, 1879, was Mrs. 
Rosella F. Currier, ( widow of Charles H., ) who was born in P>anconia, 
N. H., 4 Aug., 1853, to John L., a cooper and farmer, and Rosella 
M.-P'olsom Rines. Her first husband was Reuben Palmer. 

1 Perley children : Lottie Warren", Warren Douglass'', Mary 
Jane^ Minnie'', Martha Charlesettal 

2 Lottie W.' was born in Haverhill, Mass., 4 June, 1871. She 
married in Haverhill, 30 June, 1890, William F. Barnard, a shoe- 
maker, who was born in Nantucket, Mass., to Charles F. and 
Sophronia W.-Holmes Barnard. They reside in Haverhill. Bar- 
nard issue: Charles William, born and died in West Newbury 11 
March, 1891. 

3 Warren D.^ was born in Hookset 28 May, 1873, and died in 
Bradford, Mass., 8 Oct., 1873. Minnie^ was born in Hookset 7 Aug., 
and died 2 Sept., 1878. 

4 Mary J.^ was born in Salem, Mass., 8 Jan., 1876. She married 
in Andover, N. fi., 2 July, 1894, William H. Clark, a teamster, who 
was born in Dfeering, N. H., 9 Nov., 1876, to John O. and Arvilla- 
Runnels Clark. Their home is Antrim, N. H. 

5 Martha C.^ was born in Haverhill, Mass., 16 July, 1882. She 
married in North Weare, N. H., 28 March, 1897, and became the 
second wife of Elmon E. Levoy. She died in Hopkinton, N. H., 1 
Sept., 1902. 



FAMH^Y 470: PERLEY. 

LINEAL DESCENT— ALLAN-1, THOMAS-4. JAOOB-17. NATHAN-3K, NATHAN-76, JOHN-104, 
l)A\ID-:ni),.T)AV10 MUNSON-444. 

MOSES PARMELEE PERLEY was born in Enosburg, Vt., 
25 June, 1844. He remained on his father's farm till twenty-two 
years of age, and then engaged in mercantile life, as a clerk for Hon. 
D. D. Mead of Sheldon, Vt., remaining with him two years. Then 
he started in a drug and grocery business for himself in Sheldon, 
the firm name being M. P. Perley & Co., his old employer, Hon. 
D. D. Mead, being the company. He continued in that business 
for three years. Then he sold his interest to his partner, and the 
same year went to Boston and secured employment with the old 
established wholesale grocery house of Claflin, Allison & Somes, 
with whom he remained ten years, as salesman. About 1873 he be- 
came interested in a store at Enosburg Falls. The business there 
has steadily grown from a small beginning to a large department 



626 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

store, under the firm name of M. P. Perley & Co., of which he is 
still the head. He has at Cambridgeboro, Vt., another department 
store, the firm name of which is Perley & Leavens. 




RESIDENCE OF HON.M. P. I'ERLEY. 

Beside his mercantile interests he is a third owner in the Dr. 
B. J. Kendall Co., "Kendall's Spavin Cure," a patent medicine, 
manufactured at Enosburg Falls, which has an extensive sale all 
over our country and some foreign lands. In this company he has 
been a director and its secretary for about twenty-five years. 

Mr. Perley has represented his town and county in both branches 
of the Vermont Legislature. In politics he is a strong Republican 
and temperance man, but not an office seeker in anything; he falls 
in line to work for the interest of right in whatever is nearest and 
fittest to be done. 

He was brought up in the Congregational church, but when he 
settled at Enosburg Falls he and his family joined their interests 
with the Methodists, and since then they have used their earnest en- 
deavor to sustain and build up their home church. 

He married 11 Oct., 1875, in East Berkshire, Vt., Ella Martha 
Stone, a school teacher, who was born in East Berkshire 10 Dec, 
1S45, to James Rufus, a harness maker, and Laura-Howe Stone. 

1 Perley children: Laura-', Belle Katherine^ James Kenf^ 

2 Laura' was born 17 Jan., and died 5 Sept., 1877; Belle K.' was 
born 22 July, 1884, and resides with her parents; James K.' was born 
81 July, 1886, and is preparing for college at the seminary at Tilton, 
N. H. 



SUPPLEMENT. 

The following is material that came to hand after the families to 
which it respectively belongs were printed. 

FAMILY 1. 

The nearest approach at that period to the name of our immi- 
grant-ancestor's wife is the name, Bolderson, or Houlderson,of a man 
who in 1689 bought of Francis Wainwright of Ipswich, a wharf and 
warehouse in Boston. This name from its common pronunciation 
might easily be spelled Bokerson. 

FAMILY 8. 

Deacon Goodhue's wife was Hannah Dane, born 4 July, 1673, 
in Chebacco (now Essex). The children of John and Hannah Cogs- 
well run : Hannah, William, Susannah, John, Francis, and as given. 

FAMILY 16. 

Thomas Perley, Jr., and Stephen Peabody, both of Boxford, 
for ;^50, sold Joseph Hamilton of Brookfield, "one messuage" in 
Brookfield, 45 acres, on the south side of Ouaboag pond, 21 Aug., 
1786. The lot was granted Alexander Heard by the town. 
r^' FAMILY 22. 

Joseph Batchelder's mother was Susanna Whipple. 

FAMILY 27. 

David Perley with Jonathan Burpee and Mark Howe peram- 
bulated the line that defined the limits of Linebrook Parish. David 
Perley paid ;^32 for his pew in the Linebrook church. 

FAMILY 33,. 

Thomas Perley, yeoman, for ^100, sold to Jonathan Stimson 
of Ipswich-Canada 100 acres of land. No. 80, 18 April, 1764. 

FAMILY 35. 

Asa Perley of Boxford, yeoman, bought 9 May, 1748, of 
William Cogswell of Ipswich, yeoman, for £,'?,h Os. 7d., land in Ipswich- 
Canada, originally Thomas Lord, hatter's. Asa Perley of Boxford, 
gentleman, 8 May, 1783, sold for ;^24 to Wm. Whitney of Winchen- 
don, No. 42, originally Thomas Lord's of Ipswich. 

FAMILY 40. 

Jeremiah's^ death was reported in the "Salem Gazette" 8 
June, 1784; his widow died in Bethel, Me. [Mrs. Lucy-Tarbox- 
Perkins Gould.] 

FAMILY 45. 

"Ingalls' Journal," private, reads, "Sarah' married P2phraim 
Jewett of Maine." Olive^ was published to Jacob Stevens of Bridgton, 
Me., 2 Feb., 1782. 

FAMILY 46. 

Francis"^ death was reported in Salem Gazette 5 June, 1792. 
Caleb Jackson's diary reads: "May 28, 1792, Mr. Nathaniel Perley's 



628 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



son Francis was drowned in the great pond near John Hood's in the 
27th year of his age and buried the 25th. Mr. Grossman preached 
a sermon from these words, ' It is appointed unto man once to die 
and after that the judgment.' " 

FAMILY 49. 

Perley- died 29 Sept., 1850. 

David B. Tenney's" wife was Hannah, and his children, born 
in Salem: Orlando Barnard, 18 Dec, 1816, who had a son Ward M. ; 
Emeline Matilda, 14 Jan., 1819; Putnam Farnham, 11 May, 1821; 
Rosman Little, 29 Dec, 1823;. David Barnard, 13 Feb., 1826. 

FAMILY 51. 
Foster, or Foister, signifies foodster, or nourished, adopted. 
Father and fostered find their root in feed. Father 
is one who feeds. 

" And in gret revenue and (;haritee 
Hire olde powere fader fostered shee." 

The arms here shown: Ar. a chevron, vert., 
between three bugle-horns sa., stringed gu. Crest : 
a stag's head sa., erased. Motto: Vertute et La- 
bore; also Divini Gloria Ruris. The Dodsworth 
Badsworth arms are very similar: "Ar. a chev. gu. 
betw. three bugle-horns sa. 

Amos J. Millett*^ died Saturday evening 8 
July, 1905, after a lingering illness, aged seventy- 
three. He had been deacon fifteen years. 

FAMILY 52. 

Mr. Wm. W. S. Perley-233 ' contributed the original of this pic- 
ture of his reverend ancestor's residence in Gray, Me. See page 97. 





RESIDKNCE OF RKV. SAMUEL PERLEY. 
FAMILY 53. 



Rowley records say Hannah' was 87 years, 7 months and 4 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY (J29 

days old. Priscilla died (Oct., 1775), aged 1 year, 8 months and 4 
days. Priscilla seems to have been the "nameless child's" name; 
and the "second Priscilla" to have been born 6 July, 1779. Pris- 
cilla's mother Hannah Mighill was baptised 10 June, 1753 [Sunday]. 
Elizabeth Davis Kilham'-^, born in Boston 25 Sept., 1817, to 
Jonathan and Priscilla, married 24 Dec, 1832, Michael Henry Simp- 
son, born 15 Nov., 1813, in Newburyport, to Paul of York, Me., and 
Abigail J. of Newburyport. He died in Boston 21 Dec, 1884; she 
in June, 1878. They had one child, Helen, born in Boston 6 July, 
1840. 

Helen married 28 April, 1870, William Wallace Seely, who was 
born 17 Aug., 1838, and died 7 Nov., 1903, leaving one child, P^liza- 
beth Davis, who was born 10 Sept., 1874, in Saxon ville, Mass., and 
19 Nov., 1903, married Arthur Espey ot Cincinnati, Ohio. 

It is remembered by us that the Moses Dole'^ as stated in 
the text, is the only one, in the Rowley records, answering in time as 
the father of Moses who married Mary Perley. "The father of 
Greenleaf Dole was of Rowley," say the probate records, "but 
Greenleaf was of Andover." 

Miss F. Ellen M. Dole says, "I have always understood that my 
great-grandparents were Greenleaf and Mary-Moore Dole. My 
father's brother Joh^ told me so; Mr. Prime so states it in his auto- 
biography; and Mrs. Merrill of Georgetown, my father's cousin, re- 
membered her grandmother and her stories of the great people and 
fine life she knew at Cambridge, where Greenleaf graduated from 
Harvard College in 1771." "Soon after graduation," reads Gage's 
History of Rowley, " he began teaching the town school, and con- 
tinued many years, teaching in each of the several districts in town," 
"living," says Miss Dole, "on Spofford's hill in Georgetown, near 
his father, Capt. Moses Dole, later the Little farm." 

Miss Dole also remarks that her father was born "in the house 
on the Common owned many years by Mr. John Lambert. Later 
the Summer street house was bought of the Fosters, who moved to 

Newburyport." 

FAMILY 54. 

We are unable to place this family with satisfaction ; _ it 
seems to fit here" as well as anywhere; yet it may belong to F"amily 
-183'^. The figures below refer to this William's descent only. 

1 William Perley (who had a brother Charles ) was born in Bangor, 
Me., 1 April, 1813, and died ten miles from Lake City, Minn., 5 July, 
18G4. His mother's maiden name is believed to be Morris. He 
married, in Ohio, Miss Mary Jane Reynolds, born in Ohio 7 Jan., 
1827, and died 13 Dec, 1889, in Kansas City, Kan. They had ten 
children, all born in Michigan, but the two last in Minnesota: Wil- 
liam'-; Mary Jane, who, born 17 July, 1844,. married a Bailey and 
died in Aug., 1874; Lucinda'^ George Reynolds^ Charles Morris^; 
Charlotte K., who, born 13 Nov., 1851, married a Baine and died in 
Kansas City, Kan., in 1896, leaving two sons living; E:xperience, 
born 4 May, 1853, died 7 Sept., 1856; Lysander Hartwell, born 30 
March, 1857, died 17 March, 1858; Milford Delmar, born 2 Oct., 
1860, died 4 Dec, 1864; Eva Lincoln, born 8 July and died 2 June, 
1863. 



(i30 * THE PERLEY FAMILY 

2 William^ was born 7 March, 1843, in Van Buren, Mich. When 
he was a farmer, 12 Aug., 1862, he enrolled with Co. F, 6th Regi- 
ment Minnesota Infantry Volunteers, as a private for three years. 
He received an honorable discharge, at Fort Snelling, Minn., 19 
Aug., 1865. He was "five feet and seven inches tall, of fair com- 
plexion, hazel eyes and dark hair." He got $100 bounty. He mar- 
ried Cynthia Ann Keeler, who was born in Michigan 15 May, 1842, 
to Henry C. and Abigail-Bendure Keeler. He was a farmer. He died 
in Warrentown, Wis., in Dec, 1869. She died in Hoople, N. Dak., 
24 March, 1905. Perley children: Erwin William*^; Maude Etta^ 

3 Lucinda^ was born 29 March, 1849, in Michigan, and married 
21 Nov., 1865, in Red Wing, Minn., Joseph Edward Stevens Mabey, 
who was born 28 May, 1845, in Bridport, Dorsetshire, Eng., to 
George, a farmer, and Mary Ann-Stevens Mabey. Mr. Mabey is a 
stock-dealer in Lake City, Minn. Mabey children: Harry Edward, 
who, born 6 Dec, 1868, in Lake City, is married, has four daughters 
and one son, and is stock-raising in Viking, Alberta, Canada; Mabel, 
who was born 4 July, 1870, in Burnhamsville, Minn., married a 
Bartlett, and died 7 July, 1905, in Lake City, leaving a son Clayton 
Joseph, born about 1892; Lullu Bird, who was born 3 April, 187B, in 
Long Prairie, Minn., married Capt. James N. Munro of 3d Cav., 
U. S. A., is in the Philippines; Nellie, who was born 2 Sept., 1874, 
in Long Prairie, is a bookkeeper ; Perley William, who was born in 
Brainerd, Minn., 31 May, 1876, a lawyer in Thief River Falls, is mar- 
ried and has one son Morris Perley; Joseph Henry, who was born in 
Lake City 5 Dec, 1877, is with his brother Harry E., and married; 
Alice Goldie, who was born 14 Sept., 1887, in Lake City, is a high 
school student; Alfred Edward, born in Burnhamsville 3 Feb., and 
died there 27 June, 1872. They are educated at high school and 
university. 

4 George R.' was born 19 March, 1846. He lives in Kansas City, 
Kan., and has a large family. His oldest daughter, Olive, is a school 
teacher. 

5 Charles M.^ was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., 5 Jan., 1848. He 
was a farmer, and 25 Dec, 1866, married in Lake City, Minn., Miss 
Nelly Bishop, born in Bangor, Me., 4 Dec, 1851, to George and 
Julia-Roundy Bishop. After Mr. Perley's death, 11 March, 1874, in 
Long Prairie, Minn., his widow married Joseph Balmer, a farmer, in 
Dollar Bay, Mich. Perley children: Lottie May*; Eva Dell, born 9 
June, 1870, in Pillsbury, Minn., and died aged eighteen months; 
Charles Bi.shop, born 15 Oct., 1872, in Pillsbury, and died aged eight 
months; Rolfe Hobert''. 

6 Erwin W.'- was born in Belvidere, Goodhue County, Minn., 9 July, 
1867. He married in Hoople, No. Dak., 22 P'eb., 1896, and became 
the second husband of Mrs. Emma-Engeseth Anderson, who was 
born in Chaseburg, Vernon County, Wis., 22 Aug., 1865, to Svend 
Nelson and Ingeborg-Greenland Engeseth. Mr. Perley is a butcher 
by trade and is engaged in farming in Perley, N. Dak. Perley child : 
Nina Abigail, born in Hoople 24 March, 1897. 

7 Maude E.'^ was born in Belvidere, Minn., 25 June, 1869. She 
married a Wagner, and lives in Lake de May, Alberta, Canada. 

8 Lottie M.^ was born 12 Feb., 1868, in Belvidere, Minn., and 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 6B1 

married in Pillsbury, Minn., 22 Dec, 1884, John A. Stoll, a farmer. 
They have six children: NelHe Maud, born 8 Oct., 1885, married 
Espy Ash of Cold Harbor, N. Dak., and has three children ; Lena 
May, born 25 Dec, 1886 ; Laura Augusta, born 16 Jan., 1889 ; Lot- 
tie Pearl, born 22 June, 1890; John Howard, born 16 June, 1896; 
Walter RoUin, born 14 May, 1898. Their home is Sanborn, N. Dak. 
9 Rolfe H.^ was born 7 March, 1874, in Long Prairie, Minn. He 
is a school teacher in Osakis (1906). He married in Little Sank, 
Minn., 1 March, 1899, Miss Elmeda Ester Smith, a school teacher, 
who was born in Little Sank 18 Feb., 1880, to George A. and Ella 
S. -Livingstone Smith. Their children were born : Walter Laurence, 
13 Dec, 1899; Florence Edna, 8 Dec, 1901 ; both in Pillsbury, Minn.; 
Alice May, 26 Dec, 1905, in Leslie, Minn. 

This John" is out of place here, if born in 1766. See Irish- 
American Perleys in the "Addenda." 

FAMILY 56. 

William A.^ married Alice Chapman; Anna M.'^ married 
Clarence E. Eastman; Melinda G.*^ married T. J. Merry and had 
two children ; John'' married a Hasty and had two children ; Nathan 
A.'^ married Marilla Cole and had Gertrude; Mary" married a Burn- 
ham; Nathan C." married Hannah A. Perry and had Minnie, P211en, 
George and Alice ; Angeline" married George Delino and had Nova, 
Mary, George and John ; Harriet** married and had Hannah ; An- 
geline** married and had Elwood ; Frances P.** married Walter Strout 
and had Nellie who married Stephen Sanderson ; Leonard M.'-* mar- 
ried Matilda Nevers and had Astly, Etta, Ernest L., Bertha L., 
Casap and Ralph E. ; Alonzo^ married Clara Parker and had Mabel 
P. who married and had Jessie, P'anny A., Grace L., Jennie and 
Charles; Fanny P.''^ married a Clark and had a daughter; Robert 
A." married Abbie Bradstreet and had Carrie W. and Royal S. ; 
Nathan" married Carrie Howard ; Thomas P." married Elizabeth 
Lanson and had Charles S. and Fred H.; Edward P. ^'^ married Fanny 
Walker; Benjamin L.'- married Marylngalls and had Ellen P., Arthur 
M., Richard, Irene and Lincoln ; Celia M.^'^ married Cyrus Stone and 
had Gertrude L., Winnefred P. and Ralph ; Susan W.'- married 
Charles Bennett and had Cleaves B., Sarah W. and Charles B. ; Royal 
L.'- married Carrie Chick and had Nelly, Bertha, Pklward and Minnie. 

FAMILY 57. 
Israel Perley was educated as a surveyor ; he taught school in 
Andover in " 1766," which should probably read 1760. Phoebe' mar- 
ried John Nevers 15 June, 1794. Elizabeth' married her cousin 
Daniel-119. Mary' married 10 March, 1802, her cousin Moses-120 
and Supplement 591 Sarah' never married. Charlotte': Mrs. Clara 
Hay ward wrote her cousin Hannah Perley that her son George mar- 
ried Charlotte Perley ; he was Col. George Hayward of Lmcoln, 
N. B. ; they had no children. Charles' was born 1 Jan., 1772, and 
died 27 Nov., 1792. 

"The History of the St. John River," by Rev. W. O. Raymond, 
LL.D., says : " Israel Perley was about twenty-one years of age at 
the time of his arrival in this country, but in the course of time his 
education and natural abilities made him one of the most prominent 



(J32 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

citizens of Maugerville. He was a representative to the local legis- 
lature in 1768, and declined a second 'election' to that office. He 
was many years a justice of the peace. He was prominent in church 
affairs also — was a ruling elder and one of the committee to settle 
Rev. Seth Noble, their first pastor. 

Mr. Perley's wife, Elizabeth Mooers, her great-great-grandson, 
H. LeB. Smith-59^* thinks, was a daughter of Peter Mooers. Ac- 
cording to Dr. Raymond there was only one Mooers in the Mauger- 
ville colony and his name was Peter. He was a member of the 
church there and did business "down river" with Hazen, Symonds 
& White — all Haverhill men. In the Newbury records a Peter 
Mooers was born in 1729, had parents Peter and Mary and grand- 
parents Edmund and Sarah-Noyes, who was probably a son of 
Edmund Mooers, the immigrant-ancestor of the name. 

[Mr. H. LeB. Smith has given the Mooers children thus: Betsey 
married Israel Perley; Sarah married a Saunders, ancestor of Gil- 
bert Hartley of Duluth ; Huldah married a Whitney ; Abigail (see 
below) ; Rebecca married a Tread well and a McKnapp ; Mary mar- 
ried an Ingraham ; Jennie married a Langin ; David and Samuel. 

[Abigail Mooers (above) was born 23 Nov., 1755, and died 28 
June, 1852. She married Benjamin Atherton, who was born 9 Dec, 
1736, to Dr. Benjamin, who married Mary (widow of John Rogers, 
Jr., and daughter of Roger and Sarah) Toothacher, born 26 Oct., 
1705, married, first, 26 Nov., 1721, and, second, 25 Dec, 1733. Mr. 
Atherton had a sister Mary, born 12 Sept., 1734 ; he was the first white 
settler on the flats of P'redericton ; he died 17 July, 1816. Their 
children numbered twelve, of whom were Peter (see below) and 
John — Supplement 59\ 

[Peter (above) was born 6 April, 1784, and married in 1810 Mary 
Carl. He died 22 June, 1841. Their children were : Benjamin, who 
married a niece of Mrs. Capt. Heustis and has a son, a druggist, in 
Toronto ; Thomas, who married his cousin and has several children, 
of whom LeBaron is in Boston and Amelia is a teacher ; Calvin, who 
married and has a family in Ontario ; Albert, who married an Ingra- 
ham and has a family — a boy and a girl — in Brainerd, Minn. ; Jane, 
who married ¥. A. Perley-256 ; Fanny, who married an Ebbett.] 

FAMILY 59. 

" The History of the St. John River," by Rev. W. O. Ray- 
mond, LL.D., says of Oliver Perley: "He came to the River St. 
John in January, 1765, as passenger in a schooner belonging to 
Hazen, Simonds & White. In common with the majority of their 
neighbors they were inclined to sympathize with the New England 
'rebels' at the outbreak of the American Revolution, and the name 
of Oliver Perley appears as one of the ' rebel ' committee appointed 
at the meeting held at Maugerville in May, 1776. Soon after the 
peace, in 1783, he is said to have removed to Newburypctrt, at the 
solicitation of his wife, but they found so little to admire in the 
squabbles that prevailed between the followers of Adams and Jeffer- 
son that they soon returned to the Riv^er St. John, declaring that the 
Americans were 'cursed with liberty.' One of Oliver Perley's sons, 
Solomon, was married by Rev. John Beardsley, March 8, 1798, to 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 635^ 

Elizabeth Pickard ; another son, Moses, was married by the same 
clergyman, March 10, 1802, to his cousin Mary, daughter of Israel 
Perley. This Moses Perley and his wife were members of the church 
of England. Amos Perley, another son of Oliver Perley, seems to 
have inherited some poetical taste. The family of Oliver Perley 
lived at the spot now known as McGowan's wharf. Asa Perley, an- 
other of the early^Maugerville settlers, lived at the head of Oromocto 
Island in Upper Maugerville. The descendants of the .Perleys in 
the Province are numerous and highly respected." 

Mr. Perley's wife was Sarah Palmer, who was born in Newbury, 
baptised in Rowley, and married in Newburyport. We trace her 
descent thus : There were two Palmers, Thomas and John, seemingly 
brothers, among the early settlers of Rowley, Mass., who were the 
immigrants of the name. John was a sergeant in the militia. He 
married, first, 17,7 mo., 1645, Ruth Acy, daughter of Wm. She was 
buried 18 Oct., 1649. He married, second, 14, 5 mo., 1651, Margaret 
Northend, who died 20 Feb., 1705-6. He died 17 June, 1695, aged 
seventy-two years. His children were Hannah, John, Elizabeth, 
John, Francis, Sarah ; of whom 

Francis, born 4, 10 mo., 1657, was married, first, 8 Dec, 1682, to 
Elizabeth Hunt of Ipswich, who was born 29 May, 1661, and died 9 
July, 1689. He married, second, 10 June, 1690, Ann Jewett, who 
died 27 Feb., 1714. He died 19 April, 1738. They had children : 
Elizabeth, John, John, Sarah, Frances, Ann ; of whom 

John, born 21 June, 1689, married 18 Nov., 1709, Mary Stickney, 
born to Lt. John, 1 March, 1686, and died 2 Nov., 1768. He died 22 
Dec, 1763. Their children were Ehzabeth, Daniel, Jane, Mary, 
Hannah, Sarah, Sarah, Mehitable, John ; of whom 

Daniel, born 81 July, 1712, married 28 Oct., 1786^ Elizabeth 
Wheeler of Ipswich, Mass. They were farmers and lived in New- 
bury, where their children were born, and worshiped in the First 
Church in Rowley, where their children were baptised. The parents 
were dismissed to the First Church in Gloucester 20 Feb., 1743-4. 
They removed to New Brunswick about 1764. Their children were : 
Elizabeth, born 17, baptised 18 Sept., 1737 ; Ruth, baptised 4 March, 
1739 ; Mary ; Hannah, died 28 Aug., 1745 ; Daniel, born and baptised 

1 May, 1748; Sarah; Moses, born 28 April and baptised 8 May, 
1752; Abijah, born 18 April, 1754; Nathan, born 27 April, baptised 

2 May, 1756; of whom 

Mary was baptised 11 Jan., 1741, and in 1764, marrying Joseph Gar- 
rison, became the grandmother of Wm. Lloyd Garrison, the great 
apostle of abolition ; and Sarah was baptised 20 May, 1750, and mar- 
ried Oliver Perley as above. 

Mr. H. Le B. Smith writes the three daughters, Rebecca, Mary 
and Sarah ; Mrs. Nevers-255'^ thinks there were Charity and Eunice ; 
and Dr. Raymond writes sons Solomon and Amos. Oliver's children, 
therefore, were : 

1 Daniel-119, Moses'^ Thomas-121, Eunice Putnam-117, Rebec- 
ca'-, Mary Caroline^ Sarah'-, Allen'-, Charity'^ Eunice'-, Solomon'-, and 
Amos'^ 

2 Moses^ was married 10 March, 1802, was killed in a brow, by 
logs falling upon him, and left a widow and one son — see Family-120. 



634 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Rebecca^ never married and died in middle life. Sarah^ married at 
the age of about thirty, Asa Upton, a widower, lived in Simonds, 
Carleton County, and had no children but a step-daughter, Maria. 
It is said that Sarah was a very large person and that three of the 
Perley sisters measured eighteen feet and that one of them weighed 
over 300 lbs. Their grandfather, Daniel Palmer, was a powerful man. 
Allen^ died young and never married. Charity' married Cyrus Sim- 
mons, lived in Bloomfield, Carleton County, and had a large family. 
(See family-251'-) "Eunice," (what was her name.') it is thought, 
married Cornell Howard but had no children. Solomon- married 
Elizabeth Pickard 8 March, 1798. See Supplement 71. Amos': 
compare Family-131. 

3 Mary C was born in Sheffield, N. B., 27 Feb., 1786, and mar- 
ried 2 April, 1810, George Samuel Bennison, a farmer, who was born 
in St. John 2 April, 1786, to George and Mary. She died of heart 
disease in Gaspereaux in 1846. He married, second, 2 Sept., 1847, 
Miss Agnes Marshall. He died in Gaspereaux 29 Jan., 1867. Benni- 
son children: Charlotte Perley^; Eliza Mary, born 26 Nov., 1812, 
married Wm. Sypher, died in drand Lake in 1889 ; James Johnson*^ ; 
George, born 7 March, 1816, married 21 Aug., 1844, Frances Gew, 
died 24 Nov., 1844 ; Matilda Jane, born 13 Oct., 1817, married Henry 
Goldsmith, died in Yarmouth, N. S., in 1890 ; Thomas Edward, born 
3 Oct., 1819, married Lucinda Calvert, died in Oregon, in 1891 ; 
Albert, born 24 Sept. 1824, died 15 Sept., 1842; Amanda Perley'. 

4 Charlotte P.' was born 22 April, 1811, and 9 March, 1831, mar- 
ried John Atherton, who was born in York County, N. B., 20 Aug., 
1800, to Benjamin (born 9 Dec, 1736, died 17 July, 1816) and Abi- 
gail-Mooers (born 23 Nov. 1755, died 28 June, 1852), a sister to Israel 
Perley-57'» wife Elizabeth. He was a landlord and capitalist, and 
died 30 Nov., 1881, in Fredericton, where his widow died 29 March, 
1899. Atherton issue : Mary Abigail"; Stephen P^dward^ George 
P'rederic®; Elizabeth Jane"; Simeon, born 29 Aug., and died 19 Sept., 
1841, Alfred Bennison"; Matilda Amanda, born'^7 June, 1848, died 6 
Feb., 1858. 

5 James J.'^ was born in Chipman, N. B., 26 June, 1814, and mar- 
ried there 22 Dec, 1842, Eleanor Briggs, who was born in Chipman, 
to Elden, a farmer, and Diadany-McGreagor Briggs. He died, a farmer, 
in Chipman 16 Aug., 1894; his widow died in White's Cove, N. B., 
6 June, 1897. Bennison issue: Mary Caroline Perley'"'; Charlotte, 
who married a Russell ; Samuel, remarkable for his strength, who 
married his cousin, a Miss Briggs, and twenty years ago lived in 
Duluth, Minn. ; Eben, who, married, lives in San Jose, Cal., and has 
two boys. 

6 Amanda P.^ was born in Sheffield, N. B.,29 Dec, 1829,and married 
in Gaspereaux 16 or 28 Sept., 1847, Stephen Smith Briggs, a farmer, 
and lumberman, born in Grand Lake 18 Sept., 1823, to Hiram, a farmer, 
and Susan-White Briggs. She died in Lake Stream, Kent County, 
18 Aug., 1900; he 6 Nov., 1903. Briggs issue, the first three born 
in Gaspereaux, the rest in Lake Stream : Mary Agnes'^ ; Adeliza 
Marshall'^; Charles Leander, born 3 June, 1852, married and living 
in Stellarton, N. S. ; George Hiram'° ; Stephen, born 3 Nov., 1856, 
died in May, 1857; Susan, born 12 Sept., 1858, and married a Carman; 




MRS. JOHX ATHERTOX. 




MRS. THOMAS W. SMITH. 




MRS. GEORGE A. CLIFF. 




H. Lel'.AROX SMITIF. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY (535 

Henry Havelock, born 3 Feb., 1860, and died 8 June, 1882; Alfred 
Wesley, 12 April, 1861, and married, living in Eau Claire, Wis.; 
Maggie McMillan, 4 May, 1863, died 6 May, 1867 ; Charlotte Matilda, 
6 Oct., 1865, died 20 March, 1867; Samuel White^''; Lucretia^' ; 
Caroline, 18 Feb., 1871. 

7 Mary A.^ was born in Bear Island, N. B., 27 Sept., 1832, and 
married in Fredericton 10 Nov., 1852, Thomas Wellington Smith, 
who was born in Hampstead 28 Feb., 1827, to Capt. Robert (born 1 
Jan., 1801) and Sarah-Carpenter Smith. She died in San Francisco, 
Cal., 20 Nov., 1896. He was a merchant-tailor and clothier, and now 
retired (1905) resides in Fredericton Smith issue: Wm. Ed- 
ward, born 29 Aug., 1853, died 26 March, 1854 ; John Robert, born 
19 March, 1856, died 26 Dec. , 1859 ; Herbert LeBaron^' ; Minnie 
Lewis, born 14 June, 1866, who took first prize at the Sackville 
Ladies' Academy ; Alfred Atherton, born 16 Aug., 1874. 

8 Stephen E.'* was born 7 March, 1834, and married in Frederic- 
ton 16 Oct., 1856, Frances Russell, who was born in Massachusetts 
to John and Frances-Golding Russell. He died 2 Feb., 1875, in 
Fredericton, where his widow (1905) resides. Atherton issue: 
Harry Bedford, born in Fredericton 18 July, 1858. He left school 
at sixteen, and engaged as bookkeeper and accountant ; is now 
( 1905) with R. Chestnut & Sons, merchants in hardware, Fredericton. 

9 George F.'* was born in Oueensbury 19 Nov., 1835, and mar- 
ried 5 July, 1859, in Fredericton, Emma Robinson Russell, daughter 
of John. He was a merchant in Fredericton, where both died. He 
married, second, Jane Roach, and died 24 April, 1895. Atherton 
issue : Edwin Robinson'® ; Ernest Livingstone, whose widow resides 
in Brighton, Wash. ; Frances Emma'-' ; Maud"'. 

10 Elizabeth J.* was born 21 Jan., 1839, and married in Frederic- 
ton, George Ames Cliff, now (1905) retired, who was born in Oueens- 
bury 7 Dec, 1834, to Nelson, a farmer, and Rhoda-Esty Cliff. They 
reside in San Diego, Cal. Cliff issue, born in Fredericton : Harland 
Somers*^; Alfred Atherton, 18 Jan., 1866, who is unmarried in Wil- 
mington, B. C, Canada; Lottie Esty, 9 Dec, 1868, died 27 April, 
1894; Charles Lee'-^ ; George Byron'-^ 

11 Alfred B.'' was born 22 Jan., 1843, in Oueensbury. He 
received the degree of A.B. at University of New Brunswick, 1862 ; 
of M. D. at Harvard University, 1866; of L. R. C. of physicians 
and surgeons at Edinburgh University, Scot., 1867 ; of honorary 
LL.D. at the Univer.sity of New Brunswick, 1900. He was house 
surgeon of Boston City Hospital, 1865-6; lecturer on surgery, 
Ontario Medical College for Women, 1889 to 1894; surgeon to Hos- 
pital for Women, Toronto, from 1887 to 1894. Dr. Atherton per- 
formed the first successful operation in America for perforation of 
gastric ulcer, 19 Sept., 1894. He was president of the Toronto Medi- 
cal Association; also of the New Brunswick Medical Association; 
vice-president of the Canadian Medical Association, and is chairman 
of the Fredericton school board (1905). P>om 1867 to 1884 he was a 
member of Senate of University of New Brunswick and president of 
the alumni. He married in Fredericton 20 May, 1868, Sarah Wiley, 
who was born there 11 March, 1845, to Robert, an undertaker, anp 
Mary Jane-Todd Wiley. Their home is Fredericton, without issue. 



HHO THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

12 Mary C. P.'^ was born in Chipman, N. B., 6 June, 1846, and 
married 15 Sept., 1864, John Orchard, who was born in White's Cove 
14 April, 1842, to Robert and Lucretia-Briggs Orchard. Their home 
is White's Cove, where their children were born : Agnes Mary, born 
8 and died 29 Nov., 1865; Mary Ella-^ James Alfred'''^; Harry 
Ernest-'; Emma Briggs'-^; George Bennison'-^; Lucretia, 10 May, 
1877, who is a telegrapher ; Dora Amanda''"; Oswald, 8 March, 1880; 
Olive Lawson, 5 March, 1882; Iva Myrtle^'; Frederic Allen, 7 April, 
1885, died 14 July, 1892; Damey Ann, 31 Jan., 1887, died 30 Jan., 
1899; John Leslie, 25 Dec, 1889; Hattie Pauline, 30 Aug., 1891. 

13 Mary A.*^ was born 5 Feb., 1849, and married in Lake Stream, 
N. B., 16 Dec, 1874, Samuel T. Girvan, a carpenter and farmer, who 
was born in Rexton, N. B., 16 June, 1845, to Thomas and Agnes- 
Stroyan Girvan. Their home is Coal Branch Station. Girvan chil- 
dren : Amanda Briggs, born in Rexton 8 Oct., 1875, and died there 13 
April, 1877; Maggie McMillan'"; Alfred Bruce, born in Rexton 24 
Nov., 1878; Stephen Briggs, born in Lake Stream 12 Aug., 1880; 
Thomas Leander, born in Lake Stream 16 Feb., 1882; Janie, born 
in Spokane, Wash., 24 Jan., 1887; Henry Havelock, born in Spokane 
7 Sept., 1890; James Stroyan, born in Spokane 22 March, 1892. 

14 Adeliza M.** was born in Chipman, N. B., 11 Aug., 1850, and 
married in St. John 18 Dec, 1879, Hugh Mac Lean, a merchant, who 
was born in Grand Lake 18 June, 1839, to Hector and Jane-MacLean 
MacLean. He died in Briggs Corner 22 Sept., 1897. His widow's 
address is Fairville. MacLean issue, born in Briggs Corner : Beatrice 
E., 30 April, 1885; Calvin S., 21 July, 1888. 

15 George H." was born in Lake Stream 20 Jan., 1854, and mar- 
ried in Chipman 23 Oct., 1884, Sarah Jane Burpee, born in Upper 
Gaspereaux 17 Nov., 1862, to Isaac Clarke, a mill owner, lumberman 
and farmer, and Sarah Jane-Dymond Burpee. Briggs children, born 
in Gaspereaux Forks: Myrtle Mehitable, 31 March, 1886; Estella 
Larena, 28 Nov. 1888; George Burpee, 22 June, 1898. 

16 Samuel W." was born in Lake Stream, Kent County, N. B.,his 
present home, 16 Dec, 1866, and married in Chipman 25 Sept., 1895, 
Esther Smith, who was born in Chipman 23 May, 1873, to Edward, 
a lumberman and farmer, and Annie-Fulton Smith. Briggs children 
born in Lake Stream: Helen Amanda, 8 July, 1896; Ada Alma, 24 
F'eb., 1898; Charles Bruce, 3 Jan., 1901; Clarence Pxlward, 4 June, 
1902. 

17 Lucretia*^ was born in Harcourt 27 April, 1869. She married 
in Chipman 15 Nov,, 1890, Isaac Wallace Baird, a farmer, who was 
born in Chipman, their present home, 29 March, 1866, to Samuel, a 
farmer, and Elizabeth-Snodgrass Baird. Baird children, born in 
Chipman: Alfred Briggs, 11 Oct., 1891 ; P:thel, 31 Jan., 1894; Ruth 
Margaret, 12 Sept., 1896; Agnes Girvan, 18 Dec, 1898; Frank 
Phraser, 8 July, 1901 ; Hannah Snodgrass, 7 Sept., 1903. 

18 Herbert LeB.' was born 16 Aug., 1858. He has bestowed 
considerable time and labor on this branch of the family. He takes 
a just pride in his ancestry. William de Atherton, in King John's 
reign, was high sheriff in Lancashire, P^ng; James and Humphrey 
Atherton came from Atherton, near Manchester, Eng. ; Benjamin 
(a son of James Atherton, a "first settler" of Lancaster, Mass.,) and 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 537 

wife Hannah went from Dorchester, Mass., and was a younger brother 
of Maj. Gen. Humphrey Atherton; Benjamin at the age of twenty, 
in 1755, enlisted, to dislodge the French on the Bay of Fundy; 
Benjamin in 1758, enlisted for the reduction of Canada; all these are 
regarded in the line of descent. 

In 189o, the Canadian Government exhibited in the Mid-winter 
Fair, San Francisco, and Mr. Smith was elected president of the 
association, having the exhibit in charge. He is extensively and 
prosperously engaged as a merchant tailor in San Francisco. 

19 Edwin R." was born in Fredericton, N. B., 10 April, 1860. 
He married in Nelson, B. C, 9 June, 1897, Bessie Tilley Irvine, who 
was born in St. John, N. B., 9 Aug., 1872, to William and Eliza Jane- 
McAfee Irvine. Mr. Atherton is a merchant of Sandon, B. C, 
where their children were born: Mabel Maud, 1 April, 1898; George 
Irvine, 8 Oct., 1899, and died m St. John, N. B., 12 June, 1903; Wil- 
liam Alfred, 4 Jan., 1905. 

20 Frances E.^ was born in Fredericton, N. B., 31 Dec,, 1872, 
and married there 27 May, 1895, Archie Frederick Hale, who was 
born in Carleton County, N. B., 5 May, 1870, to Frederick H. and 
Rhoda-McGee Hale. He is a rancher of Brant, Alberta, Canada, 
Hale issue, born in Grafton, N. B., but the last: Helen Emma, 22 
June, 1896; Frederick George, 16 July, 1897; Alfred Atherton, 
3 Oct., 1898; Jean Rhoda, 24 Feb., 1902, in Woodstock, N. B. 

21 Maud" was born 17 April, 1875, in Fredericton, N. B., and 8 
Feb., 1898, in Grafton, N. B., married Hans William Walker, who 
was born 22 Jan., 1874, in Woodstock, to John J., a tailor, and Barbara 
Gordon-Wilson Walker. He is a machinist in Calgary, Alberta, 
Canada. Walker children, born in Woodstock : Evelyn Atherton, 3 
Aug., 1901; Barbara Hartley, 20 Feb., 1904; Georgie Maud, 11 
June, 1905. 

22 Harland S.^" was born 31 Dec, 1864. He married in San 
Diego 2 Sept., 1890, Matilda Pedot, who was born in Amiens, France, 
7 July, 1869, to Michel Pedot, a farmer. Mr. Cliff is a merchant of 
San Diego, where their children were born: Julien t^ugene, 19 Oct., 
1892; Nelson Alfred, 1 March, 1896; Lottie Mathilde, 28 Nov., 
1904. 

23 Charles L.^" was born 23 April, 1871, and married in San 
Diego 18 July, 1898, Annie Brewer, who was born in Antioch, Cal., 

9 March, 1871, to H. S. Brewer, gentleman. Mr. Cliff is a book- 
keeper in San Diego, where was born their child: Atherton Brewer, 

10 Nov., 1901. 

24 George B." was born 9 May, 1875, and married in Hanford, 
Cal., 12 June, 1900, Marcia Holway, (daughter of a merchant), who 
was born in Minneapolis, Minn., 1 March, 1877. He is a Methodist 
minister of Paso Robles, Cal. (1905), without issue. 

• 25 Mary E.^'- was born 31 Aug., 1867, and married in Water- 
borough, Queens County, N. B., 29 Dec, 1890, Clarence Mott, a 
merchant, who was born there to Daniel, a farmer, and Victory- 
Wiggins Mott. Their home is Waterborough, where their chil- 
dren were born : Cora, 27 June, 1891; Gladys Muriel, 10 Jan., 1893; 
Eva, 16 Sept., 1«95; Daniel Otty, 4 Feb., 1897 ; Arthur, 19 Jan., 1899. 
26 James A.'- was born 11 Sept., 1869. He married in Portland, 



638 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Oregon, 24 June, 1893, Myrtle Evans, who was born in Indiana. 
Mr. Orchard is a hotel-keeper in Sumpter, Oregon. They have 
no issue. 

27 Harry E.^-^ was born 9 Jan., 1872, and married in Portland, 
Me., 24 July, 1903, Margaret Masterdon, who was born in Rexton, N. 
B. He is a miner in Sumpter, Oregon. Orchard child, born in 
Sumpter: Marvel Pearl, 7 July, 1904. 

28 Emma B.'^ was born 1 Dec, 1873. She is by trade a dress- 
maker. She married in Bar Harbor, Me., 29 Nov., "'1879," Medville 
Chadbourne, a painter, who was born in Bar Harbor and died in 
Colorado 9 Dec, "1881." Her address (Aug., 1905) is Bar Harbor. 
Chadbourne issue: Mildred Liolline, born 2 Jan., "1881." 

29 George B.^- was born 31 May, 1875, a nd married in Portland, 
Me., 25 Aug., 1902, Florence Lawson, who was born in Rexton, N. 
B. He is a miner in Sumpter, Oregon. Orchard issue, born in 
Portland, Me.: Orland Lawson, 4 Dec, 1903. 

30 Dora A." was born 4 Oct., 1878. She married in Chipman, 
Queens County, N. B., 26 Dec, 1900, Herbert Briggs, a farmer, who 
was born in Chipman, to Hiram, a farmer, and Victory- P2steybrooks 
Briggs. Briggs issue : Hiram Oswald, born 20 Nov., 1903 ; William 
Lawson, born 10 June, 1905. 

31 Iva M.'- was born 13 Oct., 1883. She married in White's 
Cove, N. B., 23 Dec, 1903, Orland Dykeman, a merchant, who was 
born in Jemseg, Queens County, N. B., to Tileston, a farmer, and 
Prune-Camp Dykeman. Address (Aug. 1905) St. John, N. B. Dyke- 
man issue: Murial May, born 4 Dec, 1904. 

32 Maggie McM.^^ was born in Kingston, now Rexton, N. B., her 
present home, 21 April, 1877, and married there 21 March, 1902, 
James McLelland, a farmer, born in same place 1 Dec, 1859, to 
Robert McLelland, a farmer, and Flora-Mclntosh McLelland. They 
have one child, David Russell, born 12 P"eb. 1903. 

FAMILY 60. 

Thomas Perley was a Federalist. The Salem Gazette of 
29 Sept., 1829, says his barn was burned the 26th inst. William E. 
Killam (page 121) had a son born 28 Oct., 1865, the first child born 
in the Thomas Perley house, and so received the name Thomas 
Perley Killam. 

FAMILY 61. 
P^noch and Anna Perley were admitted to full communion in 
the Congregational church, Standish, Me., 1779. 

2 Rebecca', born in Bridgton, Me.. 19 July, 1786, married there 
in 1810, Ebenezer Fessenden, a farmer, born in Fryeburg, Me., 18 
July, 1782, to William, a clergyman, and Sarah-Clement Fessenden. 
He died 12 April, 1811, in Fryeburg, and she 10 June, 1851. Fes- 
senden issue: Anna Perle/; P!lizabeth Clement'^; Caleb Page, born 
3 Feb., 1818, married y\bbie Wiggin, and died without issue 28 May, 
1873; Huldah Perley"; Enoch Perley, born 26 June, 1822, died, un- 
married, 23 Feb., 1883; William'; Charles Phillips'^; Edward Eben- 
ezer, born 2 March, 1829, died, unmarried, 6 Dec, 1895. 

4 Anna P.-, born 28 Aug., isil, married Horatio Nelson Page, 
M.D., and died 10 July, 1880. Page issue: Rebecca Perley' ; Anna 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY (J39 

Fessenden, who married William Sumner Butler and had Winthrop 
Fessenden and Alice Sumner ; Sarah Bradbui'y, who married Her- 
bert Augustus Wilder and had Constance Perley, Mary Clement 
and Margaret Guild. 

5 Elizabeth C.-, born 21 July, 1813, married Timothy C. Ward, 
and died 31 Dec, 1880. Ward issue: Henry Fessenden; Mary Ash- 
man, who married Usher W. Cutts, without issue ; William Fessenden. 

<i Huldah Perley-, born in Fryeburg 3 Feb., 1820, married there 
19 Dec, 1843, Francis Russell Chase, a lawyer, born in Gilmanton, 
N. H., b April, 1818, to Jonathan Taylor and Fanny Moody-Bean 
Chase. He died in Tilton, N. H., 12 March, 187fi, and she in 
Melrose, Mass., 27 April, 1895. Chase issue: Allan Jasper'"; Anna 
Taylor" ; Laura Elizabeth, born 16 Aug., 1851, residing, unmarried, in 
Melrose; Jonathan Taylor'-; Adelaide Folsom, born 29 May, 1859, 
residing, unmarried, in Melrose. 

7 William-, born 18 June, 1824, married Mary Dunbury (?) and 
died 29 June, 1883. Fessenden issue : Ina Dunbury ( ?) and William, 
both of whom died in infancy. 

8 Charles P.-, born 10 Sept., I82(i, married Sarah Wiggin, and 
died 29 Nov., 1891. P'essenden issue: Jennie Katherine, unmarried. 

9 Rebecca P.\ born 28 Feb., 1840, in Brewer, Me., married 18 
Sept., 1861, in Chelsea, Mass., Charles Edward Reed, who was born 
in Taunton, Mass., 28 Jan., 1830, to Mary-Dennis and William Reed, 
a merchant. He died 4 June, 1901, in Milwaukee, Wis., where his 
widow now resides. Their children, all born in Maiden, are a daugh- 
ter, born and died 1 Oct., 1862 ; Anna Nelson and William Dennis, 
twins; and Katharine Fessenden, born 12 P'eb., 1868. William D., 
above, married Virginia Dunham, and resides in Milwaukee. Reed 
issue: Anna Perley; Philip; William Page; and a child that died. 

10 Allan J.'', born in Conway, N. H., 3 Dec, 1844, married in 
Boston 19 Nov., 1868, P^mma Loring, born in Barnstable, Mass., 26 
Dec, 1845, to William, a sea-captain, and Julia A. -Nye Loring. 
Their home is Maiden, Mass. Mr. Chase is a merchant. Chase 
issue: Ada Loring, born in Charlestown, Mass., 1 July, 1870; Marion 
Abbott'*; Francis Fessenden, born in Maiden 19 Sept., 1880 ; Allan 
Perley, born 6 Sept., 1882. 

11 Anna T.'', born in Conway, N. H., 20 May, 1849, became, 23 
April, 1889, the second wife of Henry Augustus Bush, born in Provi- 
dence, R. L, 18 Feb., 1849, to Marcus A., a jeweler, and Abigail 
Prescott-Toney Bush. They reside in Melrose, Mass., where Mr. 
Bush is treasurer for the Bugbee & Barrett Co. They have no 
children. 

12 Jonathan T.«, born 22 May, 1854, married, first, 11 July, 1881, 
Sophie Chandler Crane, who died 11 lune, 1882. He married, second, 
19 Dec, 1888, Laura Price. His business is in Boston ; his residence, 
Melrose. Chase issue: Sophie Crane, born 12 May, 1882, died 25 
June. 1896; Russell Price, born 9 Aug., 1892. 

13 Marion A.'", born in Charlestown, Mass., 31 May, 1872, mar- 
ried in Maiden 27 Oct., 1897, William Henry Howard, a manu- 
facturer in Boston, who was born in Natick, Mass., 30 March, 1870, 
to William, a manufacturer, and Marion T.-Newman Howard. They 
reside in Maiden. Howard issue: Frances Perley, born 11 May, 1903. 



640 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

FAMILY 62. 

62. The Salem Gazette of 3 June, IS'23, says Aaron Perley's barn 
in Boxford was struck by lightning Sunday evening, at six o'clock. 

FAMILY 63. 

Mehitable^ born 17 Aug., 1779, married 10 Sept., 1799, Jere- 
miah Spaulding, brother of Mary, wife of John Perley-127, born 30 
July, 1775, in Chelmsford, Mass. They lived in Peterboro, then 
removed to Aurora, N. Y. She died at Griffin's Mills, N. Y., 5 Feb., 
1854; he in Aurora 31 March, 1858. Issue born in Peterboro: 
Betsey, born 3 Sept., 1800, died, unmarried, 8 Sept., 1821; Charlotte, 
born 8 Feb., 1803, married Henry Moore 21 Aug., 1822, in Peter- 
boro; Jeremiah, born 2 May, 1806, died, unmarried, 2 Sept., 1849; 
John Milton, born 6 Sept., 1810, married in 1833, Laura Henshaw, and 
died in March, 1855; Benjamin Franklin, born 5 Sept., 1810, died 4 
April, 1828. 

FAMILY 65. 

Allen- had a son Asa. P2zra'- married Christiana Rose of 
Sandwich 2 July, 1795, and had Christiana, Ezra, Brackley Rose, Mary 
Ann, George W., Pamelia. Oliver- had p:noch and Abigail (twins), 
Oliver, William. Asa"- and Enoch'^ died without families. Polly 
married a Parker. Artemas'-62'^ was born 2 Sept., 1785. 

FAMILY 66. 
An apparent authority says Asa's'' wife Elizabeth, born in 
Marshfield 2 Jan., 1797, to Amos and Sylvina-Thomas Oakman, mar- 
ried in 1822, and died 26 June, 1835. 

FAMILY 68. 

Martha's- administratrix was her sister Rebecca. Her estate 
was appraised at $635.98, of which ^441.51 was in a savings bank 
and $74.42 in individual notes. 

Capt. Isaiah Ingalls'' died 19 May, 1841. 

FAMILY 69. 

Capt. Daniel Dresser- married 12 May, 1809, Eunice Perley 
of Boxford. 

FAMILY 71. 
Solomon Perley was born in Boxford 25 Feb., 1760. He was 
a farmer. He married, first, 26 Nov., 1789, in Topsfield, Lucy Kim- 
ball, fourth daughter of Jacob and Priscilla-Smith Kimball of Tops- 
field, where she was baptised 6 Sept., 1767. She was sister to Jacob 
Kimball the celebrated musician. She died of consumption 29 Sept., 
1790, a wife for only ten months. Mr. Perley removed to New 
Brunswick about the year 1792. In July, 1807, when his home was 
Keswick Ridge, York County, N. B., he gave his cousin, Thomas 
Perley of Boxford, a power of attorney, to recover the real estate his 
father deeded him, etc. He married, second, 8 March, 1798, Elizabeth 
Pickard, daughter, "I think," of Moses, a farmer, of Keswick Ridge, 
where they died and where his last two children were born. Jane 
Pickard, wife of Moses, was recommended, by the P'irst Church of 
Ivowley, to the church at Maugerville 6 P'eb., 1774. 

1 Perley children: Lucy Kimball-, Solomon-146, Nathaniel-147, 
a daughter". 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 54 1 

2 Lucy K.' was born 9 Aug., baptised 17 Oct., and died 5 Nov., 
1790. The nameless daughter died in childhood. 

FAMILY 75. 

Hannah Green, who married John Perley-75 in Haverhill, was 
born 22 Feb., 1745, and married, second. Col. Joseph Hutchins. 
They removed to Middlesex, Vt., but she returned to Sanbornton, 
N. H., and died at the home of her son, 8 April, 1846, aged ninety-nine 
years. "Think not dear friends, to number these years unless tem- 
perance, virtue and truth be yours." 

FAMILY 76. 

The second Martha'- (Patty) may be the one referred to in 
this Newbury record : " Patty Perley married Josiah Lunt 29 Nov., 
1787." Moses Wells married Miss Eunice Perley Lunt, both of New- 
bury, 20 May, 1810. 

FAMILY 77. 

Read in the first paragraph of this family: This was his only 
home except some months after his marriage, at F"amily-95, where his 
first child was born. 

The Perley family has no need to borrow prowess and bravery : 
begin the second paragraph of this family thus : Mr. Perley inher- 
ited an intrepid patriotism, and much of that romantic and gallant 
daring that characterized his grandfather, Jacob Perley, in "Indian 
hunting." See page 24. 

Referring to the note on page 146, 25 Nov., 1791, was Friday. 

FAMILY 79. 

By an old Family Bible, copied by Mrs. Terrill-175^ Mr. Per- 
ley married Ruth in 1773, and Hannah in 1783. James was born in 
Dec, 1774; Fanny in 1775 ; Nancy, 10 May, 1778; Hannah, 31 May, 

1789; Ruth, 25 Dec, 1793 ; ,12 May, 1799. Ruth died 6 April, 

1784, aged thirty-two years ; James, in Jan., 1774, aged three weeks; 
Ruth P., 5 March, 1793, aged two years ; Wm. H., in Oct., 1800, aged 
nineteen years, five months; Hannah, in 1814, aged fifty-two years; 
, Jr., aged thirty-eight years. 

For Putnam', read Ruth Putnam". 

Deborah" died in Salem, Mass., single, 9 P'eb., 1864, aged 
sixty-nine years. 

The following record is thought to be at Ipswich, and to fit 
not better than here*^: "Wm. Hathorne, son of Francis Perley, was 
baptised by Dr. Cutler 6 July, 1800." 

FAMILY 83. 

P^annie'- died 20 Sept., 1800. — Gould Genealogy. 

FAMILY 84. 

Hannah^ died 1 Nov., 1885. 

FAMILY 86. 

AbigaiP died 7 May, 1892, aged eighty-nine years, one month, 
eighteen days. 

Fannie' died, unmarried, in Boxford, 18 Jan., 1888, aged eighty- 
one years, nine months, eleven days. 

Moody" died in Boxford, unmarried, 15 Oct., 1886, aged 



642 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

seventy-seven years, six months, nineteen days. Gould Genealogy 
says: 1887. 

FAMILY 88. 
Rowley records read : Martha'* died "1 Nov., 1872." 

FAMILY 89. 
Mary Elizabeth* " Purvier," widow of Nathaniel Dorman, died 
in Boxford 13 Aug., 1898, aged eighty-four years, six months. [Com- 
pare Lois Perve, 251] 

FAMILY 91. 

Perley Plummer, son of Stephen'' and Lydia of Newbury, a 
provision dealer of Newburyport, thirty-three years old, married 18 
July, 1866, Sarah Ann Jackson PZd wards, who was twenty-eight years 
old and daughter of Abraham and Sarah S., of Newburyport. 

FAMILY 93. 

Louisa'' was born 17 Sept., 1809. She married 20 March, 
1844, Nathan Taylor Fogg, who was born 3 May, 1793, to Ephraim 
and Phebe-Taylor Fogg of Sanbornton. " He was one of the San- 
bornton sergeants at Portsmouth, 1814." He was a farmer in Upper 
Gilmanton. He went to Laconia in 1846, where he died 7 Oct., 
1852. He "was a good man." [His first wife was Hannah Whitcher, 
born 3 March, 1793, to George and Mary-P'ellows Whitcher, married 
31 Dec, 1816, and died 18 Oct., 1843, sine prole.] Fogg children: 
Hannah Louisa, born 16 P'eb., and died 10 Dec, 1847; Nathan Tay- 
lor (adopted), born in June, 1850, died 19 March, 1851. 

FAMILY 95. 

" The Old Shipmasters of Salem," by Charles E. Trow, page 
58 says: "The ship George sailed from Salem for Calcutta in June, 
1823. * * * * A few days before leaving Calcutta, which was on the 
14th of February, 1824, Greenleaf Perley'-, one of the crew, died, and 
Mr. Lamb, the mate * * * devoted one whole page of the journal to 
the drawing of an elaborate headstone. On the space at the top a 
weeping willow is represented, and beneath the name and age of 
deceased are five tributary verses, the first of which runs thus: — 

" The youth ambitious sought a sickly clime ; 
His hopes of profit banished all his fears; 
His was the generous wish of love rtivine, 
To soothe a Mother's cares and dry her tears." 

FAMILY 97. 
Mr. J. N. Dummer of Byfield writes: Mary Dummer, who 
married Nathaniel Perley, was born 1 June, 1768, baptised 5 June, 
1768, published 9 Feb., 1796, and died 18 Aug., 1834. Her father, 
Richard Dummer, at one time owned "The Fatherland Farm," now 
.so called, and selling it, about 1801, removed to Hallowell, Me. 

William Frederic Lane* was born 1 Oct., 1795, to James and 
Deborah-Folsom Lane. 

FAMILY 100. 

Stephen P.* died 17 March, 1893, aged seventy-four years, 
seven months, one day, inmate of Boxford almshouse. 

FAMILY 1C1. 

Greenleaf* was naturally a scholar, and excelled in mathe- 
matics. It is under.stood he had, in manuscript, well towards com- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 543 

pletion, a text-book of arithmetic for common schools. The writer 
found, somewhere around 1860, in the attic catch-all of the house 
pictured on page KiG, a two-volume Virgil and one of Sophocles' plays, 
books supposed to have been studied by Mr. Hazen when board- 
ing there and working at the bench. We notice a suggestion of 
Virgil in the stanza at the bottom of page 197. Mr. Hazen died in 
Rowley 24 May, 1880, aged seventy four years, eleven months and 
ten days. — By another record he married Miss Towne 12 Oct., 1828. 

FAMILY 103. 
Hannah- "was wife of Charles F. Nowell," reads a Rowley 
record. 

FAMILY 107. 

Description of Strykeland, or Strickland, arms: Gu., a chev- 
ron between three crosses pattee or, on a canton erm. a buck's head 
erased sa. Crest: a turkey cock in his pride ar. Motto: A la 
vol ante de Dieu. 

"Miss Patty Monroe'^ " was the eldest daughter of Abel and 
Martha-Bixby Monroe. 

FAMILY 109. 

Arthur Higgins' died in Gray, Me., 6 Feb., 1880. His 
daughter, Martha P., married Lothrop Blake, born in Gray 5 Sept., 
1821, to Elias and Elizabeth-Cook Blake. He was a furniture dealer, 
and died 24 Feb., 1908, in Lewiston, Me., where his widow resides. 
Blake children, born in Lewiston: Lizzie Higgins"; Cora Susan^; 
Arthur Lewis, born 15 June, 1872, died 28 Aug., 1877. 

4 Melinda^ was born in Gray 12 Oct., 1812, and married there 21 
Nov., 1833, John Fowler Sawyer, a farmer, born there to Reuben, 
a farmer, and Anna-Fowler Sawyer. Sawyer children: Albert 
NewelP; Lucinda Perley'' ; Jennette Barrill, who, born 23 Jan., 1843, 
resides in Gray; \'Villard-233^ ; Cephas P>anklin"'. 

Take the "who" from the fifth line and place it before 
" married " in the fourth line. 

5 Lucinda*, born in Gray, Me., 1 June, 1819, married there 27 
Oct., 1842, Rufus Berry, a carriage manufacturer, who was born in 
Windham, Me., 22 March, 1815, to William and Nancy-Lamb Berry. 
He died 18 April, 1886, in Gray, where she also died 23 May, 1898. 
Berry issue, born in Gray: Fannie Jane, 30 April, 1846; Augusta 
Susan"; Sarah Josephine, in 18,50 ; Georgia Anna ; Martha Higgins, 
5 July, 1855, and died 13 Nov., 1900. 

6 Lizzie H.^ born 29 March, 18.59. married 28 April, 1880, 
Orland Smith Ham, a broker, born in Lewiston 1 July, 1855, to 
Jacob Barker, a grain dealer, and Lucinda-Golder Ham. Their 
home is Lewiston. 

7 Cora S.^ born 23 April, 1864, married 20 Oct., 1886, Amos 
Henry Phillips, a furniture dealer, born in Veazie, Me., 13 March, 
1862, to Amos, a grocer, and Frances Marion-Winchester Phillips. 
Their home is Lewiston. Phillips child: Louise Blake, born 19 Jan., 
1889. 

8 Albert N.', born in New Gloucester 6 Sept., 1834, married in 
Gray 15 Oct., 1863, Clarice Oxnard Small, born 4 Nov., 1836, to 
James, a trader, and Susannah-Huston Small. He was a school 



644 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

teacher, then trader and State representative. His widow Hves in 
Portland, Me. Sawyer children : Abbie Huston, a teacher, born in 
Gray 21 May, 1865, residing in Portland; Wilbert Perley^'-. 

9 Lucinda P.^ born in Gray 13 July, 1837, married 30 June, 
1861, Frank Lawrence, an expressman, born in Gray 20 July, 1836, 
to Nathaniel Sawtelle and Mary Ann-Harris Lawrence. She died 29 
Oct., 1878, in Portland, where he also died 22 Dec, 1880. Lawrence 
issue: Lucinda Mildreth'l 

10 Cephas F.^ born in Gray 4 Sept., 1852, married there 3 Aug., 
1876, Florence Marion Low, who was born in Amesbury, Mass., 3 
Aug., 1855, to Robert Merrill, a wheelwright, and Joanna Drinkwater- 
Skillin Low. Their home is Gray, where were born their children : 
Percy Winfield, 18 Sept., 1882; Eva Nettie, 29 May, 1884; Henry 
Clifford, 7 March, 1893. 

11 Augusta S.'', born 12 Aug., 1848, married in Portsmouth, N. 
H., 20 Jan., 1869, Nehemiah Porter, a farmer, who was born in North 
Yarmouth, Me., 3 May, 1840, to Rufus, a farmer, and Mary-Favor 
Porter. Their home is Cumberland Center, Me. Porter issue, born 
in North Yarmouth: Elmer Irvin'^ ; Rufus Berry, 12 Oct., 1873, and 
died 12 Sept., 1874; Rufus Berry^^; Ethel Augusta, 17 Feb., 1881. 

12 Wilbert P.**, born in Gray, Me., 13 Dec, 1867, and married in 
Lewiston 26 Nov., 1889, Gertrude Anna Davis, who was born there 
20 May, 1868, to Amos, a farmer, and Mary PZlizabeth-Judkins Davis. 
Mr. Sawyer is an expressman. They reside in Lewiston, where was 
born their child: Agnes Gertrude, 18 Oct., 1894. 

13 Lucinda M.'' was born in Portland 23 Oct., 1878, and married 
there 25 Dec, 1901, Charles Loring Dunn, a farmer, who was born 
in East North Yarmouth, Me., their home (1905), 7 Aug., 1873, to 
Isaac Skillin, a merchant, and Mary Maria-Loring Dunn. Their 
children : Lucy Lawrence, born in East North Yarmouth 1 May, 1903, 
and Ruth Loring, 22 Sept., 1904. 

14 Elmer L", born 4 Feb., 1870, married in Portland, Me., 6 June, 
1901, Cora Adelaide Sawyer, born in Gray, Me., 13 Sept., 1871, to 
John Durgin, a farmer, and Clara Augusta-Thayer Sawyer. Their 
home is Cumberland Center. 

15 Rufus B.", born in North Yarmouth, Me., 13 Aug., 1875, mar- 
ried in Portsmouth, N. H., 27 Dec, 1898, Mattie A. Laughton, who 
was born in Bristol, Me., 17 July, 1878, to John and Dorinda-Tarr 
Laughton. He is a farmer of Cumberland Center. 

FAMILY 111. 

Mile. Marie Elisabet de Bade (the P'rench form of her maiden 
name) died, say the Rowley records, 27 Sept., 1854. 

FAMILY 112. 
John Perley married Ann Dennison Haskell. 

FAMILY 114. 
Alice (Elcy.^)'', daughter of Samuel, died in Newburyport 21 
April, 1804. 

It is said this family'* had three children, the oldest Amanda. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



645 




FAMILY 116 

Dr. W. O. Raymond writes : 
Rhoda Perley, an adult, and 
her children Francis Peabody'^ 
(born in 1794) and Charles-245 
were baptised the same day — 23 
April, 1797. Francis P. married 
20 Oct., 1824, Fanny Louisa 
Sophia Carman, third daughter 
of Richard of Lancaster, N. B. 
He died in Indiantown, St. John, 
14 Oct., 1826, aged thirty-two 
years, and was buried with Ma- 
sonic honors. His children were 
Thomas, Maria and Louisa. 

Miss BulP' is now, March, 
1906, studying in a New York 
City hospital, a post-graduate 
course in special diseases. 

FAMILY 119. 
Daniel, an adult, was baptised 
7 Jan., 1798. 

FAMILY 120. 

Moses, an adult, was baptised ^"^^ ^- ^- ^^u^^- 

6 March, 1802, and married 10 March, 1802. 

FAMILY 121. 

Thomas died in Sheffield 3 Feb., 1838, aged sixty-six years. 

FAMILY 124. 

Sarah W. Perley-, born in Salem, died 26 June, 1904, Danvers 
Insane Hospital, aged eighty-five years, six months, buried in New- 
buryport, unmarried. 

Mr. and Mrs. Robbins had a child Jennie that died 14 May, 1870, 
" aged five years, five months, one day," and presumably had another 
that was buried at the side of Jennie and called, on the gravestone, 
"Little Nellie." 

FAMILY 125. 

Mary Jane^ died in Boxford 18 May, 1905, aged eighty-six years 
and ten months. She was interred in Harmony Grove Cemetery, 
Salem, clergymen from Weymouth and Boxford officiating. 

FAMILY 131. 

Amos died in Maugerville 80 Aug., 1822. 

FAMILY 132. 

Mary Agnes Allen* was born 23 Dec, 1844. Her father's name 
was William. Her son James Frederick is a mail carrier in St. Paul, 
Minn. He served in the Spanish-American War and in the Philippine 
Insurrection from April, 1898, to Oct., 1899. 

FAMILY 139. 

"The Ingalls journal," private, furnished the following Ingalls 
descent : Edmond Ingalls was born in Lincolnshire, Eng., and came 



H46 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

to Lynn in America with his family in 1629. He had nine children, 
of whom 

Henry, born in England in 1627, located in Andover, Mass., 
where he died in 1719, aged ninety-two years. He had six sons, 
of whom 

Henry had three sons, of whom Francis had three sons, of whom 
Francis had eight sons and one daughter, of which sons Phineas, 
born 14 Nov., 1758, was a Revolutionary soldier and kept a diary of 
the whole war, died 4 or 5 Jan., 1844, and married 22 Oct., 1783, 
Elizabeth Stevens, daughter of Jacob of Andover, Mass., and had 
four sons and five daughters, of which sons were 

Theodore, the compiler of "the journal," who was born 20 Feb., 
1790, and married Mrs. Sarah Carter, daughter of Elias Hall of Brain- 
tree, Mass.; and Asa, who was born in Bridgton, Me., 14 Jan., 1787, 
and married 25 June, 1816, Phoebe Berry, who was born 4 March, 
1792, to Elias Berry, and had three daughters and seven sons, of 
whom were Clarissa-122'\ and Darwin, born in Bridgton 11 July, 
1822, and married Mary J. Patrick and had a son Aldana Theodore, 
who married Frances Eliza Berry-139" (daughter of Albert G. Berry- 
139'^ who was born, says "the Journal," 12 Oct., 1834), and has 
Marian Elizabeth, born 10 March, 1888. 

FAMILY 141. 

Henry E. Perley'" died in Georgetown 2 Nov., 1905, aged eighty 
six years. 

FAMILY 148. 

Hiram A. Huse'^ writes that his mother, Hannah Perley, was born 
in Temple, or Wilton, 12 June, 1806, and died 29 June, 1895, in 
Bath; that Mr. Joseph Huse, his father, was born 10 Nov., 1800, to 
Enoch, a farmer, and Sally-Webster Huse, and died in Bath 24 
Sept., 1861 ; that he was a merchant and dealer in live stock. Huse 
issue: Aaron Perley, born 16 Aug., 1828; Joseph Kendall, born 22 
Oct., 1830, married three times — in Bath 10 Aug., 1856, in China 
10 Aug., 1861, in Bath 24 Dec, 1874, and died 12 Jan., 1902; 
Sarah Eliza, born 28 April, 1834, died 11 April, 1856, married ; Han- 
nah Adeline, born 20 Nov., 1837, died 5 May, 1846; George Elbridge, 
born 7 Sept., 1843, married, died 13 Feb., 1896; Hiram Augustus, 
born 17 Sept., 1840, who is now postmaster at Bath, married in Chel- 
sea, Mass., 1 Oct., 1870, Cordelia Hatch Whippey, who was born in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., 18 Sept., 1848, to Reuben Luce, a sea captain, and 
Lucy Gillette-Bennett Whippey, and has had children, Kittie Robin- 
son, born 27 May and died 10 Sept., 1873, and Hiram Augustus, Jr., 
born 25 April, 1875. 

FAMILY 154. 

Mr. Gould was in the Revolutionary War, at West Point, when 
Arnold displayed his treason. 

FAMILY 158. 

Dr. Burnham was the father of three children. Martha Barnard, 
by his third wife, was born 17 Sept., and died 8 Oct., 1815. Those 
by his second wife were Mary Anna, born 27 Nov., 1810, married 
Charles Guilford Burnham, son of Wm. and Abigail, 28 March, 
1883, died July, 1873; and P:iizabeth White, born 21 Feb., 1813, mar- 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 647 

ried Hon. Nathaniel Gookin Upham 19 Sept., 1834, died 14 April, 
1832. He married his wives 1(3 May, 1808 ; 23 Jan., 1810; 15 Nov., 
1814; 19 Nov., 1816. 

FAMILY 162. 

The history of Sanbornton, N. H., reads, that the "Store 
occupied by Joseph Perley'^ was burned in 1828." 

Stephen S. Piper^ was a photographer in the West, a sutler in 
the Civil War, then a photographer in Manchester, N. H., where he 
married 17 Nov., 1869, Ella M. Smith of that city. John P. Piper 
was a farmer, and died of consumption. 

FAMILY 165. 
A. L. Hewett, Esq., town clerk of Berlin. Vt., furnished the 
following: James Perley, 7 Jan., 1791, bought the whole of lot No. 5, 
in the ninth range of lots in Berlin. He assisted in organizing the 
town and was the second town clerk. He married Prudence Knee- 
land 9 Oct., 1831. Of his children, Abigail was born 24 March, 
1789 ; Moses died 12 Aug., 1803 ; Patty, 21 Oct., 1802; Corliss, 1 Nov., 
1809. He had no children by his second wife. 

FAMILY 169. 
The Newburyport record reads that Humphrey C. Perley of 
Haverhill died 1 June, 1820. 

FAMILY 177. 
The Doane Genealogy relates how the remains of Amos Perley" 
and his Quaker friend were buried, by the society of Friends, from 
their meeting house, in their burying ground, in Sparta, Ont., Can., 
in the presence of a large concourse of grief-stricken mourners. 
The sad story is told, by Frank Hunt, in the Toronto Globe of 6 
Sept., 1890. 

FAMILY 183, 

Helen M.'- of Orono married 19 Sept., 1833, Charles Henry 
Hammond, born 6 March, 1809, in Concord, N. H., to Charles and 
Elizabeth-Brown Hammond. They settled in Hampton, and later 
removed to California, where he died. They had issue: Charles 
Brown, born 2 Feb., 1835, and died 3 Aug., 1863; Henry W., born 
in Bangor, Me., 19 Dec, 1837, a farmer in Hampton, Me., who mar- 
ried, first, 24 April, 1860, Amanda M. Penney, born 5 July, 1842, and 
died 6 Dec, 1870, daughter of Charles of Alton, Me., and married, 
second, 26 Nov., 1871, Emma Z. Brown, born 7 March, 1852, to 
Charles and Charlotte E.-Warren Brown of Jackson, Me., having 
children: Lizzie M., born 18 Jan., 1861, and died 9 Nov., 1864; Addie 
E., (who, born in Hampton 1 Oct., 1863, married P"red. L. Wyman, a 
farmer, born in Hampton 15 July, 1861, to Elbridge and Lucinda- 
Webber Wyman, having three children born — Perley Hammond, 16 
June, 1889; Rodney Elbridge, 1 July, 1898; Emma lone, 6 June, 
1896) ; Charles C, born 29 July, 1866, a farmer with his father. 

FAMILY 187. 

Fred Walter Nelson^ was born 9 May, 1853, in Georgetown, 

Mass. His mother's name was Elizabeth Ann Hobson. He became 

a bookkeeper and accountant in Amesbury, Mass., where he died 18 

Sept., 1905. He married 4 Aug., 1878, Miss Helen Louise Feltch 



648 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

in Salisbury (now Amesbury), where she was born 13 June, 1856, to 
Elbridge S., a carriage manufacturer, and Mary Louise-Currier Feltch. 
Nelson children, born in Amesbury: Philip, 10 May, 1880, died 5 
Aug., 1880; Earl Mower, 1 March, 1883. The mother and son 
reside in Amesbur)'. 

FAMILY 189. 

The statement of Mrs. Perley's'' death was obtained near her late 
home in East Somerville. It was a great accidental surprise to learn 
in Oct., 1905, that she was living. Her name was Hester Chenchin 
Hibbs, born 8 Feb., 1885, to James and Hester-Edmunds Hibbs in 
Langton, England. She married Mr. Perley in June, 1866. " But 
Charles H. has been seen in the West since the report of his death." 

FAMILY 202. 

The origin of Conant is Welsh and Gaelic (cognates descended 
from the Celtic). Conan signifies a river. Connant, a cataract in 
North Wales, is from con a chasm, deep hollow, and nant, a rivulet. 

The Conant arms is described thus: Gules, ten billets or, in 
four, three, two and one. Crest : a stag or, his foot supporting the 
shield. Motto: Conanti Dabitur. Seat: Lyndon Hall, near Up- 
pingham. 

The Conants mentioned in this history descended from Gov. 
Roger Conant of Naumkeag, now Salem. He had seven children : Lot, 
born m Plymouth ; Roger, the first white child born in Salem ; Exer- 
cise, Joshua, Mary, Sarah and Elizabeth. His son 

Lot had wife Elizabeth and ten children: Nathaniel, born 28 
July, 1650, and died in 1732; Lot, John, William, Roger, Elizabeth, 
Mary, Martha, Sarah and Rebecca; of whom 

Lot, born 16 Feb., 1657; died 14 May, 1745; had wife Abigail 
and five children ; wife Elizabeth and nine children — fourteen; of 
whom 

William, the last one, born 8 March, 1721, married Elizabeth 
Potter and had six children: Elizabeth, William, Aaron, Moses, 
Elijah, Eunice (who married Elijah Cummings-88''), of whom 

William, born 11 Oct., 1847, married Mary Perkins, and had John, 
William (who had William that married Ruth Foster-51^), Daniel-101, 
Joseph who had EHas C.-dV\ and Daniel W., page 255. 

Deacon W. F. Conant was born in the house second east of his 
own residence. His father built that house — was sixteen years a 
selectman of the town, and was passing over Charlestown bridge to 
his duties as representative to the General Court, in 1815, when the 
bells pealed forth the announcement of peace. 

Sarah Carroll Lavalette'^ and Elizabeth Ann Lavalette-371 are 
sisters. Nathaniel Lavalette should read Nathaniel Howard Lavalette. 

FAMILY 210. 

Cecilia Orne's** first husband was Luke Dodge of Hamilton, where 
he was born 1 Nov., 1832, to Luke, a farmer, and Margaret-Poor 
Dodge. Mr. Dodge was a farmer in Hamilton, where he died 5 May, 
1885. She married, second, Benjamin Everett Soper, 8 Dec, 1886, 
in Ipswich. He was born in Marblehead ; his business is farming 
and teaming. Her children are: Arvia Lefavour, who was born 22 
Jan., 1877, and is a mason by trade but is employed in a morocco shop 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 649 

in Danvers; Margaret Augusta, who was born 15 Oct., 1880, in 
Hamilton, learned the trade of milliner and 25 Dec., 1901, married in 
Salem Frank Harmon, who was born in Keene, N. H., and is a ship- 
per for Pitts Co., Boston; and Luke Perley, who is of the ninth gen- 
eration of Luke Dodges and the first to have a middle name, was 
born 20 Aug., 1882, in Hamilton, and is a painter by trade. He 
married 29 Dec, 1902, in Marblehead, Lillian Ann Parker, who was 
born in Marblehead 25 April, 1885, to Harry John, a contractor, and 
Celia-Bartlett Parker. They reside in Danvers, where their child, 
Cecelia May, was born 20 May, 1903. 

FAMILY 213. 

John Morrill Perley'^ was born in Waterville, Me., 11 Oct., 1864, 
to Henry Parker, painter and locomotive engineer, now retired, and 
Ann Elizabeth-Morrill Perley. He is a locomotive engineer and 
resides (Oct., 1905) Moberly, Mo. He married in Keytesville, Mo., 
3 Dec, 1890, Ardenia Ruberta Hurt, who was born in Shannondale, 
Mo., 26 Nov., 1870, to Horatio Constantine and Mary Elizabeth Hurt. 
Perley children: Lisbon Applegate, born 26 Nov.. 1891, and died 7 
Jan., 1892; Mary Deane, born 2 July, 1893; Elinor Inez, born 21 
Oct., 1895, those three in San Bernardino, Cal.; Raymond Clyde, 
born 22 Feb., 1901, in Moberly. 

FAMILY 216. 

Ward B.^ was born in Zanesville, Ohio, 7 Dec, 1868. He 
married in Dunblane, O., 13 June, 1889, Mary Elizabeth Dun, who 
was born in Dublin, O., 4 Jan., 1867, to John, a farmer, and Mary 
Eliza-Davis Dun. They resided in Montclair, N. J. Perley chil- 
dren: Ward Barton, born 3 April, 1890 ; Alden Dun, born 29 April, 
1891 ; Helen, born 3 Jan., 1893, in Columbus, O., died in Leetonia 16 
April, 1897; Graham, born 22 April, 1895, in Columbus; Mary Dun, 
born 29 Sept., 1901 — all born in Franklin County, O., except the last 
in Montclair, N. J. 

FAMILY 221. 

David E. Perley's^ home is in Arlington, Mass., and he is in the 
furniture and house-furnishing business in Boston. 

FAMILY 222. 

Page 362 should read Ann Maguire was born in Sligo, County 
Leitrim. Her age was sixty-five years, nine months and fifteen days. 

FAMILY 225. 

Mrs. Perley died 10 Nov., 1891, (instead of 1901.) 

FAMILY 227. 

Mr. Howe"^ was born 31 Jan., 1845, in Rowley, and was educated 
in the public schools of Rowley and Ipswich. At the age of nineteen 
years he responded to a call of his country and enlisted in Company 
M., 4th Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, and served in the States of 
Maryland and Virginia till the close of the war. Soon after he was 
mustered out he entered the service of his State as an officer and 
teacher in the State Reform School at Westboro. After a service of 
several years he retired to his native town, where he engaged in the gro- 
cery trade. There he was chairman of the selectmen and the overseers 
a number of years and held other offices. In 1877 he was elected to 



650 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

represent his district, comprising Rowley, Boxford and Ipswich, in 
the State Legislature. In 1878 he located in Lincoln. Neb., and 
remained nearly three years. Returning East he settled in George- 
town, Mass., in the grocery business. In 1885 he again entered the 
service of his State as master, with his wife as matron, of the Lyman 
School for Boys, (the old State Reform School). After ten years' 
service he was appointed State visitor and probation officer of the 
school, an office which he still holds. He is a justice of the peace, a 
member of the Baptist church, a member of the Masons and the Odd 
Fellows, and the chaplain of the local Post, No. 108, G. A. R. 

Mrs. Howe bore her part as matron of the school with marked 
ability and efficiency. She is a member of the Baptist church, presi- 
dent of the Ladies' Aid Society and past president of the Ladies' Relief 
Corps. Their home is Georgetown. Their children are Josephine 
h'ldred, born 2 Aug., 1879, and Alice Marjorie, born 19 Sept., 1887. 
The former is a trained nurse, single, and graduate of the New Eng- 
land Hospital, Boston ; the latter is a bookkeeper and stenographer, 
single, and graduate of the Haverhill Business College. 

FAMILY 237. 
Weller Hay ward Noyes' was born 21 Dec, I860, to Stillman 
and Eliza-Craft Noyes. His son Perley Hayward was born 8 Oct., 1884. 

FAMILY 242. 

Description of Macartney arms: Or, a stag trippant gu, within a 
bordure gu. Crest: A hand holding a slip of a rose tree with three 
roses thereon ppr. Motto: Stimulat sed ornat; also Mens conscia 
recti. 

FAMILY 243. 

Lineal Descent read Samuel-114 for Nathaniel-114. 

The signature^ in this paragraph is a triple error. Instead of 
this number it should have been marked Family-240. The proof- 
reader marked it "out," but it was allowed to remain. It was written 
16 June, 1877. 

FAMILY 246. 

Another correspondent writes : AugustaSo phia Perley died 8 
F'eb., 18(39. 

Jenette A." was born in Maugerville, N. B., 16 May, 1852. She 
married in P^edericton, N. B., John Robert Upton, a laborer, born in 
Sheffield, N. B., 28 June, 1852, to George Samuel, a laborer, and 
Mary Helen-Day Upton. She died in Oldtown, Me. 

Cora M.", born in Lakeville Corner, Queens County, N. B., mar- 
ried in Waterville, Me., 7 Oct., 1908, Walter W. Gower, a laborer, 
who was born in Princeton, Me., 19 June, 1885, to Joel S., a farmer, 
and Ida Vendetta-Govver Gower. Their home is Waterville, and 
child : Walter Raymond, born 9 July, 1904. 

FAMILY 248. 

Allan W. Perley'' went to California with his father in 1852. He 
was named for one of New Brunswick's greatest sons, the late Gov. 
Lemuel Allan Wilmot, a descendant of the Cottons and Le Barons 
of Plymouth, Mass. The Cottons came over in the Mayflower. A. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



651 



W. Perley's father was a senator and a great orator, and was a per- 
sonal friend of the late Gov. Leland Stanford of California. 

These portraits of Mr. and Mrs. David MitchelP and their little 
daughter Molly were made from small and somewhat worn photo- 
graphs, and these reproductions of them are excellent. 







FAMILY 249. 

Miss Alice E. Perley had a chocolate cup that was her great- 
great-grandmother's and was about one hundred and forty years old. 
The cup is three inches high and three inches in diameter, and is 
made of Bennington ware from the first pottery in America. It is a 
choice Perley relic. 

FAMILY 252. 

Mrs. Sarah-Hartt Perley died 11 March, 1885. 

Hon. Duncan VV. Perley's'^ wife, Mrs. Minnie Ellen-Stanton 
Wescoatt, widow of Nelson Wescoatt, was born 15 Oct., 1857, in Be- 
ment. 111., to Egbert and Adeline Eliza-Morgan Stanton. Her 
specialty is ceramic decoration. 

FAMILY 253. 

This is a picture of Cornelia Terry-, familiarly 
known as " Little Nina." The photograph was 
broken when received, but this reproduction will 
serve as a memory of her gentle ways. 
FAMILY 254. 

Edward P.'^ born in Fredericton Junction, N. 
B., 25 Dec, 1847, married at Tracy Station, N. B., 
27 June, 1894, Susan Mary Duchesnay, who was born in Crawford 
Grant, N. H., 24 Jan., 1877, to Alexander Jushereau and Phoebe 
Ann-Perkins Duchesnay. Mr. Hartt is a farmer of Fredericton 
Junction. Hartt issue, born in F'redericton Junction : Charles Harold, 
1 Oct., 189(i; Edith Maud, 3 May, 1898; Ernest Perley, 23 Oct., 




652 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

1899; Mary Vida, 19 June, 1900; Bessie Bernice, 6 Aug., 1902; 
Alice Lavienia, 22 April, 1905. 

David W.^ born 27 March, 1843, married Charlotte Amanda Adams, 
born in Lincoln, Sunbury County, N. B. The daughters Olive and 
Lottie were born in 1889 and 1895, and Mary is a teacher in St. John. 

FAMILY 256. 

F. Adolphus Perley was about six feet tall and a man of dignified 
presence. He resembled his double cousin Geo. A. Perley, only 
more reserved. See Supplement 57. 

It is said that Albert' early left home. He packed 
his "gripsack" and "paddled his own canoe" across the St. John 
river; then taking the stage road to Calais, Me., he stopped not till 
he had planted both feet squarely on foreign soil. It was the period 
of the Civil War in the United States, and he then and there enlisted. 
He was in a number of hard engagements and came out all right. 
Some thirty years ago he was working in the lumber district near 
Walla Walla, Wash. 

He wrote his father to go to Calais and get his bounty; but when 
his father found he must sign a name other than his own in order to 
possess the treasure, he returned home without it. — H. LeB. S. 

FAMILY 270. 
"Having child^" Flora May Rowell. 
David E. Perley' is married and lives in Fitchburg, Mass. 

FAMILY 299. 

This Boston record probably belongs here" : Abby N. Colby, 

wife of George Perley, died at 15 Granville place 14 June, 1864, aged 

thirty-two years. She was born in Whitefield, Me., to Nathaniel and 

Charlotte Colby. Mr. Perley was several years a hotel clerk in Boston. 

FAMILY 343. 

Wm. G. Lambert, Sr., was a deacon. The signature is said to 
belong to paragraph 3. 

Samuel W. Lambert*' was born in New York City. His daughter 
Martha was born 6 July, 1899. 

Wm. G. Lambert^ was a merchant. He married 19 July, 1849, in 
New York City, Miss Concepcion Garcia, born in Havana, Cuba, 8 
Dec, 1824, to John Perez and Augusta-Gonzalez Garcia. Lambert 
children: Clara L., born 23 Jan., 1852, in Havana, who married a 
Gimbernat; Isabella L., born 20 Dec, 1856, in New York City, who 
married a Rogers. 

Chas. H. Leeds^ has retired from business. 

FAMILY 346. 
Harry George Scampton", born Jan., 1883, in Danvers, married 
14 March, 1905, in Roslindale, Mass., Miss Maud Story Ingersoll, 
born 12 Sept., 1879, in Gloucester, to Benj. Franklin and Maria Jane- 
Gorditt Ingersoll. 

FAMILY 371. 
Perley child'': Elizabeth Isabelle, born 15 Feb., 1906. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 653 

FAMILY 373. 

Eliza Howe Perley married Charles Herman Gray. She died 6 
Sept., 1901. 

Alice Emeline^ (not Elma) was born in Oldtown, Me., where she 
now, Dec, 1905, resides. Her husband, Robert Sewall Browne, born 
in Winthrop, Me., late engaged in mining. He was accidentally 
drowned at Fairbanks, Alaska, 27 Aug., 1904. Browne issue : Carl 
Gray, born 16 Jan., 1891, in Roanoke, Va. 

Hortense E.' was born in Oldtown 14 May, 1871. She married 
in Oldtown 15 Oct., 1902, Rev. Colwort Kendall Pier Cogswell 
priest of the Episcopal Church, who was born in Brandon, Vt., 18 
Nov., 1869, to Luman Hyde, a cabinet maker, and Lottie C. -Little 
Cogswell. Mr. Cogswell graduated at Middlebury College, Vt., 1889, 
the youngest in his class, and took his master's degree, 1892. He 
graduated at Kenyon Theological Seminary, Gambler, O., 1892, and 
was ordained to the priesthood 21 Dec, 1893. He has been identi- 
fied with church work chiefly in the dioceses of Maryland and Easton. 
They reside in Trappe, Talbot County, Md. Cogswell issue: Cyril 
Gray, born 9 April, 1904, in Baltimore, Md. ; Lawrence Perley, 18 
Aug., 1905, in Trappe. 

Lillian^ (not William Folsom) was born 13 Feb., 1873, in Old- 
town, her present home, Dec, 1905. She is a violinist, a soloist, and 
a teacher of the violin in Waterville, Me. She was educated in Bos- 
ton, and studied violin under Mr. C. N. Allen and Mr. Jaques Hoff- 
man; theory, harmony, counterpoint and composition under Mr. 
Homer Norris. 

Charles P.^ was born in Oldtown 31 Jan., 1875. He fitted for 
college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., graduated at the Uni- 
versity of Maine, Orono, with the degree of B. S., 1900, and at Har- 
vard College, Medical School, with the degree of M.D., 1904. Dr. 
Gray is the senior house doctor in Paterson General Hospital, 
Paterson, N. J., Dec, 1905. His home address is Oldtown. 

FAMILY 407. 

We are glad of the means to make our sketch of Mr. Perley^ 
more exact and complete : — 

** Frank E. Perley, secretary to the governor, was born in Colum- 
bus, Ohio, 20 Nov., 1871. His father was then the publisher of the 
Ohio State Journal. Mr. Perley, lived from 1875 to 1891 in Frank- 
hnville, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., and Waverly, Tioga County, N. 
Y., where his father owned and edited weekly newspapers. Mr. 
Perley was educated at Ten Broeck Academy, Franklin ville, and at 
Waverly High School. He went to Waverly to take charge of a 
country paper in 1889, when he was eighteen years old, and remained 
there until 1891, when he removed to Buffalo and became a political 
writer on the Buffalo Express, reporting the sessions of the Legisla- 
ture during the winter. In 1896 he joined the staff of the New York 
Herald. He continued in that .service until 1901, when he joined the 
staff of the New York World. He was the World's legislative cor- 
respondent in Albany in the years 1903 and 1904. For many years 
he has attended, as a political correspondent. State and National 
conventions. When a boy in Cattaraugus County, he gained the 



654 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

acquaintance of Gov. Higgins, an acquaintance that continued 
through the years after Mr. Higgins became a public official and Mr. 
Perley a newspaper correspondent, an acquaintance also that led Mr. 
Higgins to appoint Mr. Perley as his secretary." 

FAMILY 419. 
Mr. Perley" married Miss Emma Leaven Bonesteel and they 
have these children: Henry Dell, born 28 Feb., 1896; Edna Lousia, 
born 29 Dec, 1898; Helen Verra, born 7 Nov., 1900; Blanche Bone- 
steel, born 29 July, 1903; Arthur Carman, born 16 April, 1905. 

FAMILY 422. 

Mr. H. LeB. Smith writes that Ex-President Harrison and a son 
of the late Col. Perley of Toronto had charge of the Arizona exhibit 
in the Mid-winter Fair, San P>ancisco, Cal., 189:>. 



Alvin L. Perley was born in Topsfield, 1874, to "John and Louisa 
L. Perley." He married in Salem 7 Nov., 1900, Jennie Louise 
Smith, who was born in Salem 7 July, 1874, to James T., a door 
maker, and Louisa L. -Trull Smith. Mr. Perley is a carpenter and 
resides in Wenham Depot. 



INDEX TO SOLDIERS. 

The figures refer to State Archives, Hoston. 

INDIAN WARS. 

John Perley. — The earhest miHtary or martial reference to a Per- 
ley we have been able to find, is in a petition to the general govern- 
ment, dated 6 July, l(i96, asking for a watch of twelve men along the 
Merrimac river to apprise the inhabitants during harvesting of the 
approach of hostile Indians. The petition is signed by "the commis- 
sioned officers of the Essex Middle Regiment and the town of New- 
bury," among whom was John Perley. — 70 : 284. 

Thomas Perley was ensign, Lt.-Col. John Ballentine captain, and 
Sir Charles Hobbs colonel, in the expedition to Port Royal, 1710. 
Ens. Perley's company was aboard the transport "Caesar," that went 
ashore and bilged, when they were entering the harbor, and many of 
the men were drowned ; but after the surrender he returned to Bos- 
ton with the survivors, as per record. — 71: 671, 677, 754, 755. 

Jeremiah Perley is on the list of men with Capt. Lovewell, Indian 
hunting, 20 Feb., 1725, when about 2 o'clock A. M., ten Indians 
were killed. — 72 :368. 

Jacob Perley is on the list of men with Capt. Lovewell, Indian hunt- 
ing, 20 Feb., 1725. — 72 : 368. See also 72 : 369, 370, for land grants. 

"Indian Hunting" was one of the most daring and hazardous 
exploits of our ancestors. Pigwacket ranks less than Bloody Brook 
and the Swamp Fight only in number. Capt. John Lovewell and his 
associates petitioned the Legislature 13 Nov., 1724, for authority to 
go Indian hunting. The answer to their petition was concurred in 
17 Nov., 1724. Their number was not to exceed fifty. They were 
to have five shillings per diem for each man while in actual service, 
^100 for each male scalp and the other premiums established bylaw 
to volunteers without pay or subsistance, and were "to be out till the 
next session of this Court in May next." They brought in a pile of 
scalps, taking ten at one time. The Pigwacket fight occurred Sat- 
urday, 8 May, 1725. Benjamin Hassel told the story thus:— Love- 
well saw an Indian on the opposite side of Saco pond. Leaving 
their haversacks properly guarded, they went for him, about two 
miles. They got within a few rods of him before they saw him. He 
fired fir.st, and Capt. Lovewell was wounded. The Indian's scalp was 
taken ; but on returing to their haversacks, they were ambushed, 
front and rear, and about a fifth of the Spartan band fell, Capt. Love- 
well "at the first volley." — See pages 24 and 641. 

Asa Perley, lieutenant in company of foot, Boxford, Capt. Francis 
Perley, Lt.-Col John Osgood, in his Majesty's service, 20 April, 
1757.— 95 :294. ' 



656 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Asa Perley, Jr., soldier in company of foot, Boxford, Capt. Francis 
Parley, Lt.-Col. John Osgood, in his Majesty's service, 20 April, 
1757.-95:295. 

Asa Perley on a list not dated, Capt. Herrick, Col. Preble — bil- 
leted probably in 1758.— 96 :217. 

Asa Perley, Lt.'s detachment, Lt.-Col. John Osgood, marched on 
alarm to relieve Fort William Henry 14 Aug., 1757. — 97 : 83. 

Asa Perley on return from Lake George in 1758, Capt. Herrick, 
Col. Preble. — 96 : 300. 

Asa Perley, private, for the reduction of Canada, Capt. Herrick, 
Col. Preble, 29 March, 1758.— 96 :427. 

Benjamin Perley, private, in expedition against Crown Point, 
12 Oct., 1756.— 94 : 477, 520. 

Benjamin Perley, private, against Crown Point, 1 Sept., 1756. — 

95 :116. 

Benjamin Perley, soldier, Capt. F"rancis Perley, Lt.-Col. John 
Osgood, 20 April, 1757.-95 : 295. 

Benjamin Perley, Lt. Asa Perley, Lt.-Col. John Osgood, alarm 
for relief of P^ort William-Henry, 1 March, 1759. — 97 : 83. 

David Perley on the alarm list for French War, 15 June, 1757. 
Reported consumptive. — 95 :429. 

Dudley Perley, soldier, Capt. P'rancis Perley, Lt.-Col. John Os- 
good, 20 April, 1757.— 95 : 295. 

Dudley Perley, son of Asa, private, Boxford, Capt. Israel Herrick, 
Col. Jedediah Preble, 29 March, 1758, eight months and six days. — 

96 : 427. 

Dudley Perley, Boxford, Capt. Brown, 31 March, 1760, twenty- 
nine weeks and nine days and eleven days. — 98 :241. 

Isaac Perley, soldier, Boxford, Capt. Francis Perley, Lt.-Col. 
John Osgood, 20 April, 1757.— 95 : 295. 

Israel Perley, soldier, Boxford, Capt. PVancis Perley, Lt.-Col. John 
Osgood, 20 April, 1757.— 95 : 295. 

Israel Perley, son of Thomas, Boxford, Capt. Herrick, Col. Preble, 
30 March, 1758, eight months and five days, for reduction of Canada. 
— 96:427. 

Israel Perley, Boxford, 14 June, 1760, Capt. Francis Peabody, for 
reduction of Canada. — 98 :415. 

Israel Perley, sergeant, Capt. P'rancis Peabody, 22 April, 1759, 
thirty-two weeks and two days, to reduce Canada. — 97 : 341. 

Jacob Perley, soldier, Capt. Francis Perley, Lt.-Col. John Osgood, 
Boxford, 12 April, 1757.— 

Moses Perlev, Boxford, soldier. Lt.-Col. John Osgood, 20 April, 
1757.-95 :295.' 

Nathan Perley ("Parely") private, Haverhill, for relief of Fort 
William Henry, in Aug., 1757. —97 : 86. 

Nathaniel Perley, Boxford, Capt. F. Perley, Lt.-Col. John Osgood, 
in his Majesty's service, 20 April, 1757. — 95 : 295. 

Thomas Perley, soldier, Boxford, Capt. P'rancis Perley, Lt.-Col. 
J. Osgood, 20 April, 1757.-95 : 295. 

William Perley, soldier, Boxford, Capt. ¥. Perley, Lt.Col. John 
Osgood, 20 April, 1757. — 95 :295. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 657 

REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 

Perley, ensign, Capt. Porter, 27th regiment.— 49 : 13(3. 

Aaron Perley, private, Boxford, Capt. Jacob Gould, Col. Samuel 
Johnson, alarm, 19 April, 1775, six days. — 12 : 101. 

Abraham Parley, Gloucester, surgeon's mate, Capt. Henry Far- 
well, Col. Wm. Prescott, 4 Aug., 1775. 

Allen Perley, Ipswich, W. Parish, private. Capt. Abraham How, 
alarm, 19 April, 1775, one day.— 12 : 146. 

Allen Perley, 8 months, 1775, Capt. Wm. Perley, Col. James 
Frye, coat-roll. — 57 : 1. 

Allen Pearley, private, Capt. John Kettell, Col. Maj. Heath, 21 
Aug., 1779, one month and 12 days. — 20 : 151. 

Allen Perley, private, guard at Boston, Capt. John Kettell, Col. 
Maj. Heath, enlisted 1 Sept., 1779, one month and two days. — 55 : N. 
42 and 20 : 153. 

Allen Pearley, private, Capt. Wm. Perley, Col. James Frye, 17 
May, 1775.-146:67. 

Allen Perley, corporal, enlisted 26 April, 1775, three months and 
thirteen days, Boxford. — 15 : 90. 

Allen Perley, Boxford, corporal, enlisted 16 Feb., 1775, Capt. 
Wm. Perley, Col. James Frye. — 13 : 44. 

Allen Perley, eight months, receipt, Capt. Perley, Col. Frye — 
35 :149. 

Allen Perley, private, Capt. John Kettell, Col. (Maj.) Nathaniel 
Heath, enlisted 21 Aug., 1779, one month and thirteen days. — 
20 : 148. 

Amos Perley, corporal, Boxford, alarm 19 April, 1775, six days,, 
Capt. Jacob Gould, Col. Samuel Johnson. — 12 :101. 

Asa Perley, ensign, Lt.-Col, Sprout, three years, 1777-1780. — 
31 :172. 

Asa Perley, chosen by Legislature, 8 Feb., 1776, 1st major of 
Col. Samuel Johnson's regiment. — 32 :275, 

Asa Perley, a letter dated Boxford, 25 March, 1776, declining the 
commission of 1st major "on account of indisposition of body." — 
194:306. 

Benjamin Pearley, ensign, Capt. Wm. Perley, Col. Frye. — 
27 :171. 

Benjamin Perley, 2d Lt., Capt. Wm. Perley.— 27 :200. 

Benjamin Perley, 2d Lt., Capt. Wm. Perley, Col. Frye, Boxford, 
eight months. — 56 : 9. 

Benjamin Perley, Lt., Cambridge, 17 May, 1775, Capt. Perley, 
Col. Frye.— 146:67. 

Benjamin Perley, Lt., enlisted 26 April, 1775, Capt. Perley, Col. 
Frye, three months and thirteen days. — 15 : 90. 

Benjamin Perley, Lt., alarm 19 April 1775, Boxford, Capt. Wm. 
Perley, Col. James Frye. — 13:44. 

Benjamin Parley, private, Capt. Oliver Shattuck, Lt.-Col. Barna- 
bas Sears, enlisted 12 Aug., 1781, three months and two days, five 
days travel, 100 miles, Deerfield roll. — 

Daniel Perley, private, alarm 19 April, 1775, six days, Capt. 
Jacob Gould, Col. Samuel Johnson. — 12 : 101. 



658 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

David Pearlee, Haverhill, Capt. Joseph McNeil, Col. Edward 
Wigglesworth. — 11 : 46. 

David Perley, Haverhill, drafted for service in 1775-6. These 
two names are probably Peaslee. 

Dudley Parley, Winchendon, 2d Lt., Capt. Abel Wildes, Col. 
Ephraim Doolittle, alarm 19 April, 1775, sixteen days. 

Dudley Parley, sergeant, Capt. David Bent, Col. Job Cashing, 
engaged 5 Sept., 1777, three months and six days, eleven days and 
212 miles.— 

Eliphalet Perley, Danvers, sergeant, return 6 Oct., 1775, Capt. 
Ebenzer Francis, Col. John Mansfield, eight months. — 56 :111, 

Eliphalet Perley, sergeant, served three months and six days, 
enlisted 3 May, 1775. — 14 :S7. 

Eliphalet Perley, Cambridge, 8 June, 1775, eight months. — 35 : 16. 

Eliphalet Perley, Winter Hill, 26 Oct., 1775, Capt. Francis, Col. 
Israel Hutchinson. — 57:11. 

Eliphalet Perley, Danvers, alarm 19 April, 1775, served two days. 
— 12:118. 

Eliphalet Perley, private, enlisted 11 Nov., 1777, three months, 
Capt. John Dodge, Col. Jacob Gerrish. — 18 : 150. 

Eliphalet Perley, sergeant-major. Col. Jacob Gerrish, Winter Hill, 
22 Jan., 1778.— 

Enoch Perley, Boxford, private, alarm 19 April, 1775, six days — 
12:101. 

Francis Perley, Boxford, sergeant, alarm 19 April, 1775, Capt. 
Jacob Gould, Col. Samuel Johnson. — 12 : 101. 

Henry Perley, private, Stoughton, Capt. Bent, Col. Heath, eight 
•months' service — 26 : 239. 

Henry Pearley, private, Capt. Wm. Bent, Col. John Greaton, en- 
listed 27 April, 1775, three months and twelve days. 

Henry Perley, Stoughton, private, Capt. Asahel Smith, Col. 
Lemuel Robinson, marched 19 April, 1777, nine days — 

Henry Perley, enlisted for Salem, Capt, Simeon Brown, till 1 Jan., 
1779—41 :45. 

Henry Perley, private, enlisted 3 Feb., 1778, two months and one 
day, Capt. Dodge, Col. Jacob Gerrish. — 18 :150. 

Henry Perley, private, enlisted 28 July, 1778, Capt. Simeon 
Brown, Col. Nathaniel Wade. — 55 : M. 1. 

Henry Perley, private, term one year, reported on the command 
with Tailors. — 55: M. 2. 

Henry Perley, private, Capt. Brown, Col. Wade, 6 Nov., 1778, 
with Tailors.- 55 : M. 3. 

Henry Perley, private, Capt. Jere. Putnam, Col. Nathan Tyler, 
R. I., alarm, enlisted 15 July, 1779, four months and sixteen days. — 
3 :73. 

Henry Perley, on a warrant to pay officers 31 Jan., 1783. — 30 : 
138; 29:187. 

Henry Perley, private, enlisted 1 Nov., 1778, two months and five 
days. Capt. Brown, Col. Wade. — 55 : M. 4. 

Henry Perley, pay roll for Dec, 1779, one month and five days in 
R. I., 107 miles.— 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 559 

Henry Perley, private, R. I. alarm, 1 Sept., 1779, Capt. Jere. Put- 
nam, Col. Nathan Tyler. — 3 : 78. 

Henry Perley, private, Capt. Simeon Brown, Col. Nathaniel Wade, 
enhsted 1 Sept., 1778, two months. — 55 : M. 6. 

Henry Perley, private, Capt. John Dodge, Col. Jacob Gerrish, 
Charlestown, pay roll. — 18 : 157. 

Henry Perley, private, pay roll, Capt. Simeon Brown, Col. Nath- 
aniel Wade, enlisted 28 July, 1778, service 5 months and nine days. 
East Greenwich. — 55 : M. 5. 

Jacob Perley, corporal, Boxford, Capt. Jacob Gould, Col. Samuel 
Johnson, alarm 19 April, 1775, six days. — 12 : 101. 

James Pearley, Methuen, eight months and 21 days from 10 April, 
1782.— 

James Perley, private, pay roll, Capt. John Robinson, Col. Wm. 
Turner, R. P, service, three months and twenty-six days. — 3 : 115. 

James Perley, private, pay warrant, Capt. Joseph Peirce, March, 
1783.-29:257. 

James Perley, pay warrant, 11 April, 1783, Capt. John Robinson. 
—30 : 164. 

Jesse Pearly, private, pay roll, Capt. James Mallon, Maj.-Gen. 
Hancock, enlisted 3 Oct., 1779, " belonged to Ipswich," one month 
and ten days. — 25:25. 

John Pelley (Perley.?), boy. State Ship "Tartar," Capt. Benj. 
Simonds, six days, 19 Aug., 1777. — 

John Parley, Methuen, for six months service, Brig.-Gen. Paterson, 
25 Oct., 1780. — 25 :222. 

John Pearley, private, tour months and eleven days, enlisted 6 
Aug., 1778. 

John Perley, age eighteen years, stature five feet, six inches, com- 
plexion light, residence Methuen, went into camp 7 July, 1780, Capt. 
Dix.— 35:188. 

John Pearley, private, Capt. Stephen Webster, Col. Jacob Gerrish, 
under Washington, enlisted 14 Oct., 1779, one month and nineteen 
days, 220 miles. — 24 : 172. 

John Perley, private, Capt. John Robinson, Col. Wm. Turner, R. 
I. alarm, enlisted 3 Aug., 1781, four months and two days, belonged 
to Newburyport. — 3 : 15. 

John Perley, private, Ipswich, West Parish [Linebrook] Capt. 
Abraham How, two days, alarm 19 April, 1775. — 12 : 146. 

John Peley (Perley.?) private, pay-roll, Capt. Nathaniel Gushing, 
Col. Joseph Vose, service from 31 Jan., to 28 Feb., 1779, Providence. 
— 61 :212. 

John Perley, private, alarm 19 April, 1775, Capt. Daniel Hills, 
Col. Johnson, from Haverhill, four days. — 12 : 24. 

John Perley, private, Methuen, six months and one day from 1 
July, 1780, twenty-four miles. — 27 : 10. 

Jonathan Perley, Capt. Daniel Hill, Col. Johnson, from Haverhill, 
19 April, 1775.— 

Moody Pearley, private, Capt. James Mallon, Maj.-Gen. Hancock, 
belonged to Ipswich, one month and ten days, enlisted 3 Oct., 1779. 
—25 : 25. 

Moses Perley, Jr., private, Capt. Jacob Gould, Col. Samuel John- 



(J60 THE PBRLEY FAMILY 

son, alarm 19 April, 1775, from Boxford, six days. — 12 : 101. 

Moses Perley, private, alarm 19 April, 1775, Capt. Gould, Col. 
Johnson, Boxford, four days. — 12 : 101. 

Nathan Perley, sergeant, Capt. James Jones, at Concord, four 
days, 19 April, 1775.— 

Nathaniel Pearley, private, Capt. James Mallon, Maj.-Gen. Han- 
cock, one month and ten days, belonged to Boxford, enlisted, 3 Oct., 
1779.-25:25. 

Nathaniel Perley, private, alarm 19 April, 1775, four days, be- 
longed to Ipswich, Capt. Daniel Rogers. — 13 : 74. 

Nathaniel Pearley, quarter-master, Cambridge, 17 May, 1775, 
Capt. Wm. Perley, Col. James Frye, pay-roll. — 14(5 : 67. 

Nathaniel Perley's petition for commission as privateer, schooner 
"Success." Ordered 15 Aug., 1776. — 

Samuel Perley, private, Capt. Samuel Johnson, Col. Titcomb, be- 
longed in Boxford, two months and ten days from 27 April, 1777. — 
20 :101. 

Samuel Perley, private, Capt. S. Johnson, Col. Titcomb, belonged 
to Boxford, R. I. alarm, enlisted 27 April, 1777, 2 months and ten 
days.— 2 : 139. 

Samuel Perley, private, Capt. James Mallon, Lt.-Col. Putnam, en- 
listed 26 Aug., 1781, three months and twenty days and twelve days, 
240 miles. — 

Solomon Perley, private, Capt. Stephen Webster, Col. Jacob Ger- 
rish, enlisted 14 Oct., 1779, one month and nineteen days, for Wash- 
ington army. — 24 : 172, 

Stephen Perley, private, Capt. Wm. Perley, Col. James Frye, be- 
longed to Boxford. — 56 : 9. 

Stephen Pearley, private, Cambridge, 17 May, 1775. — 146 :67. 

Stephen Perley, private, alarm 19 April, 1775, Capt. Perley, Col. 
Frye, belonged to Boxford, seven days, enlisted 16 Feb., 1775. — 
13:44. 

Stephen Perley, private, Capt. Perley, Col. Frye, belonged in 
Boxford, enlisted 26 April, 1775, three months and thirteen days. — 
15:90. 

Stephen Parley, coat-roll, Capt. Perley, Col. Frye, Cambridge, 14 
Nov., 1775. — 

Thomas Perley, private, Capt. Jacob Gould, Col. Samuel Johnson, 
alarm 19 April, 1775, Boxford, three days. — 12 : 101. 

William Perley, captain, Col. Frye, alarm 19 April, 1775, Boxford, 
enlisted 16 Feb., 1775.— 13 : 44. 

William Pearly, private, Capt. James Mallon, Maj-Gen. Hancock, 
one month and ten days from 3 Oct., 1777, belonged to Ipswich. — 
25 : 25. 

William Pearley, commissioned captain by Provincial Congress, 
at Watertown, 20 May, 1775, Col. Frye. — 146 :92<\ 

William Perley, captain, militia. — 27 : 171. 

William Pearley, captain, enlisted 26 April, 1775, three months 
and thirteen days. — 15 : 90. 

William Pearley, Cambridge 17 May, 1775. — 146 : 67. 

William Perley, captain, coat-rolls. — 56 : 9. 

William Perley, captain, list of field officers, 20 May, 1775. — 
27:200. 



HISTORY AND GE3NEAL0GY (J61 

CIVIL WAR. 

STATE LIHRARY, CAPITOL, BOSTON. 

Joseph H. Perley-237^ was in the 10th Maine regiment. 

Richard Perley-2ia' enhsted 13 Oct., 1862, aged 18, at Waterville, 
Me., in company B, 21st. regiment infantry and was killed in action 
27 May, 18G3, a private, unmarried. 

Roscoe Perley-402 was mustered in 29 Sept., 1862 — promoted to 
corporal, company C, 25th Maine regiment. 

Nathaniel Perley-394 was mustered in 4 June, 1861, Waterville, 
aged twenty-four, corporal, and married. 

John A. Pearley of Philadelphia, private, company G, 32nd Penn. 
regiment mustered in 1 June, 1861, for three years, discharged 8 
Nov., 1862, for wounds received at Bull Run, 30 Aug., 1862. 

James P. Perley-179'' was a Civil War veteran. He enlisted in 
Kalamazoo, Mich., 15 Sept., 1861, a private in company E of the 13th 
regiment, was commissioned 2nd Lt., 16 June, 1862, taken prisoner 
at Chickamauga, Ga., 20 Sept., 1863, was released, resigned 2nd Lt. 
24 April, 1865, commissioned 1st Lt. 24 April, 1865, was honorably 
discharged at close of war. 

Victor Perley enlisted 25 Aug., 1862, for three years, company K, 
7th Ohio regiment, killed in battle of Chancellorsville, Va., 2 May, 
1863. 

George R. Perley — Supplement 54^ — was mustered in com- 
pany M, 2nd Minn, regiment of cavalry, 7 Jan., 1865, discharged 
at Fort Ripley, 18 Oct., 1865, age nineteen. 

Charles E. Perley-152- was in company C, 11th Maine regiment. 

Henry P. Perley-213' was a private in company G, 3d Maine reg- 
ment. His age was nineteen; enlisted, Waterville, 4 June, 1861; 
discharged for disability 15 July, 1861. 

ROOM 261, CAPITOL, BOSTON. 

John Perley — Appendix C — a shoemaker, Lynn, enlisted 9 July, 
1864, age twenty-two, in company D, 8th Mass. regiment, discharged 
10 Nov., 1864. 

George A. Perley-274, a. mechanic, Gardner, enlisted a private, 8 
Aug., 1862, promoted to 1st sergeant, to 1st heutenant, 11 Oct., 
1864, discharged 8 June, 1865. 

Louis S. Perley-278, a mechanic, Gardner, enlisted 8 Aug., 1862, 
in company D of the 36th regiment of Massachusetts, and was dis- 
charged 18 May, 1865, at the end of the war. He is now, by compe- 
titive examination, a member of the Bureau of War Records, State 
House, Boston, a department for the complete compilation of those 
records. 

L. Alonzo Perley-138^ a mechanic, Gardner, enlisted 9 Aug., 1862, 
age twenty-one, a musician, in company H, 36th Mass. regiment, 
died 19 Aug., 1863, at Mound City, Ills. 

Charles W. Perley-469, a farmer, Haverhill, age eighteen, enlisted 
4 Dec, 1863, company A, 4th Mass. regiment cavalry, discharged 14 
Nov., 1865. 

Elbridge G. Perley-439, painter, age twenty-six, Chelsea, enlisted 
26 May, 1861, company H, 1st Mass. regiment, discharged for dis- 



662 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

ability 22 July, 1861, enlisted 15 Aug., 1862, company D, 5th Mass. 
regiment, discharged 2 July, 1863. 

Asa K. Perley-302'^, shoemaker, Boxford, age twenty-five, enlisted 
17 Sept., 1862. 

Thomas P. Perley-302^ shoemaker, Boxford, age twenty-three, 
enlisted 17 Sept., 1862, company K, 50th Mass. regiment, died 4 
Aug., 1863, of fever on Steamer L. M. Kennett on the Mississippi. 

Thomas A. Perley 424, was a farmer of Salem, age eighteen. 

Albert E. Perley-284^ farmer, Boxford, age eighteen, enlisted 1 
Sept. 1862, company D, 48th Mass. regiment, discharged 3 Sept., 
1863, enlisted 23 Aug., 1864, company M, 4th regiment heavy artill- 
ery, discharged 17 June, 1865. 

William E. Perley-438, farmer, West Boxford, age nineteen, en- 
listed 1 Aug., 1862, company V, 35th Mass. regiment, promoted to 
corporal, discharged 9 June, 1865. 

Joseph A. Perley-459, farmer, Lynn, age 31, enlisted 9 Sept., 
1861, 2nd company sharpshooters, attached to 22nd Mass. regiment, 
discharged for disability 15 Sept., 1862. 

John L. Perley-437, Newbury port, age twenty-four, enlisted 15 
April, 1861, company A, 8th Mass. regiment, discharged 1 Aug., 
1861 enlisted, 1st sergeant, 19 Aug., 1861, 1st company sharp- 
shooters attached to 15th Mass. regiment, promoted 21 May, 1862, 

to 2nd lieutenant, resigned and discharged 12 July, 1862 enlisted, 

conimissioned 5 Jan., 1864, 1st lieutenant, company D, 4th Mass 
regiment cavalry, died 15 Nov., 1864, of disease, a prisoner of war. 



CORRECTIONS. 



There are a few corrections other than these below which the 
reader will be able easily to make. 

Page 17, line 14, for Topsfield, read Ipswich. 

Page 26, line 14, for Mary, read Marcy. 

Page 40, line 4, for Sarah, read Hannah. 

Page 52, line 23, for 1Q\ read IGl 

Page 52, line 25, for 1(3^ read 10^ 

Page 54, line 3(5, for 16^, read IGl 

Page 59, line 4(3, for 16^ read 161 

Pages 66, 70, 72, 75, in " Lineal Descent," for Thomas-9 read 

Thomas-8. 
Page 77, line 12, for the semi-colon (;) read commas (,). 
Page 77, line 14, for 1855, read 1885. 
Page 83, line 37, for Sarah, read Sarah Hobbs. 
Page 86, line 10, for Sarah, read Sarah H. 
Page 119, line 7 after children, read a semi-colon (;). 
Page 119, line 8, for the semi-colon (;), read a comma (,). 
Page 154, line 17, for Sarah-160, read Sarah-161. 
Page 171, line 29, for Emma, read P2mily. 
Page 195, line 36, for the period (.), read a semi-colon (;). 
Page 195, lines 33 and 34, for the semi-colons read commas. 
Page 195, take the word w/io from the 42nd line and read it before 

married in the 41st line. 
Page 259, line 17, for Woodman, read Woodward. 
Page 281, line 8, for Perley, read Sargent. 
Page 282, line 8, for Sophia Ann read Apphia Ann. 
Page 284, line 25, for Perley, read Perle. 
Page 348, line 27, for Newton, read Williams. 
Page 364, line 23, for 1901, read 1891. 
Page 384, line 24, for Nathaniel-ll4, read Samuel-114. 
Page 386, the autograph belongs on page 381. 
Page 413, line 12, for J. Hamilton Pay, read J. Hamilton Gray. 
Page 469, line 38, for David read Daniel. 
Page 477, line 34, for Compton read Campton. 
Page 505, line 34, for Francis-30, read P'rancis-39. 
Page 509, line 6, for Welberforce, read Wilberforce. 
Page 513, line 7, for Clifford G.\ read Clifford G.l 
Page 537, line 5, for Harmon, read Herman. 
Page 623, line 33, for Boston Con-, read New England Con-. 
Page 624, lines 10 and 11 should have been written — now head 

book-keeper for the " Deerfoot Farm Dairy," Boston, 

Mass. 
Page 635, line 30, for Ames read Amos. 



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1 Moses Perley-54' and Supplement-54, emigrated from Ireland 
and had two sons: John^ and Nathaniel. 

2 John^ was born 5 Oct., 1766, married 29 Oct., 1792, lived some- 
time in Grafton County, N. H., and in 1816, moved to Vincennes, 
Ind., where himself, his wife and three children died the same season. 
Their children were: Dorothy G.; Moses I., who died without issue ; 
John, who died in Mississippi with issue; George W.*; Nancy; 
Sally and Lucy, who were living in 1877 ; Charlotte; Samuel S., who 
died in Vincennes, Ind., without issue. 

3 George W.^ died in Vincennes in 1831. His wife's name was 
Lucretia and their child was John, who married 1 Jan., 1852, R. M. 
Reade of Liberty, Mo., who was born 20 Sept., 1828, both of whom 
resided (1877) in Atlanta, Ga. "John of Georgia," in a letter that 
was overlooked when Family-54 was written, furnished the above. 

B. 

John Perley and Catherine Mulligan, his wife, natives of Ireland, 
had Mary E., born 8 Jan., 1866, in Lawrence, Mass. 

C. 

John Perley, son of Jonathan and Sarah , was born 29 June, 

1842, in New Hampshire. He went into the Civil War with the war 
name of Perley, drew his pension in that name and has borne the 
name the while since. He is a machinist, and is foreman at 364 
Atlantic ave., Boston, with home in Lynn. In Aug., 1878, he was 
granted a patent on feeding devices for button-hole sewing machines. 
He married, second, Lizzie Mansfield, a dressmaker, who was born 
10 Dec, 1851, to Edwin and Abbie Mansfield of Saugus, and died 25 
May, 1891, aged thirty-nine years, five months and fifteen days. He 
married, third, in Somerville 5 Sept., 1895, Mrs. Mary Josephine- 
Splane Shaw, who was born 27 Aug., 1859, in Boston, to Wm. and 
Lizzie Splane. [She had by Mr. Shaw, Bertha May, born 2 Dec, 
1884, and Edward J., born 5 Oct., 1886, in Franklin, Mass.] 

1 Perley child: Eva B., who married 10 July, 1895, when she was 
twenty-two, Charles L. Chapman, who was a carpenter, twenty-seven 
years old, son of Charles H. and Augusta R. Chapman of Lynn. 

D. 

Amos Perley, colored, was born to Richard in Jackson, Miss. 

He was a laborer, married, and lived at 14 Ezra St., Lynn, Mass., 
where he died of consumption, 31 July, 1876, aged fifty years. The 
above was gleaned from a directory and the vital records of Lynn. 
The writer saw a colored lady living on Ezra St. : She said she knew 
Amos, that his wife's name was Hannah. She thought he was once 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 667 

a slave; his work was generally about the wharves. Both were then 
dead, Nov., 1904. It is supposed he married in Lynn. In getting a 
certificate he needed a surname, and he showed good taste in choos- 
ing Perley and his good sense in enrolling himself with the family. 

E. 

F. R. Miles-252^ Silver Bow, Mont., 16 Aug., 1880, enclosed to us 
this newspaper clipping and asked if we could place him : " Emanuel 
Perley was put under $500 bonds to answer to the charge of house- 
breaking. Perley had previously been before the Grand Jury." 
Another clipping, 7 Oct., 1880, read : "Territory vs. Manuel Perley, 
burglary." "Emanuel Perla, tried on a charge of burglary, has been 
sentenced to the penitentiary for two years. The insanity dodge 
didn't work this time." The Insane Asylum of the state of Montana 
wrote : E. Pearl of Deer Lodge county, was admitted here 24 April, 
1879, and was discharged 27 Sept., 1879. He was a druggist and 
about thirty years of age. Montana State penitentiary wrote: Man- 
uel Purley, for burglary, was received here 5 Oct., 1880, and was dis- 
charged 2 Sept., 1882. He was born in Switzerland, was thirty years 
old, five feet, seven and one-half inches tall, weighed one hundred and 
fifty-two pounds, had dark brown hair, blue eyes, fair complexion and 
was by occupation a druggist. 

F. 

James Perley of Lebanon, N. H., had his name changed to George 
Leclair, 10 Oct., 1876, having been called so for two years. The 
Lebanon town clerk, C. A. Downs, Esq., wrote 16 Aug., 1904, 
that James Perley, alias George Leclair, first appeared in that region 
at Enfield, then at Lebanon. He had talked with the Enfield Per- 
leys about him, but they could tell nothing about his ancestry. In 
Lebanon he seemed to be under a cloud. He proved to be a won- 
derful bass singer, and people surmised that he was trying to hide 
himself; for he was working in a factory for small wages, while he 
had a fortune in his wonderful voice. In Enfield he seemed to be 
well informed about the Perley family. After a few years he left 
Lebanon, and finally died in Boston some years since. 

G. 

Henry Morton Perley of Boston, born in northern New Hamp- 
shire about 1836, married in Sept., 1861, in Manchester, N. H., Mary 
Arae Hunt, who was born near Augusta, Me., to James and Mary- 
Card Hunt, 20 Sept., 1844. They had children born in Hookset, N. 
H.: Albert Henry Greenleaf, 13 Oct., 1862, and Maud Statire 2 Dec, 
1864. 

Albert H. Perley of Manchester, N. H., aged twenty, born in 
Hookset, to Albert and Mary, married 23 Sept., 1882, Ida M. Gray, 
aged eighteen, born in Peterboro, N. H., to Addison G. and Augusta. 
He was a sailor in 1884, laborer in 1895, and commercial traveler in 
1899. They had three children in Manchester, two born and died 12 
Jan., 1884, and 6 May, 1895, and Albert, born 6 July, 1899. 

H. 

Joseph Samuel Perley and his brother came to this country from 



668 THE PERLEY FAMILY 

Hungary about the time, in 1851, that Louis Kossuth came. He was 
born 19 March, 1828, in Kaschau, co. Zemplen, Hungary. His 
father was Emanuel Perle ; and his mother, Eva Arky, His wife, 
Hannah Cohen, married 11 March, 1862, was born 21 Aug., 1838, in 
New York City. His brother Victor was a traveling man in Belgium 
and Sweden. He had a brother Henry next to him in age. He 
showed the impress of a seal ring that was his father's and grand- 
father's. 

He said the spelling of his name in Hungary was Perle and was 
pronounced in two syllables. In America the name was pronounced 
as if spelled pearl, and he put on a final y, and gained in pronuncia- 
tion more than he lost in spelling. 

He said further: "I presume that all Perleys are of Huguenot 
origin ; so is our branch in Hungary ; we trace our ancestors to old 
Holland. 

" I left my native country when young. In 1848, 1 fought Austrian 
usurpation with success, but Russians with disaster. I left for 
Turkey, 13 Aug., 1849, and fought Russians again in Asia Minor. I 
came to this country in May, 1854, about the time Louis Kossuth 
came; I will remain here. 

"I was officer of staff, and 1st lieutenant of the 20th Honved 
Battallion with Gen. M. Perczely, then Pasha in the Turkish army. — 
Our coat of arms is a lion supporting a crown." He was (1880) an 
oculist optician, at 318 Erie St., Cleveland, Ohio. 

1 Perley children, all born in Cleveland: Miriam Estella, 17 
March, 1864; Jonas Aaron, 8 Aug., 1865; Bessey, 17 April, 1867; 
Antoinette, 4 June, 1869; Morris Black, 19 July, 1873; Louisa 16 
Nov., 1876. 

I. 

Mrs. Rebecca A. Perlie of Washington, D. C, says her husband 
was born in France. The family once lived in Boston, Mass., where 
the name in the directory and vital records is spelled Perley. Her 
son, E. H. Perlie, is a D.D.S., to the Government, in the Navy Yard, 
Charlestown, Mass. 

J- 

Thomas Jefferson Perley of Lowell, Mass., was son of Lucius and 
Ruth-Badger Hicks, and was born in Compton, Canada, 8 June, 
1830. His parents died when he was an infant, and his grandfather 
Badger, who was then living in Compton, took care of him till he was 
two years old, when Moses Perley of Canaan, Vt., adopted him and 
changed his name upon the consent of his kindred. Shortly after, 
Mrs. Perley died and Moses being in feeble health thought it best for 
him to return to Compton, and accordingly sent him back. Mr. 
Perley's grandfather Badger was a major in the Revolutionary War, 
and lost a leg in the service. He was a near relative of Governor 
Badger of Gilmanton, N. H. T. J. Perley's parents went from Gil- 
manton and settled in Compton, Canada. His uncle Joseph is a 
clergyman in Gilmanton. Mr. Perley is a veteran, having served in 
the Rebellion War in the 8th N. H. Regiment, Co. E, three years 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY ggg 

and five months. He and his wife, and the oldest daughter were 
members of the 5th Street Baptist Church in Centralville. He is a 
mason by trade. 

Mr. Perley married Mary Jane, daughter of James P. and Ruth- 
Brown GHnes of Franklin, N. H., in Manchester, N. H., 3 Feb., 
1855. She was born in Franklin 19 Dec, 1832. Her parents were 
"honest and respectable and Christians." Her grandfather was in 
the Revolution ; and her eldest brother served in the Mexican War, 
and is now a clergyman. Another brother was in the late war. Mr. 
Perley lived in Manchester till 1859, in Nashua till 1866, in Lowell 
till about 1880, he returned to Nashua, where he died 7 May, 1897. 
His widow expected to go to Jacksonville, Ala., with her son, in Oct., 
1904. 

1 Perley children, born, first two in Manchester, the next two in 
Nashua, the rest in Lowell : Sarah Melissa, 26 July, 1856, died 18 
Oct., 1877; Willis Harvey, 29 Aug., 1858; Carrie Jane, 14 Nov., 
1860; Hattie Ora Etta, 29 Sept., 1865; Grace Adella and George 
Albert (twins), 5 Feb., 1886; P>ederic Peaslee, 22 Dec, 1870; Lor- 
ing Herbert, 15 May, 1872, Walter Norman, 20 Feb., 1875; Arthur 
Eugene, 1 April, 1877. 

K. 

Miss Zayde Per Lee, in Nov., 1879, wrote: Our progenitor 
Edmund Per Lee, my great-grandfather, descended from a French 
family that left France, to escape the Huguenot persecution, and 
settled in England. When Edmund was sixteen he ran away to this 
country. He married a Miss Mead of Horseneck, and settled in 
Amenia, Dutchess County, N. Y. He had several brothers who were 
tall though he was small. In the family were the names Abraham 
and John. He had a son Edmund and several daughters — one who 
married a Herrick ; and another a Wicks. Edmund married Zade 
Wynans and had Mary, Eliza, Zayde, Edmund Gilbert, Walter ; 
Abraham, Semantha, Henry, John S. Zayde's line is 1 Edmund. 2 
Edmund, 3 Edmund Gilbert, 4 Zayde. 

She wrote further: "The name has always been spelled as we 
spell it now, and in these latter days we are very tenacious of the 
capital L. My grandfather was medium height, stout built, fine 
looking. He was a non-commissioned officer in army of the Revolu 
tionary War; he was in the battle of Bennington ; and after the war 
a farmer in Amenia." 

There was a Ralph N. Perlee in Jersey City, and Ralph Perlee 
Lowe was a governor of Iowa. Edmund Perlee, probably the above, 
was paymaster in the 6th Regiment of the Dutchess County militia, 
in the Revolution. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Apples, Perley, 329 
Arms, See Coats of 
Autographs: 

Adams, Dudley W., 233 
Conant, Wm. P., 336. 
Greenwood, Mrs. J. M., 270. 
Lambert, Wm. G., 508. 
Miner, A. A.. 495 
Nelson, Sherman, xxii. 
Pearley, John, 284. 
Perkins, John A., 624. 
Perley, Albion S., 563. 

Alexander, 428. 

Alexander F., 427. 

Allan, xiii, 7. 

Allen, 64. 

Amos, 39, 427. . 

Anson, 483. 

Asa, 57, 250. 

Asbury. F. 497. 

Augustus M., 340. 

Benjamin, 140. 

Charles, xxii. 

Deborah, xiii, 19. 

Dudley, 238, 426. 

D. W., 406. 

Ebenezer P., 296. 

Edward, 484. 

F. L., 567. 

Francis, 149. 

George, 478. 

George E., 498. 

George H., 473. 

Hannah, 36, 209. 

Hannah P., 427. 

H. O., 564. 

Ira, 256. 

Isaac, 379. 

Isaac S. C, xxii. 

J., 184. 

Jacob, 35, 139. 

James, 297, 566. 

Jeremiah, 25. 

J. L., 330. 

John, xiii, 10, 27, 208, 
362, 480. 

John Thomas, 428. 

Lucy, R. B., 429 

Maggie, 239. 

Mary, 319. 

M. P., 341. 

Nathan, 144, 481. 

Sam'l, xiii, 14, 47, 94. 

Seth Todd, 571. 

Stephen, 168. 

Thomas, xiii, 15, 21, 31, 
54, 121, 427. 

Uri, 469. 

Wm. B., 429. 

Wm. G., 472. 

Wm. P., 338. 
Putnam, David, 54. 

Rebecca, 54. 
Redington, Heph'h, 51. 

Thomas, 51. 
Robinson, Dean, 33. 

Sarah, 33. 
Twombly, A. S., 512. 
Wright, Anna E., 386. 

should be on page 381. 
Birthplaces, Perley: 
Daniel, 138. 
Daniel J., 321. 
E. Horace, 533, 618. 
Rev. H. C, 171. 
M. V. B., 166. 



Rev. Samuel, 48. 
Birthplaces, Perley continued 

Sidney, 171. 
Buffet, 53. 
Buildings, 

Indian Hill Farm, 50. 

Home, Sweet Home, 421. 

J.Perley's Free School, 187. 

Rev. S. Perley' s church, 95. 
Cemetery, The Old, vi. 
Chart, The Old, v. 
Coats of Arms: 

Apperley, xvii. 

Conant, 335. 

Foster, 628. 

Howe, 620. 

Lambert, 509. 

Macartney, 383. 

Miner, 494. 

Parleis, xv. 

Parleys, xv. 

Pearle, xvi. 

Pearley, xix. 

Perely, Pirly, xix. 

Purley, xvi. 

Pyreley, xix. 

Pyrley, Pyrly, xix. 

Pursey, xx. 

Spofford, 546. 

Strickland, 191. 
Commission Asa Perley's,425., 
Convention, 1877, The Per- 
ley, ix. 
Gravestones, John Perley 28, 
Houses: 

On Allan's Estate, 5. 

Amos Perley, 171. 

Clark, 152. 

Dorman, 446. 

Floor of E. Perley' s, 123. 

Hale, 138. 

Henry Perley, 136. 

How, 322. 

Site of I. Perley' s, 117. 

J. Peabody, 349. 

Home of J. Perley, 188. 

John Perley, Vt., 285. 

Mighill- Perley, 99. 

Nathan Perley, 143. 

Pritchard, 67 

A Sod, 598. 
Maps: Button-End, 1. 

Button-End, etc., 3. 

Homest'd, A. Perley' s, 4. 
E. H. Pcrley's, 339. 
Jacob Perley's, vii. 
Mighill-Perley, 204. 

Hood Pond, 74. 
Monument, Lexington, 41. 

Rev. S. Perley's, 97. 
Murder Case, 110. 
Old Cellar, Rev. S. Perley's, 48. 
Pillion -Riding, 16. 
Portraits, insert: 

Anderson, Mrs. I. A., 485. 
Wilbert L., 485. 

Apperlev, N. W., xviii. 

Atherton, Mrs. C. P., 634. 

Bull, Mrs. F. A., 403. 

Cleff.Mrs.Geo.Amos., 634. 

Conant, W. F. & wife,336. 
J. Coggin & wife, 337. 

Davis, Alonzo, 248. 
W. A., 249. 

Dorman, F. W., 447- 

Gage, Mrs. S. E-, 294. 



Portraits, insert, continued: 
Howe, F. A. & wife, 356. 
Ingalls, Miss M. E., 252. 
McGibbon, C. F., 402. 
Miles, C. LeB., 401. 
Miner, A. A. & wife, 494. 
Perkins, J. A. & wife, 623. 
Perley.A.M. & wife, 340. 

Carrie E., 540. 

Chauncey C, 612. 

Chas. and wife, 384. 

Chas. S., 388. 

David T., 534. 

D. Sidney 617. 
" group, 617. 

Dudley, 426. 
Duncan W., 406. 
Edith F., 540, 541 
Edwin G., 540. 

E. Horace, 540, 618. 
" group, 619. 

Enoch, 123. 

Frank E., 569. 

Frank G., 567. 

Frank L., 567. 

Geo. A., 396. 

Geo. H., 472. 

Harry O., 565. 

Herbert A., 485. 

Howard S., 371. 

Humphrey & wife, 328- 
329. 

Ira, i. 

James A. & wife, 612. 

James P., 567. 

John W., 439. 

Lotta E., 540. 

Laura E., 540. 

Lydia M., 540. 

Martin V. B., 540. 

Mrs. Margaret, 335. 

Miss M. S., 485. 

Monroe P., 341. 

Moses P., 625. 

Nath'l M.& wife, 203. 

Osborne P., 559. 

Samuel, 567. 

Samuel, Mrs. 212. 

Sidney, 546. 

Silas & wife, 325. 

Stephen, 168, 334. 

V. Herbert, 540. 

V. H. & wife, 622. 

Warren H., 540, 541. 

Wm. D., 580. 

Wm. E., 405. 

Wm G., 472. 

Wm. P., 338. 
Russ, W. R. & wife, 531. 
Rust, Judith, 196. 
Smith, H. LeB., 634. 

Mrs. T. W., 634. 
Walls, D. P., 239. 

Mrs. Margaret, 239. 
Woodman, Mrs.H. A., 294. 
Portraits, letter-press: 
Adams, D. W., 2.33. 
Bull, Miss F. A., 645. 
Conant, Mrs. R., 88. 
Dwinnells,Mrs.J.R.C.,167 
Dyke, Mrs. C. H.. 558. . 
Hood, Susie I., 619. 
Howe, Eliza E., 620. 
Jones, E. S., 334. 
Learoyd, Rev. C. H., 347. 
Millett & wife. A., 93. 



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Portraits. letter-press, cont. : 
Mitchell & wife, D., 651. 
Mitchell & wife, P., 311. 
Nelson, Sherman, xxi. K 
Nevers, Mrs. A. A., 408. 
Perley, Albion S., 564. 

Chas. A., 579. 

Chas. N., 551. 

Cornelia T., 651. 

Daniel J., Dr., 320. 

Dean A., 555. 

E. Howard, 615. 

E. Horace, 619, 620. 

George A., 600. 

Geo. E., 499. 

Haskell, xxi. 



Portraits, letter-press, cont. 
Perley, Isaac S. C, xxi. 

John, 165. 

John K., 576. 

Jonathan, 306. 

Joseph F., 470. 

Joseph H., 376. 

Joseph I,., 574. 

Luther D., xxi. 

Mrs. Mary, 170. 

Mrs. Mary-R., 506. 

SethaTodd, 570. 
Potter & wife.J.S., 88. 
Tenney, Moses, 44. 
Tilton, Mrs.A. E., 464 



Residences, Perley: 

Charles M., 533. 

Charles N., 551. 

Dean A., 555. 

Geo. A., 398, 601. 

Humphrey, 328. 

John & Silas, 166. 

Moses P., 626. 

Rev. Samuel, 628. 
Reunion of 1877, Perley, ix. 
Seal, Ipswich-Town, 21. 
Ship Favorite, 211. 
Silhouettes, 169, 298, 299. 
Will, Allan Perley' s, iv. 



INDEX. 



Abbot, Nehemiah, 110, 113. 

Lydia, 

Sidney F., 552. 
Abbott, Almeron, B., 273. 

Dorcas, 459. 

John, 47, 266. 

Mary, 248. 

Nehemiah, 9, 10. 

Sarah-Kidder, 273. 

Sarah-Perkins, 162. 

Stephen, 273. 
Abel, Mary-Eastman, 476. 

Morgan, 476. 

Phebe June, 476. 
Abell, Dr. Chester, 485. 
Aberdeen, Scot, 214, 239. 
Aberdeen, S. Dak., 492. 
Abolition, great apostle of,633 
AboUtionist, 452. 
Aborn, Mary Silver, 614. 
Academy, Abbot, 559. 

Atkinson, 94, 161, 223 
361. 

Bradford, 144, 223, 225, 
256, 326, 508, 511,617. 

Brewster Free, 471. 

Bridgton. 220, 416, 559. 

Brigham, 484, 487. 

Brownington, 539, 540. ' ] 

Canaan, 598. 

Cavendish, Vt., 494. 

Charleston, 379. 

Colby, 272, 464. 

Craftsbury, Vt., 540. 

Danville, P. Q., 341, 539. 

Dean, 496. 

Dummer, 85. 306, 308, 
319, 514, 515, 535, 618. 

Erie, 570. 

Erskine, 521. 

Fryeburg, Me., 376. 
. Girard, 570 . 

Gorham, 416. 

Hardwick, 604. 

Haverhill, N. H., 258 

Hebron, 419. 

Houlton, 419. 

Kimball Union, 358, 491 
498. 

Lancaster, N. H., 542. 

of Medicine, N. Y., 510. 

Meriden, N. H.,258, 521. 

Meriden Union, 499. 

Mensmack, 458. 

Military, 565. 

Milton, 317. 

Montpeher, 286. 

Morrisville, 604. 

New London, 343, 463 

Norway, 559. 

OberHn, 608. 

Pembroke, N. H., 518. 

Phillips-Andover, 653. 

Phillips-Exeter, 126, 331 
374, 510. 

Portland, 376. 

Sackville Ladies', 635. 

Scientific and Mil., 494. 

St. Albans, 608. 

Ten Broeck, 653. 

Thayer, 277. 

Topsfield, 89, 160, 162, 
346, 445, 446, 535, 538, 
540. 

U. S. Naval, 621. 



Wesleyan, Wilbraham, 
496, 623. 
Academy grounds, 167. 
Academy, to establish an, 209. 
Academies of H. N., 494. 
Acasia, bark, 376. 
Acton, Mass., 147, 248. 
Acy, Ruth, 633. 

WiUiam, 633. 
Adams, 105. 

Abraham, 175. 

Anthony, 427. 

Apphia, 119. 

Arvilla, 486. 

Benjamin, 175. 

Benjamin Perlcy, 175 
176, 345. 

Catherine Cummings, 176 

Charles Henrv, 175. 

Charles Piper, 350. 

Charlotte Amanda, 407, 
652. 

Clarence Percy, 427 

Deborah, 119. 

Dr., 499. 

Dudley Whitney, 232. 

Ebenezer, 173. 

Eliphalet, 119. 

Eliza, A., 219. 

Elmira, 500. 

Elmira-Stevcns-, 487. 

Eunice Hilliard-Mitch- 
ell, 498. 

George, 487. 

George Martin, 407. 

George Washington, 175, 
350. 

Hannah, 233, 463, 604. 

Hannah-Flanders, 463. 

Harry Elwin, 501. 

Ira Herbert, 498. 

Isaac, 481. 

Jarvis, 498. 

Jennie L., 500. 

Jennie Louise, 498. 

Joseph B., 232. 

Justus, 427. 

Kimball A., 501. 

Loren, 453. ,; 

Louisa, 175, 176. 

Lydia, 488. 

Marion, 501. 

Mary Ann, 176. 

Mary-Hayward, 407. 

Marv-McKay, 427. 

Maxwell, 232. 

Mehitable Perley, 175, 
176. 

Moses, 141, 463. 

Mrs. Sarah-Piper, 310. 

Pres. John, 95, 112, 114, 
115, 632. 

Richard H., 500. 

Richard Herbert, 498. 

Sally S., 175. 

Samuel, 175, 176. 

Sarah, 481. 

Sarah- Perkins, 481. 

Sarah Spofford, 175,176. 

Stella Beulah, 549. 

Susie, 156. 

WilUam, 175. 

William Leek, 501. 

William R., 501. 

William Warren, 501. 



Adams homestead, 175. 

Adams place, 156, 453. 

Adamses, Mass., stock of, 235. 

Adamson, Mary, 390. 

Addenda, 631. 

Addison Point, Me., 201. 

Addison, William Francis, 547. 

Admiral Sampson, the, 588. 

Advocate, the, 210. 

Aeneas, 300. 

Africa, 544, 596. 

Agreement, Schoolmaster's,31 

Aikins, Mary Jane, 391. 

Akerman, Hannah March,528. 

Alabama, 377. 

Alamo Castle, 376. 

Alaska, 378. 439. 

Albany, N. Y., 135, 184, 357. 

447, 448, 512, 653. 
Albany, Vt., 538, 606. 
Alberton, P. E. I., 302. 
Albion, Idaho, 352. 
Albion, Me., 227, 228, 419. 
Albion, Mich., 443. 
Alcott, Rev. William Penn, 

337. 
Alden, Elizabeth Jane, 287. 

Harriet Ann, 526. 

John, 612. 

Louisa Maria-Reynolds, 
526. 

Lvdia Ann, 300. 

Ruth, 612. 

William, 526. 
Aldrich, Alia, 227. 
Alexander, Caroline Whittier 
508. 

Jane-Comforth, 508. 

Joseph Hugh, 508. 

Thornton Knox, 508. 

Thornton Whittier, 508. 
Alexandria, Va., 381. 566. 
Alford, Mass., 503. 
Alfred, Me., 481. 
Alger, Helen Marie, 554. 

Helen Marie-Whittaker 
554. 

William Eames, 554. 
Allan, our ancestor, vi. (See 

Allan Perley). 
Allan, Christina-Forbes, 214. 

John, 214. 

John Thomas, 214. 

Mary, 214. 

Robert, 214, 215. 
Allan 's residence located, vi. 
Allan's Will, iv. 
Alleghany Mts., 356. 
Allen, Asaph, K., 607. 

Caleb, 501. 

Charles, 610. 

C. N. ,663. 

EUzabeth Margret, 489. 

Ella-Blaisdell, 501. 

Fanny-Sykes, 610. 

Frances E., 610. 

Isaac, 344. 

Isabel-Trary, 607. 

Johannah-Welch, 240. 

Joshua, 266. 

Mary Agnes, 240, 645. 

Mary Jane, 607. 

Nancy M., 86. 

NelUe Edith 501. 

Rev H. E., 498. 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



673 



Allen, Sabra Anna, 344 

Sophronia, 344 

William, 645 

William B., 290 
Allen woolen mill, 247 
Allendale, 53S 
Allen's farm, 90 
Alley & Sons, John B., 450 
Alliance, Mass. Temp., 495 

Ont, Lord's Day, 390 
Alliances of Pcrleys, viii, ix 
Allison & Somes, 625 
Ally, William, 134 
Almena, Mich., 476 
Almshouse, Boxford, 289, 292, 

642 
Alna, Me., 228 
Alnwick, 240. 
Alrich, Emeline, 454 
Altoona, Pa., 208 
Alton, 111., 518, 519, 520 
Alton Journal, 518. 
Alton, Me., 647 
Alton Public Library, 519 
Alumni, Chapman's Dart- 
mouth, 257 
Ambory, 561 
Armenia, 669 

America, xi, xiii, 1, 6, 98, 112, 
135, 300, 374, 395, 396, 
567, 646, 651, 668 
America, young, 284 
American Biography, 94 

brethren, 301 

Consul, 68 

Journal, the, 590 

Legion, 403 

manufacture. 224 

Republic, 158 

thinker, greatest, 243 
Americans, 632 
Amerique, the steamer, 374 
Ames, Alice Tyler, 293 

Charles, 293 

Clementine Corolin-Hart, 
570 

Edson David, 570 

Elizabeth, 112 

Elizabcth-Bhmt, 108 

Elizabeth Perley, 570 

Guy Clarence. 570 

James S., 293 

Jeannctte-Sergeant, 293 

John C, 161. 

Jonathan, 108, 110, 112 

Mrs. 109, 111-114 

Palonia Frances, 521 

Russell DeHart, 570 
Amesburv, Mass., 107, 151, 
164. 209, 210, 212, 314, 
363, 506, 644, 647, 648 
Amherst, 150 
Amherst, Mass., 616, 623 
Amherst, N. H., 280 
Amherst, N. S., 237 
Amherstburg, Ont., 510 
Amicus, Kan., 281. 
Amiens, France, 6.37 
Amos, Margaret Isabe11a,387 
Amoskeag Mfg. Co., 386 
Amsterdam, N. Y., 91 
Ancaster, Ont., 388, 389.578 
Anchinleck branch, the 383., 
Anderson, Annette. 608 

Edward W., 221 

Elizabeth Rebecca, 272 

Emma Clare-Nicholson, 
583 

Emma-Engeseth, 630 

Euphcmia-Findlay, 442 

Flora Isabell, 603 

Florence Isadore, 603 

Ira Stone, 608 

Jane, 369 

John Pressley, 442 

Mary P., 609 

Mary Perley [Perle] 284, 
608 



Minnie May, 583 

Mrs. 483 

Mrs. Ira S., iii, 284 

Robert, 583, 603 

Robert Stevens, 603 

Ruth-Stevens, 603 

Seth P., 608 

Wilbert Lee, 60S 

William, 442 
Anderson, Knight &, 168 
Anderson & Lewis, 608 
Andcrsonville, Ga., 90 
Andersonville Prison, 567 
Andes Mts., 208 
Andover, Mass., viii, 13, 30, 33, 
46, 61, 62, 70, 107, 113, 
118, 137, 158, 197, 212, 
254, 259, 274, 297, 319, 
416, 446, 523, 559, 592, 
629, 631, 646, 6.53 
Andover, Me., 71, 552 
Andover, N. B., 394, 401 
Andover, N. H., 281, 625 
Andover road, 156 
Andre, Sophia, 374 
Andrew, Abigail, 26 

Anna, 26 68 

Annie, 77 

David, 26 

Elizabeth, 26 

Gov., 300, 314 

Gov. John A., 313 

Grace, 25 

Hannah, 26 

Hannah- Wood, 68 

Hephzibah, 25, 26 

John, 25, 26 

John Albion, 25 

Jonathan, 25, 26 

Joseph, 25, 26 

Joshua, 68 

Lydia, 25 

Marcy [not Mary] 26 four- 
teenth line 

Mary, 25, 26 

Mary [read MarcyJ 26, 
fourteenth line 

Nathaniel, 25, 26 

Patience, 26 

Rebecca, 26 

Robert, 25, 26 

Ruth, 26 

Sarah, 25 

Thomas, 11, 26 
Andrews, 85 

Apphia, 140 

Betsey, 162, 345, 351 

Charles Perley, 245 

Daniel, 132. 

Dean, 445. 

EHzabeth Cynthia, 85 

Emily Augusta, 445 

Eunice-Kimball, 445 

Eunice-Kneeland, 85 

Hannah-Wood, 140 

Harriet Esther, 445 

Henry Allen. 245 

Jacob, 139 

Joanna, 255 

Joseph, 85 

Joshua, 140 

Leander, 132 

Loren, 24.5 

Lt., 414 

Lucy, 245 

Lydia, 125 

Lysander, 132 

Mrs. Dean, 254 

Nancy, 132 

Nathan, 132, 445 

Porter, 132 

Rachel G., 414 

Sarah, 140 
Andrews & Perley, 440 
Andrews house, 156 
Andrews Sharpshooters, 595 
Andros, 16, 21 



Angelica, N. Y., 537 
Angels, The, 503 
Ann Arbor, 373, 401, 564 
Annapolis, 90, 454, 621 
Annice, Elizabeth, 285 
Annis, Marcy A., 593 

Mary, 459 
Anoka, Minn. ,568 
Anson, Me., 150, 266 
Antietam, 90, 385, 576, 595 
Antietam, Battle of, 248 
Antioch, Cal., 637 
Antiquarian, The Essex, 108 
Antrim, Ire., 383 
Antrim, N. H., 276, 625 
Antwerp, N. Y., 486 
Apalachin, N. Y., 590 
Apperleghe, John de, xvii, 

xviii 
Ap-Perley, xvi, 397 
Apperley, Anthony, xviii 

Charles James, xviii 

Elizabeth, xvi 

John, xviii 

Maj., iv 

Miss xvii. xix, 414 

Mrs., xvii 

Newton Wynne, xviii 

Thomas, xviii 

William, xviii 

William Wynne, xviii 
Apperley, name of, xvi, xvii, 

xviii, xxii, 414 
Appeuile, xviii 
Apple, Southern Lady, 100 
Apples, Perley, 329 
Appleton, xxii 
Appleton, Augusta Newell, 78 

Benjamin Dexter, 77. 78 

Charles Warren, 78 

Daniel Smith, 77 

Elizabeth, 98, 99 

Fannie Etta, 77 

Gen. James, 199 

Harriet-Bishop, 77 

Harriet Elizabeth, 77, 78 

Hepsie, 78 

John, 31, 38, 63, 98 

Martha, 63 

Mary, 190 

Mrs. Toshua, 85 

Samuel, 63, 98, 99 

Sarah, 98 
Appleton, Me., 93 
Appleton National Bank, 525 
Appleton & Co., D., 180 
Appomattox Court House,302 
Appuleius, xviii 
Appuley, xvii, xviii 
Appurley, xvii 
Apulee, xviii 
Arcala, Assiniboia, N. W. T. 

409. 
Areata, Cal., 603 
Archibald, Isaac, 228 

Isaac Edson, 228 

Mary-Horton, 228 
Archives, State Boston, 655 
Areola, 111.. 611 
Arden, 390 
Argus, The, 497, 570 
Arizona, 377 
Arizona exhibit, 654 
Arkansas. 377 
Arkansas Volunteers, 565 
Arky, Eva, 668 
Arlington Heights, 455 
Arlington, Mass., 193, 317, 

363, 649. 
Arlington, N. J., 361 
Arlington Quartette, 343 
Armiger, 98. 
Armor, coat, 14 
Armorial bearing, 414. 
Armory, Browne & Co., 447 
Arms, Apperley, xvi, xvii, 
xxii. 



674 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Arms, Conant, 648 

Dodsworth Badsworth 

628 
Macartney. 650 
I'arleis, xv 
Parleys, xv 
Pearl, xvi 
Purley, xvi 
Pursey, xx 

Strickland or Strykeland 
^ 643 

Throgmorton, xvi 
Arms, Coats of, xii. 668 

Sources of, xii 
Arms proposed, xxii 
Armstrong, Elizabeth, 428 

Susan, 76. 
Army, Confederate, 527 
Continental, 68, 1.30 
Potomac, .385. 576 
Provincial, 118 
Revolutionary, 414 
Turkish, 668 
Union, 348 
U. S., 193, 221 
Arnold, Gen. Benedict, 403 
646 
Jane, 207 
Madam, 403 
Arnold's treason, 273 
Arnprior, Ont., 582 
Arthur, Gen. Chester A. ,485 
Artillery, Mass. Heavy, 649 
Arundel, 26 
Ash, Espy, 631 
Ashburnham, 128, 230, 431 
Ashburton, Lord. 413 

Treaty, 413 
Ashby, 229 
Ashcroft, Mass. 529 
Ashford, N. Y.. 243 
Ashley. 131 
Ashley road, 132 
Ashton, Mary Ann, 581 
Patty, 578 
William, 129 
Asia Minor, 668 
Aslebee, Mary-Osgoud, 33, 51 

54, 57 
Aspen, Colo., 483 
Assembly, Canadian, 300 

Provincial, 25 
Assiniboia, N. W. T., 409 
Assinippi, 596 
Assistants, Board of, 2 
Association, 

Canadian Medical, 635 
Citizen's Constitutional. 

599 
Confederation Life. 390 
for Detect, of Thieves 

306 
Essex North, 290 
Haverhill, 290 
Lynn Mus., 450 
Medical, 510 
New Brunswick Medical 

635 
Perley Family, xi 
Toronto Medical, 635 
Astle, Adwina, 604 
Astor House Family, 80 
Astrologer, boy, 163 
Asylum, Mont. Insane, 667 
Athens, 96 
Athens, Me., 228 
Athens of America, the, 531 
Athens, Pa., 538 
Atherton, Abigail-Mooers, 634 
Albert, 632 
Alfred B., 635 
Alfred Bennison, 634 
AmeUa, 632 
Benjamin, 632, 634, 636 

637 
Calvin, 632 
Dr., 632 



Edwin R., 637 
Edwin Robinson, 635 
Elizabeth J., 635 
Elizabeth Jane, 634 
Ernest Livingstone, 635 
Fanny, 632. 
Frances E., 637 
Frances Emma, 635 
George F., 635- 
George Frederick, 634 
George Irvine, 637 
Hannah, 637 
Harry Bedford. 635 
Humphrey, 636, 637 
James, 636 
Jane, 409, 632 
John, 632, 634 
Le Baron, 632 
Mabel Maud, 637 
Mary, 632 
Mary A., 635 
Mary Abigail, 634 
Mary-Carle, 409 
Matilda Amanda, 634 
Maud, 635, 637 
Peter, 409, 632 
Simeon, 634 
Stephen E., 635 
.Stephen Edward, 634 
Thomas, 632 
William Alfred. 637 
WilUam de, 636 
Atherton, Eng., 636 
Athol, Mass., 246, 249 437 

439 
Atkinson, All Hail Loved, 362 
Atkinson, Alice Maria, 202 
Edward Jason, 201 
Eleanor Locke, 332 
Frederic Perley, 332 
Grace, 202 
Jennie, 443 . 
Joseph Alley, 201 
Josephine Perley, 332 
Joseph P., xi. 
Joseph Plummer, 331 

332 
Martha Louise, 332 
Mary Elizabeth, 202 
Orville Augustus, 332 
Rev. Mr., 49S 
Ruth Chadwell-Mudge 

201 
Senator, 572 
Atkinson, N. H., 118. 500 
Atlanta. Ga., 108, 666 
Attlcboro, Mass., 266, 426 
Attorney, East Dist., 359 

U. S. Dist., 44. 
Attridgc, Adda. 429 
Adelia, 429 
Arthur, 429 
Herman, 429 
Maggie. 429 
Margaret- Dawson, 429 
Mary, 429 
Muriel, 429 
Richard, 429 
Attwood's, 161 

Auburn, [Mass.], 133, 134,250. 
Auburn, Me., 82, 194 195 
316. 369, 373,422,591.' 
Auburn, N. H., 460 
Auburn, R. I., 437 
Augmentation Office, 2 
Augusta, Me., 52, 173 ogg 
274, 298, 301, 302, 31o' 
351, 521, 591, 667 
"Aunt Rebecca," 127 
Aurora, fill.], 561 
Aurora, Kan. T., 377 
Aurora, N. Y., 129, 640 
Austin, Clara Isabella, 536 
Harriet Newell, 482 
Lucy Ann, 432 
Lucy-Kendrick, 432 
Thomas, 432 . 



Austin, Nev., 392, 400 
Austin, Texas. 376 
Australia, xviii, 491, 537 
Austrian Usurpation, 668 
Autographs, 570. 
Autopsy, 109, 110 
Avalon, Mo., 480 
Averill, Carrie, 155 
Charles, 156 
Cyrus, 349 

Elizabeth, 255, 326, 505 
Elmer P., 155, 156. 
E. Perkins, 155. 
Florence Maria. 255. 
Florence Osgood, 156 
George Leonard, 255 
John F.. 349. 
Joseph, 255, 505 
Louisa- Dickinson, 349 
Lulu J., 155 
Lydia, 328 
Mary Lizzie, 255 
Mrs,, 255. 
Avery, Daniel, 168 
Avon, 252. 

Avon Station, la., 604 
Avondale, 390. 
Ayer, Mary, 476 
Ayer, Mass.. 454 
Ayers. Abiah. 58 

Elizabeth-Tultle, 57 
Hannah, 58 
Hezekiah, 58 
Jacob, 58 
James, 58 
John, 58 
Jonathan. 58 
Joseph, 58 
Lydia, 58, 72 
Perley, 58 
Peter, 57, 58 
Phincas, 58 
Richard, 58 
Samuel. 57 
Sarah, 58 
William, 58 
Ayers Village. 58 
Ayrshire, Scotland, 429 



"B" 70 

Babcock, Adwina- Astle, 604 
Albert Woodbury, 604 
Emma Amelia, 604 
Baby Louisa Rosalie, 597 
"Babylon, Fall of", 567 
Bachelder, Eunice, 294 
Bachellor, Charles, 457 

Elbridge Kimball, 457 
George, 457 
George H. A., 157 
George Hiram Abiff.456 
George Kendall, 457 
Henry Pcrlev 457 
Humphrey Clark, 457 
John, 457 

Leonard Hazeltine, 457 
Lois Hardy, 457 
Lydia-Chase, 456, 457 
Maria, G., 457 
Mary, 457 

Morrison Proctor, 457 
Proctor P., 457 
Ruth M., 457 
Samuel, 456 
Wm., 456 
William K , 457 
Bachelor, George, 154 

Henry, 154. 
Bachellor Meadow, 103 
Bacon, D. G 516 
Dr., 462 

Mary Hammond, 317 
Ruth W., 191 
Samuel, 106, 209- 
W. B., 516 
Bade, Marie Elisabet de, 644 
Badger, Gov., 668 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



675 



217 



217 
507 



Badger, Ruth, 668 

Badsworth, 62S 

Bagley, Bulah-Woodruff,561 

Lodoisha Ashley, 561 

Solon B., 561 
Bagloe, Albert Henry, 437 

Ann Tradinac, 437 

Carry Mason, 437 

Hattie Grace, 437 
m William, 437 
Bailev, 629 

Abigail, 2S8 

Abraham, 217 

Addie May, 431 

AHce, 249 

Annie Louise, 432 

Benjamin, 217 

Benjamin Studley, 217 

Charles James, 217 

KUen Rebecca-Platt,447 

Emma Tosephine-Pick- 
^ ard, 560 

Kphraim Manasseh, 217 

Frederick Wellington, 431 

George Henry, 447 

Gertrude Julia, 432 

Gideon Daniel, 217 

John, 152, 217 

John Thomas, 217 

Julia Miranda-Pettee,431 

I>a Forrester, 295 

Leroy, 560 

Lizzie, 296 

Luke Edward, 217 

Margaret A. -Johnson 
295 

Mary, 199 

Matilda Ann, 

Mrs., 217 

Orra, 431 

Phoebe Eliza, 

Rebecca, 505, 

Samuel, 101 

Sarah, 288 

Sarah Cheever, 447 
Bailey Show, Barnum &, 567 
Bailey & Co., S. R., 151 

Baine, 629 

Baird, Agnes Girvan, 636 

Alfred Briggs, 636 

Elizabeth-Snodgrass,636 

Ethel, 636. 

Frank Fraser, 636 

Hannah Snodgrass, 63G 

Isaac Wallace, 636 

Ruth Margaret, 636 

Samuel, 636 
Baker, , xii, 457 

Abigail Kidder, 493 

Abigail- Perkins, 479. 

Adella Minerva, 480 

Anna, 49 

Candace Sophia, 479 

Charles, 567 

Charles A., 480 

Charles Anson, 479 

Edward Nelson, 480 

Emily-Smith, 569 

Ernest Ralph, 569 

Eunice, 116 

F^va Johanna, 480 

Ezra, 250 

F'annie Malvina, 577 

George Henry, 226 

Gilbert Orvel, 480 

Henry Dow, 480 

Henry Jacolj, 479 

H. H., 278 

Isaac, 493 

Jacob, 479 

James Seldon, 480 

John, 48, 49 

John Perkins, 479 

John Wilbur, 479 

Kezia, 139 

Louisa Maria, 493 

Lydia Almira, 567 



Maria Louisa, 493 

Mary, 49 

Mary F., 494. 

Mary Frances, 493 

Osma C, 494 

Osma Cornelia, 493 

Osman Perley, 493 

Osman Cleander, 493 

Philip DeWitt, 569 

Ralph, 569 

Samuel, 49 

Simons, 110 

Susan E., 479 

Susan F'^rances, 480 

Thomas, 48, 49 

Warren Adabert, 480 

Wilbur, 479 
Bakersfield, Vt., 286, 479, 481, 
484, 486-488, 603, 611, 
612 
"Baker Perley," 460 
Balch, Wiggin, 513 

Anna Bradstreet, 155, 156 

Benj. Johnson, 155 

Clarence Linwood, 155 

Daniel, 167 

Edith, 513 

F'dward Forrest, 1.55 

Edward Perley, 155, 156 

Eunice, 155 

F'lora Eliza, 155 

F'ranklin, 155 

Gilbert Brownell, 155, 
156 

Harriet Webb, 155 

Humphrey, 155 

Humphrey, Porter 155 

Jeremiah, 155 

Jeremiah Perkins, 155 

Jeremiah Shepherd, 155 

Joanna Mitchell, 212 

John, 154, 209 

Jonathan, 308 

Lucy, 212 

Mary, 167 

Mary Abby, 155 

Mary Augusta, 155, 156 

Mehitable, 155 

Moody, 154 

Nathaniel, 212 

Perley, 154, 155 

Rebecca, 154 

Rev. Dr., 513 

Roger, 154 

Sally-Hopkinson, 308 

Samuel, 308 

Sarah H., 308 

WilUam P., 308 
Balch Bros., 156 
Baldwinsville, Mass., 251, 434 

436-439 
Ball, Almira Flhott, 276 

Dexter, 276 

Heman, 173 

John, 276 

Nehemiah, 276 

Rebecca Proctor, 276 

Sarah, 199 
Ballard, -White, 479 

Amanda I-., 479 

Carl Eugene, 480 

Carrie M., 479 

Charles ,479 

Charles Orville, 480 

David Eugene, 480 

Emeroy C, 611 

Emoroy CaHsta, 479 

Ernest E., 480 

Ernest Eugene, 479 

Fred, 479 

Hannah, 337 

Harland Adelbert, 479 

Ida Nelson, 479 

James, 479 

James N., 479 

John Bradley, 479 

John Melvin, 479 



Nellie, 479 

Orville John 479 

Thomas Orville, 479 

Trathon, 479 
Ballentine, Capt. John, 655 
Ballinasloe, Ire , 505 
Ballon, Asahel, 42 

Benjamin, 42 

Hosea, 42, 328, 495 
Balls Bluff, 90 
Balnier, Joseph, 630 
Baltimore, Md., 68, 209, 210, 

212, 530, 565, 653 
Bambach, Christian, 325 

John Henry, 325 

I,aura Virginia-Hinton, 
325 
Banbury, Edwin Ashley, 581 

Ellen Maud, 581 

lamest Carey, 581 

Lloyd Ashley, 581 

Mary Ann-Ashton, 581 

Perley, 582 

Pha-be EUzabeth, 582 

Richard, 581 

Richard Dell, 581 

Roy Ashton, 581 
Bancroft, Abbie Quincy, 512 

Jacob, 512 

Lucy, 244 

Martha G., 512 

Smyrna W., 244 
Bancroft's History of U. S., 2 
Bangor, Me., 69, 90, 163, 191- 
193, 226, 228, 265, 302, 
311, 320, 380, 412, 452, 
629, 630, 647 
Bangs, Rev. Sumner, 380 
Bank, Appleton Nat., 525 

Bridgton, Savings, 366 

Dartmouth Savings, 522 

First Nat., Reading, 448 

Franklin Co. Nat., 616 

Georgetown Nat., 458 

Globe Employes' 621 

Mer. Nat., 572 

Nat., 537 

Naumkeag Nat., 207 

Park Hill Standard. 588 

Peoples' Nat., 491, 566 
Banking, cooperative, 619 
Bank of N. S., 430 

St. Croix Falls, 440 
Bankers & Merchants, 541 
Banks, Blanche Beatrice, 423 

Emma Tsabelle, 241 

Gen., 444, 462, 586 

George, 241 

George Frederick, 241, 
423 

Henry Dow, 113 

James Sanford, 241 

Mary, 241 

Sarah Elizabeth, 241 

Violet Irene, 423 
Banks' Expedition, 163 
Banner, Harriet, 198 
Baptist, a, 476 

a devoted, 421 
Bar, Canadian, 193 

Connecticut, 510 

Massachusetts, 193 

Erie County, 567 
Baraboo, Wisconsin, 348 
Barber, Dr., xvii, xviii, 
Barber, Rev. Dr., xiv 
Barber, Rev. H. H., 90 
Barbour, Alexander Lam- 
bert, 510 

Edward Lambert, 510 

Eliza Ann-Ransom, 510 
. Wm. McLeod, 510 

William Ransom, 510 
Barden, Achsah, 272 
Bardsley, Mr., xvii 
Bar Harbor, Me., 638 
Bark, Acasia, 376 



676 



THE PERLBY FAMILY 



Bark of birchtree, 124 
Barker, viii, 399 

Albert Sheridan, 93 

Benjamin, 218 

Caroline Frances, 302 

Charles Benjamin, 218 

Chas. WoodvJlle, 218 

Clara Louise, 218 

Hlizabeth Reynolds, 90 

Frederick, C. 219 

Frederick Coburn, 218 

George, 93 

Harriet Atvvood Perley, 
218 

John, 113 

Julia, 218 

Martha P., 550 

Mary-Coburn, 218 

Mercv, 63 

Miss, 215 

Moses, 113 

Nathaniel, 101 

Phcrbe Elizabeth, 256 

Sarah, 29, 218 

Sarah Ehzabeth-Titcomb 
93 

Thomas Benjamin, 218 

Thomas Perley, 218 

William Harrison, 219 
Barkhamstead, F,nK., 64 
Barn, Aaron Perlev's, 640 
Barnabv, Mary, 297 
Barnard, Chas. F., 625 

Chas. WilUam, 025 

Sophronia W. - Holmes, 
625 

William F., 625 
Barnes, Benj S., 11, 66 

Kdith Edna, 443 

Frank, 137 

G. H., 287 

Jennie Lavina- Collins, 
443 

Joseph, 443 

Perry, 226 

Phineas, 162 

Sarah, 162 

Sarah Ellen, 280 

Sallv-Spofford, 162 

William, 197 
Barnstable, Mass., 639 
Barnstcad, N. H., 507 
Barnum, P. T., 567 
Barr, Caroline, 08 

Mary Ehza, 348 

Nancy, 08 
Barre, 286 
Barrell, xx 
Barrett, Angus McLean, 302 

Margaret, 448 

Mary A., 302 

Marv Matilda, 302 

Quinton Hugh, 389 
Barrett Co., Bugbee &, 639 
Barringer, Helen Amelia- 
Crooker, 573 

Mary Lavinia, 573 

Mathias, 573 
Uarrington, N. H., 164 
Barrows, Mary, 126 

Mary Palmer-Fessenden, 
221 

Ruel, 126 

Sarah Fessenden, 221 

Thomas P., 120 

W'illiam, 221 
Barstow, Aseneth, 220 
Bartlett, 630 

Adaline, 457 
Celia, 649 

Clayton Joseph, 630 

Dorothy, 282, 301 

Eliza Jane, 457 

Greenleaf Kelley, 142 

Joseph, 282 

Luther, 457 

Ruth, 559 



Sarah-Morse, 282 
Bartlett' s Corner, 209 
Barton Landing, Vt..605 606 
Barton, Vt., 471, 482, 605,606 
Bass, Tohn, 012 

Sarah, 612 
Baskett, John, 25 
Bastedo, Susan, 391 
Baston, Annie May, 317 

James, 317 

Mary Hammond-Bacon, 
317 
Batavia, 111., 368 
Batavia, N. Y., 503 
Batchelder, (see also Bachel- 
lor) Aaron, 40 

Almira, 347 

Almira Putnam, 346 

Andrew, 346, 347, 349 

Annie, 445 

Benjamin W., 40 

Charles H., 40 

David, 26. 40 

Dennis, 449 

Foster Rayner, 449 

G. Edwin, 449 

Hannah R., 40 

Harriet B., 40 

Henry, 6 

Jeremiah, 40 

Tohn, 40, 172, 347 

lohn A., 40 

lohn Q., 34 

Joseph, 40, 172, 627 

loseph M., 40 

Toscph P., 40 

Julia S., 40 

Lois, 40 

Lucy Frances-Rayncr, 
449 

Maria Olivia, 172 

Martha A., 40 

Mar>', 40 

Marv A., 40 

Marv E., 40 

Mt>lly, 40 

Moses, 40 

Mrs. 55 

Perley, 40 

Phebc, 550 

Rachel, 330 

Ruth-Putnam, 340 

Sally, 40 

Samuel S., 40 

Sarah, 40 

Sarah-Felton, 349 

Sarah-Perkins, 172 

Sarah S., 40 

Susannah, 40 

William A., 40 
Batchellor, Nathaniel, 179 
Batchellor & Doris Shows,567 
Bateman, Alfred P., 315 

Bernice Ellen, 594 

Bessie Ann Perley, 594 

Betsev-Merrill. 593 

Bovd Leshe, 594 

Charles Grafton, 594 

Clara Perley, 594 

Frank Eldon. 594 

Jessie Hale, 594 

John B., 593, 

John Battis, 593 

Tohn Melvin, 594 

John Perley 594 

Linnie Gertrude, 594 

Mabel Josephine, 594 

Rosa A. 316 

Rosa Amanda, 315 
Bath, Me., 203, 358, 391, 590, 

591, 646, 
Bathurst, N. B., 429, 529 
Baton Rouge, 444, 462, 587 
BattalHon, Honved, 068 
Battle Creek, 358, 374 i 
Baxter, Caroline J. 277 

Caroline Jerusha, 276 



Charles Henry, 201 

Charles Newcomb, 276 

Daniel Story, 276 

Edward Hallan, 201 

Edward Lee, 201 

Emma-Lambert, 201 

Jonathan, 275 

Joseph, 201 

Mary A. H., 277 

Mary Ann Havward, 276 

Paul Perley, 275 

Pollv Doble-Hayward, 
275 

Rebecca Blanchard, 276 

Thompson, 275, 270 

William, 201 
Bay du Vin, N. B., 240, 420 
Bay of Fundy. 037 
Baylor, Gen., 565 

Kate Brooke, 505 

Thomas Gregory, 565 
Bayonne, France, 203, 204 

206 
Bazley, Jane, 198 
Beach, Aurilla-Comstock,295 

Helen Estclle, 295 

Henrv Harrison, 295 

Martha A.. 610 

Samuel. 295 
Bcal, lohn W.. 89 

Sarah J., 89 
Beall, Anna Bell, 611 

Chas. Beauchamp, 611 

James Perley, 611 

William, Oil 

W^m. Beauchamp, 611 
Beals, F:ilen, 400 
Beaman, William, 231 
Bean, E., 380 

Everett, 403 

Eunice-Pike, 84 

Fanny Moody, 039 

Nathan, 168 

Lois, 84 

Mary, 270 

Micajah, 84 

Samuel H., 108 
Bean's Corner, Jay, 453 
Beardsley, John, 032 

W^ilhemina Louisa Flor- 
ence-Nash, 401 
Bear Island, N. B., 409, 035 
Bcattie, Dorinda Ann, 609 

John Yates, 609 

Sarah Elizabeth-Deely, 
609 
Beauchamp, Lidie, 527 
Beaumont, Cornelia Merriam 
344 

Cornelia Pease-Erwin,344 

George Henry, 344 

Sabra Merriam, 344 

William H., 344 
Beaver, 252 
Beaver City, Neb., 442 
Beaver Harbor, N. B., 424 
Becker, Mrs. Barbara A.- 

Heintz, 572 
Becket, William, 112 
Beckwith, Eunice, 404 

Susan Duncan, 508 
Bedell, John, 391 

Margaret Jane, 391 

Paul Micheau, 404 
Bedford, N. H., 69, 274, 275 
Bedlow's Island, 196 
Beecher, Henry Ward, 591 

Lyman, 511 

Mrs. 591 
Beecher' s people, 542 
Beeman, Aaron, 102 

Charles A., 102 

Edward P., 102 

Horatio L., 102 

Louisa R., 102 
■^ Phebe-Kimball, 162 
Beer & Co., D. G. (Beers) 209 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



677 



Beers, Lucy, 247 
Beirout, Syria, 448 
Belchertown, Mass., 623 
Belfast. Ire., 237, 428 
Belfast Journal, 419 
Belgium, 668 
Bell, Anna, 611 
Belleas, Charles, 557 

Gertrude Henrietta, 557 

Lena-Boreazel, 557 
Belle Isle, Straits of, 412 
Bellevue, Pa., 447 
Bellows Falls, Vt., 251, 433 
Belknap Mill, 168 
Belmont, 329, 330, 389 
Belmont Park, 63 
Beloit, Kan., 480 
Belvidere, Minn., 630 
Bement, 111., 651 
Bemis, Alice A., 286 
Bender, Bcni. Frank, 455 

Ethel Mae, 455 

Mary Elizabcth-Kellogg, 
455 
Bendure, Abigail, 630 

Benedict, Frances Eliza- 
Frost, 387 

Matilda Hilton, 387 

Thomas, 387 

William Andrew, 387 
Benham, Alice F., 492 

Harriet-Hillekee, 492 

Isiac, 492 
Bennett, Charles. 631 

Charles B., 631 

Cleaves B., 631 

John, 58 

Lucy Gillette, 646 

Mehitable, 145 

Sarah W., 631 

Sewell, 144, 145 

Stephen, 46 
Bennington, Battle of, 669 
Bennington, Vt,. 480 
Bennington ware, 651 
Bennison, Albert, 634 

Amanda I'erley, 634 

Charlotte, 634 

Charlotte Perley, 634 

Eben, 634 

EUza Mary, 634 

George, 634 

George Samuel, 634 

James Johnson, 634 

Mary, 634 

Mary C. P., 636 

Mary Caroline Perley, 634 

Matilda Jane, 634 

Samuel, 634 

Thomas Edward, 634 
Benson, Caroline Frederica- 
Nelson, 596 

Elizabeth Frederica, 596 

John Frederick, 596 
Benson, Neb., 608 
Bent, David, 658, 

William, 135, 658 
Benton, Me., 418, 419 
Benton, Mary Catherine,550 

Thomas H., 552 
Benwood, 430 
Berkshire, Vt., 284, 485, 487, 

603, 610 
Berlin, 378 
BerUn, Ger., 331, 488, 512, 

520, 557 
Berlin, Mass., 82 
Berlin, Ont., 474 
Berlin, Vt., 284-287, 480-484, 

486-489, 605, 607, 647 
Berly, xx 
Berrill, xx 
Berry, Albert, 255 

Albert G., 646 

Albert Greenleaf, 252 

Anna Wells, 255 



Augusta S., 644 
Augusta Susan, 643 
Benjamin, 110 
Charles Albert, 255 
Clara H., 440 
Claia Helena, 252 
Daniel, 194 
Elias, 220, 646 
Elizabeth, 72 
Eunice-Carpenter, 252 
Fannie Jane, 643 
Frances Ann, 135 
Frances Eliza, 252, 646 
George E., 523 
Georgia Anna, 643 
Gertrude Wells, 256 
Jacob, 255 
John, 72 

John Masury, 523 
John Plumley, 523 
Katherine Annette, 256 
I-ydia W., 523 
Margaret, 77 
Martha Higgins, 643 
Mary, 547 
Mary Annette, 255 
Mary Perley, 523 
Nancy-Lamb, 643 
Phebe, 220, 646 
PhcEbe Anna, 256 
Rachel, A. 525 
Rufus, 196, 643 
Samuel Dwight, 255, 250 
Sarah Josephine, 643 
Susannah- Winchester, 
255 

William, 643 

Berry's Tavern, 184 

Beiryville, 90 

Berthum, Susan S., 192 

Berwick, Me., 198 

Berwya, 111.. 613 

Bethel, Me., 62, 72, 119, 552 
027 

Bethel, Vt., 287, 433 

Bethlehem, N. H., 160 

Bettis, 584 

Bet to, 584 

Belts, Benajah Taylor, 386 
Charles Darling, 386 
Emily Ada, 386 
Emily-Seymour, 386 
Fr.ank Taylor, 386 
Ira Benedict, 386, 387 
Lucy Penny, 386 
Nancy Maria, 431 
Ralph Perley, 386 
Robert Jefferson, 386 
Thomas, 387 
William Henry, 386 

Beverly, Mass., 49, 86, 87,115, 
116, 159, 180. 197, 200, 
291, 310, 344. 444, 524, 
553, 554, 559. 

Beyea, Martha Sophia, 393 

Bible, 25 

Bible, old, x 

Bickford, Hepzibeth A., 498 
Luella Bell, 274 
WiUiam. 246 

Bicknell, Benjamin, .303 
Edith Lena, 304 
Fred Judson, 303 
Helen Coburn, 304 
Loantha-Coburn, 303 
Putnam Perley, 304 

Biddeford, 220 

Big Bethel, 385 

Bigelow, Augustus, 246 

Cynthia H.Perlev, 246 
Susan Perley, 246 
Thuseba, 246 

Bigtimber, Mont., 422 

Billings, Carrie Lucinda, 472 
Emily Lockwood - Du- 
rant, 472 



George B catty, 472 
Hannah, 264 
Billlings, Mont. 422 
Billerica, Mass., 68, 69, 148 
Bill of Rights, 67 
Bingham, Louise Corbet, 407 

Jabez, 72 
Bingham register, xiv 
Binghaniton, N. Y., 577 
Binston, Minn., 309 
Biography, iii 
Biography, American, 291 
Biography of Indiana, Ency. 

of, 254 
"Birches, The," Chatham, 

N. B., 426 
Bird, Catherine, 502 
Birdsall, B., 300 
Birmingham, George, 624 

Hannah, 624 
Birthday, 25th, 24th, 441 
Birthplace of Amer. Ind., 21 
Birthplace, Rev. Samuel Per- 
ley' s, 48 
Bisbee, Ariz., 561 
Bishop, Esther-Gibcrson, 422 

George, 630 

Harriet, 77 

Isabella-Walls, 240 

John, 228, 229 

Juha Roundy, 630 
Margaret Phyhnda, 240 

Maria, 422 

Nellv, 630 

Robert D., 240 

William, 422 
Bishop's Stortford, Eng., 64 
Bisley, Eng., 584 
Bixby, Cromwell, 316 

Daniel, 260, 352, 542 

Elvira, 542 

George, 542 

Georgiaima, 542, 543 

Henry, 316 

John P., 543 

John Perley, 542 

Lewis L., 543 

Lewis Lester, 542 

Lucinda. 352 

Lydia, 316 

Lydia, A. 543 

Lydia Ann, 542 

Martha, 643 

Sarah-Town, 352, 542 
Black, Daniel, 24, 25, 33 

Horace, 230 

Lulu, 243 

Sarah, 25 
Blackbrook, 240 
Black Brook, N. B., 589 
Black Hawk, Col., 479, 610, 

611 
Blackhurst, Emma, 552 
Blackington, Edna Richards 

587 
Blackmer crest, 613 
Black Prince, The, 161 
Black River, N. B., 426 
"Black Rock," Hero of 25 
Blaine, Wash., 366, 367 
Blaisdell, Ella, 501 

Lydia F., 369 
Blake, Almira. 307 

Almira Elizabeth, 307 

Arthur L., 195 

Arthur Lewis, 643 

Carrie Webster, 307 

Catherine-Bird, 502 

C. H., 307 

Chandler, 502 

Cora Susan, 195, 643 

Dr., 262 

Ehas, 195, 643 

Elizabeth, 416 

EUzabeth-Cook, 643 

EUzabeth-Trion, 195 

Esther J., 479 



678 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Blake, Grinfill, 221 

James Lewis, 140 
J. C, 571, 572 
Jethro, 307 

Lizzie Higgins, 195, 643 

Lothrop, 195, 643 

Luther Gary, 364 

Mary Elizabeth, 502 

Mr. 261 

Nellie Perley, 364 

Prudence, 29 

Silas, 364, 360 

Sophia-Cary, 364 
Blanchard, Hannah, 465 

Louisa, 496 

Mary Ann Sawyer, 372 
Blaney, Mr., 57 
"Bleakhouse, "Peel, Ont., 390 
Blenheim, 579 
Bliss, Charles, 238 

Daniel, 120 

Edith, 238 

George Johnston, 238 

James Peters, 238 

Mary, 238, 448 

Susan Marv-Dibblee,238 
Blissfield, N. B., 302 
Blissville, N. B., 217, 405-408 
Blodgette, Esq., George B., 

106, 208 
Blood, Alfred Putnam, 294 

Ann Ehza, 294 

Mary Rice-Bowden, 294 
Bloody Brook, 655 
BloomYield, N. B., 634 
Bloomfield. N. J., 422 
Bloomsburg, I'a., 485 
Bluetield, Me., 320 
Blunt. lUizabcth, lOS 

Isaac, 113 

Mary, 113 
Board, I'^ederictou vScliool, 

635 
Board of Education, 573 

Education, State, 495 

I''ire Com., 575 

Missions, 384 

Survey, 130 

Trade, 373 

Trade, Chicago, 360 

Trade, Lawrence, 343 
Boardman. Abigail, 49 

Abigail Rolfe, 29 

Daniel. 177 

EUzabeth, 177 

John, 49 

Mary, 49 

Moses N.. 314 

Nathaniel, 29 ^ 
Boadway, Joseph E., 380 

Laura A.-Rose, 380 

Lucille Higgins, 380 

Odber Earle, 380 
Bodleys on Wheels. The, 205 
Bodwell, Daniel, 148 
Bogart, Cornelius, 249 

Fannie Adelia, 249 

Sarah G.-Lovell, 249 
Bogue, Alexander, 483 

Francis Newton, 483 

Sarah-Clark, 483 
Boiestown, N. B., 427 
Boise City, 317 
Bokensen, Susannah, 1 

Susanna, 396 
Bokerson, 627 
Bokeson, Susanna, v, 
Bokesen, Susanna ,1,6 
Boksen, 6 
Bolderson, 627 
Bolman, Elizabeth, 448 
Bolsters Mills, Harrison, 365 

366 
Bolton, Can., 432, 603 

Nelly Harvey, 461 

Sarah, 36 
Bonesteel. Emma Leaven, 654 



Bonney, Clara, 174 
Fred, 174 
H. C. 174 
"Bonnie Brier Bush, The," 

568 
Book Buyer's Guide, 496 
Boone, la., 489 
Booneville, Ind., 253 
Booth, Agnes, 568 
George, 62 
J. R., 472 
Mary, 62 
Boothroyd, Harriet, 441 
Boreazel, Lena, 557 
Boreham, xv 
Boscawen, N. H.,69, 148, 149, 

296 
Bostock, Frances Mary, 504, 
Boston, Mass., v, xi, 12, 55,56, 
68, 69, 85, 87, 91, 96, 
100, 105, 112, 119,120, 
122, 123, 134, 135, 140, 
141, 144, 145, 165, 167, 
174, 176, 184, 187, 193, 
197, 202, 203, 205-208, 
210, 225, 227, 232, 255, 
260, 272, 273, 275, 287, 
289, 292, 297, 298, 303, 
312, 316, 317, 332, 333, 
335, 338, 341, 343, 345, 
346, 348, 3.53. 363. 372, 
376, 380. 387, 396. 399, 
423, 433, 437. 444. 447, 
450, 451, 454, 457, 4,58, 
460, 465, 478. 487, 488, 
491, 494-496, 500, 501, 
508, 511, 512, 514-516, 
521, 523-525, 527. 528, 
531, 533, 535, 542, 548, 
549, 552, 500, 503, .589- 
591, 595. 596, (i03. 606, 
009, 014, 621, 624. 625, 
627, 629, 632. 639, 649, 
650, 6.52, 6.')3, 655, 657, 
661, 666 668. 
Boston Con. of Mus. [Read 

N. E. C. of M.] 623 
Boston Daily Globe, 621 
Boston Dental Lab. Co., 338 
Directory, 489 
Elevated Electric, 337 
Globe, 14, 50, 619; 620. 

622 
Journal, 81 
News Letter, 48 
News papers, 540 
Post, 317 
record, this, 652 
Bostonians, The, 568 
Bosworth, Alice, 17 
Cecil, 243 
Harold. 243 
Herbert Eugene, 243 
Jacob Clarence Weber, 

243 
Rocelia Maud, 243 
Richard Olin Schanks, 

243 
Thomas, 243 
Boulderson, 627 
Bourdon, 205 
Boutwell, Gov., 450 
Bovie, Sarah Matilda, 476 
Bowden, Mary Rice, 294 

William, "112 
Bowdoin. 418 
Bowdoinham. Me., 82, 455 
Bow, N. H. 593 
Bowens, la.. 612 
Bowens Prairie, la., 488, 612 
Bowers, Anna Maria, 149 
Dennison, 148, 296 
Fannie, 149, 296 
Bowie, the Immortal, 376 
Bowker, Evans &, 438 
Bowker, Laura, 232 
Bovvlby, Annie Hespeler, 474 



Lissie H, -Hespeler, 474 
Ward H., 474 
Bowman, Thaddeus, 131 
Boxford, Mass., vii, xi, xvi, 4 
10-23, 25, 26, 29-35, 38, 
43, 46, 51, 52, 53, 55, 
57-59, 66, 67, 70-73, 75, 
78, 79, 85, 88, 110-113, 
115, 117, 118, 120-122. 
125-143. 146. 148-151. 
153-158. 161-163. 171. 
172, 175,178, 179, 182, 
184, 222-225, 236, 254- 
256, 260, 261. 268. 273- 
275. 279. 289, 290, 292- 
298. 303-305. 316. 326- 
328. 338. 341. 344-346. 
348-354. 356, 358. 389. 
417. 443-450, 457. 459. 
462. 513-515. 520. 530. 
538. 543, 544. 547, 548. 
550, 552-554, 556, 559. 
587. 589. 593, 595, 617. 
620, 627. 640-642, 645. 
650. 655-660 
Boxford. Hist. of. 646 

Perley' s Hist, of, 256 
Boxford-Ipswich, 256 
Boxford Washington Guards 

514 
Boy astrologer. 163 
Boyce. Frank A., 92 
Nelson, 92 
Sarah J.-Melvin, 92 
"Boyd House," 94 
Boynton, Bridget, 159 
Charles, 77 
Daniel, 77 
Daniel Perley, 77 
Eben, 77 

Ebenezer, 101, 103 
Edith Abbie, 418 
Edmond, 158 
Elizabeth Creascy. 179 
Hannah Nourse, 77 
Harriet Frances, 77 
Horton &, 167 
Jane, 101 
Jane-Todd, 77 
Lizzie M., 78 
Martha L., 78 
Sarah M., 158 
Sarah-Packard, 418 
Warren, 77. 78 
W. Howard, 78 
WiUiam. 160 
William Sears, 418 
Bovnton Bros.. 559 

Estate, 191 
Brabant, Duke of, xx 
Brabant lion, xx 
Bracket, Lois Porter, 366 

WilHam, 366 
Brackett & Perley, 440 
Bradford. Alden, 135 
Amos Perley, 301 
Dorothy-Bartlett, 301 
Ebenezer. 290 
Ellis, 301 

George Bartlett, 301 
Martha Drew, 301 
William 301 
Bradford, 141, 260 
Bradford, 111., 227 
Bradford, Mass., xi. 11, 18, 
28, 33-35, 56, 59, 65, 68 
69, 106, 122. 144, 154. 
166, 167. 197. 209. 212, 
290, 307, 346, 458, 461. 
462, 501. 505-507, 542, 
543, 592, 594, 617, 624, 
625 
Bradford, N. H., 55, 281 
Bradford, Vt., 274 
Bradley, Isaiah, 146 
Nehemiah, 146 
Bradley, Me., 380 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



679 



Bradstreet, Abbie, 631 
Abigail, 27 
Albert Kdward, 159 
Angie Emma, 159 
Chas. William. 159 
Daniel Wise, 159 
Dudley, 13 
Elizabeth, 156 
Elizabeth Jane, 159 
Elizabeth-Nourse, 159 
Elizabeth-Scott, 559 
Frederic Parley, 559 
George Scott, 159, 559 
Gov., xiii, 2 
Hannah, 105 
Hannah P., 155 
John Francis, 159 
Lewis W., 366 
Lorenzo Thair, 1 59 
M., 103 
Margaret. 26 
Martha Eva. 559 
Mary Ann, 159 
Mehi table, 155 
Mehitable-Bradstreet, 

155 
Moses, 102 

Nathaniel, 159, 296, 559 
Nathaniel Perley, 159 
Porter, 155 
Sarah, 63, 182, 222 
Simon, 13 
Sophia, 116 
Brainerd, Ex. -Cong., 571 
Brainerd, Minn., 630, 632 
Braiutree, Mass., 202, 278 

348, 612, 646 
Braman, Isaac, ISO, 291 
Milton P., 346, 530 
Parson. 513 
Brande, Edward B., 489 
Brandon, Vt., 653 
Brant, Alberta, Can., 637 
Brantford Courier, 387 
Brantford, Ont., 3S9, 577-579, 

624 
Brant Rock, 623 
Brassey, 584 
Brattleboro, Vt., 42, 431, 481, 

549 
Brattleboro Asylum, 481 
Braydon, Emeline, 536 
Breeches, everlasting, 142 
leather, 142 
sheepskin, 353 
Breed, James, 129 

Theophilus, 112 
Breeze, Henry, 304 
Bremner, Catherine, 424 

Catherine-Murdock, 424 
Ellen, 238 
Phihp, 424 
Brennan, EUen-Gradv, 606 
Ethel Meta, 606 
Richard Rufus, 606 
Wilham, 606 
Brentwood, N. H., 84 
Brethour, Joseph, 578 

Joseph Edward. 578 
Mary Ann-Laugtry, 578 
Brett, Arthur W., 243 
Eldon Fitch, 243 
Robert Votan, 243 
Brettun, Clarinda, 192, 562 
Deborah WiUiams-Wash- 

burn, 562 
Sarah Deborah, 562 
William Henry, 562 
Brewer, Annie, 637 
C. R., 482 
Caleb Royce, 482 ■ 
David, 482 
Edward Richard, 480 
Ella, 482 
Henrv, 451 
Hobart G., 482 
H. S., 637 



Mary Louise, 482 
Richard D., 480 
Ruth, 451 

Ruth-Lawrence, 451 
Sarah Elvira, 480 
Thomas, 480 
Brewer, Me., 639 
Brewitt, Margaret Elizabeth- 
Duffield, 198 
Marguerite Elizabeth, 

198 
William, 198 
Brewster, John H., 169 
Briarcliff Manor, New York, 

507 
Brickenridge, Col., 611 
Brickett, Betsey-Duston, 500 
Charles Edgar, 500 
Charles Francis, 501 
Clara A., 501 
Clara Augusta, 500 
Clara Belle, 501 
Clarence A., 501 
Clarence Augustus, 500 
Daniel Hazzleton, 500 
Ella Josephine, 500 
Eva Ella, 500 
Florence Louisa, 500 
Forrest Walter, 501 
Frank E., 501 
Frank Elvin, 500 
Geo. Augustus, 500 
Grace Alice, 500 
Iva May, 501 
James, 110 
John, 500 
Nellie May, 501 
Otis Perley, 500 
Sarah M., 501 
Sarah Malvina, 500 
Bridges, Allen Whiteside, 583 
Bethiah, 33 
Carrie Cornelia, 583 
Clarence Murry, 583 
Donald Maurice, 583 
Florence Perley, 583 
George Whiteside, 583 
John Dow, 583 
John Dow Earl, 583 
Lizzie Perley, 583 
Margaret-Whiteside, 583 
Mary Theresa, 583 
Moody, 110, 122 
Sarah Shalve, 583 
Thomas, 583 
Thomas Edward, 583 
William Duncan, 583 
Bridges Regiment, 145 
Bridgewater, Mass, 18 
Bridgewater, N. H., 86 
Bridgeport, Ct., 511, 531 
Bridgeville, N. Y., 491 
Bridgton, Me., 70, 72, 82, 116, 
118, 119, 121, 123-125, 
134, 135, 139, 140, 161, 
162, 179, 219-221, 252, 
253, 288, 297, 363-367, 
414-417, 627, 638, 646 
Bridgton News, 375 
Bridgport, Dorsetshire, Eng., 

630 
Brigade, Second, 326 

Third, 577 
Brigham, Sarah, 479 — -_ 

Briggs, Ada Alma, 636 
Adeliza M., 636 
Adeliza Marshall, 634 
Alfred Wesley, 635 
Ann Tucker, 280 
CaroUne, 405, 635 
Charles I3ruce, 636 
Charles Leander, 634 
Charlotte Matilda, 635 
Clarence Edward, 636 
Cornelia, 172 
Diadany-McGreagor, 634 
Dow Wendall, 583 



Elden, 634 

Eleanor, 634 

Emery, 583 

Estella Larena, 036 

Fannie-Vandine, 583 

George Burpee, 636 

George H., 630 

George Hiram, 634 

Helen Amanda, 636 

Henry Havelock, 635 

Herbert, 638 

Hiram, 634, 638 

Hiram Oswald, 638 

Lucretia, 635, 636 

Maggie McMillan, 635 

Mary A., 636 

Mary Agnes, 634 

Miss, 634 

Myrtle Mehitable, 636 

Parson, 513 

Paul Malcom, 583 

Samuel W., 636 

Samuel White, 635 

Stephen, 634 

Stephen Smith, 634 

Susan, 634 

Susan-White, 634 

Victory-Esteybrooks, 638 

William Lawson, 638 
Briggs Corner, N. B., 636 
Brighton, Mass., 253, 286,335 

363 
Bristol, Eng., xii 
Bristol, Me., 644 
Bristol, N. B., 409 
Bristol, Vt., 603 
Britain, Margaret, 261 
British Authority, 104 

child, first, ilS 

Columbia, 401 , 424, 429 

flag, 388 

government, 204, 411,413 

India, 384 

institutions, 388 

Isles, iii, xvii 

Navy, 61 

North America, 413 

officer, 104 

officers, 403 

ParUament, 300, 383 

sloop, 205 

troops, 147 

war vessel, 203 
British, the, 104, 123, 140, 

145, 146, 166, 204 
Britisher, 107 
Britton, Alice-Bailey, 249 

David, 112 

Doris Alice, 249 

George, 249 

Jacob George, 249 
Broad Oak, Eng.. 64 
Broadseal men, N. J., 502 
Brock, Elizabeth-McCorkel, 
386 
Leonard Len, 386 
Lucie Wheeler, 386 
M. L., 294 
Brocklebank, Hannah, 43 
John, 152 
Nathaniel, 45 
Brockville, 584 
Brockway, Hannah, 276 
Brockton. Mass, 246, 278, 431, 

432, 591 
Brogan, Albert Perley, 608 
Ann Cummins, 608 
Francis, 608 
Francis Albert, 60S 
Morris Perley, 608 
Broken Bow, Neb., 560 
Brome, P. Q., 605 
Bronsted, Emma, 582 
Brook, Bull, 327 
Galloup's, 170 
Howe, 15, 47 
Pye, 153 



680 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Brookfield, Mass, 31, 52, 627 
Brooklin, Me., 248 
Brookline, Mass., 200, 454, 

478, 509, 512 
Brookline, N. H., 272 
Brooklyn Citizen, 619 
Brooklyn, Ct, .549 
Brooklyn Eagle, 619 
Brooklyn, N. Y., 81, 198,222, 
246, 247, 333-335, 337, 
381, 387, 446, 447, 486, 
505, 541, 565, 575, 591 
646 
Brooks, Bertha Ursula, 287 

Edward F., 287 

Gov. John. 135 

Mary L.-Pennv, 287 
Brookside, Putnam, Ont., 389 
Brookville, 439 
Brosnan, P'annie Nichols, 301 

Sophia Ayer-Nichols, 361 

Thomas, 361 
Brougham, I.ord, 300 
Brown, 32, 82, 164 

Achsah-Mills, 507 

Adeline, 201 

Albert, 85 

Ann, 588 

B., 123 

Betsey, 204 

Capt., 656 

Caroline Duncan, 508 

Charles, 239, 647 

Charlotte E.-XVarrcn, 647 

Clarissa, 260 

Donald Fullerton, 549 

Earl Day, 507 

Ebenezcr, 33, 264 

Elizabeth-Dwyar. 197 

ICliza Cleaveland, 85 

Eliza-lloward, 523 

Ellen, 239 

Ellen A., 593 

IvUeu Dow, 532 

Emma I.ivina, 433 

Emma Z., 647 

Evclyn-Kimball, 587 

Ered, 433 

Gardner A., 311 

(iladvs Sarah I'erley, 507 

Gould, 259 

Grace I^vclvn, 587 

Hannah. 179 

Hannah .\lniira, 85 

Hannah Hillings, 264 

Harold, 549 

Harriet, 197. 240, 448 

leremiah, 199 

Jeremiah Wilham, 199 

John, 4, 58, 85. 90 

John Parker Mills, 507 

John S. R., 507 

Jonathan Ball, 199 

Joseph, 225, 311 

Lavinia Foster, 85 

Lincoln Torrey, 549 

Lucy Morrill, 465 

Lucy Ruth, 239 

Luther Chaplin, 85 

Lydia Livinia-Dodge,433 

Margaret Byron Doyle, 
523 

Mary, 459 

Mary C, 85, 273 

Mary S., 201 

Mary Sybil, 199 

Mary Winchester, 381 

Mehitable, 33 

Mehitable-Noyes, 381 

Michael, 293 

Miss, 106 

Mr., 119 

Mrs., 288 

Mrs. William G., 93 

Nathaniel, 287, 460 

Nehcmiah, 381 

Ohve-Gaife, 260 



Parley Kimball, 460 

Phebe Ann, 239 

Richard Stewart, 549 

Ruth, 669 

Ruth Emily, 85, 324 

Sally, 283 

Samuel, 260 

Samuel Oscar, 433 

Sarah-Ball, 199 

Sarah Elizabeth, 199, 202 

Sarah-Graham, 460 

Sarah-Noyes, 85 

Sarah-Woodward, 508 

Simeon, 136, 658, 659 

Simon Henry, 460 

Sophia Dodge, 85 

Thomas, 197, 523 

Walter, 587 

William, 123, 508 
Browne, Carl Gray, 653 

Carl Meader, 537, (See 
Carl Gray) 

Minerva-Meader, 537 

Nathan, 113 

Robert Sewall, 537, 653 

Sewall, 537 
Browne & Co., Armory, 447 
Brownington, Vt., 605 
Brownlield, Me., 450 
Bn.wnville, Me., 302, 303 
Bruce & Co., 596 
Brummel, Sarah, 573 
Brunswick, Me., 220, 334, 564 
Bryant, 226 

Dennis, 76 

Esther Richmond, 194 

Florence Elmina, 76 

Hannah, 372 

Susan Armstrong. 76 
Buck. Ezekiel, 442 

Lydin-Scott, 442 

Margaret, 442 
Buckcvc Buggy Co., 178 
Bucklield, Me., 190 
Buckley, 443 

A'lella E., 443 

James, 426 

lohn A., 443 

May A., 443 
Bucksport, Me., 294 
Buffalo Express, 569, 653 
Buffalo, N. v., 222, 234, 357, 

653 
Buffet, the, 53 
Buffum. Caleb. 348 

Charles Mason, 348 

Laura Peirce. 348 

Mary liliza Barr, 34S 

Mary Etta. 439 
Bugbee. Anna-Monroe. 391 

Caroline A., 391 

Eben, 391 
Bugbee & Barrett Co., 639 
Buildings. 670 
Bull. Abner, 403. 404 

Ada F.. 216, (645") 

Ada Florence, 215 

Ahce B., 405 

Alice Bertha, 404 

Ahce Blanche. 215 

Cadwallader Jarvis, 404 

Caroline Elizabeth, 215 

Charles Cochran, 404 

Charles Perley, 215 

Edward Litton, 404 

Florence Augusta, 404 

Frederic Byron, 404 

George, 403 

George Allen, 215 

George C, 403 

George H., iii 

George Harvey, 404 

Geo. Horatio Nelson, 404 

G. Wakefield Clowes, 404 

Harvey Peter, 215 

Helen Louise, 404 

Horace, 215 



James Allison, 404 

John, 253 

John Jarvis, 215, 

Jarvis Leavitt. 215 

Maria A.. 405 

Maria Antoinette. 404 

Marie Louise. 215 

Mary Ann, 404 

Mary Merritt. 404 

Milton, 215 

Nancy McKeen, 403 

Norman Keith, 404 

Peter Duncan, 404 

Sara Caroline, 404 

Sidney Denniston, 404 

Warren Collingwood, 215 
404 

William Allen, 215 

Wm. Richard Howe, 404 
Bulhnan, Henry. 494 
Bull Run, 90. 661 
Bull Run, Battle of, 163 
Bulls' Creek, 403 
Bulman, Phebe Ann, 427 
Bunbry, Margaret, 426 
Bundy, Randilla, 433 
Bunker, Alfred P., 275 

Benjamin, 275 

Betsey-Daniels, 275 

Eliza Kimball, 458 

Henry, 275 

I-ura Susan, 277 

Perley, 275, 277 

Persis, 418 

Sarah E., 276 

Sarah Elizabeth. 275 

Susan Maria, 275 

Susie Gcnevia, 277 

Sylvester. 275, 277 
Bunker Hill, 36, 68. 94, 118, 

145. 147. 166 
Bunker Hill. 111., 294, 295 
Burbank, Byron Emery, 265 

Hattie iCsther, 265 

James Etigene, 265 

John, 265 

Lydia, 23 

Mary Ann, 119 

Mary Ellen, 265 

Mary Ingalls, 119 

Minerva D., 520 
Burch. Lucy, 612 
Burchstcad. Henry F.. 178 

Henry Frederick, 178 

Mary Ann, 178 
Burford, Out.. 299, 388-390, 

578, 579 
Burgess, Elizabeth-Sutton, 82 

Joshua, 82 

Louise, 82 

Nancy, 266 
Bureiss, David F., 128 

Lois G., 128 
Burgoyne, 68, 161 
Burgoyne's surrender, 231 
Burleigh, Deborah R. -Coffin, 
477 

Jane EHzabeth, 586 

Judith, 469 

Moses Coffin, 477 

Nathaniel, 477 
Burley, xx 

Burley, Judith, 597, (See Bur- 
leigh) 
Burlington, Vt.. 273, 479 
Burly. Capt.. 206 
Burnett, 215 

Sarah. 447 
Burnham, Abigail. 646 

Abigail F., 116 

Abraham. 279 

Ahce. 631 

Alonzo, 116, 631 

Alvin, 116 

Angelina P., 116 

Angeline, 631 

Angeline C, 116 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



G81 



Burnham, Astly, 631 
Atarah, 280 
Be.tha L., 631 
Casao, 631 

Charles Guilford, 646 
Dr., 646 

Elizabeth D., 116 
Elizabeth Ann, 447 
Elizabeth White, 279,646 
Ellen, 631 
Ernest L., 631 
Etta, 631 
Eunice, 161 
Fanny P., 631 
Fanny Prentiss, 116 
Frances P., 116, 631 
George, 631 
Harriet, 631 
Harriet G.. 116 
John, 116 
John Lyman, 116 
Joshua Cleaves, 116 
Leonard M., 116, 631 
Mabel P., 631 
Martha Barnard, 646 
Martha \V.. 116 
Mary, 465, 631 
Mary Anna, 279, 646 
Mary-Perkins, 279 
Mary \V., 116 
Minnie, 631 
Molly, 116 

Nathan C, 631 

Nathan Cleaves, 116 

Nathaniel 116 

Ralph E., 631 
Samuel, 279 

Simeon, 116 

Tabitha Goldsmith, 194 

Thomas. 116 

Thomas Alvin. 116 

Wilham, 194, 646 
Burnhamsville, Minn., 630 
Burns, D., 579 

Elizabeth, 579 

Jane, 423 

John, 214 

Margaret Edwards, 215 

Margaret-Edwards, 214 

Martha, 393 

Mary Ann, 579 
Burns, sweetness of, 503 
Burnside, Gen. A.E., 385, 576 
Burpee, Abial, 268, 269 

Abigail Gallishan, 217 

Adelaide E., 271 

Adelaide Esther, 270 

Annie Chapin, 271 

Anthony Colby, 269 

Apphia, 268, 269 

Apphia Everett, 268, 270 

Asa, 268 

Azubeth, 268, 269 

Benjamin E., 270 

Benjamin Emery, 268 

Betsey-Stickney, 218 

Charles, 218 

Charles .Sidney, 218 

Charles W., 273 

Charles Woodbury, 271 

Dana Tames, 273 

Delia, 269 

Dehverance, 268, 269 

DoUv, 268, 269 

Edwin Erastus, 269 

Edwin P., 270 

Edwin Perley, 269 
Elizabeth Woodman, 269 
Eliza Colbv, 270 

Esther, 164, 218 
George W., 273 
George Weston, 271 
Hannah. 218 
Hattie Todd, 270 
Helen I,., 273 
Helen I.ee, 271 
Helen Sylvia, 270 



Isaac, 44 
Isaac Clarke, 630 
James H., 271 
James Henry, 270 
Jeremiah, 218 
Jonathan, 218, 627 
Joseph, 217 
Judith, M., 270 
Judith Maria, 209 
Lydia, 44 

Martha Adelaide, 270 
Mary Elsie, 270 
Mary GalHshan, 217 
Mary T., 270 
Ma/y Jane, 268 
Perley, 268, 269 
Rapseima I^., 271 
Rapseima Louise, 270 
Rebecca, 268, 269 
Sallv, 268 
Sarah Annn, 269 
Sarah Jane, 636 
Sarah Jane Dymond, 636 
Susan Colgate, 270 
Thomas, 268 
Thomas Perley, 218 
Wilfred Ernest, 270 
Burpee Hill, 268 
Burrell, Ehzabeth, 197 
Burrill & Tilestou, 290 
Burroughs, Mary, 49 

Thomas, 49 
Burtch, Parmelia, 486 
Burton, N. B., 213 
Burton, A. A., 513 
James, 590 
Mary E., 590 
Mary-Pope, 590 
Samuel, 513 
Bush, Abigail Prescott-Toney 
639 
Henry Augustus, 639 
Marcus A., 639 
Bushby, Sally, 465 
Busiel, Lewis, 168 
Butler, Ahce Sumner. 639 
Ebenezer, 229, 230 
Marietta, 613 
O. S.. 350 
Susan, 265 
William Sumner, 639 
Winthrop Fessenden, 639 
Butman, Anna Morong, 465 
Charles E., 466 
Charles Everett, 465 
Charles Sumner, 466 
Clara Grace, 465 
Doris Lorinda, 466 
Edna Wilder, 466 
Eliza FMwards, 465 
Frederick Carlton, 466 
Frederick Perley, 465 
Henry Nehemiah, 465 
Lester I. eland, 466 
Lillian May, 466 
Mabel, 465 
Mary Nicholson-Morong, 

465 
Moses, 24 
Nehemiah W., 465 
NeUie Grace, 465 
William Henry, 465 
Butte, Mont., 401, 402, 404, 

422 
Butterworth, Elizabeth, 202 
Henry, 202 
Mary-Scathern, 202 
Buttes (?), Susan, 265 
Button-End, 1 
Buttrick, Ehza, 68 
Francis, 248 
Mary B.-Bird, 248 
Mary Susan„ 248 
Buxton, Harry B., 593 
Buxton, Me., 119, 191, 194 
Buzzell, Hannah Augusta, 432 



Byfield, Mass., 44, 156, 196, 
294, 295, 310, 312, 514, 
515 
Byfield Parish, (See Parish) 
Byrd, Abigail-Huntingtcm, 
243 

Abby Elizabeth, 243 

Alice H., 130 

Alice Iluntingtcm, 243 

Charles Henry, 243 

Clara Margaret, 243 

John Huntington, 243 

Mary Emma, 243 

Thomas, 243 

William Thomas, 243 
Byron, Frederic Franklin, 201 

George Washington, 201 

Selina-Rennie, 201 
Byron, acumen of, 503 
Byxbe, Joseph, 31 

Cabot, Sebastian, 191 
Cabour, (?) Wis., 215 
Cady, Capt. Joseph, 14 
Calais Me., 119, 194, 220, 237, 

240, 241, 391, 652 
Calais, Vt., 604 
Calcutta, 172, 642 
Caldwell, Eliza, 201 
Isabel, 242 
Mr. 151 
Nathaniel, 72 
Calfe, John, 113 
Calgary, N. W. T., 409.637 
California, 77, 133, 153, 160, 
176, 281, 294, 311, 331, 
352, 400, 407, 429, 440, 
463, 527, 537, 556, 595, 
596, 623, 647, 650, 651 
Caligula, 96 
Calispell, Mont., 401 
Callao, Peru, 208, 304 
Callander, Jane Chadwick,448 
Susan-Wilbur, 448 
William N., 448 
Calumet, Que., 473 
Calvert, Lucinda, 634 
Cambridge, Mass,. 2, 135, 14?, 
208, 272, 280, 331, 332, 
350, 363, 473, 525, 618, 
629, 657, 658, 660 
Cambridge, N. Y., 200 
Cambridgeboro, Vt., 626 
Cambridgeport, Mass., 175 

487, 528 
Camden, Me., 69, 463 
Camden, N. C, 385, 576 
Camden, N. J., 272 
Cameron, David, 571 
Elizabeth, 679 
Gen., 383 
Margaret, 220 
Mary, 426 
Simon, 382, 572 
Susan, 580 
Camp, Nathan, 489 
Camps, Sugar, 475 
"Camp Lott," 58 
Camp Mud, 330 
Camp Stanton, 24 
Campan, Angelique, 373 
Campbell, Andrew, 261 
Betsey, 422 
Ellen R., 151 
George, 524 
George W., 524 
Helen, 524 
Jennette, 578 
Campello, Mass., 444, 445 
Campton, N. H., 477 
Canaan, N. H., 166, 273, 274, 

282, 469, 472, 475 
Canaan, Vt., 668, 
Canada, x, 43, 135, 152, 236, 
243, 253, 267, 299, 389, 
431,597,598,625, 637, 
656 



682 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



"Canada, Business Men of," 
585 

Confederation of, 413 

Gov. Gen. of, 414 

Little, 250 

Men of ",472 " 

Upper. 213 
Canada expedition, 122 
Canadian Commercial Pioneer 
414 

Government, 637 

Militia, 215 
Canadians, 299, 300 
Candia, N. H., 139, 263, 264 

324 
Candidate for Gov., 385 
Cannington, Ont., 581 
Canon City, Col., 516 
Canonicus, Monitor, 280 
Canton, 111., 597 
Canton, Me., 282, 298 
Cape Colony, 415 
Cape Elizabeth, Me., 478 
Cape Horn, 537 
Capen, Rev. Mr., [Joseph], 23 

27, 29 
Card, Clara Marie, 594 
Cardenas, 376 
Carey, Charles, 595 
Carle, (Carl) Mary, 409, 632 
Carleton, Amos Dearborn, 520 

Benjamin P., 457 

Daniel, 520 

Elbridge, 458 

Elizabeth, 58 

George, 35, 458 

Hannah, 144 

Harlan, 458 

Ida Frank, 520 

Joseph, .56 

Maude Louise, 455 

Mehitable, 56 

Nancy Jane Hodgdon, 455 

Phebe Kimball-Whittier, 
520 

Robert Wilson, 455 

Tamison-Pemberton 458 

William, 251 
Carleton, N. B.. 589 
Carlisle, la., 604 
Carlisle, Mass., 546 
Carlisle, Pa., 330 
Carlton, Annie Maud, 343 

Freeman, 343 

George Freeman, 343 

Moses, 122 

Perley Alwyn, 343 

Rebecca, 457 

Victoria Crooker-Holmes, 
343 
Carman, -Horsfield, 237 

Fanny Louisa Sophia, 645 

Maria, 237 

Richard, 645 

Samuel, 237 

Sarah, 238 

Sarah Ann. 399 
Carney, Ellen, 556 
Carpenter, Bar Gold Min. Co , 

440 
Carpenter, Eunice, 252 

Frederick Manly, 609 

Giles Manly, 609 

Helena Bell. 609 

Jessie Guendolin. 609 

Louanna Estelle, 609 

Marguerite Chrystal, 577 

Martha Jane-Chrystal, 
577 

Mary Rosetta-Oviatt, 609 

Rachel, 390 

Robert Purser, 577 

Sarah, 635 

Winnifred Beatrice, 609 
Carr, Sarah, 535 
Carrickfergus, Ire,, 586 
CarroU, Me.. 369 



Carruthers, Mary, 240 
Carter, Eliza Abigal-Griswold, 
360 

Elmira-Platts, 296 

Horatio N., 359 

Jessie, 359 

Joanna, 421, 458 

Moses, 296 

Moses Frank, 296 

Nathan, 380 

Philindia. 200 

Sarah-Hall, 646 

Sophia, 449 
Carthage, Me., 591 
Cartledge, Ellen-Jarvis, 201 

Francis Jarvis, 201 

Leslie Jarvis. 201 

William Henry, 201 
Carver, Mass., 22S 
Cary, Adeline, 338 

Amanda, 494 

Claudia. 338 

Frank, 338 

Sophia, 364 
Carvbdises, 96 
Casady, Lillian, 374 

Mary- Proud, 374 

W. L., 374 
Case, Judith, 133 
Caseway Ridge, (Keswick 

Ridge, 138) 
Casey, Margaret, 261 
Cash, Lydia, 526 
Cash Register Co., Nat., 511 
Cass, Adeline P., 415 
Cassidy, John Robinson, 605 

Sarah-Robinson, 605 

Thomas, 605 
Casson, Minn., 492 
Castle Rock, Minn., 492 
Castlcditch, xiv 
Castk'ton, Dak.. 378 
Caswell, Arnold Benford, 578 

Arnold Perley, 578 

D. J., 578 

I,ouise-Woodall, 578 

Marquis De Lafayette,363 

R.achel-Staples. 363 

Simon, 363 
Caswell's Corner, 189 
Casy, Hannah, 80 

Sophronia, 80 
Cate, Eliza Ann. 494 
Catlett Station, 330 
Cavalry, Montgomery Yeo- 
manry, xviii 
Cavendish, Vt., 286 
Cawley, Abigail-Marston, 283 

Jonathan, 283 

Sarah C, 283 
Cayuga, Ind., 484 
Cazarwea, 598 
Cazenovia, N. Y , 497 
Cedar Mt., 378 
Cedarville, 562 
Cellar, old, 48 
Cellar, Rust, 203 
Cellar, site of the. 163 
Celtic, XV, 648 
Celts, XV 
Cemetery, Arlington, 567 

Bisley Churchyard, 584 

Cong. Churchyard. 151 

Crystal Lake, 250 

Gray, 380 

Greenwood, N. Y., 383 

Groveland, 106 

Harmony, Boxford, 21 , 
23, 33, 35, 52, 61, 72, 
126, 127, 138, 154, 156. 
157, 171, 172, 178, 224, 
293 

Harmony, Georgetown, 
179, 180, 184, 186, 315, 
316, 353. 461 

Harinonv Grove, Salem, 
466, 645 



High Street, Ipswich, 2 
49 

Ipswich, 98 

King's Chapel, 100 

I.inebrook, vt, 27, 164, 
167, 323, 327, 337 

Linwood, 593 

Marlboro, Georgetown, 
175 

Mount Auburn, Cam- 
bridge, 208 

Old Burying Ground, St. 
John. N. B., 397 

Old Linebrook, 163, 170 
182, 316 

North Topsfield, 328 

Presbyterian, 429 

Prot., Bellavista, Peru, 
208 

Rowley, 100 

South, Topsfield. 154 

St. John's Churchyard 
428 

The Old, vi 

Union, Georgetown, 278 
468, 516 

West Boxford, 29, 147 
Census of 1767, viii 
Centenial in 1876, 320 
Centennial Loyalist Souvenir. 

the. 397 
Center Harbor. N. H.. 330 
Central Mine. Mich., 577 
Centralville, 669 
Centre, Ruth, 272 
Century Sermon, 323 
Chadbourne, Medville, 638 

Mildred Liolline, 638 
Chadwick, Ephraim, 113 

Tohn, 112 

iviary, 129 

Susaiuiah, 112 

Thomas, 113 
Chaleur, Bay of, 411 
Chalmers, Thomas, 393 
Chama, N. M., 611 
Chamber of Commerce, 372 
Chamberlain, Dexter, 141 

Nathaniel, 134 
Chambly, Lower Canada, 135 
Chancellorsville, Va., 661 
Chandler. Adelia Amy, 287 

Ann, 355 

David IL. iii 

D. H.. 261 

Ezra. 287 

Hannah. 303 

Hannah-Swectser, 303 

John. 303 

Mrs.. 109. 113 

Tabitha-Johnson. 287 
Chandler Furniture Co., 380 
Chaperons, The, 568 
Chapin, Hittv, 602 

Rev. Dr., 495 
Chaplin, Abbie Nelson, 444 

Ca.oline E., 92 

Carohne Elizabeth, 89 

CaroHne L., 161 

Charles E., 444 

Charlotte Eustis-Spof- 
ford, 587 

Charlotte-Nelson, 444 

Dolly, 89 

Elizabeth-Conant, 161 

Eunice-Sticknev, 89 

George W., 184, 185, 587 

Hannah, 70 

Teremiah, 89 

Louise C, 89 

Luther, 89, 161 

Mary, 278 

Mary Angelina, 587 
Chapman. Abigail, 84 

Alice, 631 

Augusta R., 666 

Betsey-Giddings, 513 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



683 



Chapman, Charles H., 660 

Charles L., 666 

Daniel, 81, 513 

EHzabeth, 27, 81 

John, 27, 29, 73 

Joseph, 81, 84 

Lewis A., 88 

Louisa A., 513 

Lucelia Elizabeth, 433 

Lucy Symonds, 513 

Mary, 81 

Mary-Lummus, 84 

Mercy-Jewett. 81 

Moses. 513 

Nabby, 81 

Ohve Foster, 84 

Ruth, 81 

Sarah, 81, 179 

Sarah Symonds, 513 

Sarah-Symonds. 513 
Chapman's Dartmouth Al- 
umni, 257 
Chappaqua, N. Y., 508, 509 
Charles, Hannah-Ballard, 337 

Osborne, 337 

Rosella, 337 

Richard Adair, 384 
Charleston Harbor, 458 
Charleston, Me., 379, 380 
Charlestown Bridge, 648 
Charlestown, Mass., v, xii 
xiii, 112, 127, 135, 141, 
333 335, 396, 451, 488, 
489, 511, 512, 528, 553, 
639, 659, 668 
Charlestown Neck, 145 
Charlestown, N. H., 490, 499, 

518, 
Charlestowne Village, 1 
Charlottetown, P. E. 1., 193, 

214 
Charlottesville Chronicle, Va., 

396 
Charlottesville. Va.. 381, 396, 

397, 415, 566 
Charlotteville, Ont.,214 
Charlton, Jane-Walton, 536 

John Edward, 535, 536 

Jonathan. 536 
Charmed Circle, the, vi 
Chart of Lineal Descent, v 
Chart, the, v, xiv, 61 
Chart, the old, xii, xiii 
Charter, the Provincial, xiii 
Chase, 22, 70 

Ada Loring, 639 

Adelaide Folsom, 639 

Allan Jasper, 639 

Allan Perley, 639 

Amos Parker, 544 

Anna Taylor, 639 

Aquilla, 457 

Dudley, 173 

Effie Augusta Lowell. 369 

EHza, 193 

Elizabeth Allen-Rowe, 
544 

Emily J.. 329 

Emma (Emily Jane') 171 

Eunice Florence, 544 

Eustace, 501 

Fanny Moody-Bean, 639 

Frank William, 544 

Francis Fessenden, 639 

Francis Russell, 639 

George, 625 

George F., 191 

George Monroe, 194 

Harriet Green-Norwood, 
194 

Harriet Norwood, 194 

Hezekiah, 515 

Humphrey Perley, 544 

John, 168 

Tohn Henry, 515 

Jonathan Taylor, 639 

Joseph Henry, 515 



Joseph K., 369 

Josephine Perley, 515 

Laura Elizabeth, 639 

Lydia, 456 

Marion Abbott, 639 

Mary Eliza- Wilhston, 625 

Mary Lizzie, 544 

Rhoda. 369 

Russell Price, 639 

Sarah-Hoyte, 515 

Secretary, 572 

vSimeon, 168 

Sophie Crane. 639 
Chaseburg, Wis., 630 
Chatham, Mass., 82 
Chatham, N. B., 238-241, 424, 

426-429, 588, 589 
Cheany & Co., 168 
Cheapside, London, Eng., 63 
Chebacco, 4, 20, 627 
Cheesbro, EHza, 590 
Cheever, Aaron, 446 

Abner, 312 

Belinda, 312 

Elizabeth Carroll, 535 

Eliza Sutton, 460 

Fred Foster, 91 

Joseph Warren, 91 

Martha-Newhall, 312 

Mary-Farmer, 312 

Priscilla, 523 

Sarah, 446 

Ralph Pingree, 91 

William Partlow, 91 
Chelmsford, Mass., 75, 225, 

271, 444, 640 
Chelsea, Mass., 126, 210, 240, 
465, 406, 488, 500, 501, 
515, 596, 639, 646, 661 
Chelsea, Vt., 141, 475 
Cheney, Ednah, Dow-Smith, 
510 

Ellen Waitestill, 510 

Knight Dexter. 510. 511 

Mary Stevens, 297 
Cheney, Minn.. 476 
Cheney ville. La., 120 
Chenv. Phebe, 78 
Cherokee, la., 227 
Cherry Hill, Salem, 347 
Chcrryman, Emerancy, 569 
Cherry Valley, N. Y., 512 
Chesley. Lizzie, 501 
Chester, Eng., 178 
Chesterfield, Eng., 244 
Chester, N. H., 18, 106, 139, 
140, 199, 261, 263, 267, 
459 
Chester, N. H., Hist, of, 140 
Chester, Vt., 271 
Chesterville, Me., 455 
Chestnut & Sons, R., 635 
Chicago, 111., 70, 107, 234, 258, 
348, 353, 356-358. 377, 
449, 455, 475, 489, 504, 
505, 549, 557, 558, 572. 
576, 586, 597, 613, 616 
Chick, Alice Minerva, 456 

Carrie, 631 

Louisa-Foss, 456 

Silas, 456 
Chickamauga. Ga., 355, 661 
Chico, Cal., 616 
Chief Sachem, 411 
Child, (See Childs also) 

Louisa, 488 

Lvdia-Adams, 488 

Thomas. 488 
Childs, Augustus, 286 

Charles, 286 

James Perley, 2S6 

Sallie, 286 

Thomas, 286 
Chile, S. A., 208 
China, Me., 303, 646 
China Relief Expedition, 565 
Chincha Islands, 208 



Chipman, Jeanettc, 466 

John, 291 
Chipman. N. B., 219, 634, 636, 

637 
Chippaiui, la., 415 
Chisholm, Alice Jean Hope, 
578 

Grace Elizabeth, Mar- 
guerite, 578 

Jcnnette-Campbell, 578 

John, 578 

John Perley, 578 

Malcolm, 578 

Osborne Earle, 578 

Wm. Clarence Burt, 578 
Choate, Abigail, 282 

Abraham, 109, 110 

Annie-McArter, 389 

Bessie May Wilmot, 390 

Charles A., 390 

Charles Alfred, 389 

Charles Allan, 391 

Frederick Henry, 391 

John, 389 

John Alfred, 391 

John F., 390 

John Frederick, 389 

Louisa Harris, 390 

Mary Helen, 390 

Rufus, 257, 258 

Thomas, 389 

Thomas Allan, 389 
Choate Island, 282 
Christensen, Christopher, 593 

Ellen, 593 

Lars, 593 
Christian Science, 288 
Christie, John, 218 
Christmas gift, 156 
Chronicle, the, 382 
Chrystal, Martha Jane, 577 
Church, Amanda, 116 

Amanda Iv,. 116 

Eliza, 116 

Gertrude, 631 

Harriet, 116 

John, 116, 631 

Louisa W., 116 

Marenda, 116 

Marshall N., 116 

(Margaret?) Mary F., 116 

Mary, 116 

Mary F., (Margaret?) 116 

Melinda G., 116. 631 

Nathan, 116 

Nathan A., 631 
Church, Kerr & Co., Westing- 
house, 513 
Church & Perley, 602 
Church, All Saints, 259 

Baptist, 237, 250, 260, 
268, 315, 333, 477, 543, 
050, 669 

Boxford, 146, 148 

Byfield, 151, 311 

Bradford, 61 

Canaan, N. H., 273 

Central, Lowell, 496 

Central Cong., Dracut, 
144 

Columbus Ave., Boston, 
495 

Cong., 274, 319, 358, 416, 

417, 407, 481, 541, 543, 

• 546, 609, 612, 626, 638 

Cong., ArHngton, 317 

Cong., Bridgton, 220 

Cong., Georgetown, 92 

Cong., Gray, Me.. 94 

Dorchester St., So. Bos- 
ton, 496 

Emmanuel, 347 

Emmanuel Episcopal, 
619 

Episcopal. 253, 537, 550, 
569, 653 
First, 313 



684 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Church, First Cong., 379, 609 
First Boxford, 11, 13, 14, 
18, 21, 22, 25, 26, 29, 
30, 33, 35, 39, 43, 51, 
52, 54, 57, 61, 67, 69, 
70, 73, 75, 122, 130, 
137, 139, 140, 148, 149, 
151, 254 
First Baptist, 271 
First, Gloucester, 633 
First Presbyterian, 387 
First, Methuen, 290 
First, Rowley, 633, 640 
First, Salem, 347 
Grace, M. E., 497 
Grace Medford, 347 
Killingly, Ct,, 42 
Linebrook Cong., vi, 45, 
47, 76, 79, 85, 88. 323, 
335-337, 339, 627 
Maugerville, 640 
Memorial, Georgetown, 

88, 316, 353, 461 
M. E., 367, 433, 441, 477, 

624 
Meth., 339, 382, 398, 566, 

626 
Meth., Ipswich, 78, 199 
Mormon, 36 
Mt. Vernon, 511 
Newbury, 39 
New Ipswich, 67 
of England, 633 
Old South, Boston. 548 
Park St., Worcester, 496 
Presbyterian, 238, 383 
384, 390, 426, 428, 472, 
518 
Prot. Episcopal, 347 
Rocky-Hill, 209 
Rowley-Linebrook, 218 
Saratoga St., E. Boston, 

496 
Seabrook, Presby., 94 
Second Boxford, 29, 32, 

57, 108 
South Cong., 467 
vSt. Andrews, 624 
St. John's Presby., 239 
St. Joseph, 362 
St. Paul's, Lynn, 496 
St. Thomas, 347 
State Street, 512 
Tabernacle, 306, 547 
Third Cong., Bangor, 302 
Topsiield, 12, 21, 25, 27, 

36 
Trinity, Boston, 272 
Trinity, Burford, 388 
Unitarian, 342 
Universalist, 249 
Univ. Meredith Bridge, 

332 
Wenham, 29 
West Newbury, 39 
Winthrop St., 512 
Church choir, M. E.. 497 

St. Stephen's, 450 
Church edifice. Rev. S. Per- 

ley's, 95 
Church fund, the, 535 
Church Home, 223 
Churches, Denbigh, xvii 
Churches, private houses, viii 
Churchyard, (See cemetery) 
Chute, David, 152 
Judith, 152 
Miriam, 116 
Cicero on Oratory, 321 
Cincinnati, 105, 242, 243, 293, 

390, 518, 568, 629 
Circuit Court of U. S., 447 
Civil War (See War) 
Claflin, AlHson & Somes, 625 
Claflin, Gov., 495 
Clairvoyant, 350 
Clapp, 163 



Charles FrankHn, 543 
Charles Granville, 543 
Clarence Franklin, 543 
Emma J., 251 
Florence E., 543 
Frederic, 542 
Frederic Augustus, 534 
Frederic Lester, 534 
Harriet Etta, 543 
Harriet-Moore, 534 
Henry Frederic, 543 
Isaac Henry, 542 
Isaac Paul, 534 
Jennie Elvira Julia, 543 
Lizzie, 543 
Clara Agnes, Sr., 362, 363 
Claremont, Minn., 490-492 
Claremont, N. H., 277, 490, 
492, 493, 499 

Clark, xiv, 310, 631 

Addie B , 226 
Adeline, 167 
Agnes E., 226 
Alexander H., 152 
Alfred M., 226 
Allen Perley, 536 
Allen Winfield, 422 
Amber Winifred, 422 
Amy Gertrude, 422 
Angle, 422 
Annie Elizabeth, 431 
Arthur Foster, 227 
Arthur W., 197, 
Arvilla-Runnels, 625 
Benjamin, 250 
Benjamin H., 227 
Benjamin Husscy, 226 
Bet.sey-Campbell, 422 
Betsey M. -Tavlor, 477 
Bina Eliza, 422 
Calvin Chauncv Farn- 

ham, 227 
Carlos, T., iii, 228 
Carlos Taylor, 227 
Carro Frances, 227 
Caroline, 167 
Carro M., 226 
Charles E., 227 
Charles Edwin, 220 
Charles H., 202 
Charles Harrison, 200 
Charles Henry, 1 97 
Charles Perkins, 227 
Clarence B., 227 
Clarence I., 228 
Clarence Irving, 227 
Cudworth Bryant, 225 
Daniel, 79, 152, 153 
Daniel Anderson, 227 
Daniel Hall, 226 
De Witt S., 187 
Doris Elizabeth, 197 
Dudley Perlev, 226 
Effie May, 422 
Elijah, 152, 153, 167 
Elizabeth, 324 
Elizabeth A., 153 
Eilzabeth G.. 199 
Elizabeth Green, 197 
Elisha, 226 
Ellen Maria, 513 
Emily, 152 
Ernest P., 228 
Ernest Perley, 227 
Ervenna Emma, 228 
Ethel F.. 226 
Ethel Lena, 202 
Etta P., or J., 226 
Eva M., 228 
Eva Myra, 227 
"Fiddler," 226 
Florence, 227 
Florence G., 228 
Franklin Pierce, 200, 202 
Frank Pierce, 202 
George S., 521 
George W., 153 



George Washington, 422 
Georgia A., 228 
Georgia Anna, 227 
Gertrude, 227 
Gretchen Lange, 422 
Hannah, 140 
Hannah M., 153 
Harold Allen, 536 
Harriet Newell, 226 
Howard Taylor, 536 
Humphrey, 166, 167 
Ida Jane. 200 
Imogene Gibbs-Dearborn. 

521 
Isabella Cora, 422 
Ivy, 521 

Jacob, 140, 146, 422 
Jacob W. 227 
Jacob AVashington, 226 
James Alfred, 196 
James Eugene, 227, 422 
Jennie May, 227 
Jeremiah, 152. 153 
Joanna- Rhoads, 166 
John, 226, 431 
John Francis Jami". 197, 

199 
John Henry. 477 
John Nathaniel, 167 
John O., 625 
John Perley, 226, 227,422 
Joseph Melville, 536 
Josiah, 226 
Judson A., 226 
Julia EHzabeth, 511 
Lament Martin, 228 
Laura, 153 
Lavinia Angle, 227 
Leonard, 437 
lottie F.-Kane. 152 
Louisa, 153, 107 
Lucinda, 378 
Lucius T., 226 
Lucy Ann Perley, 107,200 
I-ucy Ashley, 477 
Marg'e Paulina, 422 
Maria, 152 

Maria Antionettc, 536 
Martha, 250 
Martha-Redington, 152 
Mary, 167 
Mary A., 153 
Mary Ann, 197 
Mary-Howlett, 140 
Ma.y P., 227 
Mary Perley, 226 
Melvin D., 226 
Moody, 152 
Moses, 152 
Nancy, 226 

Nathaniel Langmire, 197 
Nathaniel Perley. 197 
Nathan Joshua, 477 
Nathan Perley, 477 
Nellie Glacier, 197 
Norman, 15.3 
(Mive N., 152 
Oia, 536 
Orin, 536 

Percy Glenwood, 228 
Philip Perley, 536 
Phineas W., 226 
Rebecca Fowler, 200 
Ren a Rose, 137 
Rhoda J., 227 
Rhoda Jane, 226 
Rosa-Crofford, 431 
Roscoe P , 228 
Roscoe Perley, 227 
Roxv Fowler, 202 
S.. 210 

Samuel, 71, 438 
Sarah, 146, 392, 483, 605 
Sarah Borland, 488 
Sarah Ellen, 197 
Sarah P., 153 
Susan-Hovey, 437 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



685 



Clark, Syhell, B. 200 

Sybell Barnes, 197 

Therese M. .226 

Thomas, 536 

William, 153 

William Barnes, 200 

William H., 228, 625 

William Henry, 227, 477 

William M., 153 

Winfield A., 422 
Clark, Lewis &, 598 
Clark, Ober &, 536 
Clarke, Ethel, 199 

Mary, 227 

Perley, xix 

Pierlev, xix 

vSophie, 512 

Thomas, xix 
Clark's Hill, 205 
Clarkson, J., 216 
Clausen, Dorothea S., 564 
Clear Lake, Wis., 440 
Cleaveland, Ada Louise, 225 

Alice Peabody, 225 

Bessie, 225 

Ellen Maria, 225 

Experience-Lord, 223 

Harriet, 225 

James P., 117 

Tames Putnam, 225 

T. P., ix 

Lucy, 225 

Mary Neale, 225 

Nehemiah, 223 

Rebecca Peiley, 22.5 

WilHam N., Mrs., 31 

William Neale, 223 

William Perley. 225 
Cleaveland farm, 52 

Mansion. 126 
Cleaves. Angela, M.. 116 

Angella McLellan, 415 

Anna M., 116, 631 

Arthur M., 631 

Benjamin, 115, 116 

Benjamin L., 117, 631 

Bertha, 631 

Carrie W., 631 

Celia (CeUa M.\ 117, 631 

Charles S., 031 

Edward, 631 

Edward P., 116, 631 

Ellen E., 116 

lillen P., 631 

Emily D., 116 

Eunice. 115 

Fred H,, 631 

George L.. 116 

Ginger, 115, 116 

Henry B., 116 

Huldah, 115, 116 

Irene, 631 

Jonathan, 115 

Joshua, 1 15 

Larkin W., 116 

Lincoln, 631 

Martha, 115 

Martha W., 116 

Mary B., 116 

Mary S., 116 

Minnie, 631 

Nancy-McLellan, 415 

Nathan, 116, 415, 631 

Nelly, 631 

Rebecca-Conant, 115 

Richard, 631 

Robert A., 116, 631 

Royal L., 117, 631 

Royal S.. 631 

Susan, 116 

Susan W., 117, 631 

Thomas, 116 

Thomas P., 116, 631 

William, 115, 116 

William W., 116 
Cleaves & Son, B., 366 



Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, Eng., 

373 
Clement, Annis, 253 
Clerk, the name, xi»r 
Clerk, VMva Willoughby-Stro- 
ther, 468 
George, 468 

Isabel Strollier, 468 

James, 459 

Sarah, 638 
Cleveland, Dr., 311 

Ex.-Prcs.. 337 

Pres., 550 
Cleveland, O., 107, 300, 344, 

354, 387, 509, 511, 668 
Cleveland Gazette, 299 
Cleveland Herald, 299 
Chff, Alfred Atherton, 635 

Atherton Brewer, 637 

Chailes L., 637 

Charles Lee, 635 

George Amos, 635 

George B., 637 

George Byron, 635 

H,arland S., 637. 

Harland S<miers, 635 

Julien Eugene, 637 

Lottie Estv, 635 

Lottie Mathilde, 637 

Nelson, 635 

Nelson Alfred. 637 

Rhoda Esty, 635 
Cline, Allen Turner. 528 

Charles Allen, 528 

Edna Eliza, 528 

Edward Everett, 528 

Eleanor, 528 

Ellen B., 528 

Emily L., 529 

John, 528 

Margaret, 528 

W^iUiam, 528 

William Allen, 528 
Clint, Gabriel John, 582 

Orythia Louise, 582 

Rachel Ann-Hitcheson, 

582 
Clinton, la., 359, 557 
Clinton, Mass., 431 
Clinton, John de, xiv 

Mary de, xiv 
Clinton, Wis., 476 
Clothey, Adeline-Brown, 201 

Seth Hathaway, 201 

Thomas, 201 
Clough, Abigail Currier, 470 

David, 210 

J. S., 210 

Rebecca Woodbury 529 
Clough' s Corner, 24 
Cloverport, Ky., 241 
Clowes, Annie, 238 

Caroline-Humphreys, 401 

Edna AUison, 401 

Edward Allison, 401 

Gerardus, 238 

Mabel Amanda, 401 

Sarah-Carman, 238 

Theodore Miles, 401 

William Edward, 401 
Club, Active Fire, 306 

Boston Monday Evening, 
372 

Dartmouth Glee, 498 

Daughters of Maine, 373 

Garfield and Arthur, 434 

Lynn Boys, 450 

Marketmen's, 532 

Merchants', 447 

Montclaii, 447 

Otta Golf, 473 

Oxford, 450 

Republican, 572 

Rideau, 473 

Temperance Reform, 543 
Waukon Shooting, 234 



Cluny, XX 

Coal Branch Station, N. B., 

636 
Coals Island, N. B., 401 
Coats, Mary, 381 
Coats of Arms, xii, (see Arms) 
Cobb, Anna Maria, 478 
Anna MiUliill, 478 
Augusla Walker, 273 
I';bcnezcr, 563 
Hannah Chase-llaskell, 

563 
Harold Burpee, 273 
Henry, 273 
Henry Alanson, 273 
Matilda Hull, 563 
Mayor, 495 
Nathaniel, 478 
Sophia Jane, 207 
Cobbett, Mr., 9 

Coburn, -Barker, 39e 

Deborah, 260 
Frank, 401 
Hannah, 260, 399 
Harriet M. -Graves, 493 
James M., 493 
Jonathan, 260 
Loantha, 303 
Mary, 218 
Mary Agnes, 493 
Mary Jane-Cross, 401 
Matie Euphemia. 401 
Moses, 399 

-Tyler. 261 

Coburn' s Block, 526 
Cochran, Charles, 538 
J. Henry, 538 
Martha Perlev, 538 
Cockermouth, N. H., 94, 189 
Cockran, Ehza, 589 
Coffin, Deborah R., 477 
Frederic Tones, 308 
John, 173 

Lucy Adelaide, 308 
Lucy Perley, 308 
Cofrau, Jessie May, 272 

Marcelene-Wanzer, 272 
Smith Wadleigh. 272 
Coggin, Rev. Mr., 295 
Coghlan, Rose, 568 
Cogswell, Abigail, 29 
Adam, 29 
Benjamin, 29 
Bethiah, 21 
Caleb, 29 

Colwort Kendal Pier, 653 
Cyril Gray, 653 
Elizabeth, 21 
Francis, 21, 627 
Hannah, 21, 627 
Hannah Day, 200 
Hannah-Goodhue. 20 
Humphrey C, 326 
Jeremiah, 29 
John, 21, 627 
Joseph, 21 

Lawrence Perley, 653 
Lottie C. -Little. 653 
Luman Hvde, 653 
Margaret. 21, 38 
Nathaniel, 21 
Susanna, 21, 627 
Theresa, 460 
Thomas, 330 
Wilham, 21, 627 
Cohen, Hannah, 668 
Coix Point, 393, 668 
Coker, Benjamin, 20 
Catherine. 20 
Hannah, 20, 36 
John, 20 
Judith. 20 
Mary, 20 
Mercy, 20 
Moses, 20 
Robert, 20, 176 
Sarah, 20 



686 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Colby, Abbie N., 652 
Anthony, 269 
Bertha Maria, 492 
CaroHne Leland, 493 
Charlotte, 652 
Hannah, 107 
Harriet Louise, 493 
Ira. 492, 499 
Ira, G., 493 
Ira Gordon, 492 
Joseph, 269 
Judith, 269 
Mahala, 283 
Nathaniel, 652 
Polly- Foster, 492 
Colby Family, 269 
Colby, Noyes «:, 372 
Cold Harbor, 512, 530 
Cold Harbor, N. Dak., 631 
Cole, Abby Dyer-Paine, 354 
Caroline, 597 
Charles Warren, 354 
I'Vancis Harriet, 447 
G. M., 518 
Isaac Packard, 417 
Joanna Barber, 371 
Marilla, 631 
Miaina Adelaide, 417 
Nehemiah Rich, 354 
Patrick, 505 
Phebe Spaulding, 417 
SarahMoclara, 505 
Solomon, 113 
William, 505 
Coleman, Julia, 202 
Colerain, Mass., 499 
Coles, Mrs. Juha, 105 
College, Aberdeen Bus., 492 
Alleghany, 572 
Ainu Mater, 422 
Amherst, iv, 359 
Bates, 455 
Boston Law. 317 
Boston Medical, 265 
Boston Univ., 85 331 

433, 493, 536, 615 
Bowdoin, 18. 82, 174 193 
194. 221, 373, 379, 498, 
560, 564 
Brown Univ., 23, 272 
Bryant & Stratto'n's Com 

338, 361, 504 
Bryn Mawr, 378 
Burdett Com., 623, 624 
Cambridge Univ., Eng 
430 

Claflin Univ., 497 
Colby, 150, 304, 455 
Columbia Univ., 331, 387 
418. 447, 448, 510, 567,' 

Dartmouth, 23, 44 68 
70, 94, 105, 119,' 161' 
173, 180. 195. 256- 
259, 279, 289, 305, 308 
330, 471, 491-494, 498 
538, 018 

Detroit Med., 564 

ICaton's Business, 406 

Itdinburg t^niv., 635 

lilectric, 401 

Fargo, N. D., 499 

I'emale, Kent's Hill, 419, 

for Women, Ontario 
Med., 635 

Gunoley's Com., 568 

Harvard, 14, 18, 21, 55 
69,94,95, 105, 103,188' 
292, 319, .331, 347, 348' 
378-380, 447, 448, 473 
494, 495, 510,531, 597 
618, 629, 635, 653 

Haverhill Business, 650 

Iowa State, 612 

Jacksonville Ladies' 491 



Johns Hopkins, 565 
Lehigh LTniv., 568 
Maine State Agri., 416 
Mass. Meta., 288 
McGill Univ., 430, 474 
Michigan Univ., 373, 374 
Middlebury, 487, 653 
Mills, 406 

Mt. Holyoke, 194, 609 
N. H.. State, 593 
North Western Univ., 607 
Notre Dame, Univ., 374 

375 
Oberlin, 243, 608 
of Oratory, Boston, 380 
of Phys. & Surg., 447, 

509 
Ontario Ladies' 624 
Ontario Vet., 474 
Presbyterian, 609 
Princeton, 538 
Royal Mil., 585 
Shaw Bus., 521 
Smith, 243, 330, 331 
Spencerian Bus., 567 
State Agri., 601 
St. Andrews, 391 
.Syracuse Univ., 491 
Syrian Prot., 448 
Toland Bus. Univ. 423 

424 
Toronto. Mil., 390 
Toronto Univ., 624 
Tufts, 42, 249, 332, 495 

490, 512 
Univ. of 111., 359 
Univ. of Me., 521, 653 
Univ. of Mich., 564 
Univ. of Minn., 476 
Uniy of N. B., 237, 410. 

430, 635 
Univ. of Penn., 410 
Univ. of Vt., 258,479,488 
A\ aterville, 18 
Wellcsley, 194, 349, 373 

535, 559, 617 
WelHiigton, ling., 430 
Wesky, 582 
Wesleyan Univ,. 78, 491, 

497 
Western Reserve Univ , 

Wiley Univ., 331 

Williams, 249, 375 

Vale, 14, 509-512, 559 

\oung Ladies' 415 
Collier, William, 568 
Collins, Ehza Gage, 463 

Jennie Lavina, 443 

Kezia Hogan, 488 

Mary Agnus, 488 

William, 488 
Colman. Tobiah, 6 
Colonial Empire, The, 414 
Colonial forces, 390 
Colonial records, xiii 
Colonial wars, 163 
Colony, constitute a, vii 
Colony, embryo, viii 
Colony o*" Essex Co., people, 

Colorado. 195, 393, 395, 516, 

Colorado Springs, 587 ^ 
Colorado Stage Co., 483 
Columbia, 111., 294, 295 
Columbian Centinel, 219 
Columbus, xvii 
Columbus, O., 178 271 354 
355. 395, 569, 570, 649' 
653 
Combs, Eva 484 
Comfo.-th, Jane, 508 
Comings, Frances Anna, 602 

Homer Fletcher, 602 

Mary-Fletcher, 602 

William A., 602 



Commercial Gazette, The, 572 
Commission, Asa Perley's, 425 
Christian, 512 
Imperial Fish, 586 
Vermont Cattle, 474 
Commissioner of Pensions 

U. S., 572 
Commissioners of War Rec- 
ords, 438 
Committee of arrangements 
ix ' 

Committee of 1-hund., 495 
Committee. Rep. Nat., 492 
Committee. The Publishing, 

XX, xxi 
Committee to draft resolu- 
tions, viii 
Common, Rowley. 99, 104,200 
Common, The, 204 
Commons, Dominion House 

of, 406 
Commonwealth, 532 
Company, East India, xviii 
Essex County, 123 
Salem Bank, 290 
Compton, Can., 668 
Comstock, Aurilla, 295 
Conan, 648 
Conant, Aaron, 648 
Abbie E., 337 
Abbie Ehzabeth, 336 
Abbie Louisa, 180 
Abigail, 648 
Abigail Tenney, 84 
Alfred Sumner, 92 
Almira, 179, 517 
Alton Lawrence, 337 
Alvin T., 86 
Alvin Tyler, 88, 91 
Annis-Derby, 247 
Anna Foster, 92 
. Anna-Foster, 92 
Arthur Herbert, 338 
Arthur W., 87 
Arthur Webster, 92 
Betsey, 247 
Calvin, 84 

Caroline Lavinia, 87 
Charles, 337 
Charles Augustus, 336 
Coggin, 337 

Cleavcland Augustus, 92 
Cyrus, 84 

Cyrus William, 336 
Daniel, 81, 84, 87, 179. 

517. 648 
Daniel W., 255, 356, 648 
DanielWebster, 350 
Delia A., 88 
Edna Cheevcr, 338 
Fjleanor E., 88 
Eleanor Emerson, 84 
EUas C, 85, 91, 648 
Elias Cornelius, 92 
Elijah, 648 
Elizabeth, 84, 89, 161, 

648 
Eunice, 648 
Eunice C, 89 
Eunice Cummings, 84 
FIxercise, 648 
F'lorence, 338 
Florence Abbie, 337 
Florence Augusta, 92 
Gilbert, 84, 87 
Gilbert Roger, 87, 529 
Hannah, 88 
Harriet A., 88 
Harriet Atwood, 84 
Israel, 327 
Jacob Coggin, 336 
Jenny, 91 
"Joe Lott," 91 
John, 648 

John Perlev, 179, 180 
John W., 180 
Joseph. 86, 91, 92, 648 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



687 



Conant, Joseph C, 82 

Joseph Chapman, 81, 82, 
179 

Joseph Lott, 91 

Joshua, 648 

Josiah, 247 

Linwood C 338 

I.inwood Chester, 337 

"Little Bill," 84 

Lois, 84 

Lot, 648 

Lucy. 82, 179 

Lucy E., 92 

Lucy Eh7abeth, S8 

Lucy P., 179, 180 

Lucy-Perley, 517 

Martha, 648 

Martha Mary, 336, 529 

Martha-Pcrley, iii, 529 

Mary, 179, 180, 648 

Mary Abigail-Pingree, 
529 

Mary Ann, 85 

Mary Frances, 248 

Mary-Perkins, 81 

Mary-Wildes^ 84 

"Master Joe,'"' 91 

Moses, 84, 648 

Mrs. Ruth, 541 

Nathaniel, 648 

Nellie Miriam, 92 

Osborne, 338 

Rebecca, 115, 648 

Roger, 648 

Ruth, 84, 88 

Ruth Foster, 338 

Ruth-Foster, 335 

Ruth-Guilford. 91 

Sally, 81, 82, 179 

Sarah, 82, 179, 648 

"Squire Bill," 83 

Warren Klias, 92 

W. F., 648 

WilHam, 81, 83, 84, 179 
335, 337, 648 

William F , 65, 185, 529 

William Foster, 84, 335 

Wilham H., 338 

William Herbert. 337 

William Osborne, 337 

William Potter, 336 
Conant Arms, 648 
Conanti Dabitur, 648 
Concord Bridge, 147 
Concord, Mass,, 56 57, 64, 

144, 146, 147, 660 
Concord, N. H., 21, 44, 68, 

142, 147, 256-259, 289. 

433, 470, 471, 473, 491, 

493-495, 538, 606. 647 

Concord Odd Fellow, The, 498 

Concord paper, 493 

Confederation of Canada, 413 

of B. N. A., Proyinces, 
406 
Conference, Baltimore. 382 

N. E. M. E., 496 

S. C. M. E., 497 
Conference of Charities, etc., 

Nat., 372 
Congregationalist. The, 232, 

510 
Congress, 130 
Congress, First, 195 

Member of, 502 

Proyincial, 56, 100 
Conn, Alice Frances, 431 

Charles Reuben, 431 

Harriet Isabel, 431 

John Austin, 431 

Nancy Maria-Betts, 431 
Connant, 648 
Connecticut, 135 
Connolly, McGreeby-585 
Conquerer, William the, 63 
Conreid Opera, The, 568 
Conseryative, a 472 



Conservatory, N E., 531 
Conservatory of Music, Toron- 
to, 624 
Constantine, Mary, 595 
Constitution of U. S., 53 
Constitution, Federal, 96 

State, 121, 308 
Consul, American, 68 
ConsiuTiption at eighty, 62 
Continental Army, 68, 130 

Money, 42 
Convent, Arlington, Mass. ,363 
Convention, Constitutional, 
457 

Constitutional, N. H., 
491 

Day of, ix 

National, 653 

of Delegates, 308 

Perley, 320, 346 

Perley Family, viii, 353, 
395, 397, 592, 624 

State, 653 
Convocation, Southern, 347 
Conway, N. H., 24, 639 
Cook, Alice Dustin, 91 

EUzabeth. 643 

Wizabeth Watts, 381 

JIannah Lincoln, 202 

Jonathan. 113 

Olive, 455 

Samuel, 41 
Cookson, Caro Pendleton, 580 

Jane Mary, 395 

Mary Jane-Penney. 395 

Roxana-Farrow, 580 

Thomas, 395, 580 
Coolidge, Achsa-Hale, 248 

Ada Annette. 249 

George Herbert, 248 

Henry A., 249 

Henry Alonzo, 248 

Ida May, 249 

Toseph, 248 

Joseph Hale, 248 

Lucy Annette, 248 
Cooper, Diadama, 226 

Judith, 42 
Copp, Alfred Hutchinson, 198 

Alice Blakeman, 198 

Carlton, 198 

Charles Wesley, 198 

EtTie Estelle, 198 

Emily, 198 

Harriet Maria, 198 

Harry Carlton, 198 

Martha-Goodwin, 198 

Mary Estelle, 198 

Uriah. 198 
Copperthwait. Frank, 197 
Coquillard, Alexis, 374 

Benjamin, 374 

Joseph Alexander, 374 

Sophia Andre, 374 
Cordley, Dr., 243 

Rev. Dr., 607 
Cordetia, Cal., 3.58 
Corinth, Vt., 471 
Corliss, Abigail, 285 

Elizabeth-Annice. 285 

John Swaddock, 285 

Wilham B., 484 
Cornehl, Mary Margret, 492 
Cornell, Albert, 305 
Corning, John, 289 

Judith, 289 

Sally, 289 
Comings, Carrie. 500 
Cornish, N. H., 270 
Corona, L. I., 573 
Coroners, 110 
Corps, .Second Army, 90 
Corps, Ladies Relief, 650 
Corrections, 663 
Corson, John Warren, 499 

Van Rensaler, 499 
Corson Gold Mining Co., 499 



Corwin, Caroli.ie Laura, 141 
Clarissa-Thompson, 141 
John, 141 

Cott(ms, the, 650 
Couslon, Mary, 409 
Counacher, Rebecca, 255 
Council Bluffs, la., 377, 443 
Council, l'"itchburg City, 248 
(Governor's, xviii, 405 
Municipal, 581 
North West, 581 
of D. B. A., 584 
Prov. Legislative. 391 
St. Joseph's County, 374 
County, Albemarle, Va., 506 
AUawakee. 234 
Almeda, Cal., 278 
Argenteuil, Que., 474 
Atlas, 209 
Barron, 440 
Benton, la., 232 
Berkshire, 504 
Broome, N. V., 441 
Carleton, N. B., 214,215, 

634, 637 
Cattaraugus, N. Y., 6.53 
Cumberland, Me., 220, 

336 
Cumberland, Hist, of, 
122 

Custer. N.B., 560 
Dauphin, 272 
Deer Lodge, 401, 440, 

667 
Delaw'are, 612 
Denbigh xvi 
Dodge, Minn., 599 
Dorset, xiv 
Durham, Eng., 586 
Dutchess, N. Y., 669 
Erie, 382, 383 
Essex, vi, vii, viii, xv, xvi 

108, 110. 117, 173, 197, 

224, 357, 620 
Flint, xvi, xvii 
Frankhn, O.. 649 
Goodhue, Minn., 630 
Grafton, 598, 666 
Grant, Wis., 610 
Hertford, Eng., xii, xiii, 

xiv, xv, xvi, xviii, 64 
Kent, xiv, 

Kent, N. B., 634, 636 
Kossuth, la., 119 
Leicester, xv 
Leitrim, Ire., 649 
Lincoln, xv 
Mercer, O., 242 
Middlesex, 618 
Miramichi, 238 
Moody, Wis., 598, 599 
Muskegon, 562 
Norfolk, Eng., 532 
Norfolk. N. H., 532 
Norfolk, Ont., 214, 38S, 

389 
Northumberland, N. B., 

216, 240, 302 
Nottingham, xiv 
Notts, Eng., 17 
Orange, Fla., 236 
Oxford, Me., 191, 366 
Polk, 440 
Prescott, 473 
Queens, N. B., 216, 637 

638, 650 
Rice, Kan., 515 
Russell, 473, 474 
Rutland, xiv 
San Joaquin, 216 
Schohaire, N. Y., 441 
Shrop, xvii' 
St. Croix, 439 
St. John, 237 
Suffolk, Eng., 63, 620 



688 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



County, vSunbury, N. B., 120, 
129,138, 213, 216, 236- 
238, 652 
Surry, xv 
Talbot, Md., 653 
Tazewell, 111., 245 
Tioga, N. Y., 653 
Tyrone, Ire., 385 
Ulster, N. Y., 403 
Vernon, Wis., 630 
Warren, la., 441 
Washington, Vt., Hist, of 

285 
Wentworth, Ont., 389 
Westmoreland, 190 
White Pine, Nev., 406 
Worcester, 128, 258 
York, Me., 191 
York, N. B. 138, 216, 
237, 238, 260, 261, 423, 
640 
Zeinplen, Hung., 668 

Coup Show, W. C, 567 

Court, John Q.. 118 

Common Pleas, 174 

dispersed, 42 

General, (See Legislature) 

Judicial of N. H., 258 

Municipal, Boston, 594 

Probate, 209, 229, 230 

Star Chamber, xii 

Superior, N. Y. City, 213 

U. S. Circuit, 447 

U. S. Dist. for Mass., 258 

Courtland, 214 

Coventry, Vt., 1G6, 606 

Cowdry. Amos, 272 

Charles Hazeltinc, 272 
Ruth-Centre, 272 

Cowles. Dr., 533 
Rev. G., 280 

Cows, a thousand, 534 

Cox, Ann -Chandler, 355 
Charles Henry, 611 
Horatio Jones, 355 
James, 611 
Julia Ann, 355 
Newton Perley, 61 1 

Coy, viii 

Craft, Eliza, 650 

Crafts, Maj. Amasa. 191 

Craftsbury, Vt., 541 

Cragin, Anna, 69 
Elizabeth, 69 
Elvira, 69 
Lorenzo S.. 69 
Rebecca, 69 
Silas, 69 
Sophronia, 69 

Craig, Hannah P., 183 
Samuel W., 183 
Tappan W., 183 

Craigue, Lucinda, 525 

Cram, Albion Perley, 220 
Ashbel, 219 
Ashbel Henry, 221 
Ellen Mary, 220, 221 
Frances Ellen, 220 
Frederick Sutherland, 

220 
Gardner, 220 
Marshall, 220 
Marshall Perley, 220 
Martha, 220 
Mrs. 221 

Mrs. Rensselaer, 125 
Nelson Perley, 220 
Rensselaer, 219, 221 
vSarah-Hasty, 219-221 
Thomas, 219-221 

Cram, Perley &, 417 

Cramb, Rev. J. O., 368 

Cramton, Harriet Adell-Raw- 

son, 610 

Homer Rawson, 610 

William Coburn, 610 

William Perley, 610 



Crane. Abbie, 197 

Benjamin L., 277 

Emmeline B. W.-Veazie, 
277 

George, 277 

Juha A., 278 

Sophie Chandler, 639 

Thompson Baxter, 277 
Crawford, Anne-McMulkin, 
386 

James Bruce, 386 

Thomas, 386 
Crawford Grant, N. H., 651 
Creasey, Elizabeth, 179 
Creek, Bull's, 403 

Johnson's, 11 
Cressy, Mark, 204 
Cregg, Robert, 113 
Cremated, 335, 343 
Crerar, John, 450 
Cresey, Abel, 101 

Betty, 101 

Hannah, 101 
Cressey, Abigail, Jewett, 361 

Elizabeth- Edwards, 316 

John, 361 

Mark, 316 

Martha Hale, 316 

Susanna-Jewett, 361 
Cressey House, 316 
Crimson jacket, 142 
Crockett, Alice Louise, 507 

Allen Herbert, 538 

Clara Perley, 538 

Frank Solomon, 507 

Martha Ann-Menill,507 

Nancv-Reescr, 538 

Pearl. 538 

William Herbert. 538 
Crockett, the immortal, 376 
Crofford, Rosa, 431 
Crocker, Helen Amelia. 573 
Cromwell, (Protector) 429 
Crosbie, Anthony, 15 
Crosby, 514 

Abial, 335 

Charles H., 246 

I'li ^'ickery, 228 

ICiiimu Randlet-Libby, 
228 

Fanny Isabella, 335 

John S., 246 

Maude Lillian. 228 

Newell N., 246 

Walter H., 246 
Cross, Cynthia, 520 

Emeline Mowbry, 391 

Emily, 424 

Marv Jane, 401 

Rhoda, 506 
Crosskill, Sarah, 193 
Crossman, Mr., 628 
Crosswell.Mich., 585 
Crouseburden, 261 
Crowdis, Lillian M., 325 
Crowell, 543 

Augustus, 303 

Clara Elizabeth, 497 

Diana C. -Packard, 497 

Fnizabeth-PhilHps, 554 

Emma Lavinia, 303 

Helen M.aria, 303 

Josiah, 554 

Lorenzo, 497 

Mary E., 554 
Crowley, Mary Ella, 201 

Obed Thomas, 201 

Octavia Frances-Pullen, 

201 
Crown Point, 32, 656 
Crowville, La., 199 
Croy, George, 501 

Porter Cowan, 501 
Croyden, xv 

Crusoe, Robinson, 206, 253 
Crystal Lake Park, 250 
Cuba, 376 



Cudder, Mr., 205 
Cudworth.Emma Adelaide, 454 

Geraldine Aretta, 550 

Israel, 454 

James Winchell, 454 

Mabel-Jenkins. 454 

Mary Catherine-Benton. 
552 

WiUiam Marshall, 550 

Cull, 483 

Cumberland Bay, 393 
Cumberland Center, Me., 

380, 644 
Cumberland, Eng., 14 
Cumberland, Me., 371 
Cumberland Co., Hist, of, 122 
Cummings, Abbie Jane, 161 

Abigail, 26 

Alfred, 160, 161, 449 

Alice, 17 

Alraira, 160 

Charles Arthur, 161 

Cyrus, 176 

Deidamia, 68 

Eleazer, 68 

Elijah, 160, 648 

Elisha, 26 

Eunice-Conant, 1 60 

George, 161, 232 

Hannah Eva, 161 

Isaac, 26 

Jemima, 83 

Joanna-Andrews, 255 

Julia Augusta, 255 

Laura Ann, 449 

Laura Anna, 161 

Martha Stevens, 161 

Mary-Andrew, 26 

Mary Ann, 176 

Miss, 188 

Salome M., -Welch, 449 

Samuel, 255 

Samuel Augustus, 355 

Sarah Burgiss, 161 

Susanna, 176 

Thomas, 31 

William, 160, 161 

William Perley, 160 
Cummings farm, 341 

shoe knife, 255 
Cummins, Ann, 608 
Currier, Annie F., 547 

Capt., 9 

Charles H., 625 

Emma Frances, 587 

Fanny S., 160 

Frances, 160 

Hannah, 212, 422 

Jacob, 209 

John Joseph, 587 

Mary H., 310 

Mary Louise, 648 

Mr., 345, 348 

Olive-Davis, 587 

Rosella F., 625 
Curtis, Abel, 479 

Charles Carroll, 479 

Hannah, 152 

Tohn, 152 

Lanora May, 228 

Sarah-Brigham, 479 

Sarah L., 480 

Sarah Lusena, 479 
Cushing, Frances E., 191 

Job, 658 

John, 32, 109, 112 

Nathaniel, 659 
Custom House, Boston, 289, 
524 

Salem, 324 
Custin, Elizabeth Narcissa,554 
Cutler, Dr., 641 
Cutter, Charity Elizabeth- 
Wade, 466 

Lottie May, 466 

William P., 466 
Cutts, Usher W., 639 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



689 



Dabnies, John, 290 
Daggett, Naomi, 206 
Daily, Hannah, 201 
Dakin, Ann, 381 
Dakota, 510, 565. 599 
Dakota City, Neb., 442 
Dakota Indians, 378 
Dakota Land, 599 
Dakota, Northern, 377 
Daland, Benjamin, 41 
Dale, Georgianna, 158 
Gerald K.. 448 
Herbert Augustus, 158 
Lizzie, 158 
Mary BUss, 448 
Mary-Bliss. 448 
OHver Augustus, 158 
Samuel, 158 
Dalton, 360 
Daltou, Bethiah, 39 

Lucetta, 330 
Dam, Ann Webb. 380 
Damariscotta, Me., 220, 225, 

422 
Dame, Jessie Green, 80 
Luther, 80 
Percy Li Ich field, 80 
Sally, 330 

William Pinckncy, SO 
Damery, Annie Ivlise, 589 
Barbara Abigail, 589 
Edith Bulman, 5S9 
Kliza-Cockran, 589 
George Burnaby, 589 
Josephine Mary, 589 
William, 589 
WilUston Perley, 589 
Damon, Olive E., 462 

Peter, 133 
Danbury, N. H., 182 
Dane, Elizabeth, 323 
Hannah, 627 
John, 64 

Mrs. Erancis, lOG 
Danes, G 

Danforth, Agnes-Nason, 543 
Eannie Rebecca, 543 
John, 543 
Daniels, Amos, 101 

Amos Blanchard, 325 
Betsey, 275 
Erank, 568 

Lucy Mary-Knce1and,325 
Lyman Blanchard, 325 
Minnie Dodge. 325 
Danielsonville Mfg. Co., 224 
Danish, xiv 
Danish chief, xx 
Dan vers Center, 514 
Danvers, Mass., ix. 30, 32, 40, 
52, 54-57, 86, 87, 90, 
112, 130, 131, 136, 140, 
143, 144, 148, 160, 107, 
171, 175-177, 179, 183, 
202, 271, 280, 288, 306, 
310, 315, 318, 343, 345- 
349, 351, 353, 355, 359, 
360, 363, 443, 444, 446, 
460, 467, 477, 513, 514, 
528, 530, 531, 534, 535, 
543, 548-550, 552-554, 
556, 589, 614, 649, 652, 
657 
Danversport, Mass., 208, 556 
Danville, Me., 82, 194 
Danville, N. H., 624 
Danville, P. Q., 540, 542 
Danville, Vt., 603 ^ 

Dart, Susan, 455 
Dartmouth College, (vSee Col- 
lege.) 
Dartmouth Savings Bank, 

522 
DaughtersTof Liberty, Sec'y 
of, 276 
of Maine, 372 



Davenport, Abbie, 150 

Fanny, 508 
Davenport, Derent &, 568 
Davern, Anna Marie-Olson, 
557 
Hazel, 557 
David, Uncle, 180 

Davidson, Travis, 392 

Allen, 392 
George Allen, 392 
Gertrude Hunt, 392 

James Warren, 392 

John Travis, 392 

John W., 392 

Marjorie Louise, 392 

William Harold, 392 
Davies, Rebecca, 178 
Davis, , 364 

Albert, 276 

Alonzo, 248 

Alvin Silas, 248 

Atnos, 644 

Anna, 247 

Annah-Fairfiekl, 201 

Annis Maria, 247 

Benjamin Eranklin, 248 

Bessie Jackson, 249 

Betsey, 248 

Blanche Keating, 295 

Canie E., 277 

Carrie Florence, 276 

Charles, 247 

Charles Albert, 276 

Charles Eugene, 247 

Clarence, (Mrs.,) 175 

Clarence Perkins, 276 

Daniel, 56 

David, 295 

Emily Augusta, 276 

Ephraim, 110, 276 

Ethel Lovell, 249 

Fonnie Ethel, 248 

Frank Mark, 316 

Franklin Benjamin, 248 

George, 248 

George W., 250 

George Washington, 247 

Gertrude Anna, 644 

Harriet Newell, 433 

Helen Marr, 142 

Jacob, 286 

James, 596 

James Oscar, 596 

James Whitney, 596 

Joseph Allen, 200 

Julia, 418 

Katy-Taplin, 286 

Leander, 247 

Lemuel, 366 

Lettie J,. 358 

Lucy Althea, 596 

Lucy Ann, 247 

Lyman, 247 

Mary Abby, 248 

Mary Elizabeth-Judkins, 
644 

Mary F.-Berdge, 596 

Nancy, 276 

Nancy M., 278 

Nancv Maria, 276 

Nira, 279 

OHve, 587 

Oscar Perley, 596 

Otis Hudson, 247 

Perley, iv 

Perley B., iv 

Rachel-Gay. 247 

Rebecca, 280 

Ruth, 56 

Sarah A. C, 278 

Sarah Almira Crosby, 
276 

Silas, 247 

Sumnei C, 366 

Thomas William, 316 

Walter, 248 

Walter A., iii 



Walter Alonzo, 248 

Walter Crawford, 247 

Warren Putnam, 201 
Dawkins, Adeline, 458 

George, E., 458 

George K., 458 

Thomas, 458 
Dawson, Margaret, 429 
Day, 103 

Albert G., 507 

Albert Grinnell, 506 

Annie Mary, 506 

Cora Frances, 506 

Emily Ann, 592 

Emily A.-Kimball, 592 

Florence P., 507 

Florence Perley, 506 

John, 592 

Judson, 359 

Mabel C, 507 

Mabel Cross, 506 

Marie F.-Hoyt, 359 

Mary Helen, 579, 650 

Myrtle Lucile, 359 

Nathaniel, 46 

Rhoda-Cross, 506 

William, 506 

William Francis, 506 
Dayton, Miriam Kate, 492 

Rhoda S.-Wells, 492 

Silas, 492 
Dayton. O., 356, 485, 511 
Dayton, Wis., 476 
"Deacon," 139 
Deacon's One Horse Chaise, 

166 
Dean & Perlev, 504 
Dearborn, Eliza, 500 

Imogene Gibbs, 521 

Levi, 26 
Death, Perley, iv 
de Bade, Marie Elisabet, 644 
De Bade, Mary EHzabeth,207 
Decatur, 111., 518 
Decker. Emeline-Braydon, 
536 

Eugene H., 536 

Fred. Eugene, 536 

Henry, 536 
Decorah, la., 492 
Dedham, Mass., 91, 268, 431 
Dedham Star Branch, 41 
Deely, Sarah Elizabeth, 609 
Deerfield, Mass., 496, 616, 657 
Deerfield, N. H., 372 
Deerfield, O., 455 
Deering, Enoch, 116 

Enoch M., 110 

WilHarn A., 116, 631 
Deering, Me., 163, 370, 375. 

496 
Deering, N. H., 625 
De<?r Island, Me., 149 
Deer Lodge, Mont., 401 
Deerville, N. B., 242 
Delano, Lottie, 77 
Delaware, Can., 391 
Delaware County Hist., 488 
Delaware, 111., 597 
Dalhi, la., 488 
Delino, George, 631 
Ifeii- John, 031 
f HI Mary, 631 

Nova, 031 
Dell Rapids, 001 
Delta Kappa Epsilon, 539 
Democrat in Vermont, 487 
"Democrat, would not Vote 

for a, " 76 
Deinpsev, Margaret, 291 
Denaco, Alfred, 418, 419 
Charles B., 418 
Maria-Mercer, 418, 419 
Perley Mansfield, 419 
Denbigh churches, xvii 
Denison, Maj.-Gen., 8 
Dennett, Deborah 311 



690 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Denning, Hannah-True, 449 
Job, 449 

Martha Janes, 449 
Dennis, Eliza, 135 

Sarah KUen, 172 
William, 54 
Denny, Samuel, 72 
Denton, Frederick, 392 
Hannah-Thorn, 392 
Samuel, 392 
Denver City, Col., 377 
Denver, Col., 480, 510, 611 
Denver, steainer, 377 
Depeseter, Capt., 205 
Depot, North Andover, 296 
Derby, Anis, 247 

Perley, 13, 15,44,130,175 
Derby, Vt., 004 
Derent & Davenport, 568 
Derry Depot, 498 
Derry, N. H., 141, 142, 499, 

500 
Descent, Chart of Lineal, v 

(See chart) 
Descent, Lineal, iii 
Desert, Great Amer., 377 
Deshon, Julia Basse, 201 
Des Moines, la., 253, 442, 4S9 

604, 605 
Dcsnoyer, Elizabeth, 374 
Despatch, The, 569, 570 
"Desperate," Steamer, 412 
Detroit City, Minn., 439 
Detroit, Me., 227, 228 
Detroit, Mich.. 18, 373-376. 

407, 448, 564, 565 
Detweiler, Rev. J. S., 368 
DeVeber, Hannah Moore, 
423 
Henrietta Sofia, 423 
Isaac Claudius, 423 
Jane-Moore. 42.3 
Devens, Abigail-FaLrbanlts, 
511 
Edward Fesser, 511 
Henry Fairbanks, 511 
Richard, 57 
Dewey, (Admiral), 286, 486 
Annie Augusta, 287 
Arthur Benjamin, 287 
Arthur Hodgdon, 287 
Belle Perley, 287 
Bessie Livermore, 287 
Betsey Ann, 286 
Charles Herbert, 286 
Dennison, 286, 287 
Edgar Osmond, 286, 287 
Elizabeth, 287 
Francis H., 258 
Francis Henry, 286, 287 
Francis Osmond, 286,287 
Frank Dennisim, 287 
George Franklin, 287 
Howard Dennison, 287 
Jennie Adelia, 287 
Marion Kemp, 287 
Marion Rebecca, 286 
Minnie Evelyn, 287 
OrviUe, 286 
Osmond, 286 
Phihp Andrew 287 
Sarah Livermore, 286 
Simeon, 286 
Varnum Perley, 287 
DeWitt, la., 608 
DeWitt, Mary, 217, 569 
DeWolf, Ebenezer. 348 
Frederic, 348 
James Edward, 348 
Maria-Lovett, 34S 
Susan Perley. 348 
Dexter, D. S., 471 
Etta Jemima, 91 
James Andrew, 91 
John, 326 
Richard, 32 



Susannah-Spearing, 91 
Dexter, Me., 265, 267 
Dexter's studio, 202 
Diamond Match Co., 016 
Diamond Stage, 203 
Dibblee, Blanche Ketchum, 
401 

Charles F. K., 400 

Charlotte-Ketchum, 400, 
404, 430 

Charlotte Maud, 400 

Cora Woodford, 401 

Edmund Stone, 401 

Ernest Adrian, 401 

Harold Bruce, 401 

Harrie Miles, 400 

H. E., 404 

Harry [Hcnrv] E., 400 

Henry E., 430 

Irvine, 400 

James Edmund, 430 

LeBaron. 400 

Margaret E., 404 

Marion Grace. 401 

Susan Mary, 238 
Dickins. 314 
Dickinson. James. 11. 25. 43 

Louisa. .349 

Lydia, 215 

Mary. 25 

Rebecca, 25 

Thomas, 79 
Dictionary of Essex County, 

Gcneal., 546 
■ ' of Nat. Biog., 414 
Dike, Charles Henry, 557 

Eva Staples, 557 

Henry B., 557 
Dilkinson, John, 584 
Diocese of Mass., 347 
Dioceses of Maryland and 

Easton, 653 
Directory, Boston, .345, 346 
"Distillery, the old Heard," 

87 
District, Fifth of Mass., 259 
"Diversions of Purley, " xv 
"Divini Gloria Ruris," 628 
Dix., Capt., 659 
Dixmont. Me., 227 
Dixon, George J., 588 
Doaktown, 429 
Doane, Frances, 512 

Sophie-Clark, 513 

Thomas, 512 
Doane Genealogy, 647 
Dobbs, Harriet Elizabeth, 
573 

Sarah-Brummcl, 573 

Washington, 573 
Dobson, Polly Maria, 590 
Doctors puzzled, 170 
Dodge, Abbie Lavinia, 324 

Addison Seaver, 352 

Adoniram Judson, 352, 
530 

Albert, 352 

Allen, 49 

Andrew, 323, 324 

Arvia Lefavour, 648 

Benjamin A., 93 

Benjamin Scott, 92, 160, 
161 

CeceHa May, 649 

Clara Frances, 352 

Cora Ella, 433 

Cornelia, 324 

Ehzabeth-Dane, 323 

EHza A., 324 

Eliza Ann, 323 

Eliza Mary, 160 

Ella F., 93 

Ella Maria, 352 

Ellen Maria, 352 

Elmer A., 531 

Elmer Addison, 530 

Elmira Newell, 160 



Francis, 49 

Frederick F.. 93 

Georgiana. 93 

Georgia A., 161 

Granville. 160 

Harriet. 514 

Harry K.. 198 

Horace Seaver, 352 

Isaac, 29, 30 

Isabella, 352 

Jacob, 352 

James, 433 

James William, 432 

Joanna, 18 

John, 497, 514, 658, 659 

Judson Ward, 352, 530 

Julia Ann. 352 

Julia Ann- Perley, 530 

Lizzie Bell, 161 

Lizzie Belle, 93 

Loretta Story. 324 

Lucinda, 323 

Luke. 324, 648 

Luke Perley, 649 

Lydia Livina, 433 

Mandana Scott, 93 

Margaret Augusta, 649 

Margaret Poor, 648 

Maria J., 325 

Maria Jane, 324 

Maria P.. 324 

Maria Perley, 323 

Martha Perley, 160 

Martha Scott, 92 

Mary C, 160 

(Mary?)-Corning, 352 

Mary Elizabeth, 544 

Mary Jane, 514 

Mary I'erley, 49 

Mary-Thompson, 49 

Mehitable, 29 

Moses Tyler, 29 

Nabbv, 29 

Nancy, 29 

Periey, 49 

Phineas, 159 

Prudence, 30 

Randilla-Bundv, 433 

Rebecca-Gould, 498 

Robert, 49 

Rosabelle, 93 

Ruth, 29 

Samuel Dane, 323, 324 

Sarah Jane, 497 

vSolomon, 92, 159, 160 

Sylvanus, 160 

Virginia, 49 

Walter Fred, 433 
Dodge Center, Minn., 491, 

492 
Dodge House, 160 
Dodsworth, 628 
Dodsworth, John, 384 

Richard", 3S4 
Dolbear, Lillian. 460 
Dole. Abigail, 104 

Ada Jane, 164 

Anstess, 105 

Anstess Perley, 105 

Charies, 105 

Charles L., 106 

Charles Leverett, 105 

Edward, 164 

Ehza, 278 

Ella Louisa, 164 

F. Ellen M., 629 

F. Ellen Moody, iii, 99 

Frances Ellen Moody, 
105 

George, 313 . 

Grace, 105 

Greenleaf, 629 

Greenleaf N., 313 

Hallett, 164 

Hannah, 160 

Huldah, 291 

John, 105, 629 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



(591 



Dole, John Pcrley, 105 
Lewis Henrv, 105 
Lucy H., SI 
Lydia-Hobson, 105 
M., 103 

Mary, 105, 294 
Mary Ann, 105 
Mary-Moore, 629 
Mehitable, 103 
Miriam, 113 
Miss, 106, 200 
Moses, 105, 109, 110, 113 

629 
Olive, 152 
Paul, 160 
Richard, 15, 113 
Sarah, 46 
Dollar Bay. Mich.. 630 
Dolley, Hannah-Hayden, 194 

William, 194 
Domesday Book, xiv, xvi, xx 
Dominion, The, xx, 396 
Donovan, J. M., 362 
W. C, 105 

WilUam Clement, 106 
Donnel, Grace, 316 
Doolev, John, 358 

-Alargaret-Kelly, 358 
Nellie Elizabeth, 358 
Doohttle, Charles, 439 
Kphraim, 658 
Flora Grace, 439 
Mary Etta-Buffum, 439 
Doran, Isabella-McRae, 403 
Margaret Alice. 403 
William, 403 
Dorchester, Eng., 346 
Dorchester, Mass., 130, 197. 
277, 460, 509. 606, 637 
Dorchester, Out., 389 
Doris Shows, Batchellor &, 

567 
Dority, Florence A., 380 
Dorman, Ahial, 30 
Abigail, 30 
Ancill, 350 
Anna C, 447 
Anna Cheever, 446 
Archie Maurice, 163 
Carrie Helen, 163 
Charles Henry, 163 
Deborah. 161 
lidith May. 163 
Edward Lester, 163 
Elizabeth Georgianna, 

162 
Eunice -Burnhain, 161 
I'lorence Maud. 163 
Franklin Abbott. 447 
Franklin Webster,446,447 
Frederick Faul, 163 
George Spillcr, 163 
Gerald Dale. 448 
Gerald Whitney, 163 
Gertrude Adelc. 163 
Harriet A.. 447 , 

Harriet Andrews, 446 
Harry Gavlord, 447, 448 
Horatio Gates. 162 
Huldah F:iizabeth, 445 
Huldah-Gould, 445 
Isabel Wait, 448 
Jabez, 30 

Jessie Thoinas, 446 
John, 446 
John Perley, 162 
Judith Wood. 30 
Mary Elizabeth "Pur- 

vier," 642 
Mary Isal)ele, 447 
Mary Synionds, 162 
Maurice Arthur, 163 
Moses, vi, 184, 445 
Moses Horace, 446 
Nathaniel, 162, 642 
Perley, 161, 162 
Philip Eugene, 163 



Rebecca FWeline, 162 
Samuel S., 162 
Sarah Mehitable, 162 
Theodore Taylor, 447 
Thomas, 30, 446 
Thomas Burnett, 447 
Thomas P., 447 
Thomas Perley, 446 
Timothy, 161, 162, 440 
A\'illiam Barnes, 163 
William FMgar, 163 
William H., 162 
William Richardson, 446 
Dorman Home, 445 
Dorman, honest as Tim, 161 
Dougherty, Mary. 515 
Douglas, Mass., 42 
Douglas, N. B., 399, 400, 402 
Douglass, Bessie Frances, 543 
I'M ward O., 543 
Georgia Maud, 543 
Sarah, 490 
Dover, Me., 536 
Dover, N. H., 82, 198, 274 

275, 356, 405, 594 
Dow, Annie, 500 
Belle, 151 

Clara Isabella-Austin, 536 
E., 209 

Emily-Partridge, 358 
Forrest Almyr, 87 
I'red Howard. 536 
J. Warren, 358 
Laura Parcher, 529 
Leander A., 529 
Leo, 151 
Lewis, 87 
Martha Pearl, 87 
Mary, 87 

Mary A.-Lord, 532 
Mary-Dow, 87 
Mary E.-Haven, 529 
Mary Elizabeth, 532 
Moses, 291 
Ruth LiUian, 87 
Sadie Louise, 535 
Sarah Peabody, 358 
William, 151 
Zebulon, 532 

Downes. , 22 

Addie C, 197 
Annie F.. 197 
Benjamin Robert, 197 
Carlton W., 197 
Carrie L., 197 
Charles C, 197 
Fanny A., 197 
Henry R.. 197 
I-inwood W.. 197 
William F., 197 
Downev, Eliza-F'ahey, 437 
John, 437 
Julia Loretta, 437 
Downing, Benjamin F., 200 
Downs, C. A., 667 
Doyle, Frances F)., 91 

Marv, 92 
Dracut, Mass., 144, 248, 459 
Dresser. Alice Dustin-Cook,91 
Annie R., 93 
Annie Russell, 91 
Daniel, 45, 137, 640 
Daniel Woodbridge, 91 
Jane. 27 

Tane-Harriman. 71 
John. 71, 91. 166 
Lorinda D.. 93 
Lorinda Dustin, 91 
Marv. 587 
Mary E.. 93 
Mary Elmer, 91 
Thomas, 71 
Dresser Place. 71 
Drew, Harvey W., 469 
Lizzie A. Page, 469 
Martha, 298 
Mrs. John, 568 



Nellie. 469 
Driftwood, Pa., 538 
Driscoll. Jennie P., 471 

^\Mlliam, 471 
Drinkwater, Charles Henry, 
302 
FVances Myria, 302 
Jefferson, 302 
Myria-Frazier, 302 
Drouet, Ernest Charles, 373 
Elinor, 373 
Emma-Warren, 373 
William Charles, 373 
Drury's Bluff. Va., 466, 517 
Dryer, Matilda. 409 
Dublin, Ire., 383, 570 
Dublin, N. H., 296 
Dubhn, O.. 649 
Dubuque. la., 443, 488 
Duchesnay, Alexander Jush- 
ereau, 651 
Phoebe Ann-Perkins, 651 
Susan Mary, 651 
Duchess, The Sporting, 568 
Duchy of Lancaster, 64 
Dudley, Allen Wells, 554 
Cyrus, 351 
Eliza Alniira, 351 
Tosiah, 554 
Sally-Wells. 554 
Dudley, Mass., 14 
Duffey, Sarah E., 226 
Duffield, Margaret Elizabeth, 

198 
Duke of Brabant, xx 
Dulce et decorani, etc., 41 
Duluth, Minn., 632, 634 
Dumfries. 429 
Dumont, John, 174 
Dummer, Charles, 174 
7. N., 642 
Joseph G.. 126 
Judith. 174 
Maria, 308 
Marv, 174, 642 
Mary-Kilton, 308 
Nathaniel, 308 
Richard, 174, 642 
Dun, George W., 355 
John, 649 
Mary E., 355 
Mary Elizabeth, 649 
Mary Eliza Davis, 649 
Dunbarton, N. H., 141. 154, 
274, 275, 278, 279, 281, 
456, 459-462, 515, 591- 
593. 624 
Dunbarton, Stark's Hist, of 

460 
Dunblane. O., 649 
Dunbury (?). Mary, 639 
Duncan. Catherine, 594 

Charlotte Hamilton, 216 
Elizabeth, 216 
Tames. 594 
John, 216 
Dundee, Scot., 426 
Dunham, John. 47 

Mary L. McArthur. 603 
Norman, 603 
Sarah J., 602 
Virginia, 639 
Dunham, P. Q., 481 
Dunkirk. N. Y.. 401 
Dunn, Andrew, 219 

Charles Loring, 644 
Isaac Skillin, 644 
Jane Pain-Quint. 219 
Lucy Lawrence, 644 
Marilla Eli/a, 219 
Marv Maria-Loring, 644 
Rutii Loring, 644 , 
Dunnels, Albert, 197 
Ellen-Carney, 556 
Grace, 47 
Ira Albert, 197 
John Mender, 556 



692 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Dunnels, Walter Channing, 

556 
Dunning, Frances Theresa, 
335 

Richard, 335 
Dunstable, 161 
Dunstable, Mass,. 94 
Durand, 111., 359 
Durant, Amos, 132 

Emily I.ockwood 472 

Joanna, 132 
Durgin, John A., 160 

Timothy. 197 
Durham County, IJng., 586 
Durham, Me., 365 
Durham, N. H., 107, 593 
Durkey, Dr. John, 169 
Dustin, Jane, 68 
Duston, Betsey, 500 

Hannah, 500 
Dtitch, xiv, XV 
Dutch, Benjamin, 3 

Ebenczer, 106, 290 

Sarah, 106 
Dutton, Isabella, 265 
Dwinnell, James, 47 

Joseph, 46 

Mary, 46 

Prudence, 46 
Dwinnells, Anna, 166 

Israel, 166 

Jacob, 166 

Joanna-Rhoads-Clark, 
166 

Mehitable, 166 
Dwinnells Family, 166 
Dwyar, Elizabeth, 197 
Dyke, Mrs. Charles, H., 558 

Mrs. C. H., iii, (See Dike) 
Dykeman, Abraham Wood, 
393 

AmeHa, 430 

Barnet Manzer, 393 

Flora Augusta, 393 

Ida Isabellc, 393 

Louisa Rebecca, 393 

Martha Sophia, 393 

Martha Sophia-Beyea, 
393 

Murial May, 638 

Orland, 638 

Prune-Carap, 638 

Richard, 392 

Sarah-Clark, 392 

Thomas Chalmers, 393 

Thomas Clark, 392 

Tileston, 638 

AValter Frederick, 393 
Dymond, Sarah Jane, 636 

Eddie, 514 

Eagle Grove, la,. 489 
Eagles, Sarah Jane, 371 
Eakins, Jane, 577 
Ealing, Eng., 511 
Eames. Ebenezer, 72 

Elizabeth, 111, 115 

Jonathan, 111, 114, 115 

Ruth, 111-113 

(See Ames) 
Eams, Ruth, 110 
Earl, Florence Parker, 583 

Sylvester Z., 583 

Theresa. 583 
Earle, Elizabeth, 253 

Elsie S., 580 

Henry, 253 

Jerusha-Lummeraux, 253 
East Assiniboia, 581 
East Berkshire, Vt., 480-482, 
484, 486, 602, 603, 605, 
608-610. 626 
East Boston, 176, 338, 466, 

496, 532 
East B oxford Company, 295 
East Boxford, Mass.,ix, 51,52, 

58, 71, 73, 121, 145, 146, 



157, 171, 177, 259, 277, 
444 
East Bradford, Mass., 277 
East Bradford, Me., 611 
East Brookfield, Mass., 437 
East Bridgevvatcr, 546 
East Cambridge, 232 
East Coventry, 286 
Eastern States, 332 
East Fairfield, Vt., 484 
East Franklin, Vt., 603 
East Gray, Me., 195, 371, 563 
East Greenwich, 659 
East Hampton, Mass., 347 
East Hartford, Ct., 307 
East Haverhill, Mass., 458 
East Indian, 100 
East Indian Service, 401 
East Indies, 206, 596 
East Lempster, 498 
Eastman, Abel Brown, 283 
Benjamin F., 142 
Clarence E., 631 
Daniel, 209 
Eliza-Woodman, 283 
mora, 279 
Hannah, 343 
Katherine Wyman,142 
Martha, 343 
Mary, 476 
Rhoda, 283 

Sabra Wvman- Tones, 142 
Sally-Brown, 283 
Sarah Woodman, 283 
Thomas, 283, 343 
East New York, 591 
East Northfield, Mass., 428 
East North Yarmouth, 644 
Easton, 653 

Easton, Mass., 521, 575 
Easton, Pa., 348 
East Otisfield, 365 
Eastport, Me., 213 
Eustport Sentinel, 223 
East Randolph, 465 
East Somerville, 317, 648 
East Thetford. N. H., 277 
East Tilton, 283, 284 
East Vassalboro, Me., 303 
East Walpole, Mass., 431 
East Washington, N. H., 278 
East Wilton. 590, 591 
Eaton. Abigail, 264, 265 
Abigail- Wood, 264 
Abraham L., 544 
Alice A.-Bemis, 286 
Apphia, 264 
Apphia Perley, 265 
Apphia Randalah, 265 
Aura Genevieve, 456 
Betsey Billings, 265 
Clarence Granville, 371 
Clarence Melville, 456 
Daniel, 264, 265, 286 
Daniel Emerson, 265 
Eben, 264, 265 
Ebenezer, 263 
Ebenezer Curtis, 265 
Itbenezer W., 265 
Edee, A. R., 265 
Elbridge Perley, 544 
Elizabeth-Thorn. 263 
Ezra Warren, .345 
Florence Emma, 456 
Flossie Genevieve, 456 
Hannah, 262, 263 
Hannah-F;merson, 345 
Harriet Brown, 265 
Harvey Waters, 345 
Hattie Eliza, 371 
Horatio Greenward, 456 
Isaac, 456 

Isabella Graham, 265 
Jacob, 263 
Jacob Perley, 264 
James, 263 
Joshua Byron, 265 



Joshua Perley, 264, 265 

Leverett Lincoln, 543 

Lucinda, 305 

Maria George, 470 

Mary Ann. 510 

Mary Apphia, 265 

Mary-Lyon, 456 

Mary Elizabeth-Dodge, 
544 

Moses, 345 

Mrs.. 262 

Nancy, 286 

Peter, 229, 305 

Phehe, 463 

Ruhamah, 264 

Ruth Wood, 265 

Sally, 264 

Samuel Edward, 265 

Sarah Jane-Eagles, 371 

Sophia, 264 

Sophia Ann, 265 

"Squire," 264 

Stella Marian, 456 

Toppan, 264 

Toppan James, 265 

Toppan Sargeant, 265 

William Perley, 345 
Iiaton, Can., 267 
Ivitontown, N. J., 569 
Eau Claire, 377 
Eau Claire, Wis., 423, 424,635 

Ebbett. 632 

ICckford Iron Works, 384 
Eden, Minn., 476 
Eden, Vt., 479 
lulgccomb, Me., 198 
l':dinburg, 202 
Edinburgh, Scot.. 331, 390 
Edington, Abraham Post, 428 

Magdalene-Skemihorn, 
428 

Phihp, 428 
Itdison, Wash., 378 
Ivdmunds, Hester, 648 
Education, Board of, 499, 573 

State Board of, 495 
Edward. Ill, King, xiv, 494 
Edwards, Abraham, 642 

Catherine, 439 

Elizabeth, 316 

Fred N.. 310 

Isabel, 69 

John B., 310 

Jonathan, 243, 439 

Maria Hosford, 439 

Margaret, 214 

vSarah Ann Jackson, 642 

Sarah S., 642 

Thomas, 69 

Timothy, 439 

W. C , 474 
Edwards' Ferry, 90 
Edwardsville, 111., 294, 518 
Eflingham, N. H., 500 
Ehrlacher, Catherine Lord- 
Philbrook, 202 

Fannie Stuart, 202 

Martin, 202 
Eiles, Wilham, 113 
lusfeldt, Caroline Gugubaucr 
568 

Gustav, 568 

Margarite, 568 
Electric Co., Lord, 363 
Eldorado, 377 
Eldridge, Claire Merton, 424 

Emily-Cross, 424 

Hazel Irene. 424 

Ina Belle, 424 

Tames, 424 

Marcia Belle, 227 

Martin, 424 

Pearl Viola, 424 

Roy Chipman, 424 

Sarah Abigail, 227 

Thompson, 227 

Wilford I'erley, 424 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



G93 



Elgin, Lord. 411, 413 
Elizabeth City. N. C, 553 
Ivlizabeth. N. J., 504 
" l{lizabetli," vessel, 64 
I'lkhart, Ind., 508 
l<:iks. Order of, 632 
IClnihurst, N. Y., 272 
I'linorc, Vt., 487 
Jiliu tree, 56 

Elwell. daughter, 102, 100 
Elizabeth. 104 
Elizabeth Perlev. 100 
Samuel, 104, 106 
Ellinwood, Kan., 515 
IClliot, Elorcnce Ann, 543 
John, 543 
Mabel LucUa, 543 
Miriam Alberta, 543 
T. G., 152 
iniiott, Elizabeth, 543 
Emeline, 438 
George Perley, 543 
Elhott, la,. 489 
Ellsler, Eftie, 568 
Ellsworth, Daniel. 83. 85 
Doreas. 83 
Edna Elizabeth, 85 
Elbridge, 83, 85 
Ivunice-Tenney, 83 
Hannah, 85 
Hiram: 83, 84 
Jeremiah, 83-85 
John E., 85 
Jonathan, 83 
Mrs., 542 
Simon, 85 
Ellsworth Zouaves. 576 
Ellwood, Ann-Brown, 588 
Jane Maria, 588 
Mark, 588 
Elsineur, Denmark, 593 
" Embarkation of the Pil- 
grims," 504 
Embden, Me., 456 
Emberlin, Ehzabeth, 442 
Emerson, Arthur William, 507 
Ciceha Day, 507 
Cicelia-Simpkins, 507 
Dorothy, 287 
Dorothy Day, 507 
Eda, 483 
Eliza, 482 
Elizabeth, 153, 293 
Elizabeth P.. 326 
Frutilla-Wakefield, 287 
Hannah, 38, 322, 345 
John, 38, 62 
Joseoh, 38. 311 
Joseph Clough, 507 
Kenneth Wm. Joseph, 

507 
Louise Parkhurst, 444 
Martha Lucinda-Park- 

hurst. 444 
Mary W.. 194 
Mvra, 421 
Paul Arthur, 507 
PhiUp, 287 

Rebecca-Webster, 482 
Rufus Webster, 444 
Samuel, 482 
Sarah Emily King, 455 
Silas Gasset, 287 
Thomas, 38, 62 
Emerson, Neb., 443 
Emery. Abigail-Hanson, 463 
Ada-Neddo, 424 
Ann M., 162 
Charles Henry. 424 
Daniel Lewis, 424 
Earl Roy, 424 
Edna Helen, 424 
Harold Willis, 424 
Miles, 424 

OHve Maria, 502 
Ruth, 23 
Sarah, 317. 445 



Susan B., 192 
Thomas Percy, 424 
William B.. 463 
William Philander, 463 
Enimerick, Carrie, 284 
Emmerton, Chas. Silsbce, 510 
Donald Sage, 517 
Ephraim, 516 
Ethel, 517 
Laurence, 517 
Mary Ann-Sage, 516 
.Silsbee, 517 
Emperor, the, 203 
Emporia Gazette, 607 
Emporia, Kan., 344, 607, 60S 
Encyclopedia, Amer., 373 

of Biog. of Indiana, 254 
Endicott John, 346 
Ruth, 347 
Samuel, 346 
Zarubbabell, 346 
Enfield, Mass., 439 
Enfield, N. H., 44, 277, 282, 
463, 468-472, 474, 475, 
498, 597, 698, 667 
Ehgels, Ellen-Stafford, 387 
Florence Stafford, 387 
Frederick William, 387 
Engeseth, Emma, 630 

Ingeborg Greenland, 630 
Svend Nelson, 630 
England, v, xiv, xvii, xix, 1, 
2, 6, 64, 98, 198, 201. 
238, 383, 396, 412, 486. 
508. 614, 528, 544, 567, 
620. 646, 609 
Englewood, Chicago, 348 
English, XX , 
English Colony, 410 
English, Joseph, 16 

Samuel, 16 
English language. Grammar 

of the, 259 
English Patriot, 301 
English People, xiv 
English Perle, xvi 
"EngUsh Pulpit, the, "496 
English soil, 190 
English, to speak, 207 
English trace, the only, xii 
Enosburg Falls. Vt., 479, 482, 
602. 605. (iOO. 625, 626 
Enosburg. Vt., 284, 285, 478- 
484, 486 488, 602, 604, 
605, 609-611, 625 
Ensign, xxii 
Epes, Sarah, 65 
Simond, 54 
Episcopal, 513 
Episcopal service book, xv 
Episcopalian, an, 423 
Episcopalian burial, 412 
Episcopalians, 284 
Epping, N. H., 330, 461, 463 
Epsom, xviii 
Erebus, 357 
Erick, the forester, 63 
Eric Canal, 357 
Erie Chronicle, 383, 670 
Erie County, 382, 383 
Erie County Bar, 567 
Eric Gazette. 382 
Erie Globe. 671 
Erie, Pa., viii, 382, 384, 477, 

567-571 
Erskine, Sarah E., 280 • 
Erwin, Cornelia Pease, 344 
Espev, Arthur, 629 
Esquimault, B. C. 584 
Essex Antiquarian, The, 546 
Essex County, (See County) 
Essex County, Geneal. Diet, 
of, 546 
Hist, of, 540 
Poets of, 546 
Essex Gazette, 109. 113 



Essex Institute, (Coll ), 29 
Essex, Mass., 4, 14, 21, 26, 27, 
29, 30, 41, 65, 200. 278, 
282, 338. 465, 627 
Esscxshire, Eng., 64 
Estabrok, Elizabeth, 583 
Estey, Sarah, 113 
Esteybrooks, Victory, 638 
Esty, Rhoda, 635 
Etna, Me., 227 
Etna, N. H.. 521, 622 
Europe, 203, 259, 331, 374, 
422, 486, 495, 604, .508, 
512, 613 
European fame, xvii 
European parents, 396 
Evans, an, 514 

Beniamin. 341 
B. F., 360 
Charles Amos, 500 
Charles Rowell, 500 
Emma S., 614 
Hannah, 341 
Harold, 606 
Isabel Huntington, 506 
Lvdia llimtington. 506 
Marv Perlev. 506 
Myrtle. 638 
Reuben, 506 
Robert R., 507 
Robert Rogers, 506 _^ 
Somerby Rogers. 507 
WiUiani \\illiamsoii. 506 
Evans & Bowker, 438 
Everards, the, 63 
Everett, Abbie Parmelia, 
249 
Abial Burpee, 269. 271 
AdeUne, 231 
Bertha Ada, 271 
Edward Lane, 271 
Ellex Frances, 271 
Frank Lelnyn, 271 
George Washington, 269 

271 
Herbert Foster, 269 
Horace Simpson Messen- 
ger, 269 
Jonathan, 269 
Jonathan Robert, 209, 

271 
Martha Ann, 269 
Mary Ann, 269, 271 
Mary Eugenia, 271 
Mary Lane, 271 
Walter Powers Flanders, 
269 
Everett, Mass.. 163, 200, 273, 

316, 466, 
Exeter, N. H., 44, 269, 373, 

553, 554, 609 
Expedition, Banks', 163 

Canada, 122 
Eyrick, Henry, 63 
Sir William, 63 

, Frances, 22 

Fahey, EHza, 437 

Fair, Mid-Winter, 637, 654 

the 403 

Fairbanks, , 92 

. Abigail 

Colonel. 455 

Noah, 260 
Fairbanks, Alaska, 226, 653 
Fairbanks, Farmington, Me., 

456 
Fairbanks Scales factory, 606 
Fairbanks & Co., 602 
Fairfield, Annah, 201 

Jane S. -Hill, 200 

Lucy Searles, 200 

Samuel G., 200 
Fairfield, Me., 298 
Fairfield. Vt., 487, 488, 611 
Fairlee, Vt., 498 



694 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Fairmount, W. Va., 494 
Fair Oaks, 90 
Fairpoint, Minxi., 47G 
Fairview, 571 
Fairville, 219. 63C 
Fairweather, Jane-Whittaker, 
585 

Joseph, 5S5 

Julia Elizabeth, 585 
Faithful!. Rev. F., xviii. 
Fales, Annie Chapin-Burpee, 
271 

Henry Willard, 288 

Horatio, 271 

Horatio Marshall, 271 

Willard Henrv, 288 
Fall City, Wis., 012 
Fall River, Mass.. 27.3, 402, 513 
Fuhnuuth. Me., 308, 370 
Faneuil Hall. 202 
Farewell, Isaac, 350 
Faigo, N. Dak., 470 
Faribault, Minn., 492 
Fanner, Mary, 312 
Farinerston, 242 
Farmerton, N. B., 583 
Far:ningham, Mass.. 422 
Farmington, Me., 262. 266, 
369, 452 455, 456, 591 
Farms, The, vi 
I'arnani, Ocorge, 113 
I'arnhaui, Alice Louise, 303 

Annette K., 220 

Charles O., 303 

Mary F., 220 

Mr., 295 

Orrin, 303 
Farnsworth, Betsey, 220 

Betsey Fitch, 220 

Samuel. 220 
Farnum, Cliarlcs Henry. 409 

Kdwin Wyman, 4()9 

Elizabeth Ann, 280 

Klizabeth-Robbins. 286 

EUzabeth R.-Perley, 278 

Emma Frances, 409 

Harry Gould, 469 

Helen Mary, 469 

James, 468 

James P.. 469 

James Perley, 469 

John, 286 

Jonathan F., 469 

Nathan, 468 

Sarah Ann Amsden. 469 

Susannah Perley, 469 
Farragut, Admiral. 516 
Farrand. Effie Leone, 591 

Pilema-Kennedy, 591 

Wilson, 591 
Farrar, Adeline Lavina, 433 
Farrell, Rev. J. J.. 363 
Farrington, Caroline, 492 
Farrow, Roxana, 580 
Farwell, Henry, 657 

Lizzie Mabel, 228 

Rebecca-Davis, 286 
Fatality, 38, 58, 59 
Fatherland Farm, The, 642 
Faunce, Carroll, 243 

Eugene, 243 

Hilda, 243 

Theodore Wattles, 243 
Favor, Mary, 644 
Fay, Elijah, 480 

Henry Hapgood, 381 

Henry James, 381 

James L., 381 

Jerusha, 480 

Mary-Mahonev, 381 
Fayette^ Me., 289 
Federal Constitution, 96 
FederaUst, 174 
Federalist, a. 263, 638 
Fegan, a. 457 
Felch, Alzina L., 273 



Rev. Mr., 497 

Sarah, 107 
Fellows, Abigail- Wright, 521 

Charlotte, 549 

Harriet Eliza, 521 

Ira, 521 

Isaac, 305 

Mary, 642 

Mary A., 468 

Alice Buffum, 208 
Felt, Ann Perley, 207 

Elizabeth Ropes, 207 

Ephraim, 207, 208 

George Ropes, 207 

Mary Kendrick, 207 

Sarah Elizabeth. 207 
Feltch, Elbridge S., 048 

Helen Louise, 647 

Mary Louise-Currier, 048 
Felton, Eliza Jane, 85 

Hannah, 347 

Sarah, 349 
Fenlon, Edward A., 232 
Fenton. Alexander, 239, 426 

Annie-Gruar, 426 

Ann Matheson, 239 

Christina-McLeod, 239 

Mary, 426 
Ferguson, xx 
Ferguson, Annis Love-Orr,488 

LibbieE.,48S 

Samuel, 488 
Fernald, Samuel, 190 
I'essenden, Anna Pcrlcv. 6.3S 

Caleb Page, 638 

Charles 1'.. 639 

Charles Phillips, 638 

E., 125 

Ebenezer, 638 

Edward Ebenezer, 638 

Elizabeth C, 638 

Enoch Perley, 638 

Huldah I'erlcy, 638. 639 

Ina l)unbury(?), 639 

Jennie Katherine, 639 

Marv Palmer, 221 

Sarah, 416 

Sarah-Clement, 638 

WilUam, 638, 039 
Field, Charles Sumner, 496 

Chester, 496 

Grace Tosephinc, 497 

L. C, xi 

Leon Chester, 496 

Leona Miner. 497 

Maria Louisa. 496 

Sophia-Loveridge. 496 
Fielders, Lucelia Elizabeth- 
Chapman, 433 

Martha AdeUa, 433 

Roscoe Alonzo, 433 
Fillebrown, Col., 174 
Findlay, Euphemia, 442 
Fire Dept. N. Y., 574, 575 
Fire, the great. 474 
First buried there, 28 
Fish, Abigail Angier, 592 

Ebenezer, 592 

Martha N., 592 
Fisher, Alice May, 433 

Arthur Whitcomb, 433 

C. E., 525 

James Perley, 433 

Jennie Isabelle, 433 

John Arthur, 433 

John Beadley, 433 

Lucretia Orphelia-Hig- 
gins, 433 

Mary, 132 

Susanna Isabel, 215 
Fisher, Perley & Co., 504 
Fisheries, sea and river, 411 
Fisk, Almeda, 277 

Benjamin, 277 

Hannah, 513 

Levi, 277 

Rachel-Flint, 277 



Susan-Rogers, 277 

Sylvia Josephine, 277 
I'^isk Free Library, 491 
Fisk Mfg. Co., 539 
Fisk place, 163 
Fiske, Amos F., 289 

Catherine, 289 

Eliza-Stone, 289 
Fitch, Almira Titcomb, 416, 
417, 

Almira-Titcomb, 416 

Betsey, 220 

George, 119 

Luther, 416 

Mary Titcomb, 417 
Fitchburg, Mass., 130-132, 
242, 243, 246, 24S, 
249, 251, 431, 432 
513, 523, 524, 616, 052 
Fitchburg journals, 508 
Fitchburg Reveille, 016 
Fitchburg Sentinel, 432 
Fitchburg Sentinel Office, 431 
Fitts, Irving Powell, 522. 

Mary Dow-Rogers, 522 

Perley Irving, 522 

Perley Richard, 522 

Richard, 522 
Fitz, Daniel, 549 

Mary W. -Emerson. 194 

Moses, 194 ■" 

Rebecca, 194 
Fitzwilliam, N. H,, iv. 230 
Fitzwilliam Road, 228 
Flagstaff, Me., 265 
Flammarion, Prof. Camele, 

163 
Flanders, Abigail, 109 

Hannah, 403 

James, 409 

Lucinda Leila, 409 

Mary Elizabeth-Pixley. 
469 
Flandreau, S. Dak., 598, 599, 

001 
Fleetbank, Kirkcudbright,383, 
Fleet, Gov. Winthrop's xi, 

xiii 
Fleet, Spanish, 103 
Flemish, xiv 
Flemming, 205 
Flemming, Jane, 404 
Flemming, Revell Co., 387 
Fletcher, , 280 

Benjamin, 147 

Charlotte, 556 

Ernest Mann, 433 

Hiram Dagget, 433 

Nettie-Mann, 433 

Mildred Viola, 433 
FUnt, Abigail, 232 

Anna, 125 

John. 127 230 

Lydia- Andrews, 125 

Rachel, 277 

Samuel, 125 

Sarah, 462 

William, 230 
P'lintshire. Wales, 397 
Florence, 105 
Florence, S. C, 90 
Florenceville, 408, 409 
Florida, 280, 360, 534, 595 
Floyd. Enoch, 516 

Sarah, 516 
Flushing, L. I., N. Y., 198, 

379, 380, 4 47, 448 
Flvnn, James Studley, 524 

John B., 524 

Louisa Maria-Williams, 
524 
Fogg, Adeline P.-Cass, 415 

Albert, 415 

Ephraim, 642 

Frederick Livesly Peter, 
87 

Hannah Louisa, 642 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



695 



Fogg, Hannah-Whitcher, 642 
Isabel, 415 
Julian Augustus, 87 
Leah Partington, 87 
Nathan, 169 
Nathan Taylor, 642 
Phebe-Taylor, 642 
Stephen, 141 
Foister, 628 . , , . .« 

Follansbee, Harriet Lake,44» 
Judith, 292 
Martha-Wayland, 449 
Moses C, 449 
Folly Island, S. C, 91 
Fulsom, AnneR., 225 
Deborah, 642 
Frank, 296 
Rosella M., 625 
Folsom, Cal., 358 
Foote, Doris, 488 
Etta, 487, 488 
Francis Perley, 488 
Mary Frances, 487 
Oscar, 487 
Oscar P., 488 
Oscar Perley., 487 
Ruth, 488 
Forbes, Andrew. 474 
Christina, 214 
Dea, 310 
Hugh, 426 
Maria Elizabeth Parker, 

426 
Mary-Cameron, _426 
Isabel-Russel, 474 
Isabel Wadel, 474 
Forbes & Wallace, 539 
Forces, disbanded, viii 
Ford, Edward, 274 

Edward Gould, 274 
Foresters of Amer, 615 
Forest Mills, Bridgton. 366 
Forrestall, Mary Ann-Haskell, 
432 
Norris, 432 
Fort2, L. I.,458 
Fort Assinniboin, Mont., 564 
Fort Clark, 196 
Fort Fairfield, Me., 422 
Fort Ftederick, vii 
Fort Kent, Me., 424 
Fort Keogh, Mont., 492 
Fort Leavenworth, Kan., 202 
Fort Logan, Col., 565 
Fort Maginnis, 565 
Fort Mason. Cal., 565 
Fort Monroe, Va., 564, 565 
Fort Pembina, Dak., 564, 565 
Fort Plain, N. V., 495 
Fortiess Monroe, 90, 576 
Fort Riley, Kan., 565 
Fort Ripley, 661 
Fort Schuyler, 591 
Fort Scott, Kan., 243 
Fort Smith, Ark., 527 
Fort Snelling, 565, 630 
Fort Sumter, 570 
Fort Wayne, Mich., 565 
Fort William Henry, 656 
Forteau, Lab., 412 
Fortune, Evelyn, 254 
Madeline, 254 
Mary-St. Claire, 253 
Russell, 254 
William, 253 
William H.. 253 

Foss, , 369 

Almira, 361 

Fernando, 369 

Harriet-Hanson, 369 

Louisa, 456 

Lucy Rice, 369 
Foster, 628 
Foster, , 356 

Aaron, 446 

Abigail. 85 



AbigaiUor Nabby), 83, 

85 
Almira Parsons, 83, 87 
Angelina Abby, 86 
Anna, 92 
Annie Russell, 91 
Augusta, 215 
Benjamin Franklin, 86 
Benjamin F., 91 
Charles A., 512 
Comrade, 337 
Cynthia P., 92 
Cynthia Phillips, 86 
Cyrus, 83, 87 
Cyrus Edwin 87 
Daniel, 101 
David, 83, 86 
David Calvin, 86 
David Philemon, 86 
Dorcas, 83 
Dudley, 83 
Eleanor Augusta, 86 
Eliza M., 89 
Eliza Mary, 86 
Elizabeth, 83, 84 
Elizabeth B., 91 
Elizabeth Bi.xby, 86 
Elizabeth FHnt, 447 
Enoch, 130 
Esther Carter, 421 
Fannie Florence, 91 
I'anny Atwill, 512 
Ifrank, 288 
Frank Forrest, 91 
Gertrude Mabel, 92 
Gorham, 87 
Gorham P., 87 
Gorham Parsons, 83 
Hannah, 254 
Hannah A., 91 
Hannah Angelia, 86 
Hitty, 87 
Huldah, 273 
Ida May, 92 
Irene, 87, 88 
Jemima, 82 

Jemima-Cummings. 83 
Joanna-Carter, 421 
Jonathan, 83, 113 
Lavinia, 87, 88 
Lewis Philemon, 87 
Lillian Cornelia, 87 
Lucretia, 518 
Lucy, 88 
Lucy Ann, 119 
Lucy H., 80 
Lucy Hobbs, 83 
Lvdia Ann, 105 
LydiaB., 86 
Lvdia Burpee, 83 
Martha, 194 
Martha Jane, 87 
Mary, 87 
Mary-Atwill. 512 
Mary Jane 87, 
Mary Nourse, 446 
Marv-Perkins, 87 
Nabbv, 83. 85 
Olive J., 92 
Olive Jane, 86 
OHver, 113 
Phileman, 83, 183 
Philemon uummings, 

85 
Phineas, 157 
Polly, 492 
Rebecca, 119 
Rebecca K.. 458 
Rev. Mr., 434 
Richard R., 90 
Richard Russell, 86 
Ruth, 83, 335, 648 
Samuel Perkms, 105 
Sarah, 83. 86 
Solomon L., 91 
Solomon Low, 86 
Simon, 87 



Susan Eliza, 87 
Thomas, 87 
Thcmias D., 421 
Walter C, 90 
Walter Cunnnings, 80 
Fosters, the, 629 
Fowle, Addie Lee, 360 
Freddie Allen, 360 
Perley E., 360 
Rebecca- Perry, 360 
Samuel, 300 
Walter Scott, 360 
Fowler, Abigail- Lewis. 200 
Catherine Jane, 365 
David. 365 
Deborah, 102 
Deborah (Mary?) 116 
Elizabeth, 200 
Gilbert, 101 
Hephzibah, 97 
Jane, 305 
John, 97, 101, 112, 161, 

162 
John W., 365 
Joseph, 199 
Martha, 97 
Martha Ann, 199 
Mary-Bailey, 199 
Mary (Deborah?), 116 
Mercy-Howe, 97 
Perkins. 101 
Sarah - Perkins - Abbott, 

102 
Samuel, 200 
Fowler farm. 337 
Fox, Asbury Tuttle, 288 
Charles Henry, 289 
Edmund Perley, 288 
Edmund Perley (Perley 

E.) 289 
Frank Elmer, 288 
Joseph, 131 
Kathryn, 273 
Mette-Svmonds, 288 
Peter, 273, 288 
Peter Tuttle, 288 
Fov, xviii 

Fradsham, Horatio, 219 
Laura Annie, 219 
Margaret Stephason, 219 
Frame, Charlotte Elizabeth, 
380 
Delia-Mack, 380 
George Augustus, 89 
Hannah-Welder, 89 
John, 380 
Samuel, 89 
Framingham, Mass., 91, 507, 

614 
France, 203-205, 207, 375, 

494, 508. 608, 669 
France, Gazette of, 300 
France, Parliament of, 300 
Francestown, N. H., 157, 352 
Francis, Augustus S., 369 

Augustus Strickland, 368 

B , 369 

Daisy, 369 
Ebenezer, 658 
Fernando Foss, 369 
Henrietta, 369 
Henrietta Louise, 368 
oo Henry, 309 

• Ida Gusta, 309 

John, 369 

Millie Burseley, 368 
Naomi P. -True, 368 
Samuel, 369 
Samuel L., 368 
Samuel Perley, 368 
Ulmer P., 309 
Xllmer Perley, 368 
William Henry, 368 
Franconia, N. H., 625 
Frankfort. N. Y., 243 
Frankhn, Betsey, 402 
Franklin Falls, N, Y., 481 



090 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Franklin, Mass., 666 
Franklin, N. H., 669 
I'runklin, N. Y., 277 
I'Vanklinville Chronicle, 569 
Franklinville, N. V. viii, 569, 

570, 653 
Franklin, Vt., 486 
Fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega, 
56S 
Masonic, 615 
Fhi Delta Phi, 447 
Pi Kta, 447 
See Order, etc. 
Frazier, Ann Rebecca, 489 

My.-ia, 302 
Frederick, Md., 248 
Fredericksburg, Va., 90, 385, 

512, 576 
Fredericton, N. B., viii, x, xi, 
214,216. 261,391-393, 
396 399, 404, 405, 408, 
409, 414, 429, 430, 
580, 584, 632, 634, 635, 
637. 650 
Fredericton Junction, N. B., 

407, 408, 410, 651 
Freedom, Me., 226, 227, 395, 

417, 418, 419, 521 
F-reeman, Hannah K.. 596 

Samuel, 97 
Free Mason, 523 
Free Masons. 314. 361 
Free Masons, John T. Heard 

Lodge, 203 
Freemont, N. H., 507 
Freeport, 234 
Frceport, Me., 563 
Freeport, P. Q., 481 
Freethey, Abbie Melissa Her- 
rick, 248 
Augustus Fcnno, 248 
Mary Abbie, 248 
Freetown, Mass., 213 
Freiburg, 422 
I'relyhsburgh, Que., 624 
I''rench, xx 
French, Abram, 207 
A. O., 518 

Arthur Burrage, 207 
Benjamin, 452 
Elizabeth, 230 
Ella Lewis, 422 
O. Brewer, 207 
Hannah Augusta-Buzzell, 

432 
Maria, 538 
Marv, 230 
Mary A., 452 
Mary P., 230 
Mary-Riley, 452 
Norman Tohnson, 432 
Perez D., 229, 230 
Sophia Jane Cobb, 207 
Watson Samuel, 432 
French astronomer, 163 
French claim, 205 
French families, 374 
French family, 669 
French Lake, 217 
F'rench name, xviii, xx, 644 
French Purlieu, xvi 
French, the, 118, 637 
Fresno, Cal., 527 
Friel, George, 175 

Louise Isabcllc, 175 
Friend, Ernestine, 200 

Ernest Rockwell, 200 
George 200 
Grace T.-Powers, 200 
Friends, 266 
Friends, the, 452 
Frink, Nathan, 403 
Frink & Walker, 356 
Front, Roval, 202 
Frost. Angela C, 589 
Frances Eliza, 387 
Frank L., 547 



Jane, 590 
Julius B., 547 
Sarah A.-Weeks, 547 
Willard, 589 
Frothingham, Abigail Tufts, 
467 
Deborah-Tufts, 467 
Joseph, 467 
Frothingham' s Siege of Bos 

ton, 145 
Frye, James, 145, 657, 660 
Lois Twitchell, 552 
Marietta Frederica, 552 
William, 552 
Frve's Regiment, 145 
Frveburg, Me.. 82, 122, 221 

337, 416. 638, 639 
Fuller, Amos, 90 

Benjamin, 89, 548 
Calvin W., 548 
Cornelia Ellen, 270 
Dorothv Dale, 466 
Ellen Mary, 470 
Ephraim, 110 
Esther, 89 
Esther-Wilkins, 548 
Frances A., 200 
Frances Kellogg, 51 1 
Frederic, 467 
Frederic Augustus, 466 
Freeman Allen, 200 
Georgianna Eva, 270 
Harold Chipman, 466 
James, 470 

Jeanette-Chipman, 466 
Joseph T., 466 
Josiah, 270 

JuHa Elizabeth-Clark, 511 
Laura Annie, 467 
Margaret Frances, 466 
Marv Frances, 270 
Philindia Carter, 200 
Priscilla Howland, 466 
Samuel Augustus, 511 
Sarah, 444 

Sarah-Greenough, 270 
William Almeron, 270 
William Griffin, 270 
Williamine Cordelia, 270 
Fullerton, Jacob, 548 

Nellie Louise, 548 
Fulling mill, first, 98 
Fulton, Annie, 63G 

Dr., 342 
Fulwilcr, Anna Adaline, 501 
Fund, Aaron Wood School, 
148 
Aged and Infirm Minis- 

ters,390 
Sarah P. Perley, 255 
the Church, 535 
Fundv, Bavof, 411 
Funerals, 2500, 495 
Furber, Mary, 299 
Furrey, Alberta, 597 

Gage, Abbie, 248 
Cecilia, 294 
Charles O., 193 
Charlotte L., 193 
Charlotte L.-Reed, 193 
Ebenezer, 142 
Eliza, 463 
EUzabeth, 294, 295 
Elvira Perley, 294 
General, 56, 100, 130 
Hannah, 508 
Hannah-Tenney, 462 
Martha M., 116 
Mary-Abbott, 248 
Mary-Dole, 294 
Mercy, 63 
Mercv-Baker, 63 
Moses, 248 
Olive, 260 
Ophelia. 294 
Phebe-Eaton, 463 



Phineas, 463 
Rebecca, 260 
Ruby, 462 
Sarah, 462 
Thomas, 151. 294 
Thomas P., 294 
Uriah, 462 
William, 63 
Wilham J., 516 
William Jewett, 294 
Gage's Hist, of Rowley, 206, 

629 
Gage, Okla., 479, 480, 
Gagetown, N. B., 218, 429, 583 
Gainsville, Ala., 283 
Galb, Ont., 390 
Gale, Andrew Bowers, 149 
Charles Tucker, 149 
Charlotte-Wilkins, 473 
Dudley E., 107 
Edward, 149 
Edward F., 149 
Georgiana Maria, 473 
Perkins, 473 
Galena, 234, 356 
Gallaxy, briUiant, 412 
Gallishan, Abigail, 217 
Galivan, Anita Pauline, 242 
Carlton Henry, 242 
Charles Patrick, 242 
Charles Wilfred Augustus 

242 
Eileen Marie, 242 
Isabcl-Caldwell, 242 
Patrick, 242 
Patrick Norman, 242 
Gallop, Lucy, 409 
Galloup's brook, 170 
Gait, John, 565 

Louisa Emerson. 565 
Galveston, Tex., 371 
(ialway. Ire., 363 
Gambler, O., 653 
Gammell, Rev. S. D., 444 
Gananoque, Ont., 624 
Gannaway, Clinton James, 241 
Cornelia- Payton, 241 
David, 241 
David Francis, 241 
Homer Laurence, 241 
Wilham Cox. 241 
William Frederic, 241 
Garcia, Augusta Gonznlez, 652 
Concepcion, 509, 652 
John Perez, 652 
Gardiner, Anna, 520 
Gardiner, Me., 311, 321, 537 
Gardner, John, 112 

Phila, 575 
Gardner, Mass., 131, 133, 231, 
244-249. 251, 252, 432, 
434, 436 438, 524, 661 
Gardner, Herrick's Hist of, 250 
Garfield, Okla, 480 
Garland, James, 227 

Tames Elmer, 227 
Garland, Me., 379 
Garno, F^lizabeth, 335 
George Henry, 335 
Martha, E., 333 
Modest, 335 
Garrett, Arvilla, 603 
Charles L., 603 
Marian Agnes, 603 
Wilham, 159 
Garrett's Hill, 159 
Garrison House, 318 
Garrison, Joseph, 633 

William Lloyd, 633 
Garrison, the old, 327 
Gary, Eugenia, 590 
Gascony, France, 63 
Gaspereaux, Forks, N. B., 636 
Gaspereaux, N. B., 634 
Gassett, Erlon Lovell, 278 
Foster, 277 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



697 



Gassett, Merton Albert, 278 
Sarah lane Pratt, 277 
Wilfred Everett, 277 
Gates, Adeline, 437 
Amos, 437 
Ann, 381 
Ann-Dakin, 381 
Bctsey-Kenip, 437 
Donald Coats, 381 
E. D., 572 
Eli, 381 
Kmeline, 381 
George, 381 
Mary-Coats, 381 
Sarah Perley, 381 
Thomas Bush Matthew, 

381 
Vienna, 483 
Gathering, Perley Family, 397 

587, 592 
Gay, Rachel, 247 
Gazette of France, 300 
Geddes, Harriet, 142 
Geer, David, 549 

F^uniceAVittcr, 549 
Mary Louise, 549 
Gemsbok, bark, 280 
Genealogy, iii, xi 
Genealogy, Cogswell, 29 
Foster, 43 
Fowler, 161 
Gould, 641, 042 
Hammond, 274, 460 
Hood, 137 
Peabodv, 15 
Poor, 307 
Rust, 196 
General, Adjutant, 52 
Geneseo, Kan., 480 
Geneva, O., 243 
George, Ann Rebecca, 458 
David 112 
Joanna Carter, 458 
Josiah, 112 
Levi, B., 458 
Mary B., 518 
Moses, 113 
WiUiam, 158 
George, ship, 172 
George the Third, viii 
Georgetown Advocate, 160, 
175, 176, 209, 313, 327, 
350, 461, 517, 518, 595 
Georgetown, D. C, 90 
Georgetown, Mass., ix, xi, xx, 
xxii,23,49,6l,62,70,71, 
75, 76, 79-81,84,86-89, 
• 91. 92. 94. 152, 153, 
156-158 160, 162, 163, 
175, 176, 179, 180, 183- 
186, 259, 260, 277-2T9, 
281, 282. 291-296, 310, 
312-316, 325, 338, 351, 
353, 354, 363, 365, 444, 
445, 448, 457, 458, 460, 
462, 463, 468, 505, 510- 
518, 525, 530, 533, 543, 
544, 546, 547, 558, 559, 
587, 593-595, 620, 629, 
646, 647, 6.50 
Georgetowii-Byiield, 163 
Georgetown line, 189 
Georgetown poor farm, 151 
Georgia, 162 
Georgia, Vt., 604 
Georgias, 205 
German, xiv 
Germantown, 451 
Germany, 253 
Gerrish, Jacob 058 660 

Gerry, George E., 394 ' 
Hettie Pickard, 394 
Phcebe-Sloat, 394 
Gettysburg, 90, 272, 310 
Gew, Frances, 634 
Gibbs, Alvina, 82 
Gibbon, Gen. John, 565 



Giberson, Esther, 422 
Hannah, 409 
John Marshall, 409 
Lucy-Gallop, 409 

Gibney, J., 199 

Gibson, Edgar Milton, 608 
IvHzabeth, 346 
Isaac, 131 

Julia Ann-Lawrence, 008 
Nora Racel, 608 

Gibson, N. B., 219, 238, 430 

Giddings, Anna Charlotte, 549 
Betsey, 513 
Charles, 549 
Charlottc-rcUows, 549 
Clarissa-Kilbvtrn, 479 
Ivmerov C. -Ballard, 611 
Ethel Gertrude, 611 
Harry De Witt, 479 
Margaret, 21 
Thomas H., 479 
WilHam A., 479, 611 

Giddins, , xii 

Gilbert, , 414 

B. J., 256 

Clarissa-Mellish, 605 
Esther Roxalana, 605 
Harvey, 605 
Helen Loretta, 601 

Gilead, Me., 119, 364 

Gile, Levi, 465 
Mahala, 465 

Giles, Bertha Kendall. 458 
Eliza Kimball-Bunker, 

458 
James B., 458 
Lewis Henrv, 458 
Lucy, 471 

Giles House, 189 

Gilfillan, George, 573, 575 
Jane Maria. 573, 575 
Mary Anne-Matthews, 

573, 575 
Sarah, 575 

Gill, John, 228 

Joshua, 229, 230 

Gillespie, Nancy, 518 

Gillet, Eliphalet, 173 

Gillette, Delphine May, 613 
Edwin Fraser, 613 
Edwin Lewis, 613 
E. E-, 150 
K. L.,504 

EHzabeth-Hoyt, 613 
Jeremiah, 613 
Orville Dewev, 613 

Gillis, Alexander, 238 
Anne, 238 
EUen-Bremner, 238 

Glimanton, N. H , 167. 169, 
283, 329, 330, 639. 668 

Gilmore, Alexander, 237 
Charles H.. 238 
Charles Hazen, 237 
Harry Bassett, 449 
Jesse, 449 
Jesse Stanley, 449 
Sophia-Carter, 449 
Virginia M., 237, 238 

Gilpatrick, Martha. 477 

Gimbernat, , 652 

Gingerbread, jumping, 200 

Girard, Pa,. 382, 569 

Girard Republican, 570 

Girdlestone, Charles William, 
597 
Constance, 597 
George William, 597 
Louisa Rosalie-Baby, 597 

Girvan, Agnes-Stroyan, 636 
Alfred Bruce, 636 
Amanda Briggs, 636 
Henry Havelock, 636 
James Stroyan, 636 
Janie, 636 
Maggie McM., 638 
Maggie McMillan, 636 



Samuel T., 630 

Stephen Briggs, 630 

Thomas, 636 

Thomas Leander, 636 
Given, Henrietta Ardellia, 454 
Gladstone, N. B., 400, 407, 580 
Cilanford, Ont., 389 
Glasgow, Scot., 408 
Glasier, Ada Charlotte, 399 

Duncan Dunbar, 399 

Sarah-Mitchell, 399 
Glasier & Co., 1). D., 399 
Glazier, Susan H., 155 
Gleaner, The (Fredericton) 

398 
Gleason, Ariz., 604 
Gleason, Gamaliel, 212 
Glendale, 90 
GlenF;cho, Md.,384 
Glen Ivllvn, 111., 348 
Glen Falls, N. Y., 567 
Glen, Ida Madeline, 568 
Glen Valley, Ont., 624 
Glenmere, 129 
GHdden, Benjamin, 227 

Herbers F. 227 

Melzena. 227 

Percy, 227 
Glines, James P., 669 

Mary, 232 

Mary Jane, 669 

Ruth-Brown, 669 
Gloucester, Mass., 47, 87, 149, 
200, 255, 271, 325, 327, 
331, 341, 463, 514, 524, 
539, 540, 542, 618, 621, 
652, 657 
Gloucester Telegraph, 523, 5.39 
Glover, Blanche Izette, 653 

Burnicelna. 553 

Butler Noris, 553 

Dwight Butler, 554 

Ella Lewis-French, 422 

Frank R., 422 

George, 553 

Lousiua Shaw-Tuttle, 553 

Ralph W., 554 

Ralph Wyman, 553 

Rav W., 554 

Ray Winifred, 553 

Robert Leonard, 422 

Roswell William, 553 
Glover, the herald, xx 
Gloversville, N. Y., 338 
Gochey, Mary, 606 
God, Almighty, ix, x 
" God Save the Queen," xi 
God, worship of, viii 
Godard, Agnes, 400 

Isabella-McMackin, 400 

John F., 400 
Goddard, Abbie-Wilkinson, 
437 

Augustus A., 437 
• Charles Hermon, 436 

Edward, 229. 230 

Hannah, 230 

Miranda, 119 

Thatcher, 119 
Goff, Augusta, 278 
Goffstown, N. H., 275, 459, 

461, 592, 593 
Golden, 488 
Golden Belt, Kan., 480 
Golden, Col., 611 
Goldfield,Col.,480 
Golding, Frances, 635 
Gold necklace, 56 
Goldsboro, N. C, 90 
Goldsmith, Henry, 634 

Tabitha, 194 
Goldthwait. Ebenezer, 41 
Gondolas, 325 
Gonzalez, Augusta, 652 
Good, George, 582 

Jane-Wood, 582 



698 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Good, Lizzie Jane, 582 
Goodale, Emma, 55 
Goodell, Jolin, 592 

Sally-Washburn, 592 

Vivian Luella, 592 

Walter 592 

Warren, Perley 592 
Goodhue, Abigail-Choate, 282 

Dea.,9, 627 

Francis, 21 

Hannah, 20, 306 

John, 21 

Joseph, 21, 72, 282 

J. W., 198 

Nathaniel, 21 

Susannah, 282 

AVilliam, 20, 112 
Goodhue place, Lynnfield, 90 
Goodrich, Caroline Alleta, 438 
Goodridge, Allen, 51 

Alpheus, 51 

Asahel, 51 

Benjamin, 51 

Elizabeth, 51 

Hannah, 51 

Harry Barnard, 501 

Hephzibah, 51 

Eevi, 51 

Moses E., .501 

Moses K-ing, .501 

Sarah Jane, 501 
Goodridge Memorial, 546 
Goodwin, Martha, 198 

Nancv Ann, 490 

Samuel T.. 128, 129 

Sarah Brock, 481 
Gorditt, Maria Jane, 652 
Gordon, Arthur Hamilton, 425 

Bert Arthur, 498 

Caroline-Farrington, 492 

Enoch, 498 

Freeman Sargent. 498 

Hepzibeth A.-Bickford, 
498 

Isaac, 492 

Jennie Josephine, 492 

Marianna, 331 

I'erlev Arthur, 49S 

Rev. Mr., 518 
Gordon, Fla., 517 
Gordon, Wis., 241 
Gorham, Me., 379, 380, 529 
Gorham, N. H., 119 
Goshen, N. H., 490, 491 
Gospel Banner, 309 
Goss, Annie Louisa, 530 

Bessie May, 530 

Charles, 530 

Frank Marshall, 530 

Frank Perley, 530 

Marv Cvnthia-Severancc, 
530 
Gouer, Anna, 346 
Gould, , 226 

Aaron, 273 

Aaron P., 274 

Aaron Pressey, 273 

Abbie A., 611 

Abigail, 156 

Albert, 219 

Amos, 273 

Andrew, 548 

Anna Brown, 177 

Aseneth, 222 

Benjamin Perlev, 273 
• Bernice Adeha, 369 

Betsey, 155. 176, 448 

Betsey- Andrews, 162, 345 
351 

Catherine, 351 

Catherine A., 351 

Catherine B. -Parker, 351 

Clark C, 273, 274 

Daniel, 61, 62, 132, 222 

David, 273 

Dolly P., 273 

Elijah, 356 



Elizabeth, 105, 153, 177. 

448 
Elizabeth-Bradstreet, 156 
Elizabeth-Emerson, 153, 

293 
Elizabeth-Towne, 154,274 
Esther, 351 
Esther Andrews., 344 
Ezra, 219 

Fannie Howard, 368 
Francis, 351 
Freedom Weed, 368 
Gen., 445 
Hannah, 273, 274, 530, 

552 
Hannah \.. 444 
Hannuh-Killam, 349 
Hannah R., 359 
Harriet, 274 
Harriet Lake, 548 
Henry Lawrence, 254 
Hepzipah-Stevens, 219 
Huldah, 177, 222,273,445 
Huldah-Foster, 273 
Irene, 351 
Jacob, 123, 126, 136, 154, 

274, 445, 657-060 
Jesse Perlev, 351 
John, 156.273 
Joseph, 153, 293.351 
Josiah. 448 
Keziah, 157 
Lois, 274 
Louisa, 349 
I-ucy-Tarbox, 62 
Lucv-Tarbox- Perkins, 627 
Luella Bell, 274 
Lydia, 443 
Lydia-Howe, 254 
LvdiaLovett, 254 
Mary, 140 

Mary-Chand)erlain, 368 
Marv Prudence- Lake. 548 
Mehitable. 326 
Molly. 62 
Moses. 219 
Mr. 64G 
'Nathaniel. 162, 344. 349, 

351 
Nathaniel I'ranklin, 351 
Xalhanicl P., 369 
Nathaniel Perley, 368 
N. G. Duren, 68 
Parmelia, 162 
Peltiah, 368 
Phcbe. 273 
Rebecca, 273, 497 
Ruth, 154 
Ruth-Pcabody, 445 
Sally, 293, 349 
Sally-White, 349 
Sarah, 44 

Sarah-Bradstreet, 222 
Simon, 349 
Sophronia, 273, 274 
Susan, 273 
Thomas, .351 
Zeccheus, 15, 177 
Gould Genealogy, 641, 642 
Gove. Betsey Dunham-Perry, 
491 
Dorothea Elizabeth. 201 
Dorothy. 490 
Eleanor Farley. 201 
Emma Frances. 491 
Evelvn Frances. 201 
Frank A., 201 
Frank Alvn. 198 
Frank Stanley, 201 
Harriet Farley. 198 
Jonathan. 107 
Mildred Eugenia, 201 
Mildred O., 201 
Mildred Orne. 198 
Nellie E., 201 
NelUe Estelle, 198 



Peter. 491 

Rhoda-Loude. 198 

Robert, 198 

Robert Loude, 198 
Government home, viii 
Government, the. 405, 609 
Government, the provincial, 

xiii 
Government, U. S., 571 
Governor's Island, N. Y., 565 
Gov.-Gen. of Canada, 414 
Gower, Ida Vendetta-Gower, 
650 

Joel S , 650 

Walter Raymond, 393, 
650 

Walter W., 393, 050 
Grady, ICllen. 606 
Graen, Charles, 243 

Hazel, 243 

Percy Low, 243 
Grafton, Mass., 40, 543 
Grafton, N.B., 215, 637 
Grafton, N. H., 471 
Graham. Helen Elisabeth. 511 

James Eliot, 391 

Mary Edith, 391 

Mary Jane-Aikins, 391 

Sarah, 460 

William H..511 
Grammar of ling. Grammars, 
259 

of tlie Eng. Lang.. 259 
Granby, Vt.. 265 
tirand Army of the Rep.. 163. 

314. 385-387, 577 
Grand Lake. N. B., 253, 441, 

579, 634. 636 
Grange charters. 23.000, 236. 

work, 420 
Grange, the local. 474 
Grant, Anne-Perkins, 46 

Benjamin. 46 

Frank. 202 

Fred John. 22S 

Gen., 192. 221, 243 

Honora, 202 

Jacob. 406 

Jacob Byron. 406 

James O.. 201 

Jane-Kennedv. 406 

John. 40. 47 

John Frank, 201 

Julia Besse Deshon. 201 

Lenora. 202 

Thomas. 112 
Grant at Chicago. 572 
Grant. Rust &, 197 
Grant tradition. 47 
Grant's Hill, 46 
Grantees, viii 
Grantham. N. H., 197 
Granville, N. Y., 602 
Granville Place. Boston. 652 
Gratz, 568 
Graves. -Plumnicr. 456 

Harriet M.. 493 

Henry B.. 186 

Jonathan. 456 

Lottie, 456 

Sarah, 44 
Gravesend, 129 
Gravestones, Tohn Perley' s 28 
Gravier, Ehzabeth, 595 

Hannah, .595 

Lewis, N., 595 
Gray. Addison G.. 667 

AHce F!lmer. 537 

Alice Emcline, 653 (See 
Alice Elmer) 

Augusta, 667 

Charles Herman, 537 
653 

Charles P., 653 

Charles Perley, 537 

Eunice-Brown, 537 

Gilead, 586 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



G99 



Gray, Hartson Herman, 537 
Hortense E., 053 
Hortensc Eugenia, 537 
IdaM., 667 
John H.,586 - 
John Hamilton [not I. 

Hamilton Pav], 413 
Lillian, 653 

William Folsoni [read 
Lillian], 537 
Gray, Me., 94-97, 189, 190, 
193-196, 308, 363, 364, 
370-373, 375, 379-381, 
562, 563, 628, 643, 644 
Great Britain, 95, 121,353,411 
Greatneck, N. Y., 222 
Grcalon, Capt. lohn, 135, 658 
Great Plains, 377 
Great Valley, N. Y., 570 
Great Waldringfield (Eng.) 

63, 98 
Great West, the. 403 
Great Works, Me., 321 
Grecian, 476 
Grecian democracy, 96 
Greek testament, 321 
Greely, Horace, 382 

Green, , 196 

Hannah, 142, 641 
Jacob, 48 
John, 134, 356 
William. 134 
Green Bay, Wis., 368 
Green Bush, la., 441 
Greene, Elizabeth, 597 
Ellen, 280 

Henry Reynolds, 597 
Mary-Brown, 597 
Greenfield, Mass., 616 
Green Lake, Seattle, Wash., 

428 
Greenland, Ingeborg, 630 
Greenland, N. H., 433 
Greenleaf, Benjamin, 256, 326 
508 
Mr., 308 
Simon, 95 
Green, Me., 454 
Green Mountains, 484 
Greenough, Bailey, 308 
Betsey-Parker, 308 
Carpenter, 182 
Hannah, 462 
Nancy, 182 
Sarah, 270 
Susan, 182 
Thomas, 308 
Greenwood, Alice Trayne, 270 
Anna, 244 
Genevieve, 270 
Harry, 270, 272 
Irene, 480 
James Chase, 270 
J. Maria, iii, 270 
Martha Train, 270 
Mary Fowler, 593 
Nahum Trayne, 270 
Robert Byng 270, 273 
Samuel, 270 
Samuel, M. 593 
Sarah, 593 
Thomas, 244 
Wallace Wright, 272 
Greer, Ered, 500 

Reginald Perley, 500 
Greives, Almira Eoss, 361 
Emma, 361 
Thomas, 361 
Grenville, 111., 585 
Gravstone, Vallamount, 537 
Griffin's Mills, N. Y., 640 
Griffith, Anna Caroline Louisa, 
216 
Benjamin Peck, 215 
Bessie Edith Eliza, 216 
Joseph Thomas Alex- 
ander, 215 



Sarah Eliza-Lyon, 215 
Grimsdick, Maria Louise, 401 
Grinnell, la., 489 
Griswal, Abigail Lee, 479 
Griswold, Eliza Abigail, 360 
Hannah Pierce, 416 
Ohver, 416 
Sarah-Fessenden, 416 
Groat, Barbara, 589 

Barbara Allen-Stuait, 589 
John, 589 
Gross, Miriam N., 463 
Grotto, Eliza Jane, 200 
Groton, Mass., 189 
Groton, N. H., 94, 189 
Groton, Vt., 006 
Groveland Cornet Band, ix 
Groveland, Mass., 35, 80, 93, 
106, 151, 152, 157, 212, 
274, 307, 309, 316, 457, 
458, 516, 524, 530, 544, 
594 
" Grove Oration," 359 

Grover, , 337 

Dorcas Helen, 591 
Edsel, 591 
Maria, 394 
Mary-W^alker, 591 
Groveton, N. H., 463 
Gruar, Annie, 426 
Grubb, Alice Elizabeth, 489 
Ann Rebekah-Frazier, 

489 
Samuel, 489 
Guard, Imperial, 520 

National, 385 
Guards, Boxford Wash., 514 
National, 577 
N. Y. Nat., 573 
Princess Louise Dragoon, 
474 
Guaymas, Mex., 120 
Guelphs, 301 

Gugubauer, Carolyn, 568 
Guildhall, Vt., 431 
Guilford. Ct.. 387 
Guilford, Lydia, 328 

Ruth, 91 
Guilford, Me., 302 
Ciuilford, N. H., 167, 330 
Guilford, Vt., 42 
Gulf, the, 313 
GuUifer, David, 298 

Jennette Wilkins, 298 
Gunter, Sarah, 429 
Guptill, Elizabeth, 507 
Gurlev, Ellen J.-Toomey, 589 
Lucy, 589 
Samuel, P. 589 
Guthrie, Okla., 480 
Guysboro, N. S., 228 

, Hannah, 25 

"H," 74 , see Grant's Hill. 
Hackley, Alice, 197 
Haddam, Ct., 559 
Hadley, Emily-Newton, 603 

Frances- Tones 593 

George, 003 

James Langdon,003 

Josiah Gillis, 275 

Julia Ann, 283 

Nathaniel, 593 

Sylvia, 593 
Hagar, like, 71 
Hagarman, Alfred, 410 

Annie-Ingraham, 410 

Brock Marven, 410 
Hagarstown, Md., 386 
"Hail Columbia," xi 
Haines, Eliza, 578 

John Ayer, 400 

Minnie, 460 

Theresa-Cogswell, 460 
Hale, Abigail, 36, 52 

Abner, 18, 139 

Achsa, 248 



Alfred Atherton, 637 

Alice-Bosworth, 17 

Ambrose, 18 

Anna-Porter, 305 

Archie Frederick, 637 

Artemas, 18 

Benjamin, 18 

Carrie Ernestine, 531 

Charlotte, 221 

Christopher Sargent, 23 

Clarence, 18 

Comrade, 337 

Daniel Harris, 164 

David, 36 

Dorothy, 18, 146, 305 

E. J.M.,524 

Eliphalet, 18 

Elizabeth, 18, 14&. 531 

Enoch, 531 

Enoch Perley, 531 

Eugene, 18 

Ezekiel, 23 

Ezekiel James M., 23 

Francis P., 164 

Frederic, 18 

Frederick George, 637 

Frederick H., 637 

Hannah, IS, 127, 128, 
139 

Harriet, 139 

Helen Emma, 037 

Henry, 18 

Hephzibah, 18 

Irene, 139 

Issac, 16, 30, 52, 55, 137, 
259 

Israel, 137 

Jacob, 18 

Jane, 35 

Joanna-Dodge, 59 

Jean Rhoda, 637 

John, 18, 36, 110, 127, 
128,293 

Jonathan, 35, 36 

Jonathan Harriman, 36 

Joseph, 17, 18, 21, 51, 57. 
59,105,177 

Kezia Baker, 139 

Lucy, 139 

Lydia, 18, 59 

Margaret, 18 

Martha, 35 

Mary, 18, 35, 51, 229 

Mary-Hutchinson. 17, 35 

Mary-Kimball, 146 

Mehitable, 18 

Moses, 18, 36, 127, 229 

Nancv,368 

Nathaniel, 139 

OHve, 139 

Perley, 139 

Priscilla-Peabody, 128 

Rhoda-McGee, 037 

Richard, 17 

Richard Lunt, 531 

Sally, 139 

Samuel, 35, 36 

Sarah, 18, 164 

Sarah-Jackson, 51 

Sarah-Northend, 23 

Sarah-Poor, 23 

.Susannah, 102 

Thomas. 17, 18, 23, 35, 

140 
William, 18, 110, 113, 
140, 305 
Hale farm, 230 
Hale House, The, 138 
Hale's Corner, 35 
Hales, the. 17 

Hahfax, N. S., vii, 198, 203, 
200,238,297, 393,412 
Hall, Addie Jane, 471 
Almira, 457 
Annie M. -Woods, 568 
Charlotte-Newell, 439 
Dudley Farmer, 430 



roo 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Hall, Kdith Perley 358 

Eli, 35S 

Elias, 646 

Estlier E., 265 

Eugene, 3S0 

Florence Gertrude, 568 

George, 439 

George W., 56S 

Georgia Anna, 370 

Grace Huntington, 359 

Harold Farmer, 430 

John, 471 

Joseph W., 358 

Lavina-Huinphrey, 370 

Louis Anderson, 265 

Maria Robinson-Kav, 430 

Mary, 439 

Sarah, 418, 646 

Thomas Farmer, 430 

Thomas Putnam, 358 

Wilham F., 370 

William S., 265 

Willie Curtis, 265 

W. Perley, iv 
"Hall, the Mary Wade," 78 
Halle, 422 

Hallowell, Me.. 75, 150, 151, 
173, 174, 308, 536.642 
Halstead, Harriet Glentwood, 
504 

William, 502, 504 
Halstead' s Reports, 502 
Ham, Jacob Barker, 643 

Lucinda Golder, 643 

Lucv Maria, 317 

Orlando Smith, 643 
Hamburg, 209 
Hamburg, N. Y., 557 
Hamilton. Charlotte, 216 

Joseph. 627 

Sarah, 379 
Hamilton Corporation, 363 
Hamilton, Mass, 49, 84, 85, 
106, 160, 178, 197,323, 
352, 520, 544. 648, 649, 
Hamilton, N. J., 503 
Hamilton, Ojit., 577 
Hamlin, Eben, 303 

Ernest Albion. 303 

Susan-Ladd. 303 
Hammersmith, xviii 
Hammond. Addic E., 047 

Charles. 647 

Charles Brown, 647 

Charles C, 647 

Charles Henry, 647 

Eleazer Slocum, 409 

EHza, 409 

Elizabeth-BrowTi, 647 

Henry W., 647 

Huldah, 274 

Lizzie M.. 647 

Malvena. 242 

Mary Crowninshicld War- 
ren, 348 

Mason, 348 

Samuel, 348 

Sarah-Kilburn, 409 

Thomas, 18 
Hammond Genealogy, 274,460 
Hammond, Wis., 440 
Hampden, Me., 52 
Hampstead, N. H, 87, 177. 

269, 338-341, 343 
Hampstead. N. B., 581, 635 
Hampton Falls, N. H., 25, 

26. 189,190, 532 
Hampton Ferry, N. B., 410 
Hampton, John, 301 
Hampton, Me., 647 
Hampton, N. B., 414, 430, 

532, 586 
Hampton, N. H., 25, 26, 92, 

94, 179, 317. 359 
Hampton, Va., 90, 225 
Hancock, Eunice, 195 

Gen., 195 



John, 195 

Joseph, 98, 195 

Maj.-Gen., 059, 660 

Samuel, 98 

Thomas, 98 

W. S., 565 
Hancock, N. H., 288 
Handbook of Inform.. 412 
Hanford, Cal., 637 
Hanford. .80 

Martha, 12S 
Hanks, Ann-Whitten, 301 

Armorel, 302 

Audrey, 302 

Elden Whitten. 301 

Ruel Clinton. 302 

Stewart McICenney. 302 

William Pope. 301. 302 
Hanley, Clara Agnes, 363 

Edward, 363 

Edward Patrick, 363 

Eleanor-Greeley, 363 

Francis, 363 

James Thomas, 363 

John Perley, 363 

Joseph, 363 

Patrick Joseph, 363 
Hannibal. Mo.. 377. 515 
Hannibal. N. V., 283 
Hanover. Ct.. 247 
Hanover. N. H.. 72, 2,56, 305, 

494,521, 522, 018 
Hanscomb, Deborah, 116 
Hanson, Abigail, 463 

Elvira, 150 

Harriet, 369 

Mary, 192 

Nathan, 192 

Rachel, 530 

Susan, B. 192 
Harbor, Charleston, 458 

Ipswich, 203 
Harcourt, N. B., 219, 036 
Harding, Melissa Celia, 491 
Hardwick, Mass., 488 
Ilardwick, Vt., 603, 604 
Hardv, Aaron W.. 530 

Arthur P.. 467 

Arthur Proctor. 466 

Caroline Matilda, 94 

ICllen-Beals, 466 

Gorham H., .587 

Hannah, 505 

Henry Wheeler, 466 

Herbert Franklin, 530 

Jeremiah, 274 

Lizzie Frances, 466 

Lois, 457 

Lucinda, 530 

Lucy, 152 

Mary Ada, 587 

Mary-Dresser, 587 

Miriam, 467 

Truman, 466 

Truman Alvah. 466 
Hare & Holter, Barbour, 510 
Hargreaves, Mary E., 424 
Harlem, 111., 557 
Harmon, Cornelia-Briggs, 172 

Frank, 649 

Nathan W., 172 

RoIUn Eugene, 172 
Harnden. Andrew, 186 
Harper, Ann Hastings, 582 

James, 582 

Mary Ann-Nevers, 582 

Rachel Eunis, 401 
Harper's Ferry, 90 
Harpers, the, 496 
Harper & Bros., 573 
Harriman. Anne Poor, 46 

Augustine, 271 

Betsey. 46 

Betty. 46 

Blanch Perley. 594 

Carolyn Judith. 594 

Charles A., 594 



Daniel, 46 

Daniel Francis, 46 

David Poor, 46 

Elhanan, 271 

Ehzabeth Gardner, 316 

Hudson Savory, 594 

Jane, 71 

Jeremiah, 45, 46 

Jonathan, 45, 46 

Josephine Hudson. 594 

Judith Savory-Thurlovv, 
594 

Lucy, 46 

Margaret- Wood, 45 

Polly, 46 

Samuel, 46, 316 

William, 46 
Harrington, A. N., 72 

Ehzabeth, 507 
Harris, Albert Clarence, 431 

Fannie Edith, 431- 

Frank, 246 

Frank Abel, 431 

George Stephen Onias, 
431 

Nathaniel, 103 

Mary, 246 

Mary Ann, 644 

Ossian, 431 

Prudentia, 431 

Sarah Jane, 598 

Sarah- Pierce, 598 

Timothy, 103 

Vesta A., 372 

Widow, 161 

Wilham Lothrop, 598 
Harrisburg, Pa., 212, 272, 

382, 384 
Harrison, ArchibaUl Douglas, 
405 

Canon, 397 

Charles B., 401 

C^harlotte M. -Miles, 401 

Elbridge Thompson. 405 

Ex-Pres., 654 

Frederick James, 405 

George Henry Sterling, 
405 

Gcorgiana, 401 

Hannah Bridges, 405 

Helen Winnifrcd, 405 

Herbert LeRoy, 405 

James, 405 

J. L., 497 

Martha Gregory. 217 
Harrison, Early Settlers of, 

189 
Harrison, Me., 135. 162, 189, 

221, 363-366, 559 
Harrison Mills, Me.. 367 
Harrison's Landing, 90 
Hart, Anna Louise, 617 

Clemantine Carolin. 570 

Ellen -Greene, 280 

F.annie Greene, 280 

Franklin Everett, 617 

John Austin, 280 

Marietta Hayden, 617 
Hartford, Andrew James, 507 

Annie Perley, 507 

John Franklin. 507 
Hartford, Ct., xiv, 307, 433. 

469, 510, 511.549. 
Hartford, N. B., 393 
Hartford, the, 516 
Hartland, Me., 151 
Hartland, N, B., 409 
Hartland. Vt.. 469 
Hartley. Gilbert, 632 
Hartley & Co., H. A.. 202 
Hartman, Louise Marietta, 

577 
Hartman, Dr. Franz. 
Hartt, . viii 

Alfred E., 408 

Alfred Ernest, 407 

Alice Lavienia, 652 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



701 



Hartt, Bessie Bernice. 652 

Carrie Anna Briclgcs, 4U7 
Charles Harold, (551 
David W., 652 
David Wellington, 407 
Edith Maud, 651 
Edward P., 651 
Edward Perley, 407 
Ernest Perley, 651 
George Martin, 407 
Gilbert Ernest, 408 
Jessie Adaline, 408 
Lottie Beatriee, 407, 652 
Mary Adaline, 407, 652 
Mary Vida, 652 
OHve Maude, 407, 652 
Phebe Philhps, 406, 407 
Sarah, 406, 651 
Theodosia Adriana, 407 
Thomas, 406, 407 
Thomas Byron, 407 
Thomas Endicott, 407 
Zelda Beth, 407 
Harvard, Mass., 69, 131, 135, 

495 
Harvard graduate, 317 
" Harvestime Reverie, " 599 
Harvey, Eliza, 461 
Louise M., 228 
Mary Ann, 498 
Solomon H., 461 
Stephen, 461 
Haskell, Abner, 432 

Ann [Dennison] 208, 644 
Celinda Ann, 378 
David, 175 
Ebenezer, 194 
Hannah Chase, 563 
Laura-Lawrence. 432 
Lois, 194 
Louisa, 194 
Mary Ann, 432 
Reuben, 298 
William, 194 
Haskins, Joseph T., 149 
Hassel, Benjamin, 655 
Hastings, Effie M., 616 
Hannah, 321 

Hasty, , 631 

Sarah, 219-221 
Hatch, Harriet Emnicline, 
433 
Maj.-Gen., 458 
Nancy, 227 
Hatch place, 453 
"Hatch stand," 453 
Hatches Run, 302 
Hatheway, Annie E., 414 
F. W., 398, 414 
Mrs., 397 
S. P., 414 
Hatfield, Eng., 64 
Hatfield, Lizzie, 392 
Hatteras, 576 
Hatteras Inlet, 196 
Havana, Cuba, 32, 376, 652 
Haven, Mary E.. 529 
Havemeycr, Mayor, 575 
Haverhill Brass Band. 155 
Haverhill Cornet Band, xi 
Haverhill Gazette, 523 
Haverhill. Mass., vii, xi, 23, 
32 57, 58, 72, 80, 91 
113, 115, 142, 143 
146, 160, 188, 248, 
256, 282, 284-286, 288, 
289 292, 293, 296,308- 
310,316,340,343,354 
361.363, 449. 456,459 
461,462,477, 478, 497 
500, 502, 505-508 
523-525, 528. 529 
543, 544, 546. 553 
554, 559, 592, 593 
614, 625, 632, 647 
656, 657, 659, 661 
Haverhill, N. H., 258, 513 



Hawes, Augusta T., 287 
Temperance, 287 
Wilham, 287 
Hawkes, Mary Ann-Smith, 514 
Perley Gillette, 514 
Thorndike Proctor, 514 
Timothy, 514 
William Moore, 514 
Hawkins, Col. R. C, 385, 576 
Hawse, Hannah, 620 
Hayden, Cotton, 500 
George Allen, 500 
Harry Alexander. 500 
Marietta, 617 
Mury Klizabclh, 409 
Mary Ella. 500 
Perley Brickett, 501 
Rowena-Nichols, 500 
Haydcnville Co., the, 355 
Haydenville, O., 355 
Hayes, Frances Cole, 447 

Frances Harriet-Cole, 447 
James L., 132 
John William, 447 
Nancy, 13L' 
Haynes, Elizabeth Jane-Wil- 
son, 405 
Ernest Dufferin, 405 
Hazel Evelyn, 405 
Robert, 405 
Wilfred Ernest, 405 
Hayward, Cal., 278 
Hay ward, Clara, 631 
George, 631 
Hannah, 443 
Jabez, 443 
Mary, 407 
Polly Doble, 275 

Hazen, ,632 

Adeline, 70 
Ahce, 23 
Ann Maria, 179 
Betsey, W. 71 
Charles, 237 
Edward, 35 
Elizabeth Letitia, 237 
Enoch, 70 
Enoch Perley, 70 
George Edwin, 180 
Greenleaf, 179, 642 
Hannah, 70, 71 
Hannah-Chaplin, 70 
Hephzibah, 70 
Israel, 70 
Jacob, 70, 71 
Jacob Francis, 180 
Jane-Pickard, 35 
John, 237 

John Greenleaf, 180 
Joseph Warren, 180 
Josiah, 70, 179 
Josiah Arnold, 180 
Lucy-Perley, 81 
Marshman Williams, 180 
Mary, 17 

Mary-Howlett, 23 
Moody Perley, 179 
Moses, vii 
Mr., 643 
Nathan T., 180 
Nathan W., 70 
Phebe, 70, 71 
Polenie, 71 
Sarah Isabella, 237 
Sarah J., 179 
Thomas, 11, 23, 34 
William, 70 
Hazen lot, " 70 
Hazle Green, la., 488 
Hazzeltine meadows, 34 
Hazzeltine, Sarah, 35 
Heal, Mary, 303 
Heald, Celinda Ann-Haskell 
378 
Mary Frances, 378 
Peter, 378 



Healy, Rev. Joseph Warren, 

346 
Heard, Alexander, 627 
James, 56 
Ruth, 56 
Heath, Anne, 269 
Col., 658 
Daniel D., 459 
Edward D., 459 
Ella, 269 
Nathaniel, 657 
Hebrides, xix 
Ileckman, Gen. C. A., 517 
Hegsher, Mary, 605 
lleidelburg, 422 
Heintz, Barbara A., 572 
Michael, 572 
Toerch, 572 
Helena, Ark., 462 
Helena, Mont., 261 
Hemphill, Margaret, 405 
Hempstead, N. Y., 387 
Henderson, Alexander Gor- 
don, 428 
David Nathaniel, 428 
Elizabeth-Armstrong. 428 
Henry, 71^ 
James, 428 
James Miller, 428 
James William, 428 
Jane G., 240 
Kate, 196 
Mary, 383 
Thomas, 196 
Thomas Arthur, 428_ 
Henderson, Ky., 374, 375 
Hendrickson, Charles Cyril, 387 
EUzabeth-Keach, 387^ 
Increase Carpenter, 387 
Hennessey, Okla., 480 
Henry, Charles, 343 
► ■' Octavia, 343 
Henry, 111.. 560, 561 
Henshaw, Laura, 640 
Herald, The, 569 
Heraldry, College of, xii 
Heraldry Office, 397 
Heraldry, pine apple of, xvii 

Herrick, . 669 

Abbie Melissa, 248 
Carlos, 368 
Carlos, Perley 368 
EHab B., 368 
Elizabeth Flint - Foster, 

447 
Frances E., 141 
Henry, 347 
Israel, 656 
James, 444 
John, 447 
John Everett, 447 
Joseph, 347 
Lucy Jane, 444 
Lydia, 453 
Martyn, 347 
Mary EUza, 368 
Mary-Jones, 444 
Miriam-Raymond, 368 
Nicholas, 63 
Phoebe, 134 
Polly, 353 
Rachel P., 453 
Samuel, 347 
Susannah, 347 
WilHam, 63 
Herrick's Hist, of Gardner, 250 
Hertford, xiv 

Herts County, (See County) 
Hespeler, Lizzie H., 474 
Hessians, 145 
Heustis, Mrs. Capt., 632 
Hewes, Samuel, 140 
William O., 287 
, Hewett, A. L., 647 
Henry C, 349 
Hey wood Bros., 524 
Heywood, Winslow, 72 



702 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Hiatt, Lundv, 242 

Tilncy, 243 
Hibbard, Abner C, 528 

Abner Clough, 529 

Albert Dudley, 529 

E. A., 1(38 

Frederick, 529 

Perley Nudd, 529 

Rebecca Woodbury- 
Clough, 529 
Hibbs, Hester Chenchiii, 648 

Hester- Kdniunds, 048 

James, 648 
Hicks, Lucius, 668 

Rutli-Hudger, 608 
Higgius, Alice K., 3S() 

Alice Ivinuia, .'579 

Auios, 379 

Ann, 537 

Arthur, 195, 043 

Delaney-Reese, 537 

Kdnuuul C, 537 

Edward, xiv 

Elceza, 379 

Hlc7ar, 195 

Ellen Waterhouse. 379 

Elsie 1-ouise, 379 

Ethel May, 379 

Eanny Mille, 379 

Florence IvUcn, 379 

Fred .Smith, 370 

G»v.,.509, (;54 

John Hamilton, 379 

Lillic, 379 

Lucretia Orpliclia, 433 

Martha I'., 643 

Martha Porter, 195 

Millie, 379 

Orrin .Smith, 195,370 

Sarah Hamilton, 379 

Susanna, 195 

Susanna Dyer, 379 

Susan Dyer, 195, 370 
Higgins' Classical Institute, 

379 
Higginson, Mr., xii 
Higginsville, Mo., 317 
Hillbourn, Esther Richmond- 
Bryant, 194 

Hiram, 194 

Sarah Maria, 194 
Hildrick, Molly, 214 
Hill, ,193 

Abbie A.-Oould. Oil 

Caroline (tilman - Tufts, 
451 

Daniel, 142 

Eleanor (lilman, 451 

Ernest, (ill 

I'Vanccs Warner, 451 

Francis. 245, 246 

Helen. 514 

JaneS., 200 

Jesse, 244 

Josct)h, 61 1 

Maggrert lane, 4.30 

Nathaniel Ela. 451 

Xathanicl Oilman, 451 
Hill & Pearce, Perley, 007 
Hill, Baldpate. 01, 153 

Brandy, 41 

Bunker, (See Bunker Hill) 

Burpee, 268 

Bush, 39 

Cherry, 347 

Clark's, 205 

Garrett's, 159 

Grant's 40, "H" 74 

Heartbreak, 4 

Malvern, 90 

Munson's, 90 

Pine, 514 

Prospect, 99 

Putnam, 347 

River, 154 

Scotland, 58 



Scott's, 323 
Scribner's, 365 
Spofford's, 70, 71, 291, 029 
Timber, 2 
Town, 2 
Turkey, 2 

Hill, N. H., 79 

Ilillekee, Harriet, 492 

Hilliard, Robert, 508 

Hills, Anna, 309 

Benjamin, 309 
Daniel, 059 
DeHa, 309 

Hillsboro, N. B., 198 

Ilillsboro, N. 11., 02, 474 

Hillsdale, N. V., 491 

Ilillsburgh, Out., 582 

Hilton, Frances, 306 

Hannah Goodwin-Wiley, 

366 
Nancy, 500 
Nathaniel Pike, 366 
Sarah, 372 

Hilton Head, Port Royal, S. 
C, 332 

Hinds, Abijah, 437 
Harriet Z., 437 
Walter Herbert, 437 

Hingham, M.ass, 331, 434 

Ilinkson, Abigail-Hardy, 594 
Benjamin, 594 
Martha Ann, 594 

Hinsdale, N. 11., 249, 433 

Hinton, Laura Virginia, 325 

History of Boxford, Perley' s, 
16, 250, 257, 344 
Bodoiu College, 219 
Cumberland County, 122 
Delaware County, 488 
Gardner, Herrick's, 250 
Ipswich, Perley's, 21 
New Brunswick, 414 
Old Wars, Nile's, 204 
Rowley, Gage's, 200, 029 
.Sanbornton, N. H., 047 
St. John River, 031, 032 
The Perley Family, x 
AV'ashington County, Vt., 

285 
Winchendon, 231 

History, material for, xxii 

Hitchcock, Alfred. 513 

Ellen Maria Clark, 513 
Sophia Doanc, 513 

Hitcheson, Rachel Ann, 582 
Rev. A., 557 

Hobart, Joseph Henry, 277 
MaryB., 278 
Mary Baxter, 277 
William Francis, 277 

Hobbs, .Sir Charles, 655 

Ilobcn, Ehzabeth-Estabrok, 
583 

Jennie Murry, 583 

Joseph, 583 
Hobbs, Abraham, 200 

Caroline Frances Barker, 
302 

Etta Leavitt, 302 

Humphrey, 70 

John, 199 

Leland Stanford, 200 

Lucy Perkins, 547 

Nabby, S3 

Ruby Data, 200 

Ruby-Knowles, 200 

Samuel Hidden, 302 

Willard Knowles, 200 
Hobson, Bethia. 196 

Eben, 176 

EHzabeth, 313 

Elizabeth Ann, 647 

Henry, 90 

Henry Warren, 90 

Humphrey, 103 

John, 101 



Lydia, 105 

Margaret-Kneeland, 90 

Nathan, 103 

Ruth Jewett, 528 
Hoburn, Mary Ann, 503 
Hodgdon, Andrew, 287 

George, 159 

Mary, 287 

Nancy Jane, 455 
Hodgdon, Me., 207, 268 
Hodges, Hannah, 298 
Hodgins, Historian 301 
Hodgkins, Cora, 418 

David, 418 

Eliza Shears, 418 
Hodgman, Rev. Edwin R.,I47 
Hodgskins, Dr. Francis, 113 
Hodgson, Judge, 193 
Hoffman, Jaques, 653 
Hogan, Kezia, 488 
Hog Island, 149, 282 
Holbrook, Nancy C, 657 
Holbrook, L. I. N. Y., 520 
Holbrook, Mass., 465 
Holden, Amos Prichard, 69 

Edward Hosmer, 69 

ICIiza Ann, 69 

Ira Samuel, 09 

Reuben, 69 

Kciibcn Andrews, 69 
lloldcn, Mass., 439 
Holderncss, N. IL, 513 
Holland, (j68 
Holland, Joseph, 98 

Lucy, 98 

Mary, 98 
Holland, Vt., 502 
HoUingside, xviii 
Hollis, N. H.,36, 68,350 
Holliston, Mass., 86, 528 
Holmes, Adelaide, 316 

Charles F., 443 

Edwin I'age, 443 

Florence, 202 

Julia-Coleman, 202 

Margaret Wallace, 387 

Minerva D.-Burbank, 520 

Nancy-Young, 443 

Nellie May, 520 

Richard, 520 

.Sophronia W., 625 

William S., 202 
Holt, Mrs., 175 

Sybil, 265 
Holten City, 360 
Holtcr, Barbour, Hare &, 510 
Holton, Samuel, 112 
Holway, Elizabeth T., 119 

Marcia, 637 
Holyokc, Eleazcr, 51, 00 

Elizur, 146 

President, 94 

the Misses, 356 
Holyoke barn, 43 
Holyoke House, 356 
Holyoke, Mass., 247 
Home, Conf. Soldiers', 317 

Little Wanderers', 372 

Soldiers', (Mass.) 91 

"Sweet Home," 421 
Homestead, Adams, 175 

Ames, 109 

Humphrey Perley, 328 

Plan of Jacob Perley's, vi, 
vii 
Honeoye Falls, N. Y., 344 
Honest as Tim Dorman, 101 
Honolulu, H. T., 175, 331,512, 

595 
Hoo., 020 
Hood, Allen Gould, 351 

Caroline Amanda, 552 

Caroline Wyman, 142 

Charles Harvey, 142 

Charlotte Augusta, 552 

Clara Rebecca, 142 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



703 



Hood, C. R., 307 

Kdward John, 142 
iCdward P., 141 
lUiza P., 141 
Ellen M., 141 
Emily Caroliiie,'142 
Enos, 141 
Eunice, 136 
Eraneis, 530, 552 
Francis Augustus, 530 
George W., 552 
Gilbert E,., 141 
Gilbert Henry, 142 
Gillin-Lane, 141 
Hannah-Gould, 530, 552 
Harvey, 141 
Harvey Perley, 141, 142 
Helen Katherine, 142 
Henry C, 141 
Irene Belsova Allen, 351 
John, 56, 136, 628 
Joseph Edward, 477 
Laura Caroline, 141 
I.ucinda R., 141 
Lvdia Tarbox, 157 
Mabel E., 477 
. Marv A., 141 
Marion Allen, 142 
Marjory, 142 
Martha Gilpatrick, 477 
Marv Catherine Pingree, 

351 
Mary Elizabeth, 158 
Marv-Kimball. 136 
Nelhc Frances. 142 
Perthena Caiista-Pearson, 

619 
Phoebe, 157 
Richard, 157 
Sabra Louise, 142 
Salmon Dutton, 619 
Samuel, 157, 158 
Sarah, 141 

Sarah Peabody, 158, 546 
S. D.. 73, 136 
Solomon Perley, 158 
Susie Isabel, 619 
Tom, 314 
Warren, 531 
AVarren Augustus, 530 
William Henry, 158 
Zaida, 142 
Hood Estate, 73, "A" 74 
Hood Pond, 46, 73, 74 
Hook, Aaron, 606 

Arthur Milton, 606 
Hannah-Fisk, 513 
John, 513 
Levev Anstice Robinson, 

606 
Sally, 513 
Hooksett, N. H., 498, 500,625, 

667 
Hooper, Benjamin, 203 
Elizabeth, 596 
Elizabcth-Leavitt, 198 
James, 198 
Martha Ellen, 198 
Iloople, N. nak., 630 
Hoosic Falls, N. Y., 470 
Hopkinson, Silas, 212 

Sallv, 308 
Hopkinton, 316, 323 
Hopkinton, N. H., 44,139, 319, 

471, 625 
Hornelsville, N. Y., 491 
Horner, Martha Jane, 480 
Horseneck, 669 

Horsfield, 237 

Horsford, Mrs., 105 
Horton, Mary, 228 
Horton & Boynton. 167 
Hosmer, Jerusha, 436 
Hospital, Boston City, 533, 
618,635 
Danvers Insane, 645 ^ 
for Women, Toronto, 635 



Jewish, 390 
Lawrence Gen., 372 
Mass. General, 618, 619j 
Melrose City, 618 
New England, 650 
New York City, 645 
Patterson General, 653 
Sedgwick, 199 
Sloane Maternity, 448 
IT. S. Marine, 196 
Worcester City, 618 
Hostelry, Old Rowley, 106 
Hotel, Alberta, 409 
Bartholct, 401 
only, 357 
Plasidia, 293 
Queen, 397 
Rcdington. 51 
Sinclair, 160 
Young's 161 
Hot Springs, Ark., 565 
Hottcn's Emigrants, xii 
Houghton, Charles A., 528 
Ephraini, 43 
Lewis, 528 

Sarah-Messenger, 528 
Stedman, 69 
Susan M.. 69 
Houlton, Me., 193, 253, 266, 
267, 321, 393, 410. 423, 
442 
House, Andrews, 156 
a sod, 598 
Boston Custom, 289 
County, 199 
Cressey, 316 
Custer, 324 
Dodge, 160 
Emerson, 139 
Garrison, 318 
Hale, 138 
Henry Perley, 254 
Holyoke, 356 
"Joe Killam, 156 
Mansion, 523 
Merrimac, 465 
Mighill Perley, 99, 104, 205 
Nelson, 139 
New York Pub., 180 
Norton-Cobbett, 199 
Ben Perley Poor, 50 
of Commons, 581 
of Siezergh, 190 
old Howe, 322 
old Warren, 162 
Parker, 161 
Perley, 205 
Salem Custom, 324 
Savward, 146, 305 
vShute, 175 
Stanlev, 94 
the Giles, 189 
the Hale, 137 
the Haven, 540, 541 
the Lake, 357 
the Richardson, 312 
the Summer street, 629 
the Thomas Perley, 638 
Houses, 670 
Hovey, Aaron, 66 
Anne, 66 
Dorcas, 66 
Hannah, 35 
Huldah, 66 
Ivory, 66 
John, 11,31, 33 
Joseph, 149 
Maj., 122 
Moses. 66 
Polly, 160 
Rebecca, 149 
Rebecca-Stickney, 149 
Samuel, 33 
Sarah, 66 
Stephen, 66 
Susan, 437 
Thomas, 66 



Hovev Faniilv. 66 
Hovcv's Dry Goods, 91 

Plain, 153 
llow and Howe, 14 
IIuw, Aaron, 38, 45 
Abel, 64 

Abraham, 13, 19, 26, ^8, 
47, 64,79,94, 113,657, 
659 
Alice, 23, 25 
Allis, 13, 14 
Elizabeth, 15, 16, 19 
Hephzibali Andrew, 47 
James, 9, 19, 64, 88 
Lucy, 113 
Mark, 38, 47 
Mercy, 63 
Miss, 64 
Robert, 64 
Ruth, 26, 47 
Sampson, 14 
Samson, 13, 23 
Sarah- Peabody, 13, 38 
(See Howe.) 
Howard, Agnes Irene, 375 
Anna P., 246 
Annette Nye, 606 
Carrie, 631 
Cornell, 634 
Eliza, 523 
Emma Jane, 606 
I'Vances Perley, 639 
Henry, 606 
John, 523 
Joseph, 246 
Judge, 373 
Julia- Redmond, 375 
Marion T. -Newman, 639 
Mary, 299, 523 
Mary Jane, 523 
Priscilla Cheever, 523 
Timothy E., 375 
William, 639 
William Henry, 639 
Howard, Kan., 480 
Howard, Perley & Howard, 537 
Howe, Aaron, 322 

,69 

Abel Spofford, 165, 167 

Abraham, 19 

Alice Marjorie, 365, 650 

A.S.,169 

Asa Frederick,365,"Mr. " 

649 
Benjamin, 322 
Bertram Cheslcy, 202 
Betsey I. White, 438 
Cady, 14 
Celia Augusta, 89 
Daniel, 202 
Deborah, 323 
Dudley Perley, 230 
Edward [Everett] 445 
Edward Everett, 620 
Eliza, 323, .338 
Eliza Esther, 620 
Ehzabeth, 16, 322 
Emerson, 88 
Emily Watson, 436 
E. M.-Perley,"Mrs. " 650 
Enoch, 14 

Hannah-Emerson, 322 
Hannah Lincoln-Cook,202 
Hannah R.-Gould, 359 
Isaac, 14, 58 
Isaac B., 359 
Joseph, 14 

Josephine EldTed,365,650 
Laura. 482, 026 
Lucy-Foster, 88 
Lydia, 254 
Lvdia Sanborn-Leavett, 

620 
Margaret, 559 
Mark, 88, 627 
Mary, 359 
Mary Ann-Lowe, 445 



ro4 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Howe, Mercv, 97 

Mr., 839 

Mrs., 199 

Nathan, 2.30 

Nathaniel, 322, 323 

Perley, 14 

Rebecca Moore, 438 

Ruth Bartlett, 559 

Samson, 14 

Solomon Washington, 129 
445 

Stephen, 43S 

Susan -Potter, 365 

Theodore Cummings,202 

Theodore Frederick, 202 

William A., 559 

William Alwvn, 202 

William F., 3G5 
Howe, Brook, 15, 47 

Green, xv 

Family, 322 

House, old, 322 
Howland. Harriet Ulizabeth, 

429 
Howlett, Mary, 10. 23, 140 

Thomas, 10 
Hows, I.omie, .335 
Hoy, Maiv, 492 
Hoyl, Alice Cordelia, 491 

Beatrice Clare, 501 

Betsey, 414 

Carrie-VVashburn, 501 

Chester J., 491 

Chester James, 491 

Elizabeth, G13 

ICrnest Ferdinand, 501 

Ezra, 501 

Gordon Way, 491 

Hannah 1'., 51(5 

Henry .\rthur, 491 

Isaac Shaurman, 491 

John C, 510 

John Franklin, 510 

Jonathan, 491 

Eydia, 104 

Maria-Rundle, 491 

Marie F., 359 

Osmon Ferley, 491 
Hoyte, Sarah, 515 
Hubbard, Elizabeth, 4S3 

ludge, 483 

Wilham, 178 
Ilubbardston, Mass., 68, 246, 

248,251, 436, 524 
Hubbell, Alice Gorsline, 577 

Fannie Malvina - Baker, 
577 

Seymour Eanden, 577 
Hudson Citv, N. T., 247 
Hudson, N. v., 509 
Hudson, Wis., ,5.57 
Ilucstis, Hannah, 232 234 
Huff. Hannah, 557 
Huffman, Nona. 538 
Hujrhes, Frederick William, 
178 

Mary Johnson, 178 

Rebecca, 178 

Rebecca- Davis, 178 

William H.. 178 
Huguenot oiigin. 668 
Huguenot persecution, 669 
Hull Lumber Co., 473 
Hull, P. Q., 474 
Humphrey, Asa, 370 

Aseneth-I-'ogg, 370 

Clement H., 194 

Tames, 193 

Eavina, 370 

Eucinda Russell, 369 

Marv-Twitchell, 193 

Rebecca, 193 
Humphrey, Perley & Co., 519 
Humphreys, Caroline, 401 
Hungary, 668 
Hunt, , 525 

Alinira, 567 



Ann, 298 

Bertha Isabella, 392 

Bessie I,ee, 392 

David, 29 

Ebenezer, 29 

Elizabeth, 633 

Ella Perley, 392 

Eveline Elizabeth, 442 

Frank, 647 

George Claxon, 391 

Gertrude Annie, 392 

Grace M. P., 301 

Grace Mabel Perley, 298 

Hannah, 29 

Hannah-Hodges. 298 

James 667 

Jonathan, 29 

Margaret Jane Bedell, 392 

Martha, 29 

Mary, 229 

Mary Arae, 667 

Mary-Card, 667 

Mary Louise, 392 

Nehemiah, 229 

Perley, 29 

Philena-Robinson, 391 

Samuel, 29 

Tamar, 29 

William, 298, .330 

Wilham B., 298 
Hunter, L. A. B., 58 
Hunter, N. Dak., 476, 477 
Hunting, Cjnthia, 432 

Rachel, 225 
Iluntingford, Dr., xviii 
Huntington, Abigail. 243 

Lydia, 506 
Huntington, Ct., 486 
Huntress, John, 331 
Hurt, Ardenia Ruberta, 649 

Horatio Constantine, 649 

Mary Elizabeth, 649 
Husc, Aaron Perley, 646 

E. B.,471 

Enoch, 646 

George Elbridge, 646 

Hannah Adeline, 646 

Hiram Augustus, 646 

Joseph, 263, 646 

Joseph Kendall, 646 

Kittie Robinson, 646 

Sally-Webster, 646 

Sarah Eliza, 646 
Husons & Co., 253 
Huston, Sarah, 370 

Susannah, 643 
Hussey, Abbic, 553 

Caroline Aldcn, 369 

Catherine-Pettengell, 369 

Franklin, 553 

George Atwood, 553 

Ina Louise, 553 

John, 369 

Joseph, 190, 369 

Joseph Albion, 369 

Lucinda Perley, 369 

Pcarle Bradford, 553 

Ulmer P., 370 

miner Perley, 369 
Mutchins, Guy, 465 

James Woodbury, 465 

Joseph, 641 

Lena May, 610 

Martha A.-Beach, 610 

Oliver, 610 

Stephen E., 147 
Hutchinson, A. W., xviii 

Eliza, 614 

Israel, 130. 658 

Mary, xviii, 17, 35 

Nefarious governor, 95 
Hyde, Alfred Warren, 231 

D.aniel, 231 

Eddy Lincoln, 231 

Emma Etta, 231 

Ezra, iii, 128, 225, 231 

Ezra Warren, 231 



Tames. 231 

Tohn, 231 

Mabel, 613 

Maria, 231 

Marietta-Butler, 613 

Mary Jane, 231 

Susan, 231 

William Birelie, 613 
Hyde Park, Mass, iv, 193, 48S 
Hyde's Hist, of Winchendon, 
__ 231 

Idaho, 352 

Ilion, 300 

Illinois, 356, 561 

Illinois lady, 459 

Illustrations, 670 

Immigrant -ancestor, iv, vi, 

xi, xiii, 1 
Independence, Mo., 609 
Independence, Signer of Dec. 

of, 565 
Index to Soldiers, 655 
Index to illustrations, 670,671 
Indian Agency, 382 

Atrocity, 500 

Commissioner, 413 

luiiiting, 24, 655 

lumting ground, 476 

Massacre, 476 

Raid, the last, 49 

the, 377 

A\'ar, (See War), 655 

wild. 377 
Indian Hill Farm, 49, 50 
Indiana, 253, 374, 441, 638 
Indiana, Encyclo. of Biog. of 

254 
Indianapolis, Ind., 253. 557 
Indianola, 376 

Indianola, la., 441, 442, 605 
Indians, viii, 16, 24, 34, 98, 
357, 374 

Dakota, 378 

History of, 362 

Hostile, 400, 655 

in California, 460 

marauding, 10 

roving, 238 

Shoshone, 598 

Sioux, 378 

Six Nations, 388 

stole, 262 
Indiantown, St. John, N. B., 

645 
Industry, Me., 266, 453, 591 
Infantry, Me., 227, 365 
Ingalls' Journal, 116, 126, 135 

414. 627, 645, 646 
Ingalls, .\ldana Theodore, 
252, 646 

Annie P., 156 

Aim Louisa, 135 

Asa, 220, 646 

Clarissa, 220, 252, 646 

Daniel, viii 

Darwin, 252, 646 

Edmond, 135, 645 

Flora Moore, 515 

Frances Ellen, 135 

Francis, 646 

Frederick Charles, 135 

Frederick P., 135 

George Henry, 135 

Henry, 109, 110, 646 

Isaiah, 134, 135, 640 

James, H., 135 

lames Porter, 135 

John, 515 

Joseph Henry, 135 

JuHa A., 135 

Louisa A., 135 

Maria, 80 

Marian Elizabeth, 252, 
646 

Mary. 631 

Mary Elizabeth, 135 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



705 



Ingalls, Mary J. -Patrick, 252 

Nellie-Tucker, 515 

Phebe-Berrv, 220 

Phineas, 220, 64(5 

Phoebe- Herrick, 134 

Ruth. 80 

vSophia, 135 

Theodore, 046 
Ingersoll, Benjamin Franklin 
652 

Maria Jane-Gorditt, 652 
Maud Storv, 652 
Sarah, 457 
Ingersol, Ont., Can., 380, 391 
Injifoldniells, xv 

Inurahani, 632 

Annie, 410 
Inn, the, viii 

Institute, Academic, Tops., 
540 
Bovdton, Va., 535 
Clinton Liberal, 495 
Coburn Class., 521 
Cooper, 569 
Detroit Class., 565 
Kssex, 540, 546 
Gannett, Boston, 491 
Greelv, 371 
Hackettstovvn, 491 
Hampton, 225 
lliwKius' Classical, 379 
.Mechanics, >St. John, 413 
Meth. Gen. Bib., 493 
Moodv Bible, 428 
of Civil, Hng., 584 
of Tech., Mass., 277, 316, 
331, 387, 447, 450, 460, 
512, 531, 609 
Packer, 565 
Pennell, 380 
Pratt, 387 
Rensselaer Polytechnic, 

613 
State Nor. & Lit., 485 
the Peabody, 466 
Topsficld Academic, 622 
Waterville Classical, 419 
Insurrection, Canadian, 300 
Insurrection, the, 388 
Intervale, 371 
Inverness, Scot., 594 
lone City, Cal., 580 
Ionia. Mich., 443 
Iowa, 235, 669 
Iowa Hill, Cal , 199 
Ipswich-Andover road, 617 
Ispwich, Mass., v, xvi, I, 2, 4, 
6, 7, 10, 11, 13-19, 21, 
23, 26-29, 32, 36, 38, 44 
46, 47, 48, 54, 62-65, 
72, 75-78, 81-84, 86-89, 
91-94, 98, 99, 101, 104, 
105, 107, 112, 113, 120, 
149, 159, 100, 162, 164, 
167, 169, 170, 179, 181, 
183 185, 19(). 200 203, 
207, 209, 242, 26S. 2S2, 
296, 311, 324, 326 328, 
338, 363, 396, 397, 514, 
526, 527, 529, 532, 534- 
536, 538, 540, 543, 544, 
546, 547, 549, 559, .500, 
587, 616 618, 622, 024, 
627, 633, 641, 648-650, 
657, 659, 660 
Ipswich [not Topsfield in four- 
teenth line], 17 
Ipswich-Candada, 127, 627 
Ipswich Chronicle, 201, 202, 

362, 540 
Ipswich Farms, 4, 63 
Iliswich Home, vi 
Ipswich Hundreds, 75 
Ipswich Independent, 534, 

619, 022 
Ipswich Journal, 527 



Ipswich-Linebrook, 317, 318, 

325, 327, 333, 338 
Ipswich Mills, 198 
Ipswich Newspaper, 616 
Ipswich oflieials, 301 ■ i 
Ipswich Town Farm, 159 
Ipswich Town Seal, 41 
Ipswich Village, 106 
Ipswich water, 75 
Ipswich Water Works, 198 
Ipswich, West, 27 
Ireland, 362, 606 
Irish American Perleys, 631 
Irish brogue, 262 
Irish, Kmma Rosetta, 601 
Helen Loretta-Gilbert 

001 
Washington Rollins, 

601 
Iron Springs, (Ariz.,) 561 
Irtm smelting, 16 
Iron Works, Cherry Valley, 

355 
Irvine, Bessie Tilley, 637 
Kliza Jane-McAfee, 037 
William, 637 
Irvington, 119 
Irwin, Judge, 518 
Islay, Scotland, 390 
Isle au Haut, Me., 205, 530 
Isle of France, 100, 106 
Isle of Wight, xii 
Islesboro, Me., 580 
Israel, 96 

Israel, Armies of, 95, 97 
Italy, 105, 300, 508 

Jackman, Flizabcth, 295 

Jacksoit, 32.5 

Jackson, Agnes Jane. 427 

Annie Nilcs, 274 

Annie-Stewart, 427 

Arthur Avcrill, 91 

Betsey Tameson, 248 

Caleb, 89, 627 

Daniel Kimball, 89 

Elizabeth-Spofford, 89 

Fmma, 134 

Frank E., 278 

G. K., 174 

Hannah Bennett, 274 

Hattie Florence, 91 

Jane Louisa. 174 

Tcremiah, 274 

Jonathan, 122 

Joseph Luther, 91 

Joshua, 146 

Luther Holland, 91 

Margaret Ann, 91 

Phcbe, 490 

Roland Emery, 91 

Stephen, 427 
Tackson, Me., 647 
lackson. Miss., 595, 666 
Jackson, N. H., 500, 623 
lackson's Express, 198 
"lacksonville, Ala., 669 
Tacksonville, Fla., 221 
Tacksimville, 111., 294 
Jacksonville, N. B., 582 
Jacob, Elizabeth May, 480 

Irene-Greenwood, 480 

S. D., 480 
Jacob of old, x 
Jacob, wrestling, 301 
Jacobs, Daniel, 112 

Henry, 41 

Richard, 63 
Taffrcv, N. H., 69 
Jail, London, 299 
Jamaica, L. I., 21.3 
Jamaica Plain, Mass., 1.50,203 

232, 273, 280, 431 
Jamaica, R. L, 21 
Jameson, Rev. E. O., 29 
Jamestown, N. D., 477 



Janiin, Hannah, 100 

Hannah ivlwell, 106 

Hannah Miyliill, 106 

John F., 106 

John Francis Codeau, 106 

Mrs., 100 
Janes, Annie Batchelder, 445 

Aimie-Batchelder, 445 

Arthur Gould, 445 

Florence Huntington, 445 

Henry, 349 

Henry Dorman, 445 

Joseph, 260 

Joseph IL, 72, 172 

Joseph Huntington, 445 
Japan, 505 

Jardine, Gen. Ed., 385 
Jarvis, Ellen, 201 
Jay, Me., 453, 526 

Jaynes, 85 

Jeffcrds, 140 
Jefferson, 325, 632 
Jcffcrsonian Republican, The 

566 
Jefferson, Me., 220 
Jefferson, Mr., 96 
Jeffords, L'lora Evelyn, 487 

Frances Adams, 487 

Pliny, 487 
Jcfft's farm, 67 
Jellison, Comrade, 337 
Jemseg, N. B., 393, 638 
Jenkins, David, 393 

Hazel Augusta, 393 

Juliette A., 512 

Mabel, 454 

Nancy M., 507 

Rhoda, 393 

Samuel Lesley, 393 

Sarah, 393 

Victor Gorden, 393 
Jenks, Alonzo, 251 

Caroline Henderson- 
Leeds, 613 

Courtland Fells, 613 

Edith Marion, 251 

Ivdward Watrous, 565 

Martha Reed, 565 

Sarah Reed Joy, 565 

William .Sliippen, 613 
Jenness, Ivleanor, 538 

Elizabeth, 26 

James, 31 1 
Jennings, A. Byron, 265 

Albert Eaton, 266 

Asa, 265 

B. Emmogene, 265 

Capt., 591 

Mary F., 265 

Mr., 262 
Jersey City, 669 
Jersey City, N. J., 247, 348, 

491 
Jerusalem Comniandery, 249 
Jessup, Grace, 514 

Isaac, 514 
Jew, XX 

jew. Wandering, 253 
Jewell, Ariadne, 359 
Jewett, Aaron, 27, 75, 131 

Ann, 633 

Daniel, 319 

Dorothy, 198 

E. Bailev, 183 

Eliza, 176 

Elizabeth, 27, 44 

F.lizabeth-Raynor, 44 

Ephraim, 627 

Gorhani P., 183 

Greta Lambert, 183 

Hannah, 75 

Jacob F., 457 

James, 27 

Jane, 219 

Jeremiah, 27, 75 

Johanna, 336 

John, 44 



706 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Jewett, Jonathan, 72 
Joshua, 102 

Joshua Abbott, 147 

J. P., 523 

Judith, 104 

JuHa-Merrill, 457 

Lavinia, 151 

Lawrence, R., 183 

Lcandcr, ISO 

Leonard, 158 

Mark, 105 

Mary, 106 

Mary Elizabeth, 106 

Mary Sophila, 457 

Maximilian, 44 

Mehitable, P., 105 

Mercy, 81 

Moses, 27, 35 

Mrs., 158 

Paul, 148 

Rebecca, 27 

Ruthy, 75 

Sarah. 44, 150 

Sarah E., 283 

Sarah-Poor, 183 

Susanna, 361 

Willard Holbrook, lOG 
Jewett Family, 72 
" loe Killam House," 58 
John Hull, 253 
Johnson, , xiii 

Alinira, 340 

Andrew, 524 

Ann Webb-Dam, 380 

Hctsey, 46 

Charlotte, 318, 340 

Col., 142 

Cynthie-Merritt, 437 

Emily, 615 

Fannie, E., 437 

Frank Elisha, 469 

Ocorge Frederick, 1 78 

Harold Talmagc, 469 

Harriet M., 524 

Harry Herbert, 178 

Herbert, 178 

Isaac Skcllin, 380 

James, 318, 340 

John A., 198 

Joseph, 318 

Margaret A., 295 

Margaret Page, 521 

Mary, 369 

Mary Paige. 450 

Nehemiah. 290 

Nelhe Perlcv, 178 

Ruth, 524 

Samuel. 657-660 

Sarah Abbie, 380 

Sarah C, 471 

Sarah-Spencer, 450 

Simon, 450 

Stedman, 437 

Susan Hadlev, 87, 365 

Tabitha, 287" 

AVilliam, 23, 32, 69 
Johnson, The, 437 
Johnson, Vt., 479 
Johnston, Alice Mabel, 261 

Annie, 261 

Frederick Perley, 261 

Gen., 441 

George Arthur, 261 

Harriet Cecil, 261 

James Nathaniel, 261 

Jane, 261 

John, 261 

John Walter, 141 

John Wesley, 261 

Margaret, 261 

Margaret-Britain, 261 

Pha?be Gertrude, 261 
JoHet, 111., 557 
Jones. Agnes-Morrison, 568 

Albert C, 525 

AHce M., 454 

Asa,»499 



Charles Stanwood, 334 

Clara Evelyn, 596 

Clara-Oaks, 499 

Clarence, 596 

Elizabeth, 347 

EttaAugusta Sterling,525 

Eugene S., 335 

Eugene Samuel, 334 

Fannie F'ern, 525 

Francis, 593 

Frederick, 596 

Hannah, 343 

James, 144, 660 

John, 568 

Jonathan, 469 

Luna, 503 

Lydia, 275 

Margaret A., 333 

Mary 444 

Matilda, 469 

M. Ella, 499 

Perley C, iv 

I\>llv K.- Sawyer, 469 

Rosa Belle, 568 

Sabra Wvman, 142 

William, 596 
Jones crest, 613 
Jordan, Albert Perley, 527 

Alice Balch. 156 

Charles !"red, 156 

I'aniiie Woods, 527 

Gilbert Balch, 156 

Harold, 156 

Helen Pearl e, 156 

I-ydia-Cash, 526 

Martha Etta. 527 

Mary Alberta. 527 

Mary Ellen, 527 

Nathaniel. 526 

Perley Balch, 156 

Robert, 526 

Robert Arthur, 527 

Robert Winlicld, 527 
Toshua, 97 
Joshua of old, 262 
Joy, Sarah Reed, 565 
Judge of Probate, 44 

Kadiak Is., Alaska, 261 
Kahili, Marie, 568 
Kaiser, William, 572 
Kalamazoo, Mich., 304, 562, 

630, 661 
Kalamazoo Gazette, 562, 567 
Kaler, George, 266 
Kane, Dr., 152 

Lottie F., 152 
Kankakee. 111., 197, 518 
Kansas, 281, 352. 360, 377, 

561,590 
Kansas City, Kan., 629 
Kansas City, Mo.. 480, 493, 518 
Kansas, farm in, 231 
Kansas ranche., 561 
Kaschau, Hung, 668 
Katahdiu Iron Works, Me ,302 
Kay, Maria Robinson, 430 
Keach, EHzabeth, 387 
Kearney, Neb., 324 
Keating, Blanche, 295 
Keeler, , 221 

Abigail-Bendure, 630 

Cynthia Ann, 630 

Henry C, 630 
Keen, James, 144, 145 

Sarah, 145 
Keene, N. H., 69, 432, 433, 649 
Keene, Pollv, 298 
Keith, Charles, 616 

Delia-Fierce, 616 

William Billings, 616 
Kelley, , 468 

Andrew, 480 

George Spofford, 445 
' Jane-McAv, 408 

John Parvin, 480 

Joseph N., 445 



J. W., 393 

Martha Jane-Homer, 480 

Sarah-Emery, 445 

William. 445 
Kellogg, Mary Elizabeth, 455 
Kelly, John, 289 

Margaret, 358 

William, 289 
Kelscy, Caroline A.-Bugbee, 
391 

EUas, 391 

Emeline Mowbry-Cross, 
391 

Isaac Stevens, 391 

Kemble, , viii 

Kemp, Betsey. 437 

I{lizabeth lane-Alden, 287 

Lizzie D., 287 

Robert, 287 
Kench, Lizzie, 155 
Kendall, B. J., 626 

Ivdwaid W.,246 

George, 4.57 

Martin 250 

Mary, 250 

Mary R.. 458 

Mary Rebecca, 457 

Prudence, 250 

William, 457 
Ken.lall rost.3S5 
Kendall's Spavin Cure. 626 
Kendrick. Ann Elizabeth, 207 

Lucy. 432 

Stephen S. 207 
Kennedy, lane. 406 

Pilema. 591 
Kcnney, Abbie, 207 
Kennison, Phn?be, 302 

Kenny, , viii 

Kent, Abigail Searles, 535 

Irene C, 351 

Joshua, 535 

Sarah Carr, 53.5 
Kentiss, N. W. T., 582 
Kent's Hill, 380, 419, 420 
Kensington, Md.. 418 
Kensington, N. H., 536 
Kentucky, 377, 611 
Kermic Studio, 406 
Kerr vS: Co., Westinghouse, 

Church, 513 
Keswick, 406 

Keswick Ridge, N.B., 451.640 
Ketcluim. Betsey Hovt, 414 

Charlotte. 400. 404, 430 

Isaac, 410, 414 

Jane, 410 

Sally, 404 
Ketchiim, Idaho, 275 
Kettell, John, 657 
Keyes, .\rthur, 513 

Arthur T,, 514 

George Lambert, 183 

Henry E., 183 

Orson H., 514 

Sarah Maria, 183 

William Perley, 514 
Keytesville, Mo., 649 
Keys, Mary, 385 
Kickapoo ratigers, 243 
Kidder, Benjamin, 127 

Clarissa T., 592 

Joseph, 498 

Moses, 490 

Nancv Ann-Goodwin, 490 

Olando Burr, 490 

Sarah, 27.3 
Kilburn, Clarissa, 479 
Frances, 410 

Sarah, 409 
Kilham. daughter, 102 
Elizabeth, 105 
Elizabeth Davis, 629 

Jonathan, 105, 208, 629 

Julia, 105 
Lucy Ann, 100 

Priscilla, 629 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



707 



Kilham, Priscilla Perky, 208 

William, 105, 208 

KilUim, Betsey-Gould, 155 

Eliza, 155 

Hannah, 349 

John, 184 

Oliver, 155 

Thomas Perley, 170, 177, 
638 

T. P., 352 

Ubert A., 188 

William li., 24, 121, 638 
Killam family, 206 
ICillam House, 156 
" Killam House, Joe," 58 
KiUingly Ct., 14, 23, 41, 42, 

223, 225 
Kilton.Mrs. Mary, 308 
Kimball, Aaron, 51 

Abbe, B. 176 

Abigail, 171 

Alniira-Hall, 457 

Amanda, 274 

Amos, 113 

Angeline Niehols, 532 

Asa, 141,274,462 

Benjamin A., 176 

Betsey, 293 

Blair Chester, 241 

Byron Jackson, 241 

Calvin, 459 

Caroline A., 176 

Charles, 447 

Charles A., 176 

Charles O., 144 

David Tenney, 92, 160 

Dorcas-Abbott, 459 

Dow, 241 

E. A.,385 

Ebenezer, 28, 29 

Edna Richards-Blacking- 
ton, 587 

Elisabeth Wood, 501 

Eliza-Murphy, 241 

Elizabeth, 113, 200 

Elmira C, 457 

Emeline, 274 

Emily A., 592 

Enoch, 112, 222 

Eunice, 445 

Evelyn, 587 

George, 587 

George A., 176 

George N., 457 

Hannah, 29, 72 

Hephzibah, 72 

Huldah-Gould, 222 

Ira Crocker, 72 

Israel, 71 

Jacob, 138, 640 

Jacob Hazen, 72 

Tames, 298 

jedediah, 241 

Jedediah Tapley, 72 

John, 9, 171, 176 

John A., 176 

Jonathan, 29, 32 

Lena Isabel, 241 

Lizzie-Cheslev, 501 

Louisa M., 176 

Lucy, 138, 640 

Lydia, 29 

Marshall N., 532 

Martha, 29 

Mary, 18,51,56,136, 146, 
457 

Mary A., .532 

Mary Blaokington, 587 

Mrs., 108, 109, 113 

Orin EUiot, 459 

Pearl E., 242 

Pearl Edith, 241 

Phebe, 72, 162 

Priscilla-Smith, 138, 640 

Richard, 64, 72, 113 

Ruth E., 460 

Ruth Ella, 459 



Ruth-Heard, 56 

Samuel, 73 

Sarah, 51. 159. 222, 274. 
462 

Sarah A., 176 

Sarah-Gage, 462 

Sarah-Wood, 51 

Sophia. 534 

Stephen, 35 

Tamar, 29 

Timothy. 29, 56 

Warren, 501 

William P., 92 
Kimball & Perley, 592 
King, .\lice Adelia, 418 

Charles, 500 

Charles Francis, 500 

Cyrus Shaw, 418 

Emma Artimicia-Root, 
623 

Esther, 418 

Etta Metella, 418 

George Allen, 418 

Grace Gertrude, 623 

Harriet Elizabeth, 251 

Howard Perley, 418 

Josephine, 509 

Louisa B , 501 

Louisa Belle. 500 

Metella, 418 

Peter, 623 

Raymond Cyrus, 418 

Roy Grant, 418 

Samuel, 418 

Sarah F., 526 

Sarah- Hall, 418 

Theo Ingalls. 418 
King Charles Second, xv 
King Edward Seventh, xv 
King Edward Third, xvii, 110, 

494 
King George Third, viii 
Kingfield, Me., 195 
King, James, 63 
King John, 636 
King, the. 111, 112 
Kings Clear, N. B., 410, 430 
Kings Clear, Parish of, 409 
Kings Gate, Ire., 383 
Kingsland, Mr., 574, 575 
Kingston, Mass., 298, 301 
Kingston, N. B., 638 
Kingston, N. H., 76, 295 
Kingston, Ont., 584, 585, 624 
Kinncar, E. C, 392 

George Galland, 392 

Harrison, 392 

James, 327 

John Harrison, 392 

Margaret I.andsdown, 392 
Kinnett, Henry K., 70 
Kinney, Elizabeth-Emberlin, 
442 

Emery C, 155 

John, 442 

Mary, 442 
Kinnicutt, Elizabeth Waldo- 
Parker, 259 

Francis, H., 2,59 

Lincoln Newton, 259 

Roger, 259 

Thomas, 245 
Kirby, Abbie, 549 

Mary, 549 
Kirkcudbright, 383 
Kirk, Dr., 511 

Martlia Ann Amelia, 525 

Rachel A. -Berry, 525 

Reuben, 525 
Kirkhuff, Elizabeth Sayre- 
Smith, 486 

F^mma Harriet, 486 

Jacob Butts, 486 
Kitchen. Edward, 59 
Kittery, Me.. 80, 226, 596 
Kittredge, Thomas, 110, 113 
Kittridge, Joseph, 319 



Knapp, Maria, 77 

Sarah, 42 
Knee, 620 
Kneeland, , 85 

Aaron Porter, 554 

Almira, 325 

Elizabeth O. -Phillips, 554 

Eunice, 85 

Ira Warner, 554 

John, 244 

Levi, 90 

Lucy Mary, 325 

Lydia, 530 

Margaret, 90 

Mariah, 244 

Miriam, 244 

Prudence, 285, 647 

Timothy, 244 

Kneeland farm, 244 
Knight, Alexander, 6 

Almira P., iii 

Annie-Simonds, 548 *- 

Arthur P., 549 

Arthur Phillip, 548 

Charles G., 549 

Charles Greenleaf, 548 

Clarence P., 549 

Clarence Putnam, 548 

David Putnam, 549 

Dorothy Cary, 549 

Edith Mary, 548 

Ellen FVances, 372 

Ernest A., 549 

Ernest Amos, 548 

Ethel Almira, 548 

Frederick, 100 

Frederic P., 549 

Frederic Proctor, 548 

George Williard, 548 

Lillian S., 549 

Lillian Studley, 548 

Love. 61 

Mary A., 549 

Mary Alice, 548 

Mira Perley, 548 

Mrs. A. P., 3 

Nathaniel, 6 

Philip, 548 

Wallace Perley, 548 

Williard, 548 

Willie, 548, 549 

Willis, 648, 549 
Knighthood was in Flower 

When, 568 
Knight, Lady Admiral Sir 

John, 61 
Knight of Honor, 607 
Knight of Malta, 540 
Knight & Anderson. 168 
Knights' Homestead, 2, 4 
Knights of Honor, 450 
Knolls, 620 
Knowles, 620 
Knowles, Ann, 198 

Ruby, 200 
Knowles' Grocery, 592 
Knowlton, Addie Manette, 92 

Aleck Worth, 418 

Charles, 369 

Clara Louise, 330 

Dea, 9 

F-dward Joseph, 418 

Edward Payne, 418 

EHzabeth Fay-Woodward 
295 

Emma Olive, 92 

George, 92 

George Edward, 418 

George Frederic, 02 

George William, 92 

Harry Hale, 369 

John, .330, 369 

John Edwin, 92 

Joseph Warren, 418 

Julia-Davis, 418 

Julia M., 419 



708 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Knowlton, Julia Mae, 418 
Lois, 554 

Margaret Olive, 92 
Mary-Doyle, 92 
Mary-Johnson, 369 
Newell Scott, 92 
Norman Perlev, 418 
Rachel-Batcheldcr, 330 
Samuel, 295 
Sarah Minerva, 294 
Theo Carlysle, 418 
True Blethen, 92 

Knox, 620 

Knox, Gen., 286 

Knox, Me., 228, 422 

Knoxville, 595 

Kiiubbe, Anna Frances, 253 
Charles, 253 
Frederick Charles, 253 
Mary IJelle, 253 
William Albert, 253 

Koenigsmarck, Otto Count 
Von, 520 

Kossuth, Louis, COS 

Kyneston, shield, xvi 

Laborie, Lydia Ann-Wake- 
field, 486 
IMary Louisa, 486 
Sidney Russell, 486 

Labrador. 412 

I-acon, 111., 561 

Laconia Democrat, 331 

Laconia, N. IL, xi, 167-169, 
329 332, 433, 642 

Laconia Woolen Co., 330 

I-a Crosse, Wis., 423, 424, 475 

Ladd, Abigail, 169 

Abigail Flanders, 169 
Alice M., 45S 
Arthur Shirley. 458 
Dudley, 164, 168 
Fred Winthrop, 458 
Gardner Terry, 457 
Jeremiah Benjamin Per- 
lev, 457 
Jeremiah H. P., 458 
Jcmathau, 168 
Martha G., 457, 458 
Mchitable, 168, 169 
Nathaniel, 457 
Nathaniel R., 457, 458 
Rufus G., 457 
Samuel, 169 
Sarah-Ingersoll, 457 
Stanley Parker, 458 
Susan, 303 

Lafayette, Gen,, 502 
Marquis de, 136 

Lafayette, Ind., 441 

La Fetra, lidward B., 569 
Mary-DeWitt, 569 
Priscilla Augusta, 569 

Lagoni, Dorothea S. -Clausen, 
564 
Ella, 563 
Hans, 564 

LaGrange, Me., 303 

Lake, A. Austin, 444 
Ann Maria, 550 
Ava Maude, 155 
Benjamin Balch, 156 
Carrie Pcarle, 155 
Charles Woodward, 155 
Clarence W., 156 
Edward Hewlett. 155 
Eleazer, 155. 444 
Hannah A. -Gould, 444 
John Batchcldcr, 162 
Laura H., 156 
Lenora Bruce, 155 
LilUan, 156 
Mary Prudence, 548 
Merietta B., 155 
Perley B., 155 
Phebc Batchelder, 550 
Ruth- Prime, 155 



Silas, 550 

Susan J.. 155 

Wilham G., 155 
Lake, Big Stone, 377 
Lake City, Minn., 629, 6.30 
Lake Crystal, Minn,, 492 
Lake de May, Alberta, Can., 

630 
Lake George, 43, 656 
Lake Itasca, 377 
Lake Stream, N. B., 634, 636 
Lake Superior, 377 
Laketon, Mich., 562 
Lakeville Corner, N. B., 580, 

583, 650 
Lakeville, N. B., 582, 583 
Lakeman, Hannah, 139 

Lydia A., 201 

Solomon, 139 
Lakin, Loami, 119 
Lamb, Augusta, 89 

Augustus, 89 

Mary, 457 

Mr., 642 

Nancy, 043 

William. A. 89 
Lambert. Abigail Prime. 63 

Adrian Van Sindrien, 509 

Adrian V. S., 51 1 

Albert, 293 

Alexander. 509, 510 

Alfred. 509 

Aitphia, 81 

Clara L,, 652 

Deborah, 62 

Edith, 509, 510 

Edward Wilberforce, 509, 
510 

Ellen Louisa, 509 

Elliot C, 510 

Elliot Cowdin. 509 

Emily, 63 

Emma, 201 

Francis, 62 

C^.eorgc, 205 

George Nathan, 63, 182 

Gcorgianna. 1S2, 1S3 

Gertrude, 509 

Hannah. 182, 643 

Hannah Bradstrcet, 63 

Hannah-Gage, 508 

Harriet. 63 

Helen Willcts, 510 

Isabella L.. 652 

James Henry, 509 

John, 63, 102, 182, 205, 
296, 629 

Jonathan, 508 

Katherine, 509 

Maria, 63, 182 

Martha, 510, 652 

Mary, 509 

Mary Eaton, 510 

Nathan, 62, 63, 204 

Nathaniel, 105, 205 

Rodolph de, 508 

Ruth, 509, 510 

Sally, 509, 510 

Samuel W., 652 

Samuel Waldron, 509,510 

Sarah, 291 

Sarah-Bradstreet, 182 

Sarah P., 182 

Sarah-Pickard, 62 

Sarah Perley, 509 

Thomas, 62, 204 ' 

William G., 326,514.652 

AVilHam Gage, 508, 509 
Lambert's Hist. New Haven 

Colony, 2 
Lambert & Siade, 508 
Lamoille, 111. 439 
Lamprey, Adeline Lavina- 

(WFarrar, 433 

George Henry, 433 

LilHan Addie, 433 
Lamson, Abigail, 82, 179 



Lamson & Twomblv, 511 
Lancashire, Eng., 14, 636 
Lancaster, Mass., 58, 131, 242, 

636 
Lancaster, N. B,, 237, 645 
Land grants, 655 
Lane, Abigail Lead-Vetten, 
367 

Deborah-Folsom, 642 

Ebenezer, 317 

Edward, 271 

Edwin Bainbridge, 317 

Edwin Lawrence, 317 

Eliza, 367 

Elizabeth, 317 

Ellen Frances, 271 

Ernest, 271 

Frank Edwin, 317 

George ICdward, 271 

George I'Vcderic, 174 

Gilhn, 141 

Henry Perlev, 174 

James, 367, 642 

Lucinda, 330 

Mary Louisa, 174 

Richard Wilder, 1 75 

Rieharil William, 174 

Sarah Emery, 317 

Walter Perlev. 317 

William V.. 174 

William I'redcric, t542 

Lang, Deborah, 55 

Edward, 55 

Rachel Ward, 55 
Langan, Elizabeth 241 
Langhan, Mary Ann, 423 

Langin, , 632 

Langlev, Almira-Leavitt, 91 

Mary Abbie, 91 

Rufus Williams, 91, 92 
Langrell. Sarah, 393 
Langton, luig., 648 
Lansdown, Margaret, 392 
Lansingburg, N. Y.. 191 
Lanson, Ivlizabeth, 631 
Laphan, Anne, 524 
Laporte City, la.. 232 
Laportc, Ind., 253, 441 
Larkin place. 312 
Larrabee, Albiim Reith Paris, 
370 

Benjamin. 370 

Mary Ivlizabeth, 193 

Susan D., 370 

Susanna, 370 
Larrimore, Hon. Richard L., 

213 
Laskin, Hugh, 64 
Latin name, xviii 
Lauer, Adam G,, 164 
Laughton, Dorinda-Tarr, 644 

John, 644 

Mattie A,, 644 
Laugtry, Mary Ann, 578 
Lavalctte. Elizabeth Ann, 535 
648 

Elizabeth Carroll-Cheev- 
er, 535 

Nathaniel. 336 

Nathaniel Howard, 535, 
648 

Sarah Carroll, 336, 648 
Lavalctte farm, 323 

place, 318 
Law, Adjudicated Forms, 546 

Mortuary, 546 

of Interest, 546 

Personal Act. Practice, 
546 

Probate Practice, 546 
Lawrence, , xii 

Abbot, 508 

Amos, 508 

Anna, 317 

Benjamin, 578 

Bishop, 619 

EUza-Haines, 578 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



709 



Lawrence, Frank, 195, 644 
Henry Lafayette, 317 

John, 214 

Julia Ann, 60S 

Laura, 432 

Lucinda Mildreth, 644 

Lucy Maria, 578 
Lucy Maria Ham, 317 

Margaret, 214 

Mary Ann-Harris, 644 

Mary-Rezeau, 214 

Nathaniel Sawtelle, 644 

Ruth, 451 
Lawrence & Co., 446 
Lawrence, Kan., 24.3 
Lawrence, Mass., 141, 142, 248' 
296, 311, 341-343, 372, 
459, 462, 465, 466, 501, 
539, 554, 666 
Lawrence Station, N. J., 504 
Lawson, David, 401 

Eliza-Murray, 401 

Ellen Murray, 401 

Florence, 638 
"Lay of the Last Minstrel," 

15, 64 
Leach, John, 31 
Leadbetter, Clark, 369 

Mary Ann-Gott, 369 

Nelhe, 369 
Leadville, Col., 87, 294, 483 
Learned, William, 250 
Learoyd, Arthur Sowdon,348 

Charles Henry, 347, 348 

Grace, 348 

John, 347 

John Andrew, 347 

Manton, 347 

Rev. Mr., 619 

Sarah-Sylvester, 347 
Leavens, Perley &, 626 
Leavensworth, Kan., 243 
Leavitt, Almira, 91 

Annie Frances, 547 

Charles Malcolm, 547 

Elizabeth, 198 

Ethel iLiy, 547 

Frederic Perley, 547 

George Lawrence, 547 

Harold, 547 

John 547 

John Frederic, 547 

Levi Weston, 547 

Lydia Sanborn, 620 

Mary-Berry, 547 

WiHiam H., 547 
Lebanon, Ct., 242 
Lebanon, N. H., 344, 4,33, 469- 
471, 473-475, 498, 597 
598, 667 
Lebanon, Pa., 494 
Le Barons, the, 650 
Ledbury, xiv, xviii 
Lee, [Cien.], 302 
Permilla, 271 
Lee, N. H., 363, 511 
Leeds, Alfred, 509, 511 

Arthur Russell, 509 

Caroline Henderson, 613 

Charles Henry, 509, 652 

Edward L., 511 

Edward Lambert, 509 

EHzabeth, 511 

Ellen, 509 

Helen, 511 

Howard, 509 

Mary, 511 

Mary Stedman-Tileston, 
273 

Mary W., 511 

Mary Warren, 509 

Mary Warren -Mellen, 509 

Norman, 609, 511 

Sally. 511 

Samuel, 509 
Leeds, Eng., 536 
Leeds Junction, Me., 563 



Leelair, George, 667 
Leeds, Me., 367, 368, 455 
Leescreek Mill, O., 590 
Leetonia, 649 

Legg, Aubrey Burleigh Row- 
an-, 586 
Ed>vard Lutwidge Row- 
an-, 586 
Jane Elizabeth-Burleigh 
Rowan-, 5SG 
Legislature, (Gen. Court,) 12, 
16, 18, 21, 24, 52, 56, 
67, 76,78, 121, 141, 150 
173, 256, 286, 289, 312, 
345, 384, 405, 416, 446, 
458, 472, 491, 495, 499, 
506, 521, 5.50, 563, 572, 
581, 592, 619, 632, 648, 
650, 653, 655 
Leicester, Eng., 63, 64 
Leicester, Mass., 72, 509 
Leighton, Clara, 193 
Leininger, Catherine, 489 
Leitrim, Ire. 362 
Leland, Elizabeth S. -Welling- 
ton, 436 
Herbert, 436 
Leander, 436 
Lempster, N. H., 288, 490, 

493, 494, 497-499 
Lendrum's Hist, of Amer., 

Rev., 1 
Leominster, Mass., 432, 437 

481 
Leraysville, Pa., 476 
Leslie, Minn., 631 
Lesslie, Rev. George,vi,94,l65 
Letonia, 355 
Letson, Emma Elmina, 297 

Farnham, 297 

Philip, 297 
Levant, Me., 193 
Leverett, John, 258 

Lois, 258 
Levoy, Elmon E., 625 
Lewis, Abigail, 189, 200 
Jerusha L., 116 
J. W., 21 
Marcia, 151 
Lewis, Anderson &, 608 
Lewis & Clark, 598 
Lewis & Co. J. W., 540 
Lewisburg, N. Y., 386 
Lewiston, 111., 489 
Lewiston Journal, 454 
Lewiston, Me., 194, 365, 371, 
454, 455, 501, 539, 643, 644 
Lexington alarm, 161 
Lexington campaign, 144 
Lexington, 111., 561 
Lexington, Ky., 489 
Lexington, Mass., 64, 79, 106, 
123, 126, 130, 135, 141, 
142, 144 
Leyden, xx 

Lexington Monument, Pea- 
body, 41 
Libbey, Emma Randlet, 228 
Libby, Annah Augusta, 380 
David, 365 
George Frank, 563 
Greenleaf Rogers, 563 
Joseph Edgar, 380 
Mabel, 380 
Mr., 262, 263, 
Philip Caroll, 563 
Ruth, 263 

Sarah-Roberts, 563 
Widow, 262 
WilHs Alvah, 365 
Libby Prison, 310, 567 
Liberty, Me., 267, 418, 419 
Liberty, Mo., 108, 666 
Liberty's libation, 41 
Library, Alton Public, 519 
Boston PubUc, 496, 585 
Boxford, 162 



Fisk Free, 491 
Newbury port Public, 106 
of Congress, 451 
Peabody PubHc, 81 
of Science, Chicago, 450 

Life Association, Confed, 390, 
391 
Ins. Co. N. W. Mut., 368 
Ins. Northwestern, 487 

Life tenure, 581 

Lillcy, Sophia, 604 

Lily of the Merrimack Valley, 
212 

Lincoln, Abraham, 382 
Annie Frances, 594 
Charles Herbert, 476 
Chloe, 434 

Dorothy Bartlett, 476 
Emma Perley, 476 
Eunice, 292 
Fannie Fern, 476 
George Leonard, 476 
Gilman Christopher, 594 
Leonard Willard, 476 
Levi, 326 
Mary Eliza, 476 
Marv Ellen, 594 
Nellie Isabel, 476, 477 
Pres. ,3 14,352,382,451, 576 
Richard Stephen, 476 
Sarah Elysabeth, 476 
Sarah Matilda Bovie, 476 
Thomas, 593, 594 
Willard Hopkins, 476 
(See Christensen."! 

LiHcoln, Neb., 367.560,617,650 

Lincoln, N. B., 216, 238, 24], 
365, 399, 401. 407, 429, 
631, 652 

Lincolnshire, Eng., 135, 645 

Lindhall, Anna Sophia, 368 

Lineal Descent, iii 

Lineal Descent, Chart, of, v 

Linebrook, See Parish. 

"Linebrook I-ongwharf, " 325 

Linebrook Parish, (See Parish) 

Lipsett, Mr., 397 

Lisbon, 205, 210 

Lissanourc, Antrim, Ire. 383 

Litchfield, III., 294, 295, 516, 
519 

Little farm, the, 629 

Little & Moulton, 517 

Little, Valentine, 116 

Littlefield, Aaron, 72 
Daniel, 197 
Seth Henry, 197 

Littleton, 69 

Littleton, Col., 479, 480, 611 

Littleton, Mass., 67, 219, 272, 
335 

Little Sank, Minn., 631 

Little Wanderers' Home, Bos- 
ton, 372 

Little's Grove, ix, xi 

Livermore, Amanda, 644 
CaroHne, 213 
John R., 213 
Joseph, 213 

Livermore, Me., 190-193, 298, 
367-369, 560-562,590 

Liverpool, N. S., 297 

Livingstone, EllaS., 631 

Lloyd, Dr. James, 112 

Loan of Boxford, ^■50,000, 21 

Lobban, Edward Nel.son, 239 
Ehzabeth, 239 
ElUs, 239 

Hannah Brown, 239 
Henrietta Amanda, 239 
James Earle, 239 
T D 239 
Margaret Garvie, 239 

Locke, Abigail, 515 
Alfred, 378 
Allan Stephen, 379 
Grace Perley, 378 



710 



THE PERLBY FAMILY 



Locke, Harold, 378 
James, 205 
John Richards, 378 
Joseph Alvah, 379 
Lucinda-Clark, 378 
Stephen, 378 
Lockhart, C. B., 407 
Lockport, 111., 609 
Locomotive, The, 523 
Lodge, Irebro Rebecca, 373 
King Hiram, 390 
K. of P. Palestine, 593 
Lofty, Ruth Ann, 175 
Logan, Okla., 480 
Logge's Peerage, 190 
Loggie, Alexander, 240 
James Caruthers, 240 
James Walls, 240 
Mary Carruthers, 240 
Mary-Carruthers, 240 
Loker, Catherine, 612 
Lombardy, 508 
Londonderry, Ire., 333 
Londonderry, Marquis of.xviii 
Londonderry, N. H., 92, 129, 
212, 213, 289, 382, 384, 
500 
London banker. 507 
London District, 214 
London, Eng., viii, xiv, xv, 
xviii. 2, 25, 61, 03, 64, 
331, 397. 414, 424, 496. 
511, 549, 584 
London, Ont., 391, 428, 578 

Long, , 443 

Abrani, 409 

Annie. 409 

Charles Otis, 448 

Charles Washington, 448 

Daniel, 113 

EUjah, 448 

Ehzabcth Rolman, 448 

Ethel Catherine, 449 

Gov., 532 

Henry, 448, 550 

Henry I'oUansbec, 449 

Henry Lcmont. 448 

Ira I'erley. 448 

Margaret Harrelt, 448 

Marietta, 448 

Martha Ahce. 448 

Perlev Lcmont, 449 

Robert, 272 

Ruth Alice, 449 

Sarah Miles, 409 

William Albert, 448 

William Chester, 449 

Longfellow, , 124 

Alice L., 525 
Emeline M.-Scribner, 525 
Henry W.. 525 
Long Island. 135 
Long Point, 213 
Long Prairie, Minn., 630, 631 
Lord, Abraham, 4 
A. L.,456 
Annie Laurie, 200 
Asa. 87 
Charles, 192 

Charles Barnes, 200, 202 
Edna Sleeves, 198 
Edwin Lincoln, 202 
Edwin Reed, 200 
Elizabeth Baker, 78 
Ehzabeth-Kimball, 200 
Eliza Caldwell, 201 
Elliott Russell. 199 
Experience. 223 
Ezra W., 201 
Farley Clayton, 199 
Florence Lucy, 202 
Fred Lincoln. 200 
Harry Holmes, 202 
HenrvM., 289 
George Edward, 4, 200 
George Warren, 200, 202 
Isaac, 4 



James Austin, 198 

John Henry, 198 

Kate L., 201 

Leon Raymond, 198 

Levi. 4, 200 

Lvdia A.-Lakeman, 201 

Mary, 7, 8 

Mary A., 532 

Mary-Yurks, 198 

Nathan, 105, 259 

Nathaniel, 4, 72 

Robert, iv. 7, 8 

Thomas,127,131.133,627 

Walter Ezra, 77, 201 

WiUiam Lummus, 201 
Lord Electric Co., 363 
Lord Mfg. Co. G. W., 203 
Lord's Order, xii 
Loring. David. 142 

Emma. 639 

James Milton. 225 

Julia A. -Nye. 639 

William. 639 
Los Angeles. Cal. 227. 228, 

371. 590. 603 
Loud. Abel Coffin. 207 

Olive Caroline-Robinson, 
207 

Samuel Otis, 207 
Loude, Rhoda, 198 
Loudon. N. IL, 80. 494, 507 
Louisiana, 503 
Louisburg. siege of , 29. 118 
Lounsburj', Arthur I'erley, 429 

Edward LeBaron, 429 

John, 429 

Roy Herman, 429 

Sarah Gunter, 429 
Louverier, Monsieur, 504 
Lovejoy, Adoniram Judson, 
266, 267 

Albert, 537 

Bartlett, 267 

Charles Ilermon, 267 

Clara Scott, 537 

Dana Boardman, 266 

Dana Wiufield, 267 

Desire Sweet, 266 

Edward Sweet, 267 

Elvira Prescott, 267 

Fannie, 266 

Frank Perky, 267 

Hannah-Hastings, 321 

Irene Perley, 266 

Loyal, 266 

Loyal Palmer, 266 

Mabel Irene, 267 

Margaret-Shaw, 537 

Mary Brown. 320_ 

Minnie Estelle. 267 

Nancy-Burgess. 266 

Sarah Alice. 267 

Sarah Sophie. 266 

Stephen. 321 

Thomas. 266 
Lovell. MariaKimball.491 

Michael. 490 

Sarah G.. 249 

Sophia, 490 
Loveridge, Sophia, 490 
Loverin, Dolly Ann, 269 

Edith, 610 

Edwin E., 269 

EHzabeth Ann, 269 

Hiram, 610 

Mary-Stevens, 610 

Perley Burpee, 269 

Sarah Buswell, 269 

WilUam, 269 
Lovering, Benjamin A., 176 

Helen Frances, 176 

John A., 176 

Sarah M., 176 
Lovettsville. Va.. 489 
Lovewell. Capt. John, 24, 34, 
59, 655 
ow, Aaron Thomas, 280 



Annie T., 280 

Ann Tucker-Briggs, 280 

Apphia, 278 

Benjamin, 278, 279 

Benjamin P., 279 

Carrie, 278 

Charles, 242, 279 

Charles M., 279 

Charles Perley, 278, 353 

Clara, 279 

David P., 243 

David Perlev, 242 

Eldon, 243 

Eleanor Louise, 280 

Elizabeth A., 243 

Elizabeth Adelaide, 242 

Florence Marion, 644 

Francis Aaron, 280 

George, 279 

George Francis, 280 

Grace H., 354 

Grace Haskell, 353 

Hannah Huston. 370 

Harriet Newell. 242 

Helen, 279 

Ida. 243 

Isaac Perkins. 242 

Isaac S., 278 

Joanna Drinkwater-Skil- 
lin. 644 

John, 278, 279 

Jonathan. 242 

Jonathan C^ove, 278 

Jonathan Porter. 242 

Joseph. 278. 370 

Joseph Perley, 278 

JuHa A., 243 

Julia Ann, 242 

Lewis N., 278 

Louisa, 278 

Mabel Frances, 280 

Maria, 278 

Marian, 242 

Marshall, 279 

Mary, 278 

Mary Dana, 279 

Mary Emma, 242 

Matilda, 279 

Matilda C, 279 

Maud, 243 

Robert Merrill, 644 

Samuel, 55 

Sarah Ann, 279 

Sarah-Huston, 370 

Sarah-Perkins, 242 

Seth, 278, 279 

Solomon, IS, 73, 86 

Susan Elvira, 242 

Susannah, 55, 242 

WilUam Stinson, 278 
Lowe, David Perley, 243 

Florence M., 196 

Jonathan Gove, 295 

J. P., 130 

Mary Ann, 445 

Ralph Perlee, 669 

Solomon, 344 
Lowe's Grove, xi 
Lowell, Eftie Augusta, 369 

Wilbur Stephen, 422 
Lowell, Mass.. 155. 205. 224, 
248, 265, 287, 288, 310, 
331, 343, 354. 371. 381, 
431, 456. 465, 475, 490, 
493, 495-497, 518, 525, 
590, 668, 669 
Lowell's cards, 161 
Lowell, Vt., 479, 606 
Lower Bartlett, N. H., 343 
Lower Jemseg, 393 
Lower Waterville, 241 
"Lowle "209 
Loyalist, a, 403 
Loyahsts, 404. 410 
Loyalist Souvenir, the Cen- 
tennial, 397 
Loyalist, U. Emp., 388 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



711 



Loyal Legion, U. S. A., 331 

Lucan, Ont., 588 

Lucas, Margaret-Flemmiiig, 

333 
Luclinger, Bertha, 443 

Daniel 443 

Jennie-Atkinson, 443 
Ludlow, Vt.. 189 
Lufkin, Thomas, 72 
Lummeraux, Jerusha, 253 

Laura Gertrude, 427 
Lumnius, Abraham, 82, 179 

Charles, 82 

Elizabeth, 82 

Ezra, 35G 

Margaret, 82 

Mary, 84 

Mary Abbie, 82 

Sarah, 44, 82 

WilHam, 82 
Lundberg, Agnes C, 575 
Lundys Lane, 214, 388 
Lunenburg, 242, 431 
Lunenburg road, 132 
Lunt, Eunice Perley, 641 

Jane Una, 430 

Josiah, 641 

Patty-Perley, 641 
Lurray Road, 202 
Lutz, Minnie, 243 
Lyman, Gen., 32 

J. B., 606 

Joseph, 606 
Lyman, N. H., 529 
Lyman School for Boys, 650 
Lyme, N. H., 332 
Lyn, Ont., 624 
Lynch, Phoebe, 501 
Lynde, Benjamin, 112 
Lyndon Hall, 648 
Lynn Directory, 524 
Lynnfield, Mass., 55, 90, 199, 

514,515,614,615 
Lynn, Mass., ix, x, xi, 77, 85, 
91, 106, 112, 128-130, 
134, 135, 137, 172, 178, 
200-203, 228, 255, 259, 
260, 281, 287, 293, 308, 
346, 354, 367, 396, 450. 
451, 496, 513-515, 523, 
532, 542, 554, 589, 614, 
646,661,666, 667 
Lyon, XX 
Lyon, Dist. Att., 571 

Harriet Deborah, 404 

Mary, 456 

Sarah Eliza, 215 

, Mary, 346 

M , Mary, 281 

Maberry, Abbie Ella, 501 

Francis Elden, 501 

Phebe Ellen-Verrill, 501 

S. P., 375 
Mabey, Alfred Edward, 630 

Alice Goldie, 630 

George, 630 

Harry Edward, 630 

Joseph Edward Stevens, 
630 

Joseph Henry, 630 

Lullu Bird, 630 

Mabel, 630 

Mary Ann-Stevens, 630 

Morris Perley, 030 

Nellie, 630 

Perley William, 630 
Macartney arms, 650 
Macartney, Frances Eliza, 383 

Francis, 383 

George, 383 

Mary-Henderson, 383 
Macculogh, Margaret, 383 
Macdonald, Charles S., 391 

Charles Strange, 390 

Charlotte Helen, 390 

Donald, 390 



Donald Bruce, 390 
Elizabeth-MacKay, 390 
John A., 472 
John Kay, 389, 390 
John Perley, 390 
Machias, 117 
Machias, Me., 119 
Mack, DeUa, 386 

Mary, 76 
MacKay, Elizabeth, 390 

Jean, 427 
MacLean, Beatrice E., 636 
Calvin S., 636 
Hector, 636 
Hugh, 636 
Jane-MacLean, 636 
Macmillan, Alexander, 427 
Frances Robb, 427 
James D., 427 
James Dudley Alexander, 

427 
Jean-MacKay, 427 
Sarah, 582 
Macnaquack River, 409 
Macomber, Alice Mabel, 273 
Mary Stedman Tileston- 

Leeds, 273 
William, 273 
Macon Prison, 567 
Macquaine, Agnes Ritchie- 
Wood, 215 
John, 215 

Margaret Amelia, 215 
Madagascar, 205 
Madison, Me., 150 
Madison, N. H., 430 
Madison, S. Dak., 601 
Magazine, Vermont Hist., 286 
Magee, Ethel Margaret, 391 
James, 391 
Susan-Bastedo, 391 
Maguire, Anne, 362, 049 
Maguire's Bridge, Ire., 383 

Magruder, , 90 

Mahoney, Mary, 381 
Maine, vi, 123, 128, 139, 182, 
184, 252, 262, 324, 367, 
376, 378, 396, 413, 420, 
421, 560,627 
Maine, M. E., 480 
Maine Infantry, 365 
Maine Justice, The, 308 
Maine regiment, 661 
Majesty, H. M. G., 411 
Majesty, the King, xviii 
Majesty's service, in his, 655, 

656 
Maiden, Mass, 163, 200, 202, 
240, 466, 467, 510, 534, 
536, 614, 620, 639 
Maliceets, the, 411 
Mallon, Capt. James, 659, 060 
Malvern Hill, 90 
Manchester, Eng., 198, 636 
Manchester, Mass, 466 
Manchester, N. H., 141, 174, 
247, 271, 274, 283, 381, 
386, 459, 460, 463, 409, 
471, 500, 510, 523, 543, 
593, 625, 647, 667, 669 
Mandell, Agnes C. -Lundberg, 
575 
George Perley, 575 
Henry George, 675 
Henry Joseph, 575 
Manden, N. Dak., 508 
Manderson, Mary Jane, 428 
Manilla, 486 
Manitoba, 390, 401, 403 
Mann, Horace, 430 
Nettie, 433 
Susan Eaton, 430 
Manning High School, (See 

School.) 
Manning, John, 101, 113, 132 
Joseph, 113 
Richard, 112 



Manning Lot John, 229 
Mansfield, Abbie, 666 
Edwin, 606 
John, 658 
Mary, 231 
Lizzie, 666 
Mansion House, 523 
Mansion, Rust, 203 
Mantorville, Minn., 476, 490 
Manufacturing Co., Cotton, 
173 
Cotton and woolen, 168 
Danielsonville, 224 
Map, vi 
Maps, 670 

Maquapit Lake, 392 
Marble, Coker, 151 

Marcia-Lewis, 151 

Sarah, 151 
Marblehead, Mass., 112, 201 
298, 331, 332, 461, .501, 
648, 649 
March, Elizabeth, 39 
Hannah, 353 

Susanna, 180 
Marden, Dana Boardman, 521 

Edna Margaret, 521 

Eunice May, 521 

Francis, 139, 156 

Margaret Page-Johnson, 
521 

Samuel, 521 

S. S., 274 
Marietta, O., 55 
Marion, la., 488 
Markesan, Wis., 476, 477 
Market, New Faneuil Hall, 489 
Marlboro, Mass., 276-278 
Marlin, Tex., 271 
Marlow, N. H., 289, 493, 497 
Marmion, 15, 64 
Marque, letter of, 203 
Marquette, Wis., 476, 598 
Marquis, Hugh, 588 

Margaret Ellen, 588 

Mary-Mclndoe, 588 
Marquis of Londonderry, xviii 
Marriages, 3000, 495 
Marsh, 190 
Marsh, Daniel, 134 

David, 142 

D. D.,587 

Ebenezer, 134 

Elijah, 134 

Ellen, 298 

Ezekiel, 134 

Ezekiel Preston, 134 

George, 134 

Levi, 29S 

Susan, 134 
Marshall, Agnes, 634 

Bethiah, 21 
Marshall, deputy U. S., 483 
Marshficld, Mass., 623, 640 
Marston, Abigail, 283 

Charles Henry, 371 

Joanna Barber-Cole, 371 

Mary Susan, 371 
Martha's Vineyard, 486 
Martin, Annie, 349 

Clarence, 586 

Ezra, 228 

Frank, 586 

Harry, 586 

Hattie F., 228 

Julia, 586 

Lucius D., 349 

Marjorie G., 586 

Maud D., 586 

Mayor, 532 

M. Perley- 586 

Nathaniel, 119 

Nora H., 586 

Sally, 538 

Sarah F., 349 
Marvin, Emma F., 484 

Emma Frances, 483 



712 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Marvin, Laura \''ienna, 483 
Marjorie, 484 
Ruth, 484 
Samuel, 483 
Samuel B., 484 
Samuel Barnard, 483 
Stephen Gates, 483 
Stei)hen George, 484 
Stephen Perley, 4S3 
Vienna-Gates. 483 
"Mary and John," vessel, 63 
Maryland, 57(3, 649, 653 
Marysville, Mo., 617 
Masconnomett, Sagamore, 16 
Mason, Abigail, 180 
Amelia, 334 
Anna Rebecca, 372 
Ann EHzabeth-Woodruff, 

334 
Charles, 180 
Charles Henry, 180 
Ellen Eugenia, 372 
Emily Watson-Howe,436 
Ethel L., 437 
Ethel Louise, 436 
Frederick \V., 180 
George, 180 
George Warren, 436 
Hannah-Bryant, 372 
Harry Downey, 437 
Harry W., 437 
Harry Warren, 436 
Henry, 436 
John Howe, 334 
Margaret Adelaide, 372 
Seth C, 372 
Mason, a, 607, 615, 618 
Social Lodge, 598 
32nd degree. 568 
Mason Village, 67 
Masonic Eraternitv, 2-19, 615 
Erce, 163 
Honors, 645 
Order, 440 
Masons, Chariot tcville, Lodge, 
566 
Mosaic Lodge, 550 
Mt. Carmel Lodge, 450 
Order of, 342 
The, 501.650 
T>Tian Lodge, 570 
Massachusetts, vi, 49, 96, 133, 
184, 185. 258. 399, 410, 
570. 591,602 
Massachusetts, Asst. Att.-Gen. 

of, iv 
Massachusetts bar, 193 
Massachusetts brcthen, viii 
Massachusetts government, 

117 
Massachusetts Heavy Artillery 

649 
Massachusetts regiment, 661, 
662 

Massachusetts Spy, the, 40 
Masterdon, Margaret, 638 
Mutanzas, 376 
Mattapan, 548 
Matterson, Florence, 200 
Matthews, Catherine-Bronte, 
618 
Charlotte Bronte, 617 
Joseph, 136, 254 
Mary Anne, 573, 575 
Mary Jane, 385 
Mary-Keys, 385 
Thomas, 385 
WilHam George, 618 
Manger, Joshua, viii 
Mauge^^^lle, X. B., vii, viii 
117, 120. 123, 129, 213- 
217, 236-238, 241, 387, 
391-393, 395, 397. 399- 
401. 403, 405-407. 410. 
423, 424. 429, 579-583, 
632. 640. 645. 650 
Maugerville settlers, 633 



Maunselle, Lt. Col. George, 425 
May, Humphrey, 64 
Joan, 64 
Richard, 64 
Mayflower, the, 650 
Maynard, Emilv, 484 
Mayo, Eben, 150 

George Kaler, 150 
Walter Eben. 150 
Mayville, Wis., 492 
McAfee, Eliza Jane, 637 
McArter, Annie, 389 
McArthur. Jemima, 530 
McAy. Anthony. 408 

EHzabeth-McKnight, 408 
Jane, 408 
McBean, Alan Johnston, 261 
John Wood, 261 
Margaret-Casey, 261 
Patrick, 261 
McCafferty, Ann, 242 
McCall, Daniel, 389 

Elsie, 389 
McCartney, Frances, 382 
Francis, 382 
H. R., 587 
(See Macartney.") 
McClallin, Lucius. 602 

Afarv Maria-White, 602 
William Daniel, 602 
McClarv. ill fated. 147 
McClellan, Mayor, 569 
McCloskv. Teanie, 192 
McColIom, lilbridge W., 498 
Hannah W., 498 
ALiry Ann-Harvev, 498 
McCorkel, Elizabeth, 386 
McCully. Ellen Harvey, 379 
McCurdy, Martha, 461 
McDaniel. Arthur, 277 
Carl, 277 
Carrie. 277 
Catic. 277 

Charles, 277 , 

Cora, 277 

Hitty L. Philbrick, 277 
James, 277 
McDermott. Anna-Sullivan, 
275 
Annie Eliza. 275 
Roger. 275 
McEwcn. Rev. J. F.. 177. 550 
McFarland. (ieorgianna. 572 
McOee. Khoda. 637 
McGibbon, Agnes. 400 
Charles. 118. 399 
Colin F.. 402 
Colin I'rank. 400 
Harold Bruce. 400 
Jes.sie H.. 402 
Jessie Helena. 400 
John, 118, 399 
Malcolm Drummond. 400 
Mary-\evers. 399 
McGillivray township, 588 
McGowan's wharf, 633 
McGrath. Catherine Aurelia, 
197 
David. 197 

EHzabeth-BurrclI. 197 
McGreagor, Diadany. 634 
McGreeby Connolly. 585 
McGuire. Amy Electa. 241 

Cordelia-Toiu-telotte, 241 
Robert, 241 
Mclndoe, Mary, 588 
Mclnnis. Andrew, 242 

Andrew George Blair, 242 
Ann-McCafferty, 242 
Annie Elizabeth, 242 
James lerome. 242 
John Henrv, 242 
Mrs., 241 
Pearl Isabel. 242 
Mclntire. Dana I., 273 
Isabelle Love, 87 
Mabel G., 273 
Mary C. -Brown, 273 



Mcintosh, Flora, 638 
Mclntyre, Alice Marion, 404 
Byron Woodbury, 404 
PHizabeth [M], 404 
Harold Perley, 404 
Isabel Scott, 400 
Jane-Flemming, 404 
Kathleen I., 405 
Kathleen Isabella, 404 
Nora N., 405 
Nora Neals, 404 
Robert, 404 
Ruby A., 405 
Ruby Antoinette, 404 
Thomas, 404 
McKay, Mary, 427 
McKay operator, 500 
McKeen, Nancy, 403 
McKenney & Waterbury, 52S 
AIcKenzie, Albert, 465 
Caleb Jackson, 455 
Frank Emerson, 465 
PVank Gordon, 455 
Jacob, 465 
Nellie, 465 
Noel, 455 
Ruel Dart, 455 
Susan-Dart, 455 
McKinley, Pres., 550 

McKnapp. , 632 

McKnight. Elizabeth 408 
Mcl.aiii. Frances Carrie, 344 
John. 344 
Sarah Reed. 344 
McLane, Alexander, 44,s 
Bessie Long, 448 
HarrietHrown, 448 
Jared Brown, 448 
Leha IL, 449 
Lelia Harriet, 448 
McLaughlin, Emerson, 243 
Harrison, 243 
Mary Ann, 394 
Will. 24.< 
McLean. IClizabeth-Camcron 
579 

Hector, 579 

William Allen, 579 
McLcUan, Margaret, 390 

Nancw 41,5 

Nancv A.. 116 
McLelland', David Russell,638 

Flora Mcintosh, 638 

Tames, ()38 

Robert. 038 
McLeod, Aileen Audrey, 426 

Asa Melville Perley, 426 

Catherine Eleanor, 426 

Christina, 239 

Donald, 426 

IHuIlcy Benson, 426 

Ivleanor Isabella-Murray, 
426 

Grace Darling, 426 

John Alexander, 426 

Sarah Isabelle. 426 

^\■illiam Douglas, 426 

\\illiani Georire. 426 
McLoud, Anson, 345, 531 

Enoch Cate, 604 

James Henry, 604 

.Sophia-Lilley, 604 
McMackin, Isabella. 400 
McMulkin, Anne, 386 
McNab. Sir Allen, 388- 
McNally. Frances-Kilburn,4I0 

Frank Leslie, 410 

George Frederick. 410 

Jean Francis, 410 

Moses, 410 

Moses Byron, 410 

Percy Bvnm, 410 
McNeil, Joseph, 658 

Sarah Ann-Putnam, 218 
McNulty, Martin, 220 
McQuirk, Lizzie, 422 
McRae, Isabella, 403 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



713 



Mead, Abraham, 69 
D. D., G25 
Hannah, 67 
Miss, 669 
OHvia Ann, 281 
Meadcr, George, 595 

Harriet Newell, 451 
Jane M., 595 
I.oiiise, 595 
Susan, 461 
Meadow, Hachelor, 103 
Meadville, Pa., 572 

Mears, ,105 

Mechanics Falls, Me., 501 
Mechanics, Order V. A., 337 
Mecklenburg Schwerin. 253 
Medal, Douglas silver, 430 
silver, 411, 473 
AVilde, 448 
"Meddowe, Parly, Ye Great,'' 

70 
Medlield, 431 

Medford, Mass., 42, 197, 228, 
271, 273, 312, 333, 347, 
474, 515, 550 
Medway, 430 
Mee, Ann-Knowles, 19S 
Mary, 198 
Robert, 198 
Meed, AUethea Huntington- 
Wells, 323 
Samuel, 280 
Thomas J., 324 
Meen, Matilda Emma, 585 
Meigs, Anna-Gardiner, 520 
Anson, 520 
Kunice, 520 
Melcher, Harriet Newell-Mead- 
er, 451 
Mary Frances, 451 
William Neal, 451 
Melendy, George Lorenzo, 272 
Jesse George, 272 
Lorenzo P., 272 

-, Williams, 272 

Mellen, Mary Warren, 509 
Mellish, Clarissa, 605 
Melrose Highlands, Mass., 621 
Melrose, Mass., 3, 82, 549, 559. 
603, 604, 618, 624, 639 
Mclvin, Sarah J., 92 
Memoirs of Indianapolis, 254 
Memphis, Tenn., 516, 568 
" Men at age of sixteen," 60 
"of Canada," 472 
of Progress of Indiana, 254 
Mendippe Hills, Eng., 494 
Mendon, 38, 39 
Menomonie, Wis., 277, 612,613 
Mercer, Maria, 418, 419 
Merchant, Judith B., 371 

Orlando DeForrest, 226 
Meredith Bridge, N. H., 167, 

329, 332 
Meredith, N. H., 130, 283, 330 
Meriden, la., 277 
Meriden, N. H., 358, 491, 498 
Meridian Hill, CTeorgetown, D. 

C..90 
" merilield," John 27 
Merriam, Carl Proctor, 344 
Cora Alice, 344 
Charles Greenleaf, 344 
Elizabeth, 55 
Frederic, 356 
Frederic Jonas, 343 
Frederic Perley, 344 
Hannah-Jones, 343 
Henry Augustus, 344 
Henry Greenleaf, 344 
John, 57, 343, 344 
Marjorie Allen, 344 
Martha McLain, 344 
Nathaniel Perley, 343 
Silas, 110 
Merrill, Abel. 98 

Ada Byron, 614 



Addie F., 107 

Adrianna-West, 614 

Agnes E-, 107 

Amos B., 186 

Austin, 468 

Benjamin Austin, 468 

Charles 614 

Charles Perley, 107 

Daniel, 48, 77 

Edwin Whipple, 593 

Ellen A.-Brown, 593 

Frank W., 107 

George W.. 107 

Greenleaf B., 93 

Hannah B., 468 

Hannah-Sanborn, 375 

Harriet, 197 

Harriet B.. 468 

leremiah, 107 

lohn, 107,375 

John B., 107 

Joseph K., 593 

Juha, 457 

I-evi, 368 

Lewis Austin. 468 

Lewis M., 468 

Louisa Hale, 368 

Lucy A., 468 

Lvdia J.. 107 

Martha Ann. 507 

Mary. 107 

Meltiah, 209 

Mrs.. 629 

Nancy-Hale, 368 

P. A., 468 

Perley Braman, 468 

Rose Ann, 468 

Ruth Ward, 375 

Samuel, 98 

Sarah, 284 

Sarah- Felch, 107 

Sylyanus, 185 

Sylvanus Dodge, 468 

Thomas, 468 
Merrimac House. Lowell, 405 
Merrimac, Mass., 158, 207, 5.53 
Merritt, Beulah May, 249 

Charles, 197 

Charles Clesson, 249 

Cynthie, 437 

Eivah V. -Wilder, 249 

F'red Clesson, 249 

Henry Charles, 249 

Lester M., 197 

Marv Everett, 249 

Mildred Hazel, 249 

Phebe. 581 
Merry. T. J., 631 
Mersereau, Adaline Amelia- 
Smith, 408 

Daniel Wood, 408 

Jannic, 408 
Message, Perley, 130, 136 
Messenger. P.apseima. 270 

Sarah. 5'28 
Messer, Charles .Sherman. 463 

Clayton Perley. 464 

Edna Gertrude, 464 

Edwin. 403 

Elmer F., 464 

Elmer Fiank, 463 

Helen Todd, 464 

Herman P., 464 

Herman Perley, 463 

Jacob, 463 

Jennie Bell, 463 

Laura Angle, 463 

Lizzie Estella, 463 

Mary Abbie, 463 

Mary-Putney, 463 
Metcalfe, Hon., 518 
Metcalf. farm 323 
Metcalf, Harvey, 288 

Lydia, 145 
Methodist, 369 

Methodist Book Concern, 383 
Methodist Church, (See ehiu-ch) 



Methodist clergyman, 624,637 

Methodists, 288 

Methuen, Mass., 46, 58, 143, 
144, 278, 281. 2S5, 288- 
291, 294, 433, 462, 495, 
502, 505, 659 

Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 338 

Metz, Emma, 375 

Michigan, 119, 304, 376, 409, 
475, 629, 630 

Michigan City, Ind., 253, 441, 
443 

Michigan Volunteers, 567 

Micmac Nation, 41 1 

Middleboro, Mass., 150 

Middlebury, Vt., 259, 260 

Middle Saokville, N. B., 427 

Middle Simonds, N. B., 409 

Middlesex, Vt., 641 

Middleton, Mass., 51, 55, 89, 
113, 125, 255, 548, 5.50, 
553 

Middletown, Ct., 78, 497 

Middletown, N. Y., 1.58 

Middletown, Pa., 272 

Mid wiferv, 67 

Mighill, Charles P., 205 
David, 291 
David DeW. C, 178 
David DeWitt CUnton, 

60, 61 
D. DeWitt C, 145,149, 151 

Ehzabeth, 100, 291 
Ellen, 98 

Hannah, 98. 100, 106, 629 
Huldah-Dole, 291 
Jeremiah, 291 
Nathaniel, 98-102 
Sarah-Lambert, 291 
Stephen, 98 
Thomas, 98, 102 

Milan, Ga., 90 

Miles, AdriannaCecilia, 399.400 
Anna Julia Woodfordc, 

118,390 
Arnand Raglan, 399, 401 
Charles LeBaron, 399 401 
Charlotte M., 401 
Cora Gertrude, 399, 401 
Cynthia, 265 
Edgar Stuart. 401 
I'Mmund Lancelet, 401 
Erna Ardis, 402 
V. R., 667 
Frank Bruce, 401 
Frank Roswell, 399, 401 
Frederick D., 401 
Fiederiek Dunbar, 399 
George Harrison, 401 
(teorge Hayward, 399 
Harold Roy, 401,403 
Hazel T., 400 
Helen Lois, 401 
Henry Smith, 399, 406 
James Edward, ,583 
James William, 583 
J. Frederick, 400 
lohn Clowes, 400 
John T., 583 
Kate Haws, 401 
LeBaron Perley, 401 
Lilhan Gertrude, 402 
Lousia-Plummei, 583 
Mary Florence, 403 
Maud Amanda, 399 
Mrs., 406 

Murray Bliss, 399, 401 
N. A., 565 
Sarah, 409 
Sarah Ann, 399 
Sarah Ann-Carman, 399 
Theodore Clowes, 402 
Theodorus C, 400 
Theodorus Clowes, 399 
Thomas Odber, 399, 400 
T. O.. 402 
Vera Constance, 401 



714 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Milford, Mass., 251 
Milforrt, Me.. 536 
Milford, X. H., 252, 272 
Militia. Canadian, 215 

Maine. 219 

Massachusetts, 219 

X. H. Vol.. 352 

Xorthumberland. 424.426 

Old Rowley. 316 

State, 345. 432 

Toronto, 5S4 
Millburv, Mass., 40, 134, r.06 
Mille Lacs, 37S 
Miller, KUza Ann, 3S6 

J. A., 480 

Mary, 578 

M. E.-Maine, 480 

Rillie E., 480 
Millers Corner. X.Y.. IS 
Millett, Alphonzo, 324 

Atnos J.,.88, 92, 628 

Charles E.. 92 

Deborah-Howe, 323 

Edward. 323 

Edward Andrew, 324 

Edward 0..325 

Edward Oliver, 324 

Eliza Ann. 324 

Elizabeth Irene. 92 

Emily Augusta. 324 

Ered Bartktt. 324 

George Dane. 324 

Ida. 92 

Joshua, 92. 323 

1-elia Marion, 325 

Lizzie Ellen, 324 

Ralph Arnold. 324 

Samuel Dane. 324 

Sarah Maria. 324 
Milliken. Benjamin. 122 
Millinocket. Me.. 400. 536 
Mills. Achsah. 507 

Andrew, 240 

Charles A., 536 

Emily, 460 

Hannah Wilbur, 536 

John, 536 

I'ludentia Earwell, 311 

Ruth Sawyer, 459 

Thomas, 459 
Mills. Ipswich Woolen, 202 
Milltown. Me.. 194 
Millwood, Rowley. Mass., S9 

90, 160, 166, 178, 1S2, 
338, 361 
Milo, Me., 298, 299, 302, 303, 

589, 590 
Milo Junction, Me., 302 
Milton, Tohn, 52 
Milton. Slass.. 92. 277, 317 
MiUon, Minn.. 601 
Milton. Vt., 561 
Milwaukee. Wis., 377, 475, 

586, 639 
Miner, Alonzo Ames, 494 

Amanda-Cary, 494 

Benajah Ames, 494 

Caroline Alleta-Gooirltich, 
438 

Charles, 494 

John Farrington, 438 

lonathan Isaiah, 438 

Rev. Dr.. xi 

Thomas. 494 
Miniard. EUzabeth-,Smith.374 

James, 374 

Sarah Jane, 374 
Minier, 111., 245 
Minneapolis. Minn., 261, 377, 
490, 523, 557, 55S, 637 
Minnesota, 402, 629 
Minnesota Infantry Vol., 630 
Minnesota regiment. 661 
Minot, Me., 194. 363 
Minpooria. 384 
Minstrels, Dockstader's, 568 
Minty, Annie, 391 



Minuteman, 126, 141 
Minutemen, 79, 106, 123, 128, 

145 
Miramichi, X. B., 216, 238, 

424. 426. 427, 428 
Miramichi, the, 427 
Miriam, Silas. 110 
Missionary in India, 383 
Mission, Hadley Rescue. 545 

Xew Vork City, 428 
Missions, Board of, 347 
Missisquoi, the, 484, 485 
Mississippi, 666 
Mississippi River, 356, 377 
Missouri, 3.52 

Mitchell, Algernon Mansfield, 
454 

Anna 478 

Blanche Elisabeth, 455 

Blanch \'ivian, 454 

Burton I,., 455 

Burton Lafayette. 454 

Burton Mansfield, 454 

David, 395,651 

Deborah Dennett, 311 

Edward. 395 

Eunice llilhard, 498 

Frances, 238 

Frances Amanda-Perley, 
" Mrs," 651 

Franklin, 311 

Grace li., 455 

Grace Elizabeth, 454 

Guy L., 455 

Guy Livingstone, 454 

Henry B., 238 

Horace. 490 

Isabel-True. 238 

Joanna, 212 

Jonathan, 454 

Lena May, 454 

Lillian ElVie, 454 

Martha, 58 

Mary P.-Wright, 454 

May. 395 

Mehitable. 143 

Molly. 395. 651 

rhebe-Jacksou, 490 

Rebecca, 302 

Rose Iv., 455 

Rose Estelle, 454 

Ruth, 455 

Sarah, 58, 399 

Sarah A.. 455 

Sarah Adelina, 454 

Sarah Ann, 490 

Sew ell, 311 

Svlvanus Sherman, 454 

Weir. 533 
Moberlv. Mo., 649 
Mobile, Ala., 303 
Moclara, Sarah, 505 
Modesto, Cal., 395, 580 
Modjeska, Madame, 568 
" Mohican " steam sloop, 332 
Mohr, Anna Sophia- Ijndhall, 
368 

Carl Johan, 368 

Charles Elon, 368 

Mildred Elizabeth Sopliia, 
368 
Morehouse, Matilda, 481 
Moncton, X. B., 410 
Moning. Frank H., 488 

Lillian Perlev, 488 

Mrs , 4««r 
Monmouth, 111., 597 
Monmouth, Me., 267,452,526 
Monroe, Abel. 643 

Albert Perley, 299 

Allan. 298 

Ann Maria, 299, 302 

Carrie Emma, 302, 303 

Charles Fred, 299 

Emily Crosby, 615 

Emilv Louise- Wiley, 615 

George Herbert, 299 



Henry Wingate, 615 

Herbert Albert, 302 

John, 298 

John W., 302 

John Warren. 299 

Luther Simonds, 615 

Martha BLxbv, 643 

Mary E.. 299 

Patty, 191, 643 

Polly-Keene, 298 

Richard A.. 299 

Sarah Smith Perley, 299 

Sarahs. P., 302 

Wesley Wingate, 615 
Monroe. Ct.. 486 
Montana. 400. 404 
Montana Insane Asylum. 667 
Montana State Penitentiary, 

667 
Montclair, X. J., 649 
Montevideo, Minn., 443 
Montevideo, Urugnav, 596 
Montgomery, Vt.. 602,605,608 
Montgomery Yeomanry Cav. 

xviii 
Monticello, la., 612 
MontpeUer, Vt.,iv. 273, 286,287 
Montreal. Que., 78, 300, 430, 

481,584, 597 
Montville, Me., 140, 261, 267, 

421,422, 452 
Monument, Lexington. Pea- 
body, 41 

Rev. Samuel Perley' s. 97 
Mooar, John, 85 

Mary Ann-Conant, 85 

Mary Gertrude, 85 

Orrin G., 74 

Orrin Gayton. 85 

Roy Ellsworth. 85 
Moody. Lucy Ann. 442 

Lydia Ann Ellen, [Em- 
ery] 105 

Lydia Ann Emery, 205 

Master, 306 

Mr., 224 

Paul, 224 
Mooers. Abigail. 632 

Betsey. 632 

David, 032 

Edmund. 632 

Elizabeth. 117,632 

Hannah. 409 

Huldah. 632 

Tennie. 632 

Mary. 632 

Mary Harmony, 409 

Peter. 632 

Rebecca. 632 

Samuel. 632 

Sarah, 632 

Sarah-Xoyes, 632 
Moonsy. Mary Jane, 566 
Moore, Angie Foster, 92 

Bessie Ella, 92 

Charles Dennison, 92 

Dennison, 92 

Dennison Pickard, 92 

Ehza, 175, 283 

Frank Phillips, 92 

Galen Blethen, 92 

Harriet. 534 

Harry Flemming, 92 

Henry. 640 

Herbert George, 92 

Jane, 423 

Lois, 349 

Lois-Knowlton, 554 

Mary, 629 

Marv Ann, 554 

Rev. Dr.; 368 

Susan, 92 

Thomas, 554 
Moores, Charles Xathaniel,302 

John Albert, 302 

Lena Mavland. 302 

Mary Annie, 302, 303 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



715 



Moores, Minnie Gilbert, 302 

Nathaniel, 302 

Rebecca-Mitchell, 302 

Richard Allen, 302 

Tessa Lillian, 302 
Moorhead, Minn., 497, 499 
Moraly, Gustav, 335 

Loniie-Hovvs. 335 

Sclnia M., 335 
Morants. xvi 
Morev, Diantha, 577 

John, 625 

Margaret. 625 

Margaret Nellie, 625 
Morgan, , 277 

Frank. 370 

Gov., 576 

Louisa, 51 1 

Micaiah, 270 
Mormon church, 36 
Morong, Mary Nicholson, 465 
Morrill, Alpheus, 494 

Ann Elizabeth, 649 

Ashley Baker, 494 

Daniel, 358 

Prank Forrest, 107 

Georgetta, 107 

George W., 107 

Gladys, 494 

Hannah-Colby, 107 

Hannah Kimball, 358 

Horace Adams, 107 

Jabez, 465 

Jettie M., 107 

Lydia-Abbot, 35S 

Margaret, 494 

Mary Stearns, 494 

Moses, 107 

S. C. 493 

Shad'rack Gate, 494 

Morris, , 629 

Morris Island, S. C, 352 
Morrison, Agnes, 508 

Asa Currier, 560 

Elbridge Gilbert, 275 

James, 274 

James P., 168 

Nancy Eliza, 560 

Nancy-Hilton, 560 

Samuel, 275 
Morrison, Col., 610, 611 
Morrisville, Vt., 297, 368, 479 
Morse, iii 
Morse, Abigail, 40 

Ann, 40 

Benjamin, 39, 58 

Betsey-Tom, 182 

Carrie-Stone, 553 

David, 182 

Eaton, 242 

FHeanor Eaton, 242 

Elizabeth, 39 

EHzabeth A., 153 

Fayolvn King. 623 

Hannah, 40, 212 

Hannah [not Sarah in 
fourth line.] 40 

James Levi, 553 

Jennie, 91 

Jeremiah, 40 

John, 39 

John Otis, 242 

Joseph, 212 

Lucinda Cole, 553 

Mahala B.. 372 

Marcy, 39 

Mary. 40, 237 

Mary Ann, 474 

Orlando S., 212 

Orlin Raymond, 242 

Raymond Eugene, 023 

Rev. and Prof., 419 

Ruth-Sawyer, 39 

Samuel, 39 

Sarah, 39,, 40,58,182, 282 

Sarah, [read Hannah in 
fourth hne], 40 



Sarah G., 212 

Stuart Tellson, 242 

Susannah, 58 

Tabitha vSargent, 212 

Theodore Wattles, 242 

Thomas, 153 

Timothy, 64 

Walter Lowe, 242 

Wilham H., 91 

Morton, Jane, 391 
Mosely, Frederic E., 50 
Moshcr, Joseph, 227 

Martha Ann, 227 

Nancy-Hatch, 227 
Moss, Dora Melissa, 617 

Frances Crosier, 441 

Rebecca-Draper, 617 

Solomon, 617 
Mott. Arthur, 637 

Clarence, 637 

Cora, 637 

Daniel, 637 

Daniel Otty, 637 

Eva, 637 

Gladys Muriel, 637 

Victory-Wiggins, 637 
Moulton, Annie Aber, 614 

Clarence Henry, 614 

Elizabeth, 172 

Joseph Smith, 614 

Mary Silver-Aborn, 614 

Perlev Gould, 614 
Moulton, Little &, 517 
Mound Citv 251 
Mound City, 111., 661 
Mound City, Kan., 242 
Moultonboro, N. H., 94, 197, 

330 
Mountains, Alleghany, 212 
Mount Auburn, 298 
Mount Vernon, N. Y., 200 
Mount Vernon, O., 479, 480 
Mt. Holyoke System, 415 
Mt. Independence, 136 
Mt. I'leasant, Mich., 331 
Mt. Vernon, N. H.. 286 
Mudgc. Ruth Chadwell. 201 
Mugridge. Annie Maria, 470 

John Y., 470 

Maria George-Eaton, 470 
Mulcahy, Rev. J. M., 363 
Mulligan, Catherine, 666 
Mullikcn, Amos, 112 
Munford, Erasmus, 129 

William, 413 
Munro, Anna, 391 

James N., 630 
Munson, Sarah, 478 
Munson's Hill, Va., 90 
Munsonville, N. H., 433 
Murchie, W. A., 194 
" Murdered sundry inhabi- 
tants," 56 
Murdock, Catherine, 424 

E., 234 
Murphy, Ehza, 241 

George E., 366 

Jesse, 366 
Murray, Eleanor Isabella, 426 

Eiiza, 401 

Fanny Ailmatrien, 348 
Musician, celebrated, 640 
Muskegon, Mich., 609 
Mussey, Sarah, 310 
Muzzy, Benjamin, 110 
Myers. George, 605 

Levi, 605 

Mary-Hegsher, 605 
Myrick, Freeman Drew, 454 

Helen M. -Rhodes, 454 

Ralph Roderick, 454 

Nahant, Mass., 348, 450 
Nails, the first, 224 
Nantucket, xii 
Nantasket, Mass., 625 
Naples. Me., 221, 369,415-417 



Nash, 205 

Maria Louise-Grimsdiek, 
401 

Wilhemina, Louisa Flor- 
ence, 401 

Wilham, 401 
Nashua, N. II., 265, 276, 332, 

518, 433, 548, 669 
Nashville. Tenn.. 518 
Nashwaak. N. B.. 261 
Nason, Agnes, 54.3 

Helen Coleman. 407 

Inez[-] Ford. 274 

James Henry, 256 

Mary Elizabeth, 256 

Phoebe FIlizabeth-Bar- 
ker, 256 
Natick. Mass.. 270. 316, 639 
National Guard, N. Y., 361, 

385 
National Intelligencer, 382 
National Park, 400 
Naumkeag, 648 
Navy, British, 61 

Sec'y of 384 

the, 175, 477 

U. S., 202, 348 

Yard, U. S., 333, 590 
Nebraska, 489 
Neddo, Ada, 424 
Needham, Mass., 437 
Negro, Jane, 39 

Sarah, 39 
Negro's condition, the, 376 
Neilson. Alice, 568 
Nelles. Elizabeth Jane, 577 

Jane-Eakins, 577 

John E., 577 
Nelson, Abigail, 353 

Albert, 316 

Amos, 152. 

Apphia Lambert. 81 

Asa. 154, 312 

Aunt, 153 

Benjamin Scott, 160 

Caroline Frederica, 596 

Caroline Matilda, 313 

Chailotte, 444 

David, 312 

Earl Mower, 648 

Ehzabeth, 80, 81 

Elizabeth Perley, 160 

Eunice-Searle, 312 

Fred Walter, 314, 647 

George March, 160 

Hannah-March, 81, 353 

Harriet Atwood, 313 

Harrison, 160 

J., 210 

John, 258 

Jonathan, 81, 353 

Julia Amanda. 316 

Julia G.-Saunders, 310 

Lizzie M., 314 

Lois-Leveret I, 258 

Louisa A., ISO 

Maria Harriet, 313 

Marv, 160, 364 

Mary S.. 81 

Marv Sewall, 258 

Maud Ehzabeth, 160 

OUve, 152 

OUve-Dole, 152 

Philip. 648 

Ruth. 154 

Sherman, ix, xi, xx, xxi, 
xxii, 313, 314, 505 

Solomon, ix, 313 

Stephen M., 80 

Susan, 81 

Susannah-March, 160.180 

Svlvanus, 353 

Thomas, 153, 160, 180 

Thomas Leverett. 258 
Nelson, B. C, 637 
Nelson House, 139 
Nero, 96 



716 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Neustria, xx 
Nevada, 407 

Nevcrs, viii, 118, 23G 

Alexander Albert 409 
Alexander Peters, 409 
John, 631 
Marv Elizabeth-Hayden 

409 
Hannah, 2,'?6 
Mary, 118, 399 
Mary Ann, 582 
Matilda, 631 
Mrs., 217, 633 
Samuel, 236 
Newark, N. J., 449, 491 
New Bedford, Mass., 373. 513 
Newbern. N. C, 385, 516 
New Boston, N. H., 139, 352 
New Brunswick, vii, viii, ix, 
xi, 91, 117,118,120,129, 
213, 214, 222, 300, 389. 
394. 398, 403, 407, 410, 
412, 428, 584, 033, 640 
New Brunswick's greatest 

sons, one of, 650 
New Brunswick Hist., 414 
Newburg, Me., 227 
Newbury Bvfield, 163, 294, 

295, 308, 311, 319 
Newburv, John. 373 
Newbury. Mass., x, 11, 15, 17, 
20, 22, 23, 35. 39, 44 
58, 59, 67, 149. 151,164, 
174, 182. 200. 210. 224 
279, 2S2. 283. 291, 306- 
309, 363, 382, 458, 525, 
531. 548, 594, 633, 641, 
655 
Newbury Oldtown, 535 
Newbury records, 632, 641 
Newbury, Vt., 248, 493 
Newburyport, Mass., viii, xi, 
25, 49, 75, 77, 80, 91, 
106, 107, 112, 113, 154, 
162, 183, 198, 205. 208, 
209. 212. 213. 308. 310, 
316, 318, .324, 341, 360, 
363, 373, 384, 457, 458, 
461, 468. 47,% 488, 506, 
515, 517, 530. 531, 546. 
594 596, 629, (i32, 633. 
642, 644, 645. 659 
Newburyport News. 622 
Newburyport record, 647 
Newburyport Turnpike, 183 
New Canaan, Ct.. 510, 511 
New Carlisle, Ind., 374 
Newcastle. 558 
Newcastle. Me., 227. 422 
Newcastle, N. B., 392 
Newconibe, Submit, 214 
Newell. Charlotte, 439 
New lingland. v, 2. 7, 57, 03, 
III, 212. 396, 397. 508. 
541, 532 
New England Con. of Mus. 

[not Boston], 623 
New England Hist, and Ge- 
neal. Society, 256. 257 
New England. Hist. Storms 

of, 546 
New England "Rebels," 632 
New England Shipwright. 210 
New Gloucester, Me., 48, 194, 

195, 371. 643 
Newhall, Bethiah-Hobson,196 
Eliza, 450 
Martha, 312 
New Hampshire, vi. 108, 140, 
279, 343, 497, 666, 667 
New Hampshire people, 498 
New Hampshire, Sec'y of, 271 
New Hampton, N. H., 498 
New Haven, Ct., 373, 374, 428 
New Hudson, N. Y., 607 
New Ipswich, N. H., 68, 69, 
190, 248, 481 



New Jersev, 253, 502 
New London, Ct., 403, 494 
New London, N. H., 141, 268- 
273, 275. 277,281,463-465 
Newman, Adah, 199 
Antipas, 346 
Marion T., 639 
Newman Block, 526 
Newmarch, Marv Ann, 77 
New Market, N. H., 544 
New Maryland, 399 
New Mexico, 377 
New Mills, Dan vers, 157 
New Orleans, La., 119, 163, 
265. 281, 376, 444, 462, 
587 
New Orleans Picayune, 383 
Newport, Can., 432 
Newport, N. H., 471, 491 
Newport, R. I., 136, 216, 272 
Newport, Vt.. 604 
New Portland, 98. 191, 192 
New Richland, Minn., 476 
New Rochelle, N. V., 577 
New Rowlev, 154, 259, 282, 

312, 59.3 
New Salem, 167 
New Sharon, Me., 456 
Newton Centre, Mass., 273, 

293, 353 
Newton Highlands, 513, 536, 

.548 
Newton, Mass., 251, 496, 512 
Newton, N. H., 449, 457, 547 
Newton, Emily. 603 

Susan Pemelia. 438 
Newt(mville, Mass., 158. 496, 

538 
Ncwtowne, 2 

Newtim-Limavady, London- 
derry, Ire.. .333 
New \'ineyard. Me., 591 
New World, 191. 395 
New York. 135, 183, 192, 193, 
196. 198, 205, 213, 282, 
295, 304, 316, 356, 376, 
378, 397, 401, 462, 502, 
511, 513, 519, 561 
New York bar, 510 
New York City, viii, ix, 92, 
180, 212, 213, 215, 221, 
237, 265, 283, 298, 325, 
334, 335, 338, 355, 379. 
381 387, 419, 430,446- 
448, 486, 502, 504,508, 
509, 511, 541, 566, 568, 
569, 572, 573, 575-577, 
587, 590, 596, 604, 613, 
624, 652, 668 
New York Evangelist, 384 
New York Herald. (!19. 653 
New York journals. 568 
New York Mills, Minn., 401 
New York Publishing House, 

180 
New York, State of, 128, 131, 

184, 447, 
New York ^^'orld, 653 
Niagara, Ont., 578 
Nice. France, 504 

Nichols, 85 

Achsah-Barden, 272 
Ada Annette, 251 
Charles Addison, 251 
Charles F., 246 
EUzabeth. 158 
Frank P., 246 
Franklin Prentice, 281 
Frederick D., 246 
George F., 246 
Hannah B., 246 
Harry, 269 
J. H., 498 
John, 250, 251, 436 
John Wesley, 272 
Justin, 269 
Mary. 134 



Mary E., 250 

Mary Elizabeth, 272 

Mercv-\Voodward, 251 
436 

Oliver, 269 

Rowena. 500 

Ruth M., 246 

Samuel, 272 

Sophia Ayer, 361 

Susan A., 436 
Nicholson, Emma Clare, 583 
Nickerson, Kan., 228 
Nightingale, Bessie Perley, 
393 

Charles Hazen, 393 

Edward Arthur, 393 

Frank Edward, 393 

Frederick Harold, 393 

Geneva Pauline, 393 

Georgianna, 39.3 

John, 393 

Rhoda-Jenkins, 393 
Nilan, Rev. J. J., 363 
Niles, Annie, 274 
Niles' Hist, of Old Wars, 204 
Niles, Mich., 375 
" Nimrod."xviii 
Noah bitilding an ark, 206 
Noble, Charles S., 527 

Columbia Perkins, 527 

Seth, 632 

William Henry Clifton, 
527 
Nonogenarian, 157 
Norfolk, Va.. 58, 203, 209,293, 

381 , 537 
Norman Con<|ucst, 190 
Norman I'rcnch, .xv, xix 
Normandy, xx 
Norridgewock, Me., 150 
Norris. .\lbert Lane, 330 

Albert Perley, 331 

Clara Maud, .331 

Grace Ma v. 331 

Greeuleaf Kufus, 330 

Homer. 653 

Marv Ann, 278 
North, Ella. 500 
North .-Ydams, Mass., 172,616 
North America, x, 395, 584 
North American Review, 323 
North l?J Andover 136 
North Andover. Mass.. 32, 
118, 255. 25(i, 295, 296, 
448, 505, 520, 591-593 
North Ans(m, Me., 150, 151 
North Bay, 403 
North Bridgton, Me., 82 
North Carolina, 299, 385, 576. 

596. 612 
North Country, xviii 
North Danville, Vt., 604 
North Dixmont, Me., 226, 227 
North Dorchester, Ont., 390 
Northesk. 427 
Northlield, Mass., 438 
Northfield, Me., 197 
Northtleld, Minn., 492 
Northtield, N. H., 281, 284 
Northfield, Vt., 554 
Northampton, logician, 243 
Northampton, Mass., 340, 

437, 492, 500 
Northampton N. B., 215, 404 
North Hampton, N. H., 26 
North Harrison, 364 
North Haven Island, Me., 226 
Northend, Ann Elizabeth, 310 
Charles, 310 

Edward Tenney, 310 

Enoch, 310 

George, 310 

Harriet Perley, 310, 339 

John, 310 

Margarett, 633 

Maria, 310 

Mary Ann, 44, 310 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



717 



Northend, Mary Ellen, 310 

Nancy-Titcomb, 310 

Samuel, 310 

Sarah, 23 

Sarah Adams, 310 

Susan Brown, 310 

Thomas Edward, 310 

William Dumnier, 310 

William Edmund, 310 
North Leeds, 369 
North Minneapolis, Minn., 492 
North Muskhani, lEng.], 17 
North Oxford, 391 
North Pownall, Vt., 567 
North Reading, Mass., 272, 

345, 448, 449 
Northrop, Horace Wilson, 387 

Linus Olmstead, 387 

Margaret Wallace- 
Holmes, 387 

Robert Wright, 387 
North Sea, 6 
North, the, 258 
North Wales, xv, 648 
North Weare, N. H., 625 
Northwestern Life Ins., 487 
North Whitcficld, Me., 82 
Northwood, N. H., 554 
North Yakima, Wash., 401 
North Yarmouth, Me.. 196, 
370, 371. 379, 380, 563, 
644 
Norton, Alfred Samuel, 526 

Allen I'erley, 476 

Augusta Lillian, 526 

Bonus, 26 

Dora A., 228 

George A., 476 

George Allen, 476 

Harrison Edson, 476 

Ichabod Allen, 476 

John, 4 

Luana- Reynolds, 476 

Mary-Stevens, 526 

Mvra Elysabeth, 476 

Nelson W., 228 
Norton-Cobbett House, 199 
Norton, Mass., 463 
Norton, N. B., 583 
Norton Reserve, 4 
Norton Reserves, 88 
Norway, 508, 593 
Norwell, Mass., 596 
Norwich, 135 

Norwood, Harriet Green, 194 
Notes, iv 
Notewarl, Alphia Aruba, 590 

Calvin Ward, 590 

Polly Maria-Dobson, 590 
Nottingham, Eng., 196, 201, 

202 
Nottingham, N. H., 190, 553 
Nottinghamshire, Eng., 387 
Nourse, Albert Brooks, 77 

Arthur Brooks, 77 

Barker Burnham, 77 

Betty, 75 

Caroline Elizabeth, 77 

Chester. 77 

Cora, 77 

Daniel, 55. 75 

Daniel Elliott, 77 

Daniel P., 77 

Daniel Perley, 75 

Elizabeth, 159 

Elliott Perley, 77 

Ethlyn, 77 

Eunice. 75 

Eva, 77 

Fannie. 75, 77 

Elossie Ray, 77 

Frances. 78 

Francis Perley, 77 

Frank, 77 

Fred Gardner, 77 

George Warren, 77 

Hannah, 75 



Harriet, 75 

Hervey. 75-77 

Huldah, 75 

John, 75 

John Elliott, 77 
■ John Hervey, 77 

John W., 76 

John Warren. 78 

Julia Ann, 75 

Lucy, 75 

Luther, 75, 77 

Luther Calvin. 77 

Mabelle, 77 

Mary Anu-Scott, 78 

Mary Appleton, 78 

Mary Foster-Wade, 78 

Perley, 77 

Sally, 75 

Sarah Sophia, 77 

Susan Ivlizabcth, 77 

Susan Sanger, 77 

Warren, 75, 78 
Nova Scotia, vii, viii, 107, 120, 

234. 411, 584, 
Nowell, Bartlett, 549 

Charles F., 643 

Foster, 549 

C^eorge F'oster. 549 

Hannah-Lambert, 643 

Helen, 549 
Noyce, Dr. Ward. 113 
Noyes Corner. 246 
Noyes. Daniel, 54 

Daniel J., 279 

Eliza-Craft. 650 

Florence Ethel, 373 

Frank Alton, 372 

Tane-Gowell, 373 

John O., 54 

Levi P.. 373 

Marv Jane, 464 

Mehitable. 381 

Perley Hayward, 378, 
650 

Prudence D.. 316 

Stilhnan. 650 

Wcller Hayward, 378, 
650 
Nudd, Clara F., 529 
Nugent, Mrs.. 214 

Thomas. 389 
Nunjeet. Sachem, 411 
Nursery. Somerville Day, 372 
Nutting, Charlotte, 232 

EUzabeth, 492 

Henry A., 492 

Mary Lucinda, 492 

Sally, 363 
Nye, Annette, 606 

Dea., 482 

Julia A., 639 

Oakland, Cal., 294, 358, 557 

613 
Oakland, Me., 455, 557 
Oakley. Mary Ann. 401 

Rachel Eunis-Harper.401 

Sarah E.. 333 

Solomon. 335 

Whitson. 335 

William Andrew. 401 
Oak Lodge. Paris. Ont., 390 
Oakman. Amos, 640 

EHza Jane. 132 

Ehzabcth. 640 

Svlvia-Thomas. 640 
Oak. old talking, 97 
Oak Park, 111., 449, 557, 558 
Oak Point, Ahiwic, 240 
Oaks. Clara. 499 

Frances Ann, 523 

Mary-Howard. 523 

Thomas. 523 
'Oaks. The." 388, 390 
Oath of Allegiance, viii 
Oberlin, O., 243 
Ober & Clark 536 



Observatory. U. S. Naval, 
418 

Oceansidc, N. Y.. 387 

Oceola Mills, Wis., 557 

O'Coiinell, Mary Jane, 554 
Mr.. 300 

Odd Fellow, an. 532. 540. 616 

Odd Fellow, Encampment, 

Odd Fellows. 361. 501. 650 

Odell. Ahce. 615 

Benjamin Greenleaf. 172 
Emily-Johnson. 615 
James. 172 
James A.. 615 
Sarah -Very, 172__ 
Thomas Frvc, 172 

Odlin. Harry Miles, 494 

Herbert Woodbridge,494 
John W., 494 
Marian Baker, 494 
Marianna-Southcr, 494 

Oflice, Augmentation, 2 

Officer, British. 104 

Ogden. N. Y., 560 

Ogdensburg, N. Y.. 597 

Ohio. 225. 243. 253. 262, 263 
452, 475, 629 

Ohio regiment, 661 

Ohio State Journal, 569, 653 

Ohio, The, 356 

Old Cellar, Rev. Samuel Per- 
ley' s, 48 

Old England, 532 

Old Hundred, x 

Old Oaken Bucket, 323 

"(ild Shipmasters of Salem ' 
642 

Oldtown, Me., viii, xi, 163. 
320. 321, 536. 537, 580, 
650. 653 

Olean. N. Y.. 569 

OUver. Peter. 112 

Olson. Anna Marie. 557 
W. H., 557 

Olympia, The. 486 

Omaha, Neb., 377, 608, 616, 
617 

Oneco, 111., 442 

Ontario, x, 400, 401, 632 

Orangeburg, S. C. 497 

Orange. Mass., 331. 332 

Orange. N. J.. 510 

Orchard. Agnes Mary, 636 
Damey Ann, 636 
Dora A.. 638 
Dora Amanda, 636 
Emma B.. 638 
Emma Briggs. 636 
Frederick Allen. 636 
George B., 638 
George Bennison, 636 
Harry E.. 638 
Harry Ernest, 636 
Hattie Pauline. 636 
Iva M.. 638 
Iva Myrtle, 636 
James A.. 637 
James Alfred, 636 
John. 636 
John Leslie, 636 
Lucretia, 636 
Lucretia-Briggs, 636 
Marvel Pearl, 638 
Mary E., 637 
Mary Ella. 636 
Olive Lawson, 636 
Orland Lawson, 638 
Oswald, 636 
Robert. 636 

Orchnrd Farm, the. 346 

Ordeal of Touch. 110 

Order. See also Society.) 
Eastern Star. 373 
of St. Joseph. 363 
of the Dragon. 565 
United Workmen. An- 
cient. 203. 607, 615 



718 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Order, Victorian, xviii 
Ordway, "Hannah, 39 

Otis, O., 337 
Oregon, 634 
Oregon, Mo., 442 
Organ, Benjamin Grafton, 
594 

Clara Marie- Card, 594 

Estclle Jane, 594 
Orient, the. 512 
Orkneys, xix 
Orleans, Mass., 331 
Ormond, Charlotte Ellen, 586 

I.t. Col. H. S., 586 
Orne, Benjamin Albert, 349 

Benjamin Crosby, 349 

Burleigh, 349 

Cecelia, 3 19, 648 

Eber, 272 

Hcrseliel Ahncron, 272 

Tonathan, I 12 

Lois Eli/a. 349 

Mary H., 156 

Mary Hazcn, 349 

William Ilenrv. 272 
Ornevillo, Me.. 302. 303 
Oromocto, Island, 633 
Oromocto, N. B., 237, 238, 

406 
Orono, Me., 308, 320, 452, 647 

653 
Orr, Annis Eove, 488 
Osakis, Minn., 631 
Osborn, Eliza Sutton-Cheev- 
er, 466 

Kendall, 465 

Louis, 466 

Lizzie Cheever, 466 

Lyman, 465 

Lyman P., 466 

Lyman Perlcy, 465 

Sally-Bushby, 465 
Osborne, Harriet, 232 
Osgood, Jane, 82 

Jeannctte, 462 

lohn, 30, 655, 656 

Joseph, 109, 110 

Mary. 33. 57 

Mary-Clement, 30 

Ora, 462 

Peter. 110 

Sarah, 30 

Sarah-Flint, 462 
Oshkosh, Wis., 366 
Ossipee, N. H., 332 
Oswego, N. Y , 485, 569, 604 
Oswestry, Eng., 316 
Otis, George H., 488 

Harriet Fay, 488 

Sarah Borland-Clark, 488 
Otisficld, Me., 98, 195, 364 
O 'Toole, Kathcrine, 573 
Ottawa, Can., ix, xi, 391, 472- 

474, 581, 585, 586 
Ottawa, 111., 356, 515 
Ottawa, the upper, 473 
Otty, George Otty Dixon, 

586 
Ovaitt, Lusena, 478 

Sarah-Munson, 478 

William, 478 
Oviatt, Mary Rosetta, 609 
Ovitt, Sophronia, 482 
Owasso, Mich., 287 
Oxford, Me., 194, 527 
Oxford, Neb., 442 

Pacific Coast, 406 
Packard, Diana C, 497 

Sarah, 418 
Paddock, Annie, 358 

Genevieve, 358 

Linus A., 358 

Thomas, 300 
Page, Alfred, 289 

Alfred Milton, 289 



Allen Perley, 538 

Alson Leon, 289 

Andrew Thomas, 538 

Anna Fessenden, 639 

Anne Louise, 538 

Ellen Louisa, 289 

Emma Savory, 289 

Etta Florence, 289 

Frederick North, 538 

Hermon Francis, 289 

Horatio M., 125 

Horatio Nelson, 638 

Lizzie A., 469 

Lucy, 368 

Maria, 479 

Maria-French, 538 

Marion Margaret, .538 

Mary EUzabeth, 428 

Rebecca P., 639 

Rebcccca Perley, 6.38 

Sarah Bradbury, 639 
Paicc. Albert S.. 200 

Carry W -Paige, 200 

Walter Warren, 200 
Pain*. Abby Dyer, 354 

Benjamin, 465 

Lizzie Ella, 465 

Mercy Winslow-Tillson , 
466 
Pairley, xiii 
Paisley, vScot, 479 
Palmer, viii. 214 

Abijah, 633 

Ann, 633 

Anna G., 225 

Anne R.-Folsom, 225 

Ashcr, 225 

Betsev Alida. 432 

Daniel. 633, 634 

D. W., 176 

I-'benczcr, 441 

Ivlizabeth, 633 

Frances, 633 

I'ranccs Crosier-Moss, 441 

Francis, 633 

Frank E., 507 

George H., 188 

Hannah, 633 

lane, 633 

John, 633 

Maggie, E., 213 

Margaret IC, 214 

Marietta, 441 

Martha, 35 

Mary. 633 

Mary- Pearson. 35 

Mehitable, 633 

Moses, 633 

Nancy Maria, 507 

Nancy M. -Jenkins, 507 

Nathan, 633 

Reuben, 625 

Ruth, 633 

Samuel, 35 
[Palmer] Sarah, 120, 633 

Thomas, 633 
Palmer, Mass.. 616 
Panama, 563 
Papineau, Mons., 300 
Pareley, Ann. xiv 

Elinor, xiv 

Thomas, xiv 
Parely, Nathan, 656 
Parfitt, Theresa Kate, 391 
Paris, France, 207, 375, 422 

564 
Parish, Byfield, 43, 151, 166, 
174. 308 

Byfield, Newbury, 279, 
306 

East, 106 

East Boxford, 129, 255 

East Bradford, 212 

Eastnor, xiv, xv 

First, Rowley, 101. 296 



Linebrook, vi, 4, 13, 16 
27, 47, 83-86, SS. <)0 92, 
94. 100, 106, 159, Uil, 
165, 167, 16<), 1S3. 185, 
186, 323, 327, .335, 336, 
339, 340, 364, 529. ,535. 
538. 540, 541, 016 618, 
627, 659 

Newbury Byfield, 310 

North Beverly, 291 

of Kings Clear, 409 

Purley, xv 

Second, Georgetown, 180 

Second. Rowley. 180 

South. 366 

Sulham. xv 

Topsfield. vi, 170 

L'niversalist. 495 

West. 657. 659, (See 
Linebrook) 

W'est Haverhill, 290, 457 

Woodstock, 215, 400 
Parish, Rev. Dr., 279 
Paris, Me., 418 
Paris, Ont., 390, 578 
Paris Plains, Ont., 577, 578 
Park, Beaumont, 63 

Crystal Lake, 250 
Park, John, 131 

Samuel Hunt, 389 
Parker, 286. 640 

Abraham G., 245 

Abraham S., 246 

Amos. 534 

Anne-Lapham, 524 

Benjamin, 524 

Betsey, 308 

Catherine B., 351 

Celia Bartlett, 649 

Charles Harold, 534 

Charles Shattuck, 534 

Clara, 631 

David. 250 

Dean R., 458 

lulinond, 351 

Ivli/abetli Waldo, 259 

I{nuna FVances, 272 

Hannah, 351, 557 

Harry John, 649 

Isabelle S., 458 

James Augustus, 272 

Jo.seph, 133, 223 

Lillian Ann, 649 

Lucy, 524 

Lydia, 245 

Maria, 502 

Mary Louise, 475 

Maud Isabelle, 534 

Melvina C, 502 

Phebe Perry, 524 

Rebecca K. -Foster, 458 

Samuel, 152 

Sarah, 152 

Sarah Maria-Wright, 272 
Parker House, 161 
Parker River village, 291 
Park Hill Stand. Bank, 588 
Parkhurst, Martha Lucinda, 

444 
Parkhurst, P. Q., 606 
Parks, Mary Dean, 360 
Parle, xvi 
Parle, John xiv 
Parleis Arms, xv 
Parley, xiii, xiv, xvi 
Parley, Abraham, 657 

Ann, xiv 

Daniel, xiv 

Dudley, 657 

Edward, xiv 

Joane, xiv 

Richard, xiv 

Stephen, 660 
Parley, xv 
Parley Meadow. 14 
Parley Pond. 14 
Parley Bridge, 620 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



719 



Parleys arms, xv 
Parleys, Agnes, xiv, xv 
Parly, xx 

Parly Brook, xiii, 1 
Parly Meaddowe, xiii, 1 
Parlvs, arms of, xv 
Parliament, British, 383 

Dominion, 218 

federal, 581 

Imperial, 300 
member of, 236, 472 

Provincial, 237, 397, 406 
Parmelee, Anna Mead, 604 

Hitty-Cliapin, 602 

Laura Ann, 602 

Moses, 602, 604 

Simeon, 604 
Parrott, Susan, 463 
Parsonage, 97 
Parsons, Chief Justice, 173 

Gorham, 224 

Mary Hale, 562 
Parsonsfield, 303 
Partridge, Adam, 245 

Colton, 360 

Emily, 358 

Mary Dean-Parks, 360 

Miriam, 246 

Mr., 56 
Pasadena, Cal., 227 
Paso Robles, Cal., 637 
Patch, Emcline, 365 
Patent, Peabody's, 119 
Patents, thirty-five, 384 
Paterson, Brig. -Gen., 659 
•Patrick, Mary J., 252 

Sally, 380 
Patrons of Husbandry, 235 

236 
Pattec, Alice Rena, 469 

Daniel, 597 

David, 469 [read Daniel] 

Elizabeth Dow, 597 

Fannie Louisa, 469 

Frederic L., 470 

Frederic Lewis, 469 

G. B., 472 

Judith-Burleigh, 469, 597 

Lewis Cass, 469 

Lillie Rebecca, 469 

Mary EHzabetli, 469 

Rose Belle, 470 
Pattee, Perlcy &, 473 
Patten, D. R. Van, 283 

Ernest, 227 
Patten, Me., 452 
Patterson, Atarah-Burn- 
ham, 280 

Jesse Clement, 280 

Mary Bartlett, 280 
Patterson, N. J., 653 
Paul, Charles Walter, 255 

Dolphus, 482 

Elizabeth Averill, 255 

Harriet Newell- Austin, 
482 

Henry, 255 

Rebecca-Counacher, 255 

Rocna, 593 

Susan, 482 
Paul Revere Encamp., 532 
Pawtucket, R. I., 251 
Pay, I. Hamilton, [John Ham- 
ilton Gray], 413 
Paybody, 64 
Payerley, xiii 
Payne, Carrie-Cornings, 500 

Ethel Maud, 500 

George, 500 
Payson, David, 75. 99 

Edward, 99 322 

Elizabeth, 99 

Hannah, 148 

Moses, 142, 296 

Thomas, 148 
Payton, Cornelia, 241 
Peabody, xii 



Aaron. 118, 119 
Abigail, 640 
Abigail-Perkins, 552 
Abigail-Towne, 20 
Ada Byron, 225 
Allen, 130, 640 
Almira-Kneeland, 325 
Amanda, 126 
Anna-Stickney, 136 
Artemas, 126, 130. 640 
Asa, 119, 126, 129, 130 

640 
Augustus, 118, 119 
Augustus Goddard, 119 
Beniamin, 225 
Bethiah-Bridges, 33 
Betsey, 118, 119 
Bracklev Rose, 640 
Caleb Strong, 119 
Caroline E,, 119 
Charles. 119 
Charles C. Pinkney, 119 
Charles W., 341 
Charlotte, 215 
Christiana, 640 
Cordelia, 119 
Daniel, 136 
Ebenezer, 122, 552 
Edna, 119 
Edward, 119 
Edward Thatcher, 120 
Elias Putnam, 552 
Elizabeth, 119 407 
Enoch, 118, 130, 640 
Eunice, 328 
Ezra, 130, 640 
Flora, 119 
Francis, vii, 13, 15, 20, 

120, 656 
Francis Dana, 325 
George, 119, 215, 507 
George Albert, 325 
George W., 640 
Hannah- Andrew, 33 
Hannah-Foster, 254 
Harriet A., 119 
Huldah, 118, 119, 134 
Huldah-Tapley, 215 
Israel Perlev, 119 
Jacob, 19, 20, 38 
Joel, 167 

John, 16, 31, .33, 118, 
119, 129, 167, 344, 407 
John Tarbell, 119 
Jonathan, 60 
Joseph, 33 
Julia Ann, 119 
Julia Augtista, 529 
Keziah, 20 
Lois, 130 

Lucien Maria, 120 
Lvdia, 15, 33 
Lydia-Guilford, 328 
Lvdia-Kneeland, 530 
Mary, 119 
Mary Amanda, 119 
Marv Ann, 640 
Mary Ann-Smith, 407 
Mary-Chadwick, 129 
Marv Edna, 119 
Mary- Foster, 15, 20 
Mary Perley, 126 
Mchitable, 136, 157 
Mercy. 20 
Molly-Hildrick, 214 
Morris, 271 
Moses, 254, 530 
Nancy, 119, 254 
Nathan, 31 
Oliver, 33, 110, 130, 215, 

640 
Owen Glendower, 119 
Pamelia, 640 
Parmenio, 119 
Polly, 118, 130, 640 
Priscilla, 18, 128 
Rachel-Hunting, 225 



Rebecca, 119 
Rhoda, 214 
Richard, 110 
Ruth, 445 
Sally, 82, 119 
Sally-Stevens, 82 
Samuel, 214 
Sarah, 13, 38, 118 
Stephen, 31, 118, 119 

133, 214, 627 
Stephen, W., 119 
Susannah, 130 
Susannah Perley, 126 
Tabitha, 119 
Thomas, 118, 119. 328 
Thomas Perlev, 215 
William, 15, 82, 118, 119 

640 
William S., 119 
Peabody Genealogy, 15 
Peabody, Mass., 41, 76, 77, 
201, 208, 280, 307, 310, 
324, 325, 346, 348, 460, 
465-468, 517, 549, 596 
Peabody Medal. 347 
Peabody Post, G. A. R., Ever- 
ett, 505 
Peabody side, the, 450 
Peace Jubilee, 450 
Peach, Gen. Benjamin F., 308 
Peach Orchard, 90 
Peacock, James, 382, ,566 
Pcarce, Perley, Hill ^•- 607 
Pearcetown, P. Q,. 471 
Pearl, xx 
Pearl arms, xvi 
Pearl, E., 667 
Pearlay, xiii 
Pearle, xiii, xvi 
Pearle, John, 12 
Martha, xvi 
Mary, xvi 
Thomas, xvi 
Pearlee, David, 658 
Pearley, xiii, xiv, xvi, xix, xx, 

xxii 
Pearley, Allen, 657 
Benjamin, 657 
Henry, 658 
James, 659 
John, 659 
John A., 661 
Martha, 113 
Nathaniel, 660 
Rev. Samuel, 112 
Sarah M., 489 
William, 660 
Pearly, Nathaniel, 110 

William, 660 
Pearson, xix 
Pearson, Alexander, 402 
Amasa, 75 
Benjamin, 295 - 
Betsey-Franklin, 402 
Betsey Little, 75 
David, 166 
Dorothy, 295 
Elcanor-Jenness, 538 
Elizabeth-Jackman, 295 
Hannah M., 324 
Isaac, 538 
John, 98, 538 
John Nourse, 75 
Jonathan, 75 
Laura E., 619 
Laura Elizabeth, 538 
Lydia Maria, 538 
Lydia -Welch, 166 
Mark, 75 
Mary, 35 
Mehitable, 79 
Moses, 166 

Perthena Cahster, 619 
Priscilla, 98 
Ruthy Jewett, 75 
Sally, 75 
Sally-Martin, 538 



720 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Pearson, Sarah M., 541 
Sophia, 75 
Stephen, 75 
Susannah, J6G 
WiUiani, 402 
Pearson's Mills, 43 
Pease, Augustus, 369 

Lydia F.-Blaisdell, 309 
Mae G., 369 
Pcaslee, David. 658 
Pecatoiiica, 358-360 
Pecatonica country, 356 
Pedot, Matilda, 637 

Michel, 637 
Pedrick. Clarissa Susan-Ober, 
93 
Richard Frederick, 93 
Stephen Augustus, 93 
Woodbury, 93 
Peel, Ont., 390 
Peirce, Joseph. 659 
Pelly, John, 659 
Peniberton, Taniison. 458 
Pemberton, The, 515 
Pembroke, N. II., 24, 275 

279 
Pembroke, Out., 474 
Pennacook, N. II., 21 
Penney, Amanda M., 647 
Charles, 647 
Mary Jane. 395 
Penniman, Catherine l.oker, 
612 
Rctsev Cray, 197 
lilihu, 612 
John, 197 

Joseph Adams, 612 
Sarah I.eavitl, 197 
Sarah Thayer, 612 
Pcnnock, Artcmus, 278 
Augusta Ooff, 278 
h-rederick Gofl, 278 
Marion Ilobart, 278 
Ralph Haxter, 278 
Pennsylvania, 184, .383, 380, 

416, 538 
Pennsylvania regiment. 061 
I'ennv, Hugh Howard, 386 

Mary L., 287 
Pensioners, 44 
Pension list, 286 
Pensions, Commissioner of 

U. S., 572 
Pen Van, N. Y.,_^613 
Peoples, Annie, 77 
Peoria, 111., 489, 597 
Pepperell, Mass., 189 
Pepperrell, Sir \Vm., xvii 
Pepperrill, xxii 
Percy, xix 
Percy lions, xx 
Percy. Manifred de, xx 

William de, xx 
Perczely, Gen. M., 668 
Perelv, xix, xx 

Perham, Ksther Frances, 591 
Esther-Sewell, 591 
Josiah, 591 
Perill, John, xvi 
Trustin, xvi 
Perkins, xix 

Perkins, Aaron Cogswell, 200 
Aaron Francis. 200 
Abigail, 61, 479, 552 
Abigail Balch, 315 
Abraham, 465 
Agnes, Susannah. 227 
Almenia Sybell, 200 
Amos, 155 

Angie Susannah, 227 
Asa, 154 
Augusta W., 315 
Bertha Ellen, 200 
Betsey-Brown, 155 
Carrie Augusta, 316 
Catherine Elizabeth, 315 



Charles H. Lyon, 404 

Charles T., 404 

Columbia, 527 

Daniel, 315 

Daniel Washington, 315 

David Story, 275 

Drusilla Atkins-Smith, 

623 
Edwin P., 316 
Edwin Perley, 315 
Elbridge, 153, 156 
Elder, 195 
Ehzabeth. 27, 170 
Eunice, 87 
Hannah Day-Cogswell, 

200 
Hannah Mabel, 200 
Hannah Potter, 178 
Harriet Deborah-Lyon, 

404 
Harry Edwin, 316 
Hepzibah, 38 
Isaac Edward Burnham 

623 
Jacob. 224 
lohn. 227 
John Atkins, 623 
John Perley, 624 
Israel, 275 

Kalherinc I'erley, 200 
Llewellyn Hull, 200 
Lucv Tarbox, 627 
Lydia, 178, 486 
I.vilia Herrick. 465 
Margaret. 120, 120 
Marv. 81. 87, 155, 279 

481. 648 
Marv Burnham. 275, 465 
Mary Clarke. 227 
Mary E.. 276 
Marv Ehza, 315 
Marv Ehzabeth, 275 
Molly Winfield, 150 
Nabbv, 178 
Xalhaniel, 112 
Pluebc Ann. 051 
Sallie Mabel. 156 
Sarah, 154, 162, 172, 242 

481 
Sarah A., 276 
Sarah Augusta, 275 
Sarah Lizzie, 156 
Stephen, 178 
Susie-Adams, 156 
Sylvester Story, 275 
Sylvia J., 270 
.Svlvia Jane, 275 
Thcnm D., 150 
Thomas, 175, 315 
Timothy, 51 
William. 200 
William Alfred. 200 
I'erla, I'lmanuel, 067 
Perle, Agnes, xiv 
Avyse, xiv 
I-'inanuel, 068 
Henry, 668 
Thomas, xiv 
Victor, 668 
I'er Leo. Abraham. 609 
Edmund, 069 
Edmund Gilbert, 669 
Ehza, 669 
Henry, 669 
John, 669 
John S., 669 
Mary, 669 
Samantha, 669 
Walter. 669 
Zayde, 069 
Perlee. Edmund. 669 

Ralph N., 669 
Perles, Egedius, xvi 

Richard, xvi 
Perlet Herman. 568 
Perlethrope, xiv 



Perley, iii, iv, viii, xii, xiii,xv 
xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, xx, 
xxii 

Perlev, , 205, 657 

Aaron, v, 53, 54, 57, 120, 
122, 125, (126), 139. 
140,(267), 268, 640,657 
Aaron Donnoll, 207 
Abbie Ehza, 463 
Abbie Frothingham, 467 
Abbie Raymond, 418 
Abigail, 22-24, 27,(39), 45, 
■79 15'-, 157, 169, 189, 
286, 288, (363), (490). 
641, 647 
Abigail Goodhue, 282, 

(468) 
Abigail W., iii, 238 
Abigail Williston, 428,588 
Abbie Johnson. 471 
Abraham, v. 48. 97, 9S. 
145.146, 164,(193,) 195. 
(295), (318) 
Abraham Adams, 294, 

(518) 
Abraham Williams, 295 
Ada. 24t) 
Ada C. 414 
Ada Curtis, 431 
Ada I.. 621 
Ada Isabel, 620 
Ada Louise, 585 
Adam, 246 
Addie, 452 
Adelaide, 223 
Adelia, 308 
Adelia Florilla, 557 
Adeline, 217, 415 
Adeline D., 380 
Adeline Deamond. 385 
Adonirani. 480, 481 
Agnes Eunice, 543 
Agnes Evelvn, 595 
Agnes Helen, 390 
Agnes Louise, 394 
Alan Bigelow, 451 
Alan (^.ordon. 474 
Albert, 157,254,409,(443), 
481, 589, 004,(.004).652, 
()67 
Alberta, 580 
Albert E., 443. 444, 621, 

602 
Albert Edward, 620 
Albert H., 667 
Albert Harmon, 606 
Albert Henry Grecnleaf, 

607 
Albert O., 524, 525 
Albert Ranslow, 484 
Albert Sawyer, 525 
Albion Edward, 563, 564 
Albion Starbird, 371,(563) 
Alcinia Virginia, 382 
Alden Dun, 049 
Alexander, 239, 392, 427. 

428 
Alexander Augustus, 513 
.Vlexandcr Fenton, 427 
Alexander Hamilton, 295 
Alfred Daniel, 578 
Alfred Lambert, 515 
Alfred Putnam, 575 
Alfred Ray, 024 
Alfreeda Hannah, 557 
Alice, 389, 390, 416, 644 
Alice A., 433 
Alice Abbie, 471 
Ahce (Alhs), 13, 22, 24, 

(43) 
Ahce Annette, 432 
Alice Carrie, 553 
Alice Cressey, 559 
Alice E., 651 
Ahce Ehzabeth, 399, 615 
Alice Frances, 691 
Alice Gage, 516 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



721 



Perley, Alice Greenwood, 593 
Alice H., 451 
Alice Howard, 450 
Alice Latham, 371 
Alice M., 595 
Alice Maria, 520, 521 
Alice Mary, 578 
Alice May, 631 
Allan, iv, vi, x, xii, xiii, 
xiv, XV, xviii, xix, xx, 
(1), 15,65, 188,258,318, 
397, 414, 532, 618 
Allan Hall, 668 
Allan Haskell, 607 
Allan Napier McNab. 389 
Allan N. McN., 390 
Allan Thomas, 578 
Allan W., 395, 650 
Allan Wilmot, 394 
Allen, V, XX, 20, 31, 32, 
38, 54, 57, 63, 65, 97. 
120, 131-(133), (163), 
164, (244), (316), 396, 
(529), 633, 634, 657 
Allen Brewer, 484 
Allen Hugh, 578 
Allen P., 538 
Allen Putnam, 321, (537) 
Allie May, 553 
Alma, 489 
Alma Annette, 525 
Almira, Putnam, 347, 

(548) 
Alonzo A., 437 
Alonzo Allen, 436 
Alsina Abbott, 459 
Alvah Sweetser, 375 
Alvah Wolcott, 554 
Alvin, 133 
Alvin H., 380 
Alvin Higgins, 371, 379 
Alvin L., 654 
Amos, v, 21, 22, (38), 39, 
60, 67, 73, 125, 129 
144, (149), (171,) 177. 
(236), 239, (298), 299, 
(427), 428, 633, 634, 
645, 647, 657, 666 
Amos Pettingill, 208 
Amos Proctor, 15, 65. 172 

(348) 
Amos Spofford. 292, 506 
Ancil, 172 
Andrew. 131. 132 
Andrew Jackson, 326,327 
Angella C., 589 
Angelina Amelia, 219 
Anita Bernice, 557 
Ann Elizabeth-Morrill, 

649 
Ann Maria, 241, 297. 391 

506 
Anna, 131-133, 141, 242, 
246, (247), 274, 275, 
279, 638 
Anna A., 395 
Anna Augusta, 394 
Anna E., 484 
Anna Elizabeth, 381 
Anna Emerson, 483 
Anna Higgins, 379 
Anna I-ouise, 563 
Anna Meigs, 520, 521 
Anna Porter, 305 
Anne, 13, 239, 244 
Anne Flint, 219 
Anne M., 561 
Anne Macgregor, 608 
Anne Morrison, 560 
Annette, 489 
Annette Elizabeth, 415 
Annie, 89, 427, 428 
Annie Bertha, 557 
Annie Celinda, 449 
Annie Elizabeth, 382, 566 
Annie Emma, 297 
Annie F., 393 



Annie Florence, 392 
Annie O., 426 
Annie Gertrude, 556 
Annie Gillis, 424 
Annie Mary, 355, 409,410 
Annie Osborne, 614 
Annie Sarah Lovatt, 406 
Annie Wilhelmina, 429 
Anson, 284, 285, 482, 

(.483), 602 
Anson Meigs, 521 
Anson W., 484 
Anson Wilbcrforce, 483, 

604 
Anstes, 102 
Anstess, 104, 105 
Anstice, 205 
Anstis, 103, 104 
Antoinette, 668 
Apphia, 131, 132, 139, 
140, 141 262, (263), 
(278) 
Apphia Ann, (468) 
Apphia Ann, [not Sophia 

Ann], 282 
Aroline, 463 
Aroline Amelia, 462 
Artemas W., 125 
Artemas Ward, 73, (177) 

178, 353, (354) 
Arthur A., 582, "Mr." 

654 
Arthur Albert, 553 
Arthur Alexander, 427 
Arthur Allen, 581 
Arthur Blackwood, 414 
Arthur Carman, 654 
Arthur Clayton, 374 
Arthur Dibblee, 430 
Arthur Eugene, 484, 669 
Arthur Lee, 590 
Arthur Merrill, 605 
Arthur Park, 373. 374 
Arthur W., 621 
Arthur Wallace, 394 
Arthur Warren, 620 
Asa, V, 22, 32, (55), 56, 
57, 73, 110, 117, 121, 
125, 126, 128, (129), 
130-133. 137, 138, 144, 
(228), 229, 230, 239. 
(241), 246, (250), 251, 
(289), (424), 425, 627, 
633, 640, 655, 6.56,657, 
Asa Alexander, 424, 588 
Asa Charles, 253, (441) 
Asa K., 662 
Asa Kimball, 462 
Asa Melvin, 426 
Asa Proctor, 251, (432) 
Asbury Fisk, 288, (497) 
Asenath Gile, 465 
Asenath-Gould, 222 
Augusta, 368 
Augusta Anne, 416 
Augusta Sophia, 216, 392 

650 
Augustus, 123, 170, 219 

221, 223, (414), 417 
Augustus Monroe, 34, 72, 

(340) 
Augustus W., 554 
Augustus Woodward, 5o3 
Aura Martha, 321 
A. W., 651 

Barbara Carolyn, 444 
Belle Katherine, 626 
Belle Wright, 438 
Ben Frank, 499 
Ben Franklin, 498 
Benjamin, v, 59. (140) 
141, 142, (274), 275, 
282, 452, (459). (463). 
656, 657 
Benjamin Dow, 358 
Benjamin Dudley, 421 



Benjamin Dutch, 209", 

212 
Benjamin Spaulding, 225 

(417) 
Bernard, 451 
Bertha, 444 
Bertha Blanche, 581 
Bertha C, .536 
Bertha Cheever, 535 
Bertha Ida Maria, 423 
Bertha I. M., 424 
Bertha M., 580 
Bertha Mildred, 579 
Bertram Proctor, 550 
Bessey, 668 
Bessie, 409, 410 
Bessie Almena, 475 
Bessie Cressey, 530 
Bessie H., 586 
Bessie Herbert, 585 
Bessie May, 553 
Bessie Upton, 553 
Betsey, 61, 62, 128, 131, 
132, 153, 157. (231), 
242, 275, 286 
Betsey A., 486 
Betsey Anderson, 485 
Betsey Gould, 156, (315) 
Betsey W., 311 
Betsey Wood, 310 
Betty, 141 
B. Franklin, 382 
Blanche Bonesteel, 654 
Brig.-Gen.. 219 
Bruce, 560, 561 
Budd Roy, 409 
Campbell Thomas Mar- 
quis, 588 
Candace A., 479 
Candace Amira, 478. 602 
Capt., 205 

Carlisle Norwood. 577 
Carl vSquire. 525 
Caroline. 218, 247. 306 

307 
Caroline A., 348 
Caroline Ann, 593 
Caroline Augusta, 174, 

347, 349 
Caroline E., 215 
Caroline Ehzabcth, 214 
Caroline Jane, 595 
Caroline Maria, 431, 557 
Caroline Nelson, 516 
Carrie, 351, 520, 573 
Carrie Abbie. 617 
Carrie Cole, 597 
Carrie Elizabeth, 541 
Carrie Frances, 438 
Carrie Jane, 669 
Carrie Lqrinda, 441 
Carrie May, 533 . 

Carrie Sophroma, 535 
Catherine, 254, 443, (448) 
Catherine Ann, 383 
Catherine Augusta, 255 
Catherine Fowler, 364 
Catherine L., 514, 613 
Catherine Louisa, 513, 

612, 
Catherine M., 426 
Catherine Murdock, 424 
Cephas, W„ 97, 98, 195 
Cephas Whitney, (380) 
Charity, 633, 634 
Charity EUza, 218 
Charles, iii, viu, ix, xi, xx, 
xxii, 118,125, 172,213, 
214 254. 268, 274, 275, 
299, (344), (384,) 389, 
(391,) 395, 397, 410, 
443, (444), 459, 488, 
(578), (592), 593, 629, 
631, 645 
Charles A., 569 
Charles Addison, 251, 
(434), 436 



722 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Perley, Charles Alfred 578 

Charles Allen, 217, 391, 

597 
Charles Amos, 423 
Charles Augustus, 392 

(579) 
Charles Bartlett, 283, 

(477) 
Charles Bishop, 630 
Chas.Cotesworth Pinck- 

ney, 291 
Charles E., 661 
Charles Earl, 423 
Charles Edward, 486 
Charles Edmn, 267, 358, 

414 
Charles Estes, 591 
Charles P., 580 
Chas. Frederic, 443, 579 
Chas. Frederick. 441 
Chas. Gilbert, 590 
Chas. Greenleaf. 178 
Chas. H., viii, 317, 515. 

648 
Chas. Hamilton, 575 
Chas. Henry, 316, 524, 

530, (616J 
Charles Israel, 520 
Chas. Larrimore, 567 
Chas. Lemuel, 553 
Chas. M., 333, 630 
Chas. Meh-ille, vi, 6, 20, 

318, (532) 
Charles Morris, 629 
Charles Moses, 566 
Charles N., 184, 348 
Chas. Nathaniel, 349, 476 

(550) 
Charles O., 367 
Charles Osbom, 366 
Charles Proctor, 548 
Charles Raymond, 597 
Charles S., 260 
Charles Sabatton, 385, 

(573) 

Charles Stearns. 260, 

(451) 
Charles Strange, (387), 

579 
Charles W., 395, 486, 661 
Charles Warner, 450 
Charles Warren, 592, 

(624) 
Charles Wilbert, 485 
Charles William, 394 
Chas. Wm. Giddings, 549 
Charlotte, 118, 214. 215, 

349, 444, (552). 631, 666 
Charlotte Augusta, 408, 

409, 580 
Charlotte Catherine, 618 
Charlotte, E., 390 
Charlotte Eliza, 385, 386 
Charlotte Hay ward, 218, 

399, (583) 
Charlotte K., 629 
Charlotte Louella, 592 
Charlotte Lovitt, 392 
Chauncy B., 613 
Chauncv Burton, 612 
Chauncy Child, 488, (612) 
Chester Garfield, 535 
Clara, 604 
Clara Augusta, 298 
Clara Chaplin, 587 
Clara E.. 330, 606 
Clara Eliza, 605 
Clara EUzabeth, 329 
Clara Gertrude, 590 
Clara Helen, 588 
Clara Maud, 578 
Clarence, 334, 595 
Clarence Alden, 526 
Clarinda Gould, 462 
Clarissa, 131, 132, 134 

242 
Constance, 608 



Corliss, 286, 647 
CorHss Stone, 485, (610) 
Cornelia 1., 605 
Cornelia Isabella, 604 
Cornelia Terrv, 407, 651 
C>Tithia, 285 
Cvrus A., 463 
Cyrus Jordan, 370 
Daisy Emma Lizzie, 583 
Daniel, v, ix, x, 56, 57, 
120, 121, 131, (134), 
137, 144, (217), (252), 
256. (259). 389, (577), 
631, 645, 657 
Daniel Albertus, 443 
Daniel Bulman, 428,(588) 
Daniel Edward, 406 
Daniel J., \'iii, xi 
Daniel Jewett, 164, (319) 
Daniel Milton, 624 
Daniel Spofford, 292,(505) 
Daniel Storv, 275, (464) 
Daniel W., 294 
Daniel Webster, 321 
David, V, 27, 39, 44. 79, 
133, (180), 181, 188, 
(245), 246, 247, 284, 
318, 365, (430), (478), 
627, 656, 657 
Davida Virginia, 617 
Da\'id E., xi, 246, 649 

652 
Da\'id Earle, 443 
Da\'id Edward, 431 
David Eri, 26, 45, 180, 

182, 188, 189, (361) 
Da\-id Ernest, 361 
David Fay, 480 
David Fowler, 365 
David Goodhue, 282, 

(471) 
David L., 559 
DaNid Lewis, 189, (364) 
David M., 292 
David Mighill, 291 
David Munson, 478, (602) 
David Poor, 253, (442) 
Da%-id Sidney, 535. (617) 
David T., 82 
David Tnllar, 319, (534) 
Dean Andrews, 349, 

(556) 
Deborah, xiii 38. (62). 
65. 146. 148, 149, 151, 
(161), 296, 297, (307). 
641 
Delbert, 489 
Delia Ann. 309 
Delia May, 563 
Disperse, 128 
Dolly, 181, 281 
Dolly Ann. 275 
Donald, 415 
Dora, A., 330 
Dora Agnes. 431 
Dora Augusta, 329 
Dorcas Knowles, 418 
Dorothy, 141 
Dorothv D., 621 
Dorothy Dudley, 620 
Dorothy Fidelia, 476 
Dorothy G., 666 
Dr. IDaniel]. 396 
Dudley. v,57, 127-129. 133. 
225, 229, 230, 233,(238) 
239. 424, (426), 427, 
656. (See Parlev) 
Dudley Edward, 430 
Dudlev Putnam, 241. 

(429) 
Duncan W., 651 
Duncan Wellington, 217, 

406, (407) 
Earl Moren, 451 
Ebenezer, 102, 107, 205. 
(209) 



Ebenezer George, 209, 

212 
Ebenezer Putnam, 148, 

204, (296) 
Edith. 258. 259 
Edith Carrie, 521 
Edith Ehzabeth, 581 
Edith F., 542 
Edith Florence, 541 
Edith G.. 596 
Edith Gertrude. 426 
Edith Grace, 595 
Edmond Savles. 483 
Edmund, 143, 144, 288. 

289 
Edmund Franklin, 288, 

(502) 
Edna Frances, 554 
Edna Jewett, 316 
Edna Lousia, 654 
Edward, 297. (484) 
Edward B , 486 
Edward Barker, 556 
Edward Benjamin. 485 
Edward Gibson, 608 
Edward Harvey. 606 
Edward Howard. 615 
Edward Kirk, 525 
Edward Lee. 523, (615) 
Edward M.. viii 
Edward Matthews, 385, 

(572\ 573 
Edward O., 430 
Edward Oric, 429 
Edward P., 149 
Edward Payson. 148. 296 

350, (556) 
Edward Williston, 588 
Edwin Allen, 282, (474) 
Edwin Augustus, 554 
Edwin Day, 359 
Edwin Forrest, (360) 
Edwin Goethe, 541 
Edwin La Forest, 520 
Edwin Lane, 529 
Edwin Sanborn, 347 
Edyth Almeda, 443 
Effie Maria, 481 
Elbridge. 274, 329, 461. 

(462), (543), 544 
Elbridge G., 661 
Elbridge Gerry 280. 465. 

(596) 
Elcy 213 . 644 
Elden Hayward, 451 
Eleanor P., 354 
Eleanor Putnam, 353 
Eleanor Spofford, 547 
Elinor, Inez, 649 
Eliphalet, v, 57. 61. 62. 

(130), 131, 132. 136, 

149, 242. 658 
EHza. 38, 132. 164, 216, 

274, 275, 306, 307, 322. 

461 
Eliza A.. 424 
Eliza Anna, 280 
Ehza Ann, 333. 368 
Eliza Annette, 423 
Ehza Augusta. 89 
Eliza G, 611 
Eliza Gertrude, 610 
Ehza H, 322 
Eliza Howe, 321, (537), 

653 
EHza J., 422 

Eliza Jane, 133, 375, 421 
EHza M., 317 
Eliza Mary, 316 
Eliza Sophia, 48.3 
Elizabeth. 22, 23, 30, (40) 

45, 47, 104, 118, 170 

214, 217, 261, 325 442, 

631, 634, 640 
EUzabeth Brettun, 562 
Ehzabeth F., 221 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



723 



rerley, Elizabeth Green, 318, 
(530) 
Elizabeth Helen, 579 
Elizabeth Isabelle, 652 
EHzabeth Kimball, 222 
EUzabcth M., 213, 317 
Elizabeth Mary, 316 
Elizabeth Mighill, 291 
Elizabeth Mooers, 214, 

389 
Elizabeth Robinson, 295 
Ehzabeth Rust. 530 
Elizabeth Story, 275 
Elizabeth White. 350 
Elmina, 246 
Elsie McCall, 579 
Elvina. 485, (608) . 
Elvira, 292, 293 
Elvira Maria, 286 
Ella Annette, 415 
Ella Augusta, 530 
Ella Eliza, 432 
Ella Emily, 358 
Ella L.. 406 
Ella Louise, 334 
Ella Lucina. 605 
Ella Marena, 547 
Ella Maria, 556 
Ella May, 604 
EUeda Mary. 624 
Ellen, 481, 482 
Ellen Augusta, 222, 364 
Ellen Bartlett. 426 
Ellen Fessenden, 416 
Ellen Maria, 250, 251 , 345 
Ellen Rebecca, 371 
Ellwood Norton, 569 
Emanuel, 667 
Emeline, 178, 316, (360) 
Enieline A.. 514 
Emeline Augusta, 513 
Emeline Hale, 305 
Emily, 288 
Emily Adelaide, 487 
Emily Jane, 329 
Emma, 349, 483 
Emma Bartlett, 478 
Emma Fidelia. 477 
Emma Gould. 614 
Enima Hannah. 381 
Emma J., 433. 611 
Emma Jane, 432 
Emma Jane Gardner, 321 

(536) 
Emma Josephine, 610 
Emma L., 379 
Emma Louise. 526 
Emma Mahala. 365 
Enoch. V. vi, 39, 54. ( 1 23) , 

126, 129. 133. 134. 221. 

310. 416. 638. 658 
Enoch Allen. 216 
Enoch Titcomb, 525 
Ephraim. 128 
Ephraim A.. 482 
Ephraim Adams, 481 
Ephraim T.. 213 
Ephraim Tisdale. 214 
Ernest Clint. 582 
Ernest E.. 582 
Ernest Edward. 477. 581 
Ernest Eugene, 487 
Ernest Winfield, 361 
Erwin WilUam. 630 
Estella Mary, 481 
Esther, 164 
Esther Doric. 606 
Esther Elizabeth. 430 
Esther Catherine, 444 
Esther Lucilla. 591 
Esther M., 422 
Esther Maria. 421 
Ethel Henrietta. 443 
Ethel Howe, 559 
Ethel Leone, 591 
Ethel Lesa, 474 
Ethel Maud 426 



Etta. 442 
Etta Holt, 517 
Etta Virginia. 502 
Eugene. 486. 487 
Eugene Horace, 3, 541 

(618) 
Eunice, 39, 56, 75, 137. 

195, 633, 640 
Eunice B., 255 
Eunice Putnam, 120. 216 

633 
Eustace Balch. 213 
Eva, 181 
Eva B., 666 
Eva Augusta, 361 
Eva Dell. 630 
Eva Eliza. 522 
Eva Gray. 372 
Eva Lincoln. 629 
Eva Mary, 578 
Evelyn Florence Frazier 

489 
Evelyn Kimball. 587 
Evelyn Louise, 617 
Everett Alger, 554 
Experience, 629 
F. A., xiii 
Fannie, 214, 488. 593, 

641 
Fannie A., 384 
Fannie Amanda. 383 
Fannie Eliza. 436 
F'annie Ella. 373 
Fannie Miles. 409 
F'annie Smith, 371 
Fanny, 146. 148 150, 

153. 156, 157 
I'anny I., 246 
Fay Fern, 409 
Fern Smith, 423 
FideUa. 481, 482 
Flora E.. 358 
I'lora Leona. 439 
I'lorence, 573 
Florence Ariel. 606 
Florence E.. 378 
Florence FMna. 631 
Florence Elizabeth, 487 
Florence Elmyr. 375 
Florence Madelene. 591 
Florence Marion. 585 
Florence May, 371 
Florence Stevens, 473 
Forrest Leverett, 520 
Foster. 518 
Frances, 22, 118, 305, 

311, 352 
Frances A.. 395 
Frances Adeliza, 487 
Frances Amanda. .394 
Frances Amelia. 221 
Frances Ann. 615 
Frances B.. 430 
FVances Blanch. 429 
Frances Elizabeth, 216, 

(403). 441. 569 
Frances Ellen. 379 
Frances Emoroy. 432 
Frances I.. 247 
Frances Isabell. 431 
Frances Louisa. 241 
Frances Mahala. 252 
Frances Mary Bostock 

Halstead. 504 
Frances M. B. H.. 505 
Francis, v, 35. 52. (59), 

60. 73, 103. (148). 149. 

151. 171, 172, 178, 214, 

296. (309). 310. (349), 

(526) 627. 628, 641, 

655. 656, 658 
Francis A., 292. 333, 335 
Francis E.. 414 
Francis Eugene. 550 
Francis M., viii 
Francis Macartney, 383, 

(568) 



Francis Pcabody, 214, 

645 
Francis Walter, 251, 437 
Frank, 351 
Frank Alvali, 520 
Frank Clayton, 604 
Frank Clifton, 5(J2 
Frank Dow. 579 
Frank E.. 472, ().53 
Frank Elliott, 5f)9 
F'rank Emery. 409 
Frank lUhan Allen. 489 
Frank Glen, .568 
Frank Holbrook, 557 
Frankie Larabcc, 563 
Frank L., viii 
Frank Lee. 567 
Franklin, 288. 289 
Franklin M., 372 
Frank Monroe, 437 
Frank I'.. 592 
Frank Strange, 430 
Frank Simonds. 614 
Frank Morrison. 568 
Frank Nathaniel, 557 
Frank Varnum, 489 
Frank Wyman. 553 
Fred Bicknell, .521 
Frederic, 149, 172, 219, 

(304). 580 
Frederic Allen, 216 
Frederic Adolphus, 217, 

(409). 652 
Frederic Peaslee, 669 
[Frederic] Porter. 134 
Frederic Porter. (253) 
Frederic Putnam. 358 
Fredeiic Thomas, 579 
Frederic Wallace 347 
Frederic Willis, 442 
Frederick, ix, 134, 217, 

345. (346) 
Frederick A.. 538 
Frederick Allen. 537 
Frederick Augustus, 372, 

415 
Frederick Henry. 604 
F'rcdcrick Nellis, 624 
Gale Washington. 567 
Gen.. 124 
Genevieve. 606 
George, ix. 108. 194. 217, 
251, 254. 283. 305. 
(370), 394. (449). 460, 
(478;, 562. 580, 652 
George A., viii. ix. x, xi, 
108. 217, 652, 661. 664 
George Albert. 406, 409. 

(582), 669 
George Allen. 251, 417, 

(436). 573 
George Amasa. 476,(598) 
George Arthur. 593 
George Asa. 216 
George Augustus, viii, 
216. 253, (395), 399, 
(442). 521 
George Dummer, 174 
George E., 497 
George Edmond, 498 
George Edward. 573 
George Edwin, 580. 585 
George Ellwood. 588 
George Ernest. 442 
George Everett. 525 
George F., 442 
George Francis. 437. 450 
George Frederick, 441 
George Fullerton. 585 
George H.. 311 
George Hall. 439 
George Halsey, 473 
George Hayward, 406, 

407. 414. (586) 
George Henry, 303, 310, 

488, 593. 611 
George Kimball, 587 



724 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Perley George Leverett, 513 
George Low, 370 
George Martin, 563 
George Montgomery, 221 
George P., iii 
George Parsons, 366 
George Putnam, 415 
George R., 630, 661 
George Ray, 624 
George Reynolds, 629 
George Roscoe, 437 
George Simeon, [read 

Geo. Simons], 214 
George Simons, f392) 
George Smith, 304 
George Thomas, 587 
George W., 394, 666 
George Washington, 195 
Georgia, 579 

Georgianna Bartlett, 477 
Georgia, 358 
Gertrude Flotilla, 557, 

558 
Gertrude May, 373 
G. H., 472 
Gilman, (460), 641 
Ginevra A., 488 
Ginevra Adelaide, 487 
Gladys Hazel, 371 
Glennie Howard, 567 
Gorden Allen. 409 
Grace, 499, 543, 560, 561 
Grace Adella, 669 
Grace Allston, 529 
Grace E., 424 
Grace Edna, 423 
Grace I. C, xi. 379 
Grace Isadorc Charlton, 

375 
Grace Mary, 610 
Grace Rena, 596 
Graham, 649 
Greenleaf, 172, 042 
Grcenlcaf I'roctor, 347, 

(549) 
Hamilton F., viii, 386 
Hamilton Fish, 385, 
Hannah, 15, 24, 27, 28, 
35, 36, 39, 61, 65, 66, 
78 98, 100-104, 127, 
128, 141, 142, 148,(152) 
153, 154, (164), 172, 
209, 229, (231), 239, 
241, 261, 263, 274, 283 
(297). (343), 628, 641, 
646, 666 
Hannah, Adelphia, 463 
Hannah Bigelow, 246 
Hannah C, 145 
Hannah Corliss, 485, 

(609) 
Hannah P., 207 
Hannah Elizabeth, 254 
Hannah-Green, 142, 641 
Hannah Hutchins, 282 
Hannah Isabella, 237 
Hannah Louisa Isabel, 

423 
Hannah M., 592 
Hannah Mabel, 593 
Hannah Maria, 303 
Hannah Morrison, 459 
Hannah P., iii 
Hannah-Parker, 557 
Hannah Pickard, 427 
Hannah S., 454 
Hannah Selina, 453 
Hannah Sewell, 318, 
(531) 

Hannah-Tisdale, 213 
Harlan Emerson, 484 
Harold, 394 
Harold Everett, 525 
Harold Gilbert, 606 
Harold Malcolm, 361 
Harold Ormand, 586 



Harriet, 126, (223), 310, 

481, 561, (603) 
Harriet Atwood, 218 
Harriet Augusta, 178,254, 

(359). (445), 569 
Harriet Church, 219 
Harriet E.. 247 
Harriet Elizabeth, 444, 

516 
Harriet Elmira, 487 
Harriet Elsie, 573 
Harriet F., 334 
Harriet Freeman, 333 
Harriet L., 613 
Harriet Madge, 488 
Harriet Melcher, 451 
Harriet Newell, 282, 515 
Harriet S., 538 
Harriet Shaw, 537 
Harrison Otis, 535 
Harry, 258, 259 
Harry Edgar, 395 
Harry Hilton, 366 
Harry Otis, 373, 374, 

(564) 
Harry Robeson, 570 
Harry Sturtevant, 597 
Harrv Varnum, 489 
Harvey A., 430 
Harvey Asa, 429 
Harvey Metcalf, 289 
Harvey Reese, 430 
Haskell, ix, xi, xx, xxi, 

172, 177, 178, (352) 
Hattie L., 371, 430 
Hattie LaNdnia, 429 
Hattie Ora Etta, 669 
Hattie Proctor, 549 
Havelock, 451 
Hazel, 442 
Hcbcr S., 484 
Hebcr Samuel, 483 
Helen, 239, 389, 415, 
427, 428, 519, 649 
Helen Amelia, 399 
Helena Thompson, 252 
Helen Eliza, 467 
Helen PA'angeline, 533 
Helen Gertrude, 525 
Helen H., 621 
Helen Hood, 620 
Helen Jane, 423 
Helen Josephine. 543 
Helen Louise. 563 
Helen M., 422, 614, 647 
Helen Margelia, 421 
Helen Maria, 309 
Helen Mildred, 436 
Helen Rebecca Dickin- 
son, 616 
Helen Verra, 654 
Helen Winnefred, 604 
Helenor, 239 
Henrietta, 118, 195, 370, 

443 
Henrietta Elizabeth, 241, 

423 
Henrietta Florence, 443 
Henry, v, xi, 56, 57, 125, 
127-131, (135), 137, 
229, 230, 233, 254, 349, 
412, 443, 481,602,(603) 
658, 659 
Henry Allen, 399 
Henry Allsion, 409 
Henry Augustus, 174 
Henry Chaplin, 444 
Hcnrv C, viii, ix 
Henry Clay, 385, 577 
Henry Dell, 654, (see 

Richard Dell) 
Henry E., 153, 395, 646 
HeHrv Edward, 59.3 
Henry Edwin, 254, 394 
Henry Enoch, 221, (417) 
Henry Estes, 590 
Henry [F.], iii, 398 



Henry Franklin, 375 
Henry Fullerton, 414 

(583), "Col.." 654 
Henry Gilman, 594 
Henry J., 379 
Henry Joseph, 371, 375 
Henry M., 586 
Henry McKinley, 585 
Henry Morton, 667 
Henry P., 661 
Henry Parker, 351,649 
Henry Partridge, 246, 

(432) 
Henry St. George, 586 
Henry Ward Beecher, 

409 
Hcphzibah, 15, 17, 30,32 

(51) 
Herbert, 246 
Herbert A., 486 
Herbert Arthur, 485 
Herbert D., 430 
Herbert Dudley, 429 
Herbert H., 568 
Herbert Haskell, 567 
Herbert S., 474 
Herbert Stevens, 473 

Hester C- , 317 

Hester Chenchin-Hibbs, 

648 
Hetty, 102 
Hezekiah, 285 
Hiram, 156, 157, 246 
Horace Putnam, 524 
Horatio Putnam, 355 
Hosea Ballon, 328 
Howard, xi, 260, (450) 
Howard Gravier, 595 
Howard Johnson, 525 
Howard King, 561 
Howard Quincy, 59.3 
Howard Starbird, 371 
Hugh Forbes, 426 
Iluldah, 54, 60, (115) 

122, 125-127, (146) 

220, 221, 295 
Huldah Atty, 294 
Huldah Gould, 178 
Huldah Woodman, 516 
Humphrey, 167, 171, 189 

292, 327, (328), 329 

344, (544) 
Humphrey C, 154, 173 

274, 647 
Humphrey Clark, 146, 

171, (289), 291, (502) 
lantha, Adeha, 418 
Ida. 489 
Ida Frances, 597 
Ida Gertrude, 476, 477 
Ida May, 449 
Ida Ranslow, 484, 604 
—Ira, 138, 229, 230, (256) 

326 
Irene, 140, 172, (266), 

(351) 
Irene Sarah, 573 
Isaac,iii,v, 13,22,35, 59 

97, 98 ri39), 189, 193, 

(195), (364), 375, (379) 

656 
Isaac, N , iii 

Isaac Newton, 469, (597) 
Isaac S. C, xi, xx-xxii, 
Isaac Shepard Cole, 417, 

(587) 
Isabella, 385 
Isabella Matthews, 573 
Isabel Virginia, 573 
Isaiah Edward, 483, (607) 
Isaiah Russell, 483 
Israel, v, vii, viii, 27, 54, 

73, 75, (117), 118, 123, 

126, 129, 149, (213), 

(222), (303), 389, 396- 

398, 410, 631-634, 656 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



725 



Perley, Israel Edwin, 217,(408) 
Israel Putnam, 303 
Iva Chrysoina, 601 
Ivian, 521 

Jacob, V, vi, vii, 16, 17 
24, (33), 34, 35, 45, 58- 
60, 64, 65, (139), 140, 
141, (151), (169), 170, 
171, 262, 263, 275, 276, 
280, (281), (305), (333) 
I (452), (467), 641, 655, 

656, 659 
Jacob Lyman, 516 
Jacob P., 311 
Jacob Putnam, 310 
Jacob Samuel, 305, (521) 
James, ix, 102, 144, 148, 
209, 212, 284, (285), 
286, 289, 296, (297), 
305, 309, (381), 382, 
396, 397, 488, (502), 
(566), 641, 647, 659, 
667 
James A., 395, 613 
James Adams, 486, (610), 

612 
James Albert, 394, 481 
James B., 426 
James Bremner, 424 
James Corliss, 489 
James Edward, 297, 581 
James Edwin, 216, 382, 

(394) 
James Frederic, 394 

(580) 
James H., 481. 611 
James Harper Godman, 

355 
James Henry, 480, 610 
James Kent, 626 
James Lyall, 423 
James Maguire, 363 
James Monroe, 251, f437) 
James P., viii, 661 
James Peacock, 383,(560) 
James Putnam, 304 
James ■ Varnum, 286, 

487, (489) 
James Vincent, 566 
James Walls, 427 
James Wilbur, 426 
Jane, 27, 133, 261, 443, 

444 
Jane Bean, 218 
Jane Elizabeth, 241 
Jane Emily, 544 
Janet Elizabeth, 424 
Jeannette, 444 
Jeanette, Chrystal, 577 
Jenette A., 393, 650 
Jenette Adelia, 392 
Jennie Dodge, 614 
Jennie H., 608 
Jennie Haskell, 607 
Jennie M., 499 
Jennie Mabel, 436 
Jennie May, 498 
Jennie S., 378 
Jennie Sweetser, 375 
Jeremiah, v, 12, 13, 20, 
22,23,25,31, 34, 38,39, 
43, 58,61, 62, 151, 154, 
(308), 460, 627. 655 
Jerusha Ann, 253 
Jerusha Fay, 481 
Jerry, 285 
Jesse, 73, (172), 285 (349) 

483 
Jesse Nye, (482), (See 

Jesse, 285) 
J. M., 250 

John, iii, v, vi, xiii, 7, 9, 
(10), 15, 22, 23, 27, 28, 
45, 47, 58, 59, 65, 78, 
79, (98), 102, 104. 108, 
125, 126, 128, 135, 141, 
(142), 144, 152, 162, 



(165), 167, 172, 179, 
180, 182, (183), 189, 
203-206, (208), 217, 
(219), 220. (222), 223, 
(225), 229, 262, 263, 
274, (279), 280, 281 
(28a), 283, (284), 289, 
296, (327), (301), 396, 
(419), (4.53), 460, (461), 
463, (480), 595, 631, 
640, 641, 644, 654, ()55, 
659, 661, 666 

(John)?, 107 

John A., 481 

John Allan, 394 

John Allen, 408 

John Alphonso, 368, 561 

John Andrews, 280 

John Arthur, 593 

Tohn Bedell, 391 

John Chandler, 303, (520) 

John Dudley, 363 

John Edson, 483 

John P'dwards, 440 

John Edwin, 371 

John Estes, 453, (590) 

John Eustis, 462 

John Frankhn, 349, (553) 
554 

John Frederick, 304 

John Hodge, 209, 212 

John Humphrey, 194, 
(370) 

John K., viii 

John Keys, 385, (576) 

Tohn L., 481, 662 

jol»i I^angdon, 169, 330, 
(329) 

John Lawrence, 480 

John Legarde, 208 

John Lovering, 461, (595) 

John M., 384 

John Macartney, 383 

John Marshall, 577 

John Merrill, 483, (605) 

John Merton. 361 

John Milton, 421 

John Monroe, 3, 361, 
(558) 

John Morrill, 649 

"Johnny," 184 

John P., 123, 548 

John Pickard, 547 

John Putnam, 219, 220. 
312 

John Quincy, 469, (597) 

John Quincy Adams, 459, 
(592) 

John Russell. 330 

John Sylvester, 328 

John Thomas, 428 

John Wesley 252, (439) 

John WilHam, 392, 566 

John Woodburv, 593 

John Wyman, 475 

Jonas Aaron, 668 

Jonas C, 374 

Jonas Clayton, 373 

Jonas Humphrey, 194, 
(373) 

Jonathan, v. 27. (46). 47, 
151, (306), (522), 659 

Joseph V, 20, 144. 283, 
647 

Joseph A., 662 

Joseph Augustus, 515, 
(614) 

Joseph Bailey, 471 

Joseph Burpee, xi, 164, 
317 

Joseph Foster, 470 

Joseph Goodhue, 282, 
(470) 

Joseph Gould, 294, ^514) 

Joseph H., 97, 378, 661 

Joseph Hancock, 195, 
(375) 



Joseph Henry, 375 
Joseph L., viii, ix 
Joseph Livermore, 385, 

(573) 
Joseph Perry, 453 
Joseph Samuel, 667 
Joseph Warren, 358 
Josephine, 443 
Josephine Amelia, 525 
Josephine LaF., 570 
Josephine La Fetra, 569 
Josephine Mary, 428 
Josephine Mighill, 504 

(613) 
Joshua, 139, 140, (201), 

267 
Joshua Eaton, 453, (589) 
Tosiah Dow, 358 
Josie E., 471 
J. P., 305 
Juanita Alice, 489 
Tuanita Cathreen, 489 
Judge, 258 
Judith, 104, (196) 
ludith A., 311 
Judith Ann, 310 
Tuha, 258, 283 
luha A., 178 
juhana, 304, 305 
Julia Ann, 255, 352, 353, 

530, 616 
Tuha C, 384 
Tuha Carter, 383 
Julia M., 481 
Julia Maria, 480 
Katharine, 589 
Katherine G., 596 
Katherine Gravier, 595 
Katherine Mary, 427 
Katie May, 426 
Kenneth Howard, 606 
Kirk W., 375 
Kirk Welder, 373 
L. Alonzo, 661 
La Fetra, 570 
Laura, 626 

Laura Ann, 481, (605) 
Laura Annette, 318, (534) 
Laura B., 583 
Laura Blanche, 582 
Laura Margaret, 603 
Laurence Titcomb, 620 
Lauretta, 453 
Lawrence Irving, 533 
Lawrence Webb, 371 
L. D., xi 

Leander, 156, 157 
Leander Alonzo, 251 
Leila F., 520 
Leila Frances, 519 
Lena (>), 557 
Lennie Gould, 553 
Leonard, 137, (255), 356 
Leonard Augustus, 255 
I.ettie Gertrude, 617 
Leverett Saltonstall, 295 

(520) 
Leverett Wyman, 361 
Lewis Benjamin, 409 
Lewis Coulson, 409 
Lewis Melvin, 516 
Lewis S., 330 
Lewis Stephen, 329 
Lewis Sylvester, 251 
Lew Knowlton, 330 
LilHan Nestelle, 461 
LiUian Sarah, 297 
Lillie, 358 
Lincoln, 573 
Lisbon Applegate, 649 
Lizzie, 358 
Lizzie, Aber, 614 
Lizzie Anna, 371 
Lizzie H., iii 
Lizzie Hartt, 406 
Lois, 22, 73, (175) 274 
Lois Ann, 554 



726 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Perley, Lois Baylor, 565 
Loren, 285 
Loring Herbert, 669 
Lot Jesse Starbird, 371 
Lotta Ella, 541, 623 
Lottie M., 451 
Lottie May, 630 
Lottie McDonald, 260 
Lottie Warren, 625 
Louisa, 169, 174, 209,212, 

289, 295, 349, (500), 

642, 645, 668 
Louisa Ann, 237 
Louisa Jane, 174, 391 
T,ouisa L., 654 
Louise, 392, (552) 
Louise Sarah, 498 
Louis H., 505 
Louis Howard, 504 
Louis Howe, 438 
Louis Richmond, 318 
Louis S., 661 
Louis Sylvester, (438) 
Lucie Emma, 517 
Lucinda, 190, 195, 196, 

629, 630, 643 
Lucretia, 666 
Lucy, 79,81, 134,139,151, 

(179), 305, 310, 311, 

617. 666 
Lucy A., 105, 154, 307, 

208, 254, 306, 513 
Lucy B., 384, 386 
Lucy Balch, 213, 383,3 85 
Lucy Eliza, 305 
Lucy H., 445 
Lucy Hale, 524 
Lucy Helen, 444 
Lucy K., 641 
Lucy Kimball, 640 
Lucy Nellie, 341 
Lucy Madeline Gertrude 

590 
Lucy Maria, 596 
Lucy Ruth Brown, 429 
Lucy Secomb, 465 
Lula Emagene, 436 
Lusena, 478, 479 
Luther P., ix. xi, xx, xxi 
Luther Dana, 294, (517) 
Luther Lewis, 189, (365) 
Lydia, 13, 15, 16, 17, 32, 

35, (57), 59, 6], 78, 79, 

1.33, 144, 178, 214,(287) 
Lydia A., Oil 
Lydia Adelaide, 610 
Lydia Anderson, 486 
Lydia Ann, 328,459,(542) 
Lydia Bartlett, 283 
Lyman Blake, 529 
Lyman Howe, 340 
Lyman Ormond, 607 
Lysander Ilartwell, 629 
Mabel, 474, 580 
Mabel A., 536 
Mabel Alice, 535 
Mabel Ellen, 610 
Mabel M., 582 
Mabel Maud. 488, 581 
Mabel T., 474 
Mabel Ticknor, 473 
Maj., 56, 124 
Manuel, 667, 
Margaret, 32, 39, 239, 

259, 427 
Margaret Cudworth. 552 
Margaret E., 218, 426 
Margaret Eleanor, 424 
Margaret Flora, 524 
Margaret Ferguson, 459 
Margaret Henderson, 52.3 
Margaret L., 538 
Margaret Loveioy, 5.37 
Margaret Marion, 374 
Marguerite, 427, 436 
Mark Cressey, 316, (528) 



Maria, 167, 182, 190, 214, 
(323), 645 

Maria A., 348 

Maria Adelia. 347 

"Maria D. " 309 

Maria Dolly, 305 

Maria Euphemia, 392 

Maria Jane, 237 

Maria Rebecca, 498 

Maria Stephia, 516 

Maria Taylor, 465 

Marian Louise, 330 

Marian Waite, 436 

Marian Woodbury, 550 

Marie Elisabet-de Bade, 
644 

Marie H.. 331 

Marie Huntress, 329 

Marietta, 288, (496) 

Marion, 617 

Marion Elizabeth. 488 

Marion Emily, 487, 488 

Martha, 7, 9, 13, 20, 27, 
29, 47, 48, 65, 128, 129, 
134, 144, (159), 170, 
181, 244, 24.5, 263, 
(.335), 442, (455.) 529 
640, 641 

Martha A., 611 

Martha Adams, 487 

Martha Althea, 528 

Martha Ann, 610 

Martha Anne, 602 

Martha 15., 460 

Martha C, 538 

Martha CaiTey, 537 

Martha Charlesetta, 625 

Martha D., 301 

Martha Drew., 298 

Martha E., .335 

Martha Eliza, 333 

Martha Elma, 477 

Martha Foster, 310, (526) 

Martha Gould, 274, (456) 

Martha Hale, 316, (528) 

Martha Harrison, 218 

Martha Maria. 169, (331) 

Martha Scott, 361, (559) 

Martin, 562 

Martin Van Buren, 3, 64, 
73, 327, 370, (538), 
(562) 

Mary, 11-13, 17, 22, 
32, (40), 45, 47, 48, 54, 
(81), 104, 105, (118), 
126, 141, 170, 174, 217, 
218, 225, 226, 229, 
230, 250, 260, (268), 
294, 319, 326, 351, 395, 
410, 414 452, (511), 
585, 586, 629, 631, 633, 
667 

Mary A., 276, 330, 481 

Mary Abbie, 589 

Mary Adelaide, 417 

Mary Adeline, (407), (See 
Adeline,) 

Mary Alice, 427 

Mary Allan, 578 

Mary Ann, 246, 275, 292, 
298, 431, 461, 465. 480 
(507) 

Mary Anne, 261, 329 

Mary Augusta, 547 

Mary Belle, 429, 597 

Mary C, 634 

Mary Caroline, 633 

Mary Catherine Florence 
426 

Mary Davis, 282 

Mary Deane, 649 

Mary Dolly, 370 

Mary Dummer, 309 

Mary Dun, 649 

Mary E., 335, 394, 666 

Mary Eda, 481 

Mary Edith, 587 



Mary Elizabeth, 333, 334 

471, 476, 498 
Mary Ella, 596 
Mary Ellen, 450, 528, 

562 
Mary Elmira, 251 
Mary Emma, 443 
Mary Frances, 392 
Mary G., 538 
Mary Goodwin, 89 
Mary Gray, 537 
Mary Griswold, 416 
Mary H., 580, 583 
Mary Harper, 582 
Mary Helen, 297, 579 
Mary Herrick, 353 
Mary Howard, 523, 615 
Mary Isabell, 436 
Mary J., 384, 386 
Mary Jane, 223, 383, 385, 

459, 625, 629, 645 
Mary Tewett, 333, 547 
Mary Johnson, 371, 380 
Mary Loggie, 426 
Mary Louise, 195, 553, 

616 
Mary Louise, 371, 377 
Mary Lucy. 383 
Mary M., 220, 292 
Mary Malvenia, 304 
Mary Malvina, 219, 221 
Mary Mclndoe, 588 
Mary Mighill, 291. 314 
Mary N., 259 
Mary Nelson, 258 
Mary P.. 482 
Mary Perkins, 481 
Mary Ruth, 409 
Mary S., 194 
Mary T., 514 
Mary Thurston, 312 
Mary Titcomb, 310 
Mary Twombly, 513 
Mary Virginia, 560 
Mary Wells, 255 
Mary Wilder, 465 
Maud, 375, 423 
Maud Statire, 667 
Maude E., 380 
Maude Etta, 630 
Maude H., 608 
Maude Haskell, 607 
Maude Marion, 373 
Maud Harriet, 573 
Maud L., 564 
Maud Louise, 56.3 
Maud M., 374 
Maud Oma, 374 
May Frances, 477 
Mehetabel, 167 
Mehitable, 32, 34, 56, 60 

72, 73, 100, 104, 105, 

128, 129, 144, 172, 226, 

280, 284, 285, 288,(466) 

(493), 640 
Melinda, 195 
Melissa Stone, 485 
Melvina Luella, 520 
Mildred, 358 
Mildred Belle, 568 
Mildred Gladys, 623 
Milford Delmar, 629 
Minerva, 478, 479 
Minnie, 573, 625 
Minnie Homer, 471 
Minnie Isabella, 575 
Miranda Louisa, 365 
Miriam, 245 
Miriam Estella, 668 
Monroe Proctor, 341 
Moody, v, 61, 153, (156), 

157, 641, 659 
Moody Hills, 309 
Morris Black, 668 
Morris Raymond, 430 
Morrison W., 568 
Mornson Waite, 567 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



727 



Perley, Moses, v, 32,35, 61,79, 
108, 120, 139, 140, 154, 
(182), 188, 189, (217) 
(267), 286, 398, 410, 
452. 460, 488, 631, 633, 
645, 647. 656. 659, 660. 
666. 668 
Moses Coburn, 399 
Moses Goodrich, 286, 

(488) 
Moses H., xvi. xvii. 117, 

397 
Moses Henry. 217, 398, 

(410) 
Moses I.. 666 
Moses P., viii 
Moses Parmelee, 602. 

(625) 
Moses Payson. 282. 283, 

(471) 
Moses S., 454 
Moses Sawyer, 453. 469. 

(598) 
Mr.. 85, 96 

Mrs. Ebenezer P., 102 
Muriel Lynette, 577 
Myron Calvin, 590 
Nancy, 125, 126. 131. 132 

148. 225. 666 
Nancy Amanda, 216, 

(399) 
Nancy E., 558 
Nancy Eveline. 557 
Nancy Putnam, 178 
Nathan, v, 35, (59), 61, 
(143) 151. (153), 285. 
289. (309), (481) 482. 
502. (524), 656. 660 
Nathaniel, v. xiii, 7-11, 
13. 14. 39. 48, 72, 73, 
98. 99. (106), 107, 108, 
122, 129, 138, 142. 172. 
(173). (190.) 194, 207. 

209. 212, 239, (260), 
(282), 289, 294. (345). 
346,349,351,353.(367) 
(372), (515). (554). 
(557). 560. 595, 627, 
640, 642, 656, 660, 661 
666 

Nathaniel Dummer, 309 
Nathaniel Henry. 174 
Nathaniel Lincoln. 451 
Nathaniel M., 205, 208, 

210. 297 

Nathaniel Mighill. 102. 

104, (203), 207, 296. 

(381) 
Nathaniel W.. 426 
Nathaniel Wm.. 424 
Natt Hadley, 593 
Nellie, 343 
Nellie Cline. 530 
NeUie E.. 438 
Nellie Eliza. 437 
Nellie Johnson. 355 
NelHe Marian, 554 
NelHe Starbird, 371 
Nelson Wilbert, 588 
Nina Abigail, 630 
N. M., 103 
Norma, 374 
Norman Allen 585 
Norman Henry. 439 
OUve. 73. 75. 150 630 
Olive Foster. 421 
OUve Wood, 172 
Oliver, v. 54 117, 118. 

(120). 129, 146. 217 

(294). 410. 632, 633 
Oliver W., 538 
Oliver Watson. 537 
Oliver Wells. 294. (515) 
Olivia, 172 (See Olive 

Wood) 
Ormond. 483 



Ormond Franklin. 606 
Ormond T., 482 
Ormond Theodore, 481 
Orpha Cornelia, 288 
Orrin Weston. 333, (547) 
Orval, 476 
Orville George, 443 
Osborn. 364 
Osborne P., 367 
Osborne Potter, 365,(559) 
Oscar Wentworth, 535, 

(616) 
Osgood, 349, (550) 
Osmond Huntley. 524 
Osmore, 254, (449). 586 
Parker Brown. 260 
Parmelia. 56. 134 
Patience, 20, 27, (45) 
Patty, 286, 641, 647 
Paul, 141, (275) 
Paulina. 194 
Paul Wellington. 557 
Peleg Stone. 368, (560) 
Persis. 189 
Peter, v. 61 
Phebe, 61, 132. 137, 229, 

230, 254. (445), 457, 
Philip Bremner. 424,(588) 
Philip Sylvester. 438 
Phineas. 146. (293.) 294. 

(513) 
Phineas Herbert. 515 
Phoebe. 98, 118, (157). 

239, 261. 389. 390. 631 
Polly. 560, 561 
Porter, 134. (See Frederic 

Porter) 
Priscilla, 100, 104, 105 

208. 629 
Proctor, 488 
Proctor Jefferson, 280. 

(465) 
Putnam. 131, 151, 178, 

242. 301, (311), 312, 

(355) 
Putnam. 148. (Read Ruth 

Putnam,) 
Putnam D.. 359 
Putnam Davis. 358 
Queenie May. 557 
Quincy Woodbury. 593 
Rachel O.. 621 
Rachel Olive. 620 
Raiter Weston. 547 
Ralph Frederic, 443 
Ralph Waite, 436 
Ray Ford. 423 
Raymond. 444 
Raymond Clyde, 649 
Rebecca. 32. (54), 122. 

125-127. 134, 141. 149. 

150. 194. (273). (372), 

633, 634. 638. 640 
Rebecca Sawyei, 469 
Rebecca Webster, 481, 

483 
Renton M.. 595 
Renton Melvin. 461,(594) 
Reuben N., 621 
Reuben Noel. 620 
Rhoda. 189, (364). 645 
Richard. 174, (351), 557, 

661 
Richard Dell, 582, (See 

Henry Dell,) 
Richard Hood. 547 
Richard Nathaniel, 557 
Robert F.. 422 
Robert Foster, 421 
Robert Henry, 588 
Robert R., 621 
Robert Ruel, 620 
Rodney Gove. 294. (518) 
Rolfe H.. 631 
Rolfe Hobert, 630 
Rollin Harmon, 550 
Ronald Prime, 363 



Rosa Ann, 409 
Rosa Lee. 566 
Rosalie Frances, 525 
Roscoe. 370, (562). 661 
Roscoe Damon. 535, 

(617) 
Roscoe J., 422 
Roscoe John. 421 
Roscoe Lawrence, 618 
Rose Frances. 614 
Rose LilHan. 371 
Roy Anderson, 583 
Roy Corson, 430 
Rubia Ann Thurston, 462 
Ruth, 15. 27. 29. 45, 47, 
48. 83, 104. 105. 108, 
154. 172, 284. 285, 297, 
(312). 641 
Ruth AUce, 485 
Ruth Ann, 296 
Ruth C, 218 
Ruth Huntress, 363 
Ruth Longfellow. 525 
Ruth Marion, 481 
Ruth P., 149. 296, 641 
Ruth Proctor. 346 
Ruth Putnam. 148. 641 
Ruth Putnam. 148. (For 
Putnam read Ruth Put- 
nam) 
Ruth White. 438 
Sally, 103. 169,209,212, 

294, 326, (508), 666 
Salome, 274 

Samuel, v. viii, xiii. 7, 9, 
11-15, (15). 26. 27. 45, 
47. 48. 56, 57, 64. 79, 
94, 98. 107, 108. 131, 
1.33, (137). 151. (178), 
181, 188. (189). (212), 
213, (254), 286. 308- 
311. 333, 334. (382), 
480, (487), (524), 589. 
628. 644. 660 
Samuel Augustus, 443, 

(589) 
Samuel Emerson. 483 
Samuel Farnsworth, 221, 

(415) 
Samuel Franklin. 368, 

(562) 
Samuel Holton. 178 
Samuel S., 666 
Samuel Shepard, 373. 

374 
Samuel Sherman. 488 
Samuel Thomas Barrett, 

383 
.Sarah. 7. 9, (12). 13, 15, 
(17). 22. 25, 32, (35), 
38, 39. (40), 45. 59, 61, 
62. 65, 66, 9S, 104. 105, 
107. 118. 133. 139-142, 
144, 145, 149, 150, 153, 
(154), 189, (190) 195, 
213. 222, 255. 275, 
(281), 282, 284, 285, 
289, 292, 296, 304. 305, 
515, 612. 631. 633, 634 
Sarah-160, (read-161), 

154 
Sarah A., 220 
Sarah Abigail, 294 
Sarah Amelia, 421 
Sarah Ann, 219, 363 

Sarah Ann. 304 

Sarah Augusta. 463 
Sarah Edith. 550 
Sarah Eleanor, 333 
Sarah Elizabeth, 382 
Sarah Ellen, 312 
Sarah F.. 514 
Sarah Fannie. 598 
Sarah Frances. 304, 513 
Sarah-Hartt. 651 
Sarah Hopkins, 219 



728 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Perley, Sarah Jane, 182, 350, 

461,471, (593) 
Sarah Lambert, 515 
Sarah L. M., 463 
Sarah Lois, 459 
Sarah Lois Merrill, 462 
Sarah Louisa, 288, 513 
Sarah Lydia, 383 
Sarah M., 454, 482 
Sarah Maranda, 453 
Sarah Maiia, 347 
Sarah Melissa, 669 
Sarah Merrill, 481 
Sarah Nevers, 237 
vSarah O., 479 
Sarah Ovaitt, 478 
Sarah P., 154, 613 
Sarah Pauline, 482 
Sarah Peabody, 254 
Sarah R., iii 
Sarah Randall, 418 
Sarah Spofford, 294. 505 
Sarah Smith, 298 
Sarah Strickland, 190, 

(369) 
Sarah Susan, 370 
Sarah W., 645 
Sarah Whittier, 506 
Scott De Veber, 423 
Seth Todd, viii, 383, 569, 

(570), 572 
Sherlock Henry, 557 
Sidney, iii, ix, xi. 171,329, 

(544) 
Sidney Harold, 617 
vSilas 64, 105, 107, (325) 
Solomon, V, 57, 118, 131. 

133, (138), (216), 236, 

(260), 261, 394-396, 

(451), 632-634, 640.660 
Sophia, 134, 210, 285, 478 
Sophia Ann, 282 (See Ap- 

phia Ann) 
Sophia E., 395 
Sophia Eliza, 394 
Sophia Isabel, 399 
Sophronia-Spurr, 

("Mrs.") 649 
Squire, 219 
Stephen, v, 19, 20, (36), 

39, 61, 65, (153), 156. 

157, (167), 170, 329, 

(333), 334, 660 
Stephen Augustus, 89 
Stephen Bartlett, 283, 

(475) 
Stephen D., 592 
Stephen Elton, 601 
Stephen Jefferson, 169 
Stephen Lewis, 476 
Stephen Monroe, 334 
Stephen P., 642 
Stephen Perkins, 178,179 
Sumner Pennell, 563 
Susan, 102-105, 131, 195, 

246, 258, 259, 562 
Susan Abbie, 516 
Susan Ann, 214, 215 
Susan Ayer, 309 
Susan Brown, 363 
Susan EHzabeth, 237, 429 
Susan Ellen, 347 
Susan Higgins, 380 
Susan Jane, 429 
Susan Josephine, 594 
Susan Marinda, 347 
Susan Maria, 255, 347, 

353 
Susanna, 137 
Susannah, 27, (43), 57, 

98. 126, 129, 131-134, 

189, (242) 
Susannah Maria, 288 

(494) 
Susie Boyd, 478 
Sylvanus Ward. 353 



Svlvester Cumraings, 461 

Sylvester Strickland. 190 

Sylvia, 245 

T. A., xi 

Theodore Wood, 487 

Theophilus Clough, 471 

Theophilus Parsons, 251, 

309, (438) 
Thomas, v, xiii, 7, 9, 12, 
14, (15), 16, 17, 19, 
(20), 21, 24, (30), 31, 
32, 36, 38, 39, 47, (52), 
54, 56, 57, 60, 61, 73, 
118, (120,) 125-129, 
133, 137, 138, 148, 172, 
(214), (217), 219, (220) 
286, 389, 395, 416.(579) 
587, 627, 633, 638, 640, 
645, 655, 656, 660 
Thomas A., 662 
Thomas Allen, 392 
Thomas Arthur Medley, 

423 
Thomas Augustus, 417, 

(586) 
Thomas Edward, 214, 

(394) 
Thomas Edwin, 587 
Thomas Endicott, 406 
Thomas F., ix 
Thomas Flint, 221 
Thomas H., 97, 98 
Thomas Hancock, 19.5 
Thomas Hayward, 409 
Thomas Horsfield. 237. 

(423), 427 
Thomas Jefferson, 668 
Thomas P., 662 
Thomas Peabody, 462 
. Thomas Wood, 345, (548) 
Thuseba, 246 
Timothy, iv, v. 7. 9. (19) 
Ulmer, 190. (368) 
Ulmer Austin, 368 
"Uncle," 131 
Uri, 282, (469) 
Ursula Irene, 375 
Van E., 484 
Van Edmond, 483 
Van Herbert, 541 

(621) 
Van Rensselaer, 321 
Victor, 661 
Viola Ehzabeth, 573 
Virginia, 573 
Wallace Emerson, 437 
Wallace Holman, 556 
Walter, 251, 258, 395 
Walter Albertus, 443 
Walter Edwin, 392, 400 
Walter Emerson, 602 
Walter Lawrence, 631 
Walter Norman, 669 
Walter Seward, 579 
Ward B., 649 
Ward Barton, 355. 649 
Warner Francis, 505 
Warren, 154, 274, 459, 

(460), 486, (591) 
Warren Douglass. 625 
Warren Dow, 358 
Warren E., 611 
Warren Eugene, 610 
AVarren Healy, 541 
Washington, 97, 98 
Webster Leroy, 488 
Widow, 230 
Willard, 373 

William, v, 18, 60.61,107, 
118, 141, (145), 146, 
189, (216), 217, 253, 
285, (292), 293, 294, 
316, 354, (366), 389, 
390, 394, (486), (513), 
(529), 530, 629, 630, 
641, 656. 657. 660 
William Albert, 443 



William Andrew, 616 
WilHam Balch. 385 
William Brummel. 573 
William Bryant, 239, 

(428) 
WiUiam C, 613 
William Cassidy, 374 
William Charles, 612 
William Colebrook, 398, 

414 
William Dell, 406, (580) 
WilHam E., 217, 662 
WilUam Earl, 253, (441) 
William Ebenezer, 382 
William Edward, 217. 

(405), 515, 582 
WilHam Elbridge, 462 

(595) 
WilHam F., x, 433 
William Fred, 432 
William Frederick, 578, 

(024) 
WilHam G., ix, xi, 469 
William George Freder- 
ick, 423 
WilHam Goodhue, 282, 

(472), 475 
WilHam H., 149, 307, 641 
William Hathorne. 641 
WiUiam Henry, 148, 300. 
486, 515, (523), 524, 
(611) 
William Henry Seward, 

,385 
william Hood Gilfillan, 

573 
William Howard, 391 
WilHam H. S., 386 
William Marshall. 552 
William Mathias. 573 ' 
William P., 323 
William Perkins, 170, 

(338) 
WilHam Porter, 251 
William Putnam, 291, 

(505) 
William Sherman, Oil 
William Smith, 392 
William Spofford, 505. 

(614) 
WiHiam Sumner, 364 
WilHam Warren Starbird 

371 
William Wilfred, 554 
WilHam W. S.. 628 
Williard Humphrey, 373 
Willis, 529 
Willis Harvey, 669 
Winfield A., 343 
Winfield Augustus, 341 
Winnefred H., 430 
Winnefred Hayes, 429 
Winnie Gertrude, 476 
Winthrop Gove, 519 
Wyman Franklin, 553 
Zenas, 298 

Zipporah Louise, 368 
Perley, Andrews &, 440 
Perley a praenomen, iv 
Perley Block, 222, 438 
Perley, Bracket! &, 440 
Perley Bros. & Weston, 306 
Perley Building, v, 366 
Perley Chart. 2 
Perley, Church &, 602 
Perley Comedy Co., 332 
Perley Company. M. P., 343 
Perley Convention, (see Con- 
vention) 
Perley, Dean &, 504 
Perley Family, xi, xx, 318, 

353, 395, 396, 641, 667 
Perley Family Association, xi 
Perley Family, history of, x 
Perley Family, old record of 
xiii 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



729 



Perley Family Reunion, viii, 

xi, 250 
Perley Farm, 210, 224 
Perley Free School, 180 
Perley Fund, Sarah P., 255 1 
Perley Gathering, 307 
Perley Gold, 40G 
Perley, Hill & Pearce, 607 
Perley Home for Incurables 

473 
Perley House, 205 
Perley House, Mighill, 205 
Perley, Kimball &, 592 
Perley Lumber Co., A. P., 

375 
Perley Message, 130, 136 
Perley mill, the old, 438 
Perley name, X, 26, 318, 346 

605 
Perley, N. Dak., 630 
Perley, oldest, xi 
Perley place, old, 316 
Perley Place, the Nathan, 254 
Perley politeness, 284 
Perley, Potter &, 559 
Perley relic, 651 
Perley Reunion, 318, 399 
Perley street, Lynn, 514 
Perley, the oldest, 318 
Perley, war naine of, 666 
Perley, Ward &, 451 
Perley Willow, 397 
Perley, Wis., 439 
Perley & Church, 602 
Perley & Co., Fisher, 504 

G. P., 366 

Humphrey, 519 

James V., 489 
Perley & Cram, 417 
Perley & Howard, 537 
Perley & Leavens. 626 
Perley & Pattee, 473 
Perley & Stiles, 414 
Perleys, viii 
Perleys generally, 182 
Perley's Hist, of Boxford, 

(See History) 
Perley's Homestead, Plan of 

Jacob, vi, vii 
Perley's Ipswich History, 21 
Perleys, Irish- American, 631 
Perleys, 40 out of 60, 514 
Perley's pleasure, 591 
Perley's School, Amos, 144 
Perley's System of penman- 
ship, 419, 420 
Perleys, the, 216, 333 
Perley's Will, Allan, iv 

John, 184 
Perlie, E. H., 668 

Rebecca A., 668 
Perllys, xiii 
Perol, John, xvi 

Trustin, xvi 
Perrelle, xx 
Perris, Cal., 590 
Perry, Betsey Dunham, 491 

Caroline Maria, 594 

Caroline-Rogers, 594 

Charles L., 333 

Charles Lowell, 335 

Hannah A., 631 

Henry, 594 

John Lowell, 335 

Joseph, 453 

Maranda, 453 

Miss, 490 

Rebecca, 360 

Sally-Sawyer, 453 
Perry & White, 359 
Pershore, xiv 
Persons, xix 
Persons, Hattie, 489 
Perth, xiv 
Peru, 208, 356 
Perve, Lois, 43, 641 
Pervia, Mary E., 162 



Peter, xix, xx 

Peterboro, N. H., .55, 129, 

612. 640, 667 
Petersburg, Va., 163, 251, 517 
Petersham, Mass., 24, 438 
Peters, Judge, 193 
Petersville, 404 

Petition, a, viii 
Perth, Ont., 403 
Petroleum Center, Pa., 569 
Pettee, Julia Miranda, 431 
Petty, Grace Mabel, 280 
John Loraine. 280 
Sarah Ellen-Barnes, 280 
Pewter, 6, 27 
Phelps, Polly, 487 
I'hiladelphia journals, 568 
Philadelphia, Pa., 184, 194, 
200, 292, 356, 383, 417, 
451, 479, 533, 561, 568, 

613, 661 
Philbrick, Hittv L., 277 

Horace Hall, 464 

Lennie Jane, 464 

Mary Jane-Noyes, 464 
Philbrook, Alpheus C, 283 

Eliza Ann, 283 

Eliza-Moore, 283 

Katherine Lord, 202 
Phillippine insurrection, 645 
Philippine Islands, 565 
Philippines, 630 
Phillips, Amos, 643 

Amos Henry, 64.3 

Arthur Perley, 589 

Benjamin Franklin, 589 

Carrie J. -Smith, 589 

Charles, 442 

Dorothy Grace, 424 

Ehzabeth, 160, 554 

EUzabeth O., 554 

Eveline Elizabeth-Hunt, 
442 

Frances Marion-Winches- 
ter, 643 

Freeman Smith, 589 

John Roland, 424 

Louise Blake, 643 

Mary E.-Hargreaves, 424 

Minnie Phoebe, 442 

Phebe, 406. 407 

Samuel, 98, 100, 322 

Sarah, 98, 100 

Stephen, 112 

Thomas W., 594 
Philhps, Me., 520 
Philhpston, Mass., 247, 438 
Phinney, Cephas, M., 244, 245 

Elizabeth, 245 

John, 244 

Lillie May, 245 

Mariah Jane, 245 

Martha Ehzabeth, 245 

Mary Orilah, 245 

Murcilous, 245 

Ola Sylvia, 245 

Orianna, 245 

Osceola Henry, 245 

Sylvia Anna, 245 
Phoenix, B. C, 624 
Phoenix, Ariz., 560, 561 
Pickard, , viii 

David, 77, 86, 333 

Elizabeth, 324, 633, 634, 
640 

Emma Josephine, 560 

Hallett Dole, 77 

Hannah, 86, 129 

Hannah-Spiller, 86, 333 

Jane, 35. 640 

Joseph, 204, 205 

Lavinia Day-Spiller, 560 

Luther Calvin, 560 

Maria-Knapp, 77 

Mary Jewett, 333 

Moses, 640 

Sarah, 62 



Pickering, Charles S., 316 

Florence B., 316 

Paul R., 316 

Prudence D.-Noyes, 316 

Walter R., 316 
Pickett, Benjamin, 461 

Joanna, 277 

Mary Jane, 461 

Sarah, 461 
Pickett's Division, 566 
Pickles, Rev. John D., 367 
Pickwocket, 122 
Pierce, Abijah, 229 

Cyrus H., 191 

Deha, 616 

Elizabeth, 229 

George Washington, 9.3 

Mary Elizabeth-Schencks 
93 

Nettie Loring, 93 

Sarah, 598 
Pierley, xiii 

Piermont, N. H., 273, 274 
Pierrelay, xix 
Pierreloni, xx 
Pierson. xix 
Pigwacket fight, 655 
Pike, Abigail, 22 

Dorothy Louise, 475 

Eunice, 84 

Hannah, 22 

Henry Luther, 475 

John, 365 

John B., 475 

Lois, 22 

Lucile Perley, 475 

Mary Louise- Parker, 475 

Moses, 22 

Perley, 22 

Sarah, 22 

Thomas, 22 
Pike's Peak, 377 
Pilgrim fame, 202, 612 
Pilgrim Fathers, 520 
Pilgrims, xii, 350 
"Pilgriins, Embarkation of 

the," 504 
Pillion riding, 16 
Pillsbury, Asa B., 270 

Asa Burpee, 269 

Charles Edgar, 271 

James, 269 

Levi, 231 

Lorenzo, 269 

Lydia, 164 

Martha H., 273 

Martha Harriman, 271 

Martha J., 271 

Martha Jane, 269 

William James, 269 
Pillsbury, Minn., 630, 631 
Pine Island, Minn., 492 
Pine, name, xvi, xxii 
Pingree, Allen Proctor, 91 

Angelina Webster, 86 

Caroline, 155 

Daniel Proctor, 86 

David, 184 

David M., 91 

David Mighill, 86 

David Philemon, 86 

Francis, 45 

Jewett, 155 

Lydia Ann, 91 

Lydia E., 91 

Lydia Ehzabeth, 86 

Mary, 70 

Mary Abigail, 86, 87, 529 

Mary-Perkins, 155 

Melinda, 86, 91 

Proctor, 529 

Sarah Hobbs, 529 
Pingree farm, 292, 315 
Pingree road, 294 
Pioneer, Canadian Com., 414 
Piper, Anna Durant, 176 

Benjamin, 310 



730 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Piper, Charles S., 176 

Hannah-Smith, 283 

John Adams, 176 

John P., 647 

John Perley, 283 

Joseph Bartlett, 283 

Josiah Dearborn, 283 

Katie Taylor, 283 

Nathaniel, 283 

vSarah, 310 

.Sarah A„ 176 

Stephen S., 283, 647 
Piquette, Angelique Campan, 
373 

Charles, 374 

Charles Louis, 373 

John Baptiste, 373 

Marie, 374, 375 
Pirly, xix 
Pitcher, Edwin Frank, 494 

Grace Emery, 494 

Mary Frances, 493 
Pitkin, Col., 483 
Pitkin, Gen. Perley P., 287 
Pitman, Carrie, 155 
Pitts Co., 649 
Pittsboro, N. C, 612, 613 
Pittsburg, Pa., 207, 3.56. 475 
Pittsfield, Mass., 357, 360 
Pittstield, N. H., 87, 507 
Pixley, Mary Elizabeth, 469 
Place, Alley Bros. &, 450 
Placerville, Cal.. 359 
Plainfield, Ct., 549 
Plains, the, 184 
Plaistow, N. H., 76, 209, 502, 

543, 553, 554 
Plan of the book, iii 
Plantagenets, 301 
Planters, 404 
Plas-gronow, Wales, xviii 
Platl, Ellen Rebecca, 447 
Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y., 

565 
Plattsburg, N. Y., 152, 280 
I'lalts, Elmira, 296 

Mary, 444, 516 
Pleasant Valley, 210 
Plouff, Edward, 87 
Plough Co., South Bend, 374 
Plum Island, 6, 100 
Plummer, , 456 

Abigail, 164 

Abigail- Dole, 164 

David, 164, 183 

lilizabeth E., 104 

Hannah A., 183 

John, 164 

Lousia, 583 

Lydia, 183, 642 

Mehitable, 324 

Perley, 642 

Sahna G., 164 

Sarah Ann Jackson-Ed- 
wards, 642 

Sophronia Osgood, 1 64, 
535 

Stephen, 164, 642 

William P., 164 
Plymouth, Eng., xii 
Plymouth, Mass., xii, 444, 

648, 650 
Plymouth, Me., 227, 228 
Plymouth, N. B., 405 
Plymouth, N. H., 272, 604 
Poets of Essex County, 546 
Poland, Almon, 232 

Charles F., 287 
Poland, Me., 194, 449 
Pollard, Joseph, 107 
Pollard (or Wells), Charlotte 
Bacon, 107 

Lydia F., 107 

Mary Eustis, 107 

Nathaniel, 107 

Rebecca, 107 

Ruth Ann Currier, 107 



Sally, 107 
Polo, 111., 367, 561 
Polo newspaper, 367, 368 
Pomfret, Ct., 32 
Pomfret, Vt., 498 
Pompey, N. Y., 128 
Pond, Baldpate (Perley) 153, 
156 

Crotchet, 162 

Hood, 73. 328 

Long, 122 

Perley, 130 

Pritchard's, 06 

Quaboag, 627 

Saco, 655 

Stevens, 58 
Pondicherry, 122 
Pool, Alice, 575 

Charles 575 

Phila-Gardner, 575 
Poole, Mary D., 594 
Poor, Abbie Gage, 248 

Anna, 46, 307 

Benjamin, 151, 461 

Charles Howard, 462 

Daniel, 46 

Edna, 46 

Emma, 462 

Frank Thurston, 462 

George. 462 

George Osgood, 462 

Hannah-Greenough, 462 

Henry, 23 

Joseph Bailey, 345 

Margaret. 648 

Ruth, 151 

Samuel. 402 

Sarah, 23, 183 
Poore, Alice, 50 

Benjamin, 49 

Ben. Perley, x, 49 

Daniel Noyes, 49 

Ellen Judith, 49 

Emily, 49 

John I'reddie, 461 

John McCurdy, 401 

Lydia-Noyes, 49 

Martha-McCufdy, 461 

Mary Louise, 49 

Walter Scott, 49 
I'oor Genealogy, 307 
Poor's mare, Thomas, 12 
Pope, XX 

Pope, Anadetus Third, xix 
Pope, Joseph N.,328 

Mary, 590 

Miss, 32 

Mrs. Ira P., 349 

Walter Harvey, 606 - 
Popl.ir Grove. P E. I., 530 
Poquioque, N. B., 401 
Porley. xiii, xv 
Portage City, 377 
Port au Prince, 290 
Port Dover, Ont., 389 
Porter, Anna, 18, 57, 130, 146 
305 

Aophia, 56, 130 

Barbour Bartlett, 562 

Benjamin, 113 

Betsey, 48 

Capt., 657 

Dorothy, 146 

Elijah, 146 

EUzabeth, 52, 57 

Elmer Irvin, 644 

Ethel Augusta, 644 

Frances Louisa, 562 

Hannah, 48, 56 

John, 48, 56, 130 

Jonathan, 29 

Lydia, 133, 359 

Mary-Favor, 644 

Marv Hale Parsons, 562 

Mehitable, 280 

Nehemiah, 33, 48, 644 

Polly, 48 



Rebecca, 134 
Rufus, 644 
Rufus Berry, 644 
Sally, 48 

Samuel, 33, 48, 57 

Sarah, 33. 42, 113 

T. H., 393 
Porter's Plains, 184 
Porteus, John, 239 
Port Hudson, 313, 444, 461, 

462, 587 
Portland Advertiser, 124 
Portland great fire, 377 
Portland, Me., 97, 125, 134, 
135, 184, 195, 219-221, 
308, 343, 367, 369, 372- 
375, 377, 378, 391, 414, 
415, 417, 418, 422, 455, 
526, 547, 560, 563, 564, 
579, 580, 595, 638, 644 
Portland, N. B., 397 
Portland, Oregon, 445, 598, 

637 
Portland, Wis., 82 
Porto Rico, W. I., 68, 212 
Portraits, the, iv 
Port Royal, N. S., 655 
Port Royal, S. C, 332, 352 
Portsmouth, N. II., 25, 193 
198, 201, 275, 349, 509, 
540, 541, 563, 642, 644 
Port Washington, N. Y., 510 
Posen, Ger., 520 
Post, G. A. R., Everett Pea- 
pod y, 505 

Gen. James Appleton, 
199 

[Gen. Jas.Appleton,] 337 

John F. Appleton, 591 

John L. Perley, 330 

local, 650 

Reno, 386 
Potomac, the, 595 
Potter, 318 

Abigail-How, 363 

Addie, 76 

Albert E., 75 

Albert Edward, 76 

Alice, 76 

Asa, 87, 365 

A. Thomas, 559 

Betsey, 329 

Charles Hurst, 76 

Clara Augusta, 363 

Cora Ellen, 363 

Cora Ellen, 363 

Dea., 85, 89 

Edwin Lewis, 363 

Elijah, 363 

Elizabeth, 648 

Elizabeth-Perkins, 170 

Ella Louisa, 363 

Ezekiel, 101, 113, 170 

Ezekiel P., 317 

George Fuller, 364 

Hannah, 170, 178 

Harriet Hale, 76 

Isaac, 162, 336 

Jacob Symonds, 88, 338 

Jane Fowler, 367 

Johanna-Jewett, 336 

John, 75 

John Hervey, 76 

Lizzie Mabel, 363 

Martha, 336 

Martha Mary, 87 

Mary. 170 

Mary Ann-Hoburn, 563 

Mary Jane, 7J3 

Matilda Ethel, 563 

Mehitable, 76 

Miranda F., 220 

Nathaniel, 71, 76, 88, 363 

Phebe, 88 

Rhoda Jane, 363 

Samuel WiUiam, 364 

Sarah Alice, 3'65 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



731 



Potter, Silas Holman, 563 

Susan, 365 

Susan Hadley-Johnson, 
87, 365 

William, 71 
Potter & Pcrley, 559 
Pottery, first in America, 651 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 489 
Pounds offered, 1000, 204 
Pouting, 251 
Powell, C. B., 472 

Lydia, 603 
"Power behind the throne," 

413 
Power, D. B. H., 202 
Powers, Grace T., 200 

Rebecca P., 625 
Pownell, Vt., 478 
Praenomen, Perley a, iv 
Practice in Personal Act., 546 
Prague, 512 
Prairie City, 111., 231 
Prairiesburg, la., 488 
Prairieville, Minn., 492 
Pratt, Elizabeth, 38 

Emily A., 265 

Mr., 248 

Nancy, 130 

Sarah Tane, 277 
Prayer, 128 

Pray's Carpet Store, 87 
Preaster, Catherine, 237 
Preble, Jedediah, 656 
Preface, iii 

Prentice, Dea. Samuel, 225 
Prentiss, Joanna, 116 
Presbyterian, 424 
Prescott, Abigail, 36 

Charles J., 300 

Col., 145 

Dolly-Chaplin, 89 

Elvira L., 267 

Ezekiel, 267 

George, 89 

George Kittridge, 89 

Jonathan, 147 

Mrs. Jonathan, 146 

Vernon, 89 

WilHam, 36, 657 
Prescott's Regiment, 145, 146 
Presque Isle, 404 
Pressey, M. T., 277 
Preston, , 298 

Francis Perley, 298 

Frank H., 198 

Margaret Stevens, 298 

Royal Atherton, 198 
Preston, Minn., 492 
Price, Laura, 639 
Prices, to regulate, 146 
Pride, Elisha, 461 

Elizabeth, 461 

Sarah F., 461 
Prime, Abigail, 63 

Charlotte Huntress-Jelli- 
son, 363 

Emma-Goodale, 55 

Ezra, 55 

Gertrude Green, 363 

Mr., 629 

Ruth, 155 

Samuel Scott, 363 
Prince of Wales, 63, 64 
Princeton, 579 
Princeton, Me., 650 
Princeton, N. J., 221 
Prison Lane, 124 
Prison, 

Sherborn Reformatory, 
372 
Pritchard, Adeline, 69 

Alanson, 69 

Amos, 68 

Anna, 68 

Asa, 68 

Barnard, 68 

Benjamin, 68, 69 



Bernice, 69 

Caroline, 69 

Charles 69, 

Charles C, 68, 69 

Cyrene, 69 

Deidamia, 69 

Dexter, 69 

Emily, 68 

Frances Perley, 69 

Francis P(erley), 69 

George, 68 

Hannah, 68, 69 

Hannah -Perley, 24 

Henry, 68 

Teremiah, 68 

Tohn, 68, 69 

Martha Jane, 68 

Mary, 69 

Mary Ann, 68 

Moses, 68 

Paul, 24, 34, 66 

Perley, 68 

vSally, 68 

Sarah, 68, 69 

Sarah Ehzabeth, 68 

Stephen, 68, 69 

W^illiam, 68 

William Start, 69 

WilHam W., 68 
Privateersman. intrepid, 203 
Prize, first. 466 

Harsden, 448 

Stokes, 609 
Probate Judge, 172 
Proctor, Arthur Phinney, 245 

Charles, 302 

Fred Everett, 245 

Hannah, 171 

Mehitable, 280 

Mehitable-Porter, 280 

Minnie Elizabeth, 245 

Rebecca, 276 

Sylvester, 280 

Thorndike, 112 

WilUam, 245 

William Pritchard, 245 
"Prodigal's Prayer, " 387 
Prohibition Party, 544 
Proper, Arthur Eugene, 338 

Jennie Grace, 338 

Josephine-Raymond, 338 
Prouty, EUza, 134 
Prouty Shoe Co.. Isaac, 317 
Providence, R. I., 136, 247. 
270, 273, 308, 316, 343, 
437, 449, 552, 561, 659 
Province, his native, 411 
Provincetown, Mass., 596 
Provincial agent, viii 
Provincial Assembly, 25 
Provincial Building, 397 
Provincial Charter, xiii 
Provincial Congress, 660 
Provincial Government, xiii 
Pt. Arthur, Ont., 401 
Public Works, 584 
Public Works Department, 

585 
Publishing Committee, iii, xx, 

xxi, 353 
Puckler, Countess, 520 
Puget Sound, 429 
Pugwash, N. S., 448 
Pullen, Octavia Frances, 201 
Pullman Co., 568 
Pulsifer, William, 296 
Pulsipher, Lucy, 196 
Punchard, Dea. John, 306 
Punch bowl, China, 101 

Purinton, , 107 

Puritan, xvii, 100 
Puritan element, xviii 
Puritan games. 234 
Puritans, xii, 6 
Purlai, xvi 
Purle, William, xv 
Purlee manor, xv 



Purlegh, xvi 
Purleigh, xv, xvi 
Purley, xv, xvi 
Purley, Frances, xv 

Hugh, XV 

John, XV 

Leonard, xv 

Manuel, 667 

Robert, xv 

Thomas, xv 
Purley Hall, xv 
Purleyn, xvi 
Purly, xvi 
Pursey, arms of, xx 
Putnam, Aaron, 40, 41 

Addison Webb, 552 

Allen, 54, 55 

Almira A.. 353 

Amos. 110 

Anna, 32 

Andrew, 55 

Benjamin, 347 

Betsey, 55 

Catherine, 55 

Daniel, 55 

David, 32, 54, 55 

Eleanor, 177 

Ehzabeth, 32, 40, 41, 55, 
115 

EHzabeth-Porter, 30, 52 

Ezra, 55 

Eunice, 32, 52, 54, 55 

Grandfather, 355 

Hannah, 40, 41 

Huldah, 32, 59 

Isaiah, 132 

Israel, 30, 32, 52, 54, 55, 
145 

Jeremiah, 40, 136, 658, 
659 

Tesse, 54. 55 

John, 55, 347 

Jonathan, 40, 41 

Joseph, 30. 32, 52, 54. 55 

Levi, 40. 41 

Lt. Col. 660 

Lucy. 54. 55 

Lydia. 40, 41 

Mary Ann, 41 

Mehitable. 32, 54, 55 

Miriam, 347 

Moses, 355 

Nathan, 40, 41 

Nehemiah, 55 

Parmelia. 55 

Perlev, 40, 41 

Perley, Z. M. P., 41 

Polly-Herrick, 353 

Rachel, 32 

Rebecca, 55 

Rebekah, 54 

Ruth, 55, 148, 346, 347 

Sally, 55 

Samuel, 353 

Sarah, 32, 40 

Sarah Ann, 218 

Susan, 32, 55 

Stephen, 347 

Thomas, 67 

William, 32, 54, 55 
Putnam, Life of Gen. Israel, 

145 
Putnam. Ont., 389, 390, 578 
Putnam Town Clerk, 446 
Putney, Bessie. Warren, 106 

Edith, 106 

Lewis Henrv, 100 

Mary, 463 

Warren, 106 
Puzzled Doctors, 170 
Pyreley, xix, xx 
Pylley, xix, xx 
Pyrly, xix 
Quaker, 42 
Quaker friend, 647 
Quebec, 300, 335, 411, 474 



732 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Queen Boadicea, 64 

Elizabeth, 63 
Queen of Chas. Second, xv 
Queensbury, N. B., 217, 408- 

410, 423, 635 

"Qvieens of Kngland," 190 

Queenstovvn Heights, 214 

Quimby, Amanda M., 276, 

277 

Daniel P., 276 

Dr., 309, 310 

George W., 309 

John, 276 

Mary-Bean, 276 

Samuel, 276 

Warren S., 276 
Quincy, Mass., 275, 277, 596 

612 
Quincy Patriot, 524 
Quint, Jaine Paine, 219 
Quinton, , viii 

Richard, 514 

Railroad, Algonia Cent., 403 

Boston & Albany, 459 

Boston & Maine, 92, 199 
335, 344, 433, 438. 451, 
549, 623 

Canada Atlantic, 472,473 

Canadian Pacific, 394, 
401, 403 

Chicago, Burlington, & 
Quincy, 615 

Del.. Lack. & West., 348 

Denver & Rio Grande, 
406 

Fitchburg, 249 

Georgetown & Danvers, 
224 

Grand Trunk, 377, 563 
584 

Pittsburg & Penn., 348 

Portland & Knox, 351 

Washinirton County, 403 
Rainsford, Jane. -104 
Ramapo, N. V., 460 
Ramsden, Rev. Wm., 498 
Raniseyburg, N. J.. 486 
Rancliff, Lord, xvii 
R:md, Dr. Isaac, 112 
Randall, Eldridge, 521 

Elmer Ellsworth, 521 

Hazel Marjorie, 521 

Jane H., 164 

Palonia Erances-Ames, 
521 
Randet Car Co., 168 
Randle, Rev. E. B., 518 
Rangeley, Me., 453 
Ranlett, Abigail-Kimball, 171 

Huldah K., 171 

Mary P., 171 

Phineas, 171 
Ranslow, Anna Mead-Parme- 
lee, 604 

George W., 604 

Georgiana, 604 
Ransom, Eliza Ann, 510 

Joanna, 298 

Martha-Drew, 298 

Thaddeus, 298 
Rapelje, Abram A., 389 

Sarah-WycofT, 389 

Winifred Maria, 389 
Rattlesnake, 263 
Raub, Philip, 486 
Rawson, Harriet Adell, 610 
Raymond, Amelia-Dykeman, 
430 

Dr., 632 

James, 127 

James Smith, 430 

Josephine, 338 

Lemuel. 418 

Mary Ada, 430 

Miriam, 368 

Nathan, 229 



Phoebe Amelia-Dykeman 
430 

Polly, 231 

Rhoda Alexander, 417 

Roxanna, 418 

W. O., 413, 631, 632, 645 
Raymond, N. H., 82 
Ravner, Lucy Frances, 449 
Raynolds, D. C, 489 
Raynor, Elizabeth, 44 
Read, David, 245 
Reade, R. M., 108, 666 
Reading, xv 

Readmg, Mass., 1 and 3 (map) 

130, 141, 151, 272, 286, 

287, 306, 347, 487, 542, 

549, 620 

Readfield. Me., 205, 369, 455, 

526 
Readville, Me., 303 
Rea, William, 143 
"Rebecca, Aunt," 127 
Rebellion, 24, 257, 259, 265, 
280, 303, 352, 365, 378, 
441, 442, 444, 462, 530, 
539, .543, .586, 591, 594 
Rebellion, Canadian, 253, 299 
Rebellion of 1837, 577 
Records, Bureau of War, 661 
Records, Colonial, xiii 
Records, Lynn vital 666, 
Records, to read the. iii 
Red Bank. N. J.. 569 
Redcoats, 106, 203 
Red Creek. N. V., 486 
Redington, Aaron, 52 

Abraham, 51 

Asa. 52 

Benjamin, 51 

Cloe, 52 

Elijah, 51 

Hephzibah, 51, 52 

Isaac, .51 

Martlia, 152 

Mary, 51 

Mary- Kimball, 51 

Samuel, 52 

Sarah, 51. 52 

Thomas, 51 
Red River Valley. 377 
Red Rock, la., 442 
Red Wing. Minn.. 630 
Reed, Anna Nelson, 639 

Anna Perlev, 639 

Charles Edward, 639 

Charlotte L., 193 

Judge, 571 

Katherine Fessenden, 
639 

Mary. 119 

Mary-Dennis, 639 

Philip, 639 

Wilham, 639 

William Dennis, 639 

William Page. 639 
Reese. Delaney. 537 
Reeser. Nancy, 538 
Rees River, Nev., 400 
Reformatory, Concord, 495 
Regiment, Essex Middle, 655 

Duchess County, 669 

Maine, 661 

Mass., 461, 596, 661, 602 

Mich., 661 

Minn., 661 

N. H., 668 

Ohio, 661 

Penn., 661 
Register, Essex Co. Hist. & 

Geneal., 70, 540 
Reinbeck, 232 
Remont Agent, xviii 
Rennie, Selina, 201 
Renova, Pa., 427 
Repartee, 1 74 
Reporter, The, 398 



Representative, 12. 16, 18, 44, 
141, 243, 365, 490, 492, 

493, 501, 511, 531, 619, 
632, 644 

Representative Men of U. S., 

439 
Republic, x, xx 
Republican, 598 
Republican Party, 440 
Republican, The, 383 
Residence of Rev. Samuel 
Perley, 628 

the Geo, A. Perley, 398 
Residences, 641 
Reunion, First Family, ix 

Second Perley Family, xi 
Reunion, the Perley Family, 
viii, 250 

Third Perley Family, xi 
Revell, Annie, 391 

Annie-Minty, 391 

Henry, 391 
Revere, 515 

Revolution, 52, 53, 57, 61, 66, 
73, 99, 118, 127, 137, 
140, 249, 632 
Revolutionary Armv,161, 414 
Revolutionary experience, 135 
Revolutionary soldier, 243, 

494, 646 
Rexton, N. B., 636, 638 
Reynolds, Louisa Maria, 526 

Luana, 476 

Mary Jane, 629 
Rezeau, Mary, 214 
Rhoads, Joanna, 166 
Rhodes, Helen M., 454 
Rice, Candice, 247 

Caroline, 246 

CaroHne A., 247 

Carrie A., 246 

Daniel W., 247 

David, 225 

Edwin, 246, 247 

Edwin D., 246, 247 

Gov., 495 

Mary A., 247 

Mr., 248 
Rice County, Kan., 515 
Rich, Anna Elizabeth, 341 

Berthia, 488 

Hannah-Evans, 341 

Henry Alexander, 488 

Lilvia, 247 

Robert, 341 
Richards, Anna, 525 

Benjamin, 316 

Dickinson W., 510 

Frederick, 316 

Harry Milton, 316 

Jabez, 356 

Jane, 315 

John, 315 

M., 103 

Oscar Williard, 316 

WilUam B.. 315 
Richardson, Alvah M., 85 

Augustus Ilsley, 55 

Betsey, 55 

Caroline Sovina, 55 

Charles Frederic, 55 

Clara Isabel, 520 

Cynthia-Cross, 521 

Ebenezer, 127 

E. C, 129 

Edward Symmes Lang, 55 

Eliza Anne, 55 

Ellen Octavia, 55 

Eunice, 55 

Eunice-Jennison, 55 

Hannah K., 251 

Ida, 440 

Israel, 55 

Jesse, 55 

Jesse P., 526 

Joel, 244, 251 

John, 520 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



733 



Richardson, Joshua, 55 
Mary, 270 

Millard iMllmore, 5^0 
Nathaniel, 55 
Nathaniel Putnam, 5o 
Sarah F.-King, 520 
Sarah Lang, 55 
Stella Louise, 520 
William Putnam 55 
Richardson House the 312 
Richford, Vt., 483, 484, 487, 
603, 611 ,„.,.. 

Richmond Corner, NB., 404 
Richmond, Ernest Dalton,287 
Richmond, Me., 311 
Richmond, N. B., 404 40o 
Richmond, N. H., 42, 439 
Ricker, Bertha Ar villa, 548 
Edward M., 548 
Frances Lillian-Spiller, 
548 
Ridgefield, Ct., 387 
Riding, the, 581 
Ridlon's History, 305 

Saco Valley Settlements, 
220 
Ridott, 111., 358 
Riley, Mary, 452 .„„,o9 
Rindge, N. H., 69, 130-132 
Rines, John L., 625 

Rosella M.-Folsom, 62o 
Ring's Island, 209 
Rio Du Camp, Que., 401 
Ripan, Wis., 348 
River, Chippewa, 6U 
Conway, xv 
Eau Galle, 439 
Frazer, 429 
Gaspereaux, 117 
Harlem, 574 
Illinois, 356 
Kennebec, 173 
Macnaquack, 409 
Merrimack, 24, 055 
Mile, 4 

Miramichi, 397 
Missisquoi, 602 
Mississippi, 234, 377, 462 
North, 291 . 
Oromocto, vn, 117 
Parker, 164, 224, 291 
Pecatomica, 356 
Penobscott, 161 
Plum Island, 151 
Rowley, 106, 293, 325 
Saco, 122 

Salmon, 253 ... ,„ 

St John, vu, viii,I17,ll», 
120"l29, 213, 216, 218 
394 396, 410, 632, 652 
St. John. Hist, of, 631,632 
St. Lawrence, 584 
St. Louis, 377 
Tobique, 394 
Trout, 609 
Yellowstone, 400 
Rivpr Falls Wis., 134, 252 
Riverside Cal., 227, 228. 422. 

590, 597 
Riverside, Me., 227 
Roach, Jane, 635 
Road, State, 356 
Roads, Andover and Rowley, 

72 
Roanoke Island 385, 576 
Roanoke, Va., 516, 537, 653 
Robbins, Alice, 222 
Ann-Wilkins, 2.i^ 
Capt., 513, 514 
Charles Frederic, 222 
Elizabeth, 286 
George, 46 
Gussie, 513 
Jennie, 645 
I Margaret-Wood, 40 
Mercy, 46 
Mr., 645 



Mrs., 645 
Nathaniel C, 222 
Nellie, 645 
Samuel Perley. 513 
Roberts, Annie Alfretta, 311 

Elmer Perley, 311 

John Ellsworth, 310,311 

Mary Elizabeth, 310, 311 

Peter Wakefield, 310 

Rosella A., 120 

Sarah, 563 

Sarah-Mussey, 310 
Robeson, Anna Augusta, 509 

Emerancy-Cherrymaii, 

569 
John Edward, 569 
Robins, xv 

Robins, Benjamin, 14/ 
Robinson, xv „„ -.^ 

Robinson, Anna, 33 644 

Anna Adahne-tulwilcr, 

561 
Betsey, 147, 295 
Betty, 147 
Bruce Perley, 501 
Dean, 32, 33 
Dorothy, 561 
Ehza Niles-Trumbull,511 
Francis Perley, 147 
Gov., 495 
Harriet, 147 
Harris, 276 
Henry Cornehus, 511 
Henry Martyn, 561 
Huldah, 147 
Huldah- Perley, 295 

Rhn':'l46'l47, 295, 659 
Lemuel, 135, 658 
Levey Anstice, 600 
Louise, 466 
Lydia, 33 
Mary, 33 
Mary-Gould, 146 
Mary P., 521 
Mary Shipman, 511 
Mehitable, 32, 147 
Mrs., 334 

Olive Caroline, 207 
Philena, 391 
Rebecca, 147 
Sally, 147 
Sarah, 33, 605 
Susannah, 33 
Walter, 147 
William H., 561 
Roby, Ebenezer, 232 

Laura Ann Bowker ^6^ 
Laura-Bowker, 23^ 
Rochdale, Eng^ 402 
Rochester, N. H., 36, 201 
Rochester, N. H., History of. 

Rochestef, N. Y., 194. 445, 

554 
Rockford, 111., 358 
Rockingham, Vt., 491 
Rockland, Me., 150. 226. 303. 

459 
Rockport, Mass., 92 
Rockville, 467 
Rockville Centre, L. L, 380. 

ooy 

Rocky Point, 212 
Rockies, the, 598 
Koe,^William Clark, 222^^^ 

Alice, 43 

Asa, 43 

Benjamin, 39, 4.i 

CaroUne, 594 

Daniel, 106, 660 

Emogene Parmeha, 480 

Eunice, 43 

Hazel Pearl, 393 

John, 43, 51, 58, 59, 632 



Tohii Franklin, 393 
John Richard, 393 
Lcroy, 486 
I,ois, 43 
Lydia. 43 
Lucy. 43 
Mary. 506 
Mary Dow. 522 
Morris Ruffs, 393 
Parmelia-Burtch, 480 
Perley, 43 
Robert, 506 
Roland Leo, 393 
Samuel, 43 
Sarah, 43 
Sarah-Langrell, 39.J 
Sarah-Somerby, 500 
Susan, 277 

Susannah-Marston, 4-i 
William, 393 
Rolfe, Abigail, 29 
Rolhns. Charles Frank, 463 
David, 463 
Erastus Graffum, 403 
Fred Perley. 461, 
Miriam N. -Gross. 403 

Rollo. XX 
Roman, a, 267 
Rome, 96, 422 
Romulus, N. Y., 82 
Root, Coroner, 260 

Emma Artimicia, 023 
Rooty Plain, 160, 166 
Roper, John, 3 

Walter, 2, 6 
Ropes, Elizabeth 207 
Rose, Laura A., 380 
Roslindale, Mass., 052 
Ross, Anion, 240 
Donald A., 240 
Grace, 240 
Harriet-Brown, 240 
Joseph, 196 
Joseph Lakeman, 101 
Rev. Mr., 360 
Rothsay, N. B., 430 
Rough, George W., 375 
Malinda-Broceus,375 
Myrtle Malinda, 375 
Rounds, Charles Bean 194 
Dora Madehne, 194 
Ella Frances, 194 
George Monroe, 194 
Helen Norwood, 195 
Henrietta Perley, 194 
InaG., 195 
Ina Gertrude, 194 
John 1^., 194 
Joseph, 194 
Mary Etta, 194 
Mina De Hart, 194 
Nancy-Small, 194 
Nathaniel, 194 
Pauhne, 194 
Ralph P., 194 
Samuel Perley, 194 
Wilham, 194 
William Haskell, 194 

Roundy, -> 553 

Julia, .630 
Rouse, Avis Anne 538 
Rowan-Legg, Aubrey Bur- 
leigh, 586 
Edward Lutwidge, 580 
Jane Ehzabeth-Burleigh, 
586 
Rowe, Elizabeth Allen. 544 
Rowell, Dorothy, 267 
Flora May, 052 
K William, 606 
Lois-Rowell, 606 
May Lucinda, 000 
Urbane F., 431 
Rowley Common, 381 
Rowley, Gage's Hist, of, 206 
Rowley Green, 206 



734 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Rowley, Mass., vi, 4, 11, 13, 
15, 25-27,30, 33,35,43- 
46, 48, 52, 59, 63, 70, 
75-81, 83, 84, 86, 89-93, 
98, 100, 101, 104-106, 
113, 122, 148, 149, 151- 
153, 159, 160, 164-166, 
178, 179, 182, 183, 185, 
196, 197, 204, 205 207, 
208, 218, 268, 269, 290, 
294 297, 308, 313, 316. 
317, 323-326, 333, 338, 
346, 361-363. 365, 367. 
381. 468. 528-530, 547. 
548, 558-560, 587, 594, 
628. 629, 633. 640, 643. 
649, 650 
Rowley records, 642, 644 
Roxbury, Mass., 119, 202. 332 

454, 465 
Royal Arcanum, 361, 615 
Royalston, 244, 438, 439 
Royalston, Mass., 538 
R's, the three, 439 
Rubicon, crossed the, 181 
Rublee, Amherst Willoughby 
610 
Raymond Seymour, 010 
Susan-Smith, 610 
William Ezra, 610 
William Seymour 610 
Ruck, Jf)hn, 16 
Ruddiman, Ellen Mattison, 

562 
Rugby, xviii 
Ruger, Gen. T. H , 565 
Ruling Elder, 45, 632 
Rumford, Mc., 62 
Rumncy, N. H., 1H3, 362, 471 
Rumsey, Harriet M., 612 
Lucy Burch, 612 
Norman, 612 
Rundlc. Maria, 491 
Rundlett, Betsey Potter, 329 
Dora Prescott, 329 
Elizabeth Blanchard, 324 
Josiah, 329 

Mehitable-Plumincr, 324 
OUver, 625 
Runnels, Arvilla, 625 

Enos, 122 
Rushagonis, 407 
Rushford, N. Y , 607 
Rusk, Adelaide, 611 
A. F., 611 
David Joseph, 611 
Jennie-Watson, 611 
John Cleaves, 611 
Russ, Anna C. -Snyder. 531 
Christian, 531 
Gladys Hale, 532 
Willis Roberts, 531 

Russell, , 634 

Andrew, 198 
Dorothy-Jewett, 198 
Edmund Asbury, 198 
Edward Woodbury, 198 
Emma Robinson, 635 
Ezra, 7, 72, 
Frances, 635 
Frances-Golding, 635 
Frank Allen, 198 
John, 375, 635 
Mabel Clifton. 198. 201 
Mabel Vivian, 198 
Russell County, 473, 474 
Russell, Messrs. 168 
Russia, 383, 572 
Russians, fought, 668 
Rust, Ann I,ouisa, 197 
Aunt Judith, 207 
Benjamin Tucker, 197 
CaroUne E., 198 
Caroline Elizabeth, 196 
Catherine, 196 
Charles, 196 
Charles Henry. 197 



Charles Linwood, 201 

Charles P., 197 

Charles Perley, 196, 197 

Christie Verne, 198 

daughte., 102 

Dennison, 196, 197 

Elvira J., 201 

Elvira Jane, 197 

Ernest Carter, 198 

Ethel Lena, 197 

Francis A. P., 200 

Francis Augustus Pea- 
body, 197 

Fred Clifton, 197 

George Henry, 196 

Hannah, 196 

Harriet A., 197 

Harriet Ann, 196 

Harriet Newhall, 201 

Helen F. 201 

Helen Farley, l97 

Jacob, 291 

Jennie Frances, 200 

John, 196 

Judith, 196, 207 

Louisa, 197 

Lucrctia Smith, 196 

Lucy M., 198 

Lucy Mary, 196 

Maud C, 201 

Maud Clayton, 197 

Moses R., 136 

Nathaniel, 196, 197, 203 

Nathaniel P., 197 

Nathaniel Perley, 190 

Rena Fisk, 200 

Ruel, 197 

vSally, 196 

Sally P., 198 

Sally Pcrlev, 196 

Sarah Frances, 196, 198 

Sarah-Robbins, 196 

Valcncourt Eugene, 197. 
201 

Wallis, 110 

Walter .Sumner, 197 

WiUiam Augusta, 200 
Rust cellar, 203 

family, 203 

Genealogy, 196 

mansion, 203 
Rust & Grant, 197 
Rutland, Mass., 59 
Rutland, Vt., 278, 561 
Ryder, Anna Eliza, 302 

Isaiah, 302 

Isaiah Lewis, 302 

Lewis Henry, 302 

Phocbe-Kennisoii, .302 

Roena-Paul, 593 

Thomas Caldwell, 593 

WiHis Thomas, 593 

Sabattus, Me., 393, 454 

Sabetha, 561 

Sacajawea, 598 

Sachem, chief, 411 

Saco Valley Settlements, Rid- 
lon's, 220 

Safford, Mehitable, 33 
William, 290 

Sagamore, Masconnomet. 10 
Wunjeet, 411 

Sage, Mary Ann, 516 

Saginaw, Mich., 578 

Saladee, Lillian Leota, 271 

Salem Court House, 291 

Salem Gazette, xi, 73, 121, 
166, 172, 173, 199. 205, 
206, 209, 222, 280, 291, 
346, 523, 542. 627, 638, 
640 

Salem Journal, 467 

Salem, Mass., xii, 4, 15, 25, 33, 
41, 51, 54, 56, 57, 64, 
70, 71, 77, 85, 92, 105, 
107, 111-113, 124, 136, 



144, 149, 155, 159, 172. 
176, 184, 187, 188, 197, 
199, 200, 201, 205, 207, 
208, 222, 223, 225, 275, 
279, 280, 287, 290, 298, 
306, 307. 325, 333, 348, 
353, 359, 360, 417, 445, 
447, 448, 465 467, 475, 
613, 515, 522, 523, 543, 
545 549, 552, 615, 616, 
624, 625, 628, 642, 645, 
648, 649, 654. 658 
Salem. Me.. 267 
Salem Modiste, 199 
Salem newspapers, 540 
Salem, N. H., 58, 289, 307 

500, 553 
Salem Observer, 86, 340 
Salem Register, 307, 473 
Salem Telegram, 540, 622 
Salem Village, Mass., .32 
Salem Village, N. H., 354 
Salisbury, 149 

Salisbury, Mass., 107, 209,210 
212, 381. 501, 506, 648 
Salisbury, Mo., 351 
vSalisbury, N. H., 466, 469 
Sallop, p;ng., 316 
Salmon Falls, N. IL, 291 
Salt Lake City, 400 
Samuel, the, 2.33 
San Antonio. 370 
San Bernardino, Cal., 649 
Sanborn, Abijah, 270 
Benjamin F., 282 
C. H., 532 
Eleanora, 270, 272 
Hannah, 375 
Herschel A., 272 
Herschel Almeron, 270 
Jacob, 330 
Joseph, 270 
Mary, 270 
Mary A., 272 
Mary Apphia, 270 
Pearl Smith, 330 
Sail V Dame, 3.30 
William Hunt, 330 
Sanborn, N. Dak., 631 
Sanbornton Bay, 168 
Sanbornton, N. H., 270, 272, 
282, 283, 330, 343, 477 
478, 490, 560, 641, 042, 
647 
Sanderson, Stephen, 631 
San Diego, Cal., 635, 637 
Sandon, B. C, 637 
Sandusky, O., 479, 609 
Sandwich, Mass., 604 
vSanford, Me., 161, 463 
San F'rancisco Cal., 18, 49, 
152, 174, 175, 344, 371. 
400, 406, 407, 456, 504, 
513, 563, 564, 604, 613, 
624, 635, 637, 654 
.San Jacinto, 376 
San Jose, Cal., 634 
San Rafael, Cal., 514 
vSanta Rosa, Cal., 439, 440 
Santiago de Cuba, 163 
Saratoga, 96, 161, 183 
Sargent, Amy Ann, 281 

Amy Snowdon, 279, 281 
Ann E., 460 
Anthony Colby, 281 
Anthony Burpee, 281 
Arthur J., 283 
Charles H., 74 
Charles Seamans, 281 
Christopher, 143 
Curtis H., 281 
Dolly, 281 
Eddie, 281 
Elizabeth, 509 
Frank Nichols, 281 
George, 460 
James, 286 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



735 



Sargent, James Severance, 281 

John Gibson, 281 

Julia Ann, 283 

Julia Ann-Hadley, 283 

Marcus Everett, 281 

Mary Ann, 281 

Peter, 281 

Proctor Perlev, 281 

Robert M., 28 L 

Rodney, 460 

Sally, 281 

vSarah, 140 

Stephen, 281 

Story Low. 281 

Tabitha, 212 

Valentine, 286 
Sarner, Gusta Ida, 369 

Jane-Anderson, 369 

John, 369 
Saugus, 312, 513-515, 666 
Saunders, , 632 

Amos N., 324 

Amos Nelson, 547 

Rertie, 324 

David, 103 

Edward, 324 

Edward Daniel, 324 

EUzabeth-Clark, 324 

EHzabeth-Pickard, 324 

Ella Maria, 324 

Harrington, 324 

Julia G., 316 

Lucy Perkins Hobbs, 547 

Mary, 218 

Mary Augusta, 547 

Moses S., 324 

Savage, 19 

Savage Place, 141 
Savage Station, 90 
Savannah, Ga., 90, 162, 207, 

321 
Savings Bank, Dry Dock, 385, 

386 
Savory, Betsey Balch, 308 

Charles Putnam, 308 

Ellen Maria, 308 

Hannah Holton, 308 

Lucy Perley, 308 

Mary Stevens, 308 

Moses, 308 

Moses Putnam, 308 

Priscilla Parker, 308 

Thomas, 307, 308 

Thomas William, 308 

William, 307 

WilHam P., 308 
Savoy, Alma, 370 

Martin, 370 

Mary Susan -Goff, 370 
Sawin, Tulia A., 191 

Luke, 246 
Sawyer, Abbie Huston, 644 

Agnes Gertrude, 644 

Albert, 525 

Alberta. 525 

Albert N., 195 

Albert Newell, 643 

Alvira, 277 

Anna-Fowler, 64.3 

Anna-Richards, 525 

Benjamin. 44 

Casta Agnes 227 

Cephas P., 195, 644 

Cephas Franklin, 643 

Clara Augusta-Thayer, 
644 

Cora Adelaide, 644 

Diadama-Cooper, 226 

Elbridge, J., 606 

Enoch, 110, 113 

Eva Nettie, 644 

Ezra, 244 

Fanny, 469 

Foster Perley, 226 

Harriet Merle, 227 

Hattie M,. 227 

Hattie May, 226 



Henry Clifford, 644 
Homer Benson, 227 
Irving Trueman, 227 
Jennette, B., 195 
Jennette Barrill, 64'i 
Jennie May, 226 
Joanna-Pickett, 277 
John Durgin, 644 
John F., 195 
John Fowler, 371, 643 
Kneeland Arthur, 227 
Leslie Horace, 226 
Lurinda P., 195, 644 
Lucinda Perley, 643 
Malinda-Perley, 371 
Mary, 44 

Mary-Gochey, 606 
Micajah, 110, 113 
Paul, 226 

Percy Winficld, 644 
Polly K., 469 
Reuben, 195, 643 
Roscoe Oscar, 226 
Ruth, 39 
Sally, 453 
Samuel, 139 
Truman I., 227 
Truman Irons, 226 
Wallace Elbridge, 606 
Wilbert Perley, 644 
Willard, 195, 371. 643 
William, 277 
WilHam Leslie, 227 
William Yeaton, 226 

Saybrook Hall, 78 

Sayre, Joshua, 486 
Thomas, 486 

Say ward House, 146, 305 

Saxon, xvi, xix, xx, 508 

Saxonville, Mass., 208, 629 

Saxsmith, Margaret-Bunbry, 
426 
Michael, 426 
Sarah, 426 

Scanipton, Francis, 514 
Frank Perley, 514 
Harry George, 514, 652 
Helen-Hill, 514 
Mary Louisa, 514 
AVilliam, 514 
Willie Chapman, 514 

Scandia, Kan., 480 

Scarboro, 370 

Scarr, Eliza Jane, 409 
Joseph, 409 
Mary-Coulson, 409 

Scathern, Mary, 202 

Schencks, Mary Elizabeth, 
93 

Schenectady, N. Y., 456 

Schoharie County, N. Y., 
441 

Schoharie, N. Y., 418 

Scholars, 4500, 420 

Scholey, Charles Herbert, 387 
George Barrett, 387 
Margaret Isabella-Amos, 
387 

School, Amer. Deaf, 549 
Amos Perley' s, 144 
Bible, 455 

Boston Latin, 512, 531 
Boston University, 544 
Bryant & Stratton'sCom. 

458, 501 
Butte High, 401 
Chicago Med., 491 
Chicago Univ., 609 
City Normal, Dayton, O 

485 
Collegiate Gram., 584 
Deaf and Dumb, 340 
Dedham High, 529 
Dr. Huntingford's xviii 
Elliott Hospital, 463 
English High, 69, 528 
609, 623 



Episcopal Sunday, 569 
Fargo High, 477 
Farmington Normal, 422 
Feoffees' , Ipswich, 259 
for Boys, State, 455 
Fredericton High, 410, 

430 
Free, 185 
Georgetown High, 458, 

543, 546 
Girls' High, 334 
Gorhani Normal, 371 
Harvard Med., 296, 653 
Haverhill High, 501, 619 
High, 353, 410 
High of St. John, 408 
Holten High, 347, 514, 

550 
Ipswich High, (See Man- 
ning High) 
Laconia High, 433 
Lowell High, 381 
Lyman, 365 
Lynn High, 451 
Maiden High, 536 
Manchester High, 381 
Manning High, Ipswich, 

77, 198, 202, 338, 341, 

535, 536, 542, 617,622, 

623 
Mark Hopkins' Training, 

616 
Mass. Naut. Training, 621 
Mass. Normal Art, 433 
Medical, 491 
Methuen High, 433 
Michigan City High, 253 
Michigan Law, 401 
Military, xviii 
Miss Edwards', 374 
Mission, 415 
Moncton High, 410, 447, 

448 
Newburyport High, 331 
Newburyport Training, 

618 
New Hamphshire, State 

Normal, 331 
New York Med., 447 
Normal, 455 
Normal, Salem, 158 
of Oratory, Boston, xi 
of Methods, summer, 486 
Oswego Normal, 485 
Ottawa Grammar, 473 
Peabody High, 466, 614 
Pecatonica High, 359 
Perley Free, 180, 185, 187 

533 
Pickering, Salem, 348 
Portland High, 564 
Plymouth High, 609 
Plymouth Normal, 464 
Putnam, 618 
Putnam Free, 458, 517 
Reform, 365 
Richford High, 484 
Roxbury High, 531 
Sabbath, 312 
Salem Commercial, 535, 

614 
.Salem High, 615 
Salem, Normal, 543 
Sheffield vScientific, 511 
State Normal, 249, 331, 

546, 562, 601 

State Reform. 649, 650 
St. George, Newport, R. 

I., 272 
St. Mary's, Concord, 471 
St. Paul, Cambridge, 362 
St. Paul's, Concord, 473, 

474, 
Sunday, 155, 199, 309, 

317, 358, 436, 467, 539. 

547, 620, 624 
Sunday, first Dracut, 144 



736 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



School, Taplcy Grammar, 514 
Teachers' Fitting, 455 
Teachers' Training, 334 
Terry's, 373 
Topsfield High, 540 
Training, Boston, 332 
Training, Oswego, N. V., 

485 
Vermont State Summer, 

609 
Volkmann, 447 
Wakefield High, 021 
Wavcrly High, 053 
Willard Hall, Hanvers, 

535 
Winnipeg High, 582 
Yale I.aw, 607 
Yale Theolf)g, 609 

School Board, Salem, 467 

Board, New London, 464 
Building, Perley Free, 

187 
House, an old, 314 
House, Perley's, 578 
Rcgt., Boston, 512 

Schoolcraft, Mich., 304, 305 

Schools in Can., and Eng., 584 

Schooner, (See also Ship, 
Sloop), 
Hope, 210 
Regulator, 209, 210 
Sally, 107 
Success, 000 

Schley, Admiral, 163 

Schreiter, David M., 596 

Scituate, Mass., 4.54 

Scotch Ancestry, 69 

Scotch Descent, xiv 

Scotch family, 389 

Scotch Highlands, xvii 

Scotch Language, xv 

Scotch Pine, xvii 

.Scotch Plains, N. J., 417, 580 

Scotch pronounciation, xiv 

Scotchtown, N. B., 392 

Scotland, xix, 14. 239, 395, 
408, 426, 020 

Scotland Hill, 58 

Scott, Andrew 215 

Benjamin, 159, 160, 101 

102, 182 
Benjamin Smith, 547 
Bridget-Boynton, 159 
Charles Frederick, 557 
Dolly, 1.59, 181 
Elizabeth, 159, 321 559 
Ella Frances, 547 
Hannah, 159, 160 
Hannah-HufI, 557 
Harold Madison, 325 
Helen Adclia, 557 
Horace, M., 324 
John, 557 
John W., 527 
Lidie-Beauchamp, 527 
Lydia, 442 

Lydia-Dickinson, 215 
Mabel I.., 324 
Martha, 92, 159 
Martha- Perley, 181 
Mary Ann, 78, 159 
Mary Blanton, 527 
Mary H., 325 
Mary-Smith, 547 
Nancy, 182 

Nathaniel, 78 159, 161 
Perley, 159, 160 
Sally, 159, 160 
Samuel, 159, 161. 547 
Sarah, 159 
Sarah Ann, 215 
Sylvester, 160 

Scott farm, 159 

Scottish family, the an., 383 

Scott's Hill, 159, 323 

Scott's Lane, 2 

Scribner, David M,. 365 



Emeline M., 525 

Ivmeline-Patch, 365 

Huldah, 421 

Julia Ann, 365 
Scribner's Hill, Harrison, 365 
Scripture. Illustrated, 496 
Scvtheville, 271 
Seabrook, N. H., 48, 94, 98, 
107, 108, 112, 190, 193, 
195 
Seal, the Ipswich Town, 21 
Scamans, Rev. Job, 269 
vSearcy, Ark., 373, 374 
Searl, Jeremiah, 45 
Searlc, Eunice, 312 
Sears, Lt.-Col. Barnabus, 657 
Seattle, Wash., 378, 428, 499, 

580 
Seaver, Ardell Knowlton, 502 

Helen Cymanthe, .5.53 

Olive Maria-Emery, 502 

Olive May, 502 

Warren, 502 

Willis Woodman, 502 
Sebec, Me., 521, 536 
Sebec Village, Me., 303 
Sedgewick Me., 319 
Sedgwick Hospital, 199 
Seeds, Linda Bell. 42H 

Mary Elizabeth-Page, 428 

William, 428 

William Page, 428 
Seely, Elizabeth Davis, 629 

William Wallace, 629 
Seelye, Prof., 105 
Seminary, Andover, 291 

Andover Thcolog., 347, 
512, 

Bangor Theolog., 205 

Baptist, 580 

East Northficld, Mass., 
428 

Ooddard, 496 

Huguenot, 415 

Ipswich I'cmale, 373 

Kent's Hill, 307 

Kcnyon Theological, 653 

Toadies', 406 

Maine Wesleyan, 380 
419, 422 

Mount Holyokc, 155 

Newbury, 493 

Newton Thef)log., 507 

Til ton, 626 

Union Thcolog., 387 

Wasioja, 599 

Westbrook, 496 

Williston, 347 

Young Ladies', 415 
Senate, Mass., 49.5 

of University, N. B., 035 

State, 511 

the, 581 

the National, 385 

U. S., 552 
Senator, Mass. State, 107 

N. H.. 492 

State, 44 

U. S., 18 
vSencca, N. Y.. 428 
Sentinel, the, 200, 524 
Sergeant, Jeannctte, 293 
Sermon, Century, 32.3 
Severance, Ann, 281 

Judith, 281 

Mary Ann, 255 

Mary Cynthia, 530 
Seward, William H., 385 
Sewards Mills, Vassalboro, 

521 
Sewell, Esther, 591 

Jonathan, 112, 114 
Sexton, Belle Doncll, 569 

EUsha D., 509 

Eliza A., 509 
Seymour, Emily, 380 
Shaftsbury. Vt., 247 



Shannon, Catherine, 428 

Mrs., 571 
Shannondale, Mo., 649 
Shapleigh, Me., 197 
Shapley, Me., 197 
Sharon, Ct., 491 
Sharon, Vt., 462 
Sharpe, Agnes May, 226 

Hannah-Birmingham, 
624 
Shattuck, Emily-Maynard, 
484 

James Harlan, 484 

Louisa, 5.34 

Maria, 469 

Oliver, 657 

William B., 484 
Shattuck, the pioneer, 234 
Shaw, Abijah, 19 

Eliza- Dennis, 135 

Harriet-Banner, 198 

Henry, 198 

Joseph, 135 

Margaret, 537 

Martha E.. 135 

Mary, 232 

Mary Josephine-Splane, 
600 

Matilda-Drier, 409 

Mattie Marretta, 409 

Sedgefield Douglas, 409 

Walter James, 198 
Shays, going after old, 165 
Shays' Rebellion, 165, 166 
Shears, Ehza, 418 
Shcdiac, 585 
Sheffield Academy, N. B., 218, 

219 
Sheffield, 111., 560 
Sheffield, Mass., 491 
Sheffield, N. B., 120, 210-219 
201, 399, 579, 583, 034, 
045, 650 
Sheibly, J. S.. 245 
Sheldon, Vt., 479, 483, 625 
Shelton, Ct., 486 
Shely, Elizabeth Margaret- 
Allen, 489 

Elizabeth Pearl, 489 

John Daniel, 489 
Shennandoah Valley, 202 
Shepard, Samuel, 373 

Ursula, 373 
Shepherd, Jeremiah, 155 

Mary F^lizabeth, 1.55 

Mary-Symonds, 155 
Shepherd & Co., Salem, 466 
Shepley, Annie V., 126 

Bessie, 126 

George, 126 

J. G., 120 
Sheridan, Mont., 404 
Sheriff, 68 
Sherman, EH, 487 

I'lorence E., 611 

Gen., 441, 612 

Orretta, 487 

Polly-Phelps, 487 
Sherman's Mills, Me., 393 
Sherwood I-'orest, Eng., 202 
Shields, James Archibald, 423 

Mary Ann-Langhan, 423 

May Louisa, 424 
Sherwin, Anna, 69 

Betsey, 69 

David, 69 

FMward, 69 

Hannah, 69 

Henry, 69 

Jonathan, 69 

Mary, 69 

Mary-Crombip, 09 

Patty, 09 

Rebecca, 09 

Sally, 09 

Thomas, 68, 69 
Shiloh, Me., 454, 455 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



737 



Ship, (See also Schooner, 
Sloop,) 
Admiral Sampson, 588 
Arabella, the good, 494 
Aurora, 210 
Betsey, 205 

Caesar, (transport), 655 
Comet, (Brig.), 205 
Des Moines, 202 
Enterprise, 621 
Favorite, 205, 209-211 
George, 172, 642 
Hannah, 210 
Hartford, 516 
Tames, 205 
jason, 210 
Mayflower, 650 
Rising Sun, 210 
Volant, 203, 205 
vShirley A., 308 
Shirley Village, 246 
Short, Chester Perley, 501 
Clarence Eleazer, 501 
Eleazer Pettengill, 500 
Elmira- Adams, 500 
James Henry, 500 
Nancy-Gillespie, 518 
Philip, 128 
Tempe E., 518 
William N., 518 
Show, Barnum & Bailey, 567 
W. C. Coup., 567 
World's Greatest, 567 
Shows, Batchellor & Doris,567 
Shropshire, Eng., 316 
Shurtlefi", Jane E., 247 
Shute house, 175 
Sic volvere Parcas, viii 
Sidmore, Mary, 344 
Sarah P., 344 
Stephen Felton, 344 
Siege of Boston, Frothing- 

ham's, 145 
Sierra Madre, Cal., 227 
Signature, 650, 652 
Silhouettes, 169, 298, 299 
Silloway, Charles, 489 

Sarah Matilda, 489 
Silver Bow, Mont., 400, 401, 

667 
Silver spoons, 39, 56 
Simmons, Caroline-Briggs,405 
Cyrus, 634 
George, 405 
Ralph Woodbury, 405 
Samuel, 218 
Warren Perley, 405 

Simonds, , 632 

Angle George, 518 
Annie, 548 
Benjamin, 659 
Charles, 414 
James, vii, viii 
Lucy Ellen, 614 
Mary B. -George, 518 
Nathan, vii 
Richard, vii, viii, 414 
Willard, 518 
Simonds, N. B., 634 
Simkins, Cicelia, 507 
Simpson, Abigail J., 629 
Frank, 105 
Harry, 105 
Helen, 629 
Michael, 105, 106 
Michael Henry, 629 
Paul, 629 
Sinclair Hotel, 160 
Sioux City, la., 442 
Sioux Falls, 599, 601 
Sizergh, the house of, 190 
Skeffington, Catherine, 287 
Skemihorn, Magdalene, 428 
Sketches, hundred, iii 
Skillin, Joanna Drinkwater, 
644 
Mary Augusta, 380 



.Skillings, Mary Ann, 379 
Skinner, Anna Lydia, 484 
Chancev, 484 
Lura-Wheatley, 484 
Skynner, Georgina Helen, 390 
John, 390 

Marv-Adamson, 390 
Slade, Lambert &, 608 
Sleeper, Susan D., 354 
Sligo, Ire., 649 
Slipp, James, 581 

Phebe August e, 581 
Phebe-Mcrritt, 581 
Sloat, Phebe, 394 
Sloop, (See also Schooner, 
Ship, ) 
Mohican, 332 
of War Curlew, 205 
Yarico, 205 
vSmall, Clarice Oxnard, 643 
Clarissa O., 195 
James, 643 
Jeremiah, 453 
Mrs., 55 
Nancy, 194 
Susannah-Huston, 643 
Small pox. 139, 142 
Smart, Mehitable, 145 

Smith, , 643 

Abbie Parmelia-Everett, 

249 
Abigail, 82 
Adaline Amelia, 408 
Agnes Laura, 605 
Alexander, 530 
Alfred Atherton, 635 
Ancell, 119 
Andrew, 214 
Andrew Robinson Gid- 

dings, 82 
Anna Melissa, 609 
Annie Bell, 423 
Annie F.-Currier, 547 
Annie-Fulton, 636 
Annie Mary, 82 
Ansel, 82 
Ansil Irving, 82 
Anson, 82 
Apphia, 82 
Asahel, 135, 658 
Augustus P., 274 
Austin William, 648 
Azro A., 141 
Beatrice Gertrude, 648 
Benjamin, 204 
Betsey, 105 

Betsey Alida-Palmer, 432 
Betsev M., 324 
Carl Edward, 610 
Carrie-Emmerick, 284 
Carrie J., 589 / 

Charles, 215 

Charles Perley, 390, 391 
Charlotte, 116 
Charlotte-Hull. 610 
Christopher, 231 
Cushman Perley, 606 
Daniel, 364 
David Colby, 295 
Dolly, 141 
Drusilla Atkins, 623 
Ebenezer, 141 
Ednah Dow, 610 
Edward, 636 
Edward P., 547 
Edward Henry, 606 
Edward W., 610 
Edward Winso-r, 609 
Effie Ann, 249 
E. H., 606 
Elisha Winsor, 609 
Elizabeth, 68, 374 
EUzabeth Ann, 629 
Elkanah, 82 
Ella Anna, 216 
Ella M., 647 
Ella Perlev, 548 



Ella S. -Livingstone, 631 

Elmeda Ester, 631 

Emeline, 231 

Emily, 569 

Emma Condell, 529 

Emma Jane, 82 

Esther, 636 

Ezra Biley, 609 

Frances Shcpard, 373 

Francis Arthur, 215 

P'rank David. 296 

Frederic Perley, 296 

Fred Stevens, 296 

Fuller Andrews, 364 

George, 232 

George A., 631 

George Edwin 82 

George Elvin 284 

George Irving, 296 

George M., 284 

Hannah, 141, 283 

Hannah-Goodhue, 306 

Harriet Ehzabeth, 246 

Harriet Farley, 196 

H. De F., 160 

Henry, 82 

Henry Edward Leavitt, 
215 

Henry Sutton Burgess, 82 

Herbert E., 610 

Herbert Ezra, 609 

Herbert LeB., 636 

Herbert LeBaron, 635 

Hezekiah, 32 

H. LeB., 632, 633, 654 

H. LeBaron, iii, 397 

Homer L., 610 

Homer Lyman, 609 

Homer M., 610 

Hugh, 530 

Isaac, 606 

Isaac Cushman, 606 

Isaiah, 81 

Isaiah Perley, 82 

Jacob, 404 

James, 64, 82, 103 

James T., 664 

Jane-Rurns, 423 

Jane Elizabeth Sayre,486 

Jemima- Foster, 82 

Jemima-McArthur, 530 

Jennie Louise, 654 

J. E., 605 

Jeremiah, 196 

J. G., 472 

John, 27, 296, 318, 327 

492 
John Bush, 432 
John Calvin, 91 

John McLellan, 390 
John Robert, 635 
Tohn Treadwell, 215 
John William, 390 
Jonathan, 72, 116 
Joseph, 156 
Joseph Chapman, 82 
Joshua Vincent, 82 
Julia Louisa, 364 
Kate Luella, 274 
Keziah-Gould, 157 
Landlord, 106 
Lawrence, 142 
Lewis Patch, 606 
Lewis Swan, 82 
Lottie Mercy, 432 
Louisa L -Trull, 654 
Lucy 1 1 6 
Lucv- Pulsipher, 196 
Luther, 249 

Lydia Taylor- Wedge, 609 
Master, 106 
Maggie Louisa, 605 
Marcell Nelson, 142 
Maria, 404 

Maria Elizabeth, 215 
Margaret, 610 
Margaret Ann, 492 



738 



THE PBRLEY FAMILY 



Smith, Margaret Ann-Rogers, 
91 

Margaret McLellan, 390 

Margaret-McLellan, 390 

Martha EUza, 609 

Mary, 547 

Mary Ann, 407, 514, 610 

Mary Elizabeth, 296 

Mary-Hoy, 492 

Mary-Nelson, 364 

"Master," 105 

Minnie Lewis, 635 

Miriam, 142 

Nathaniel, 373 

Nathan Perley, 606 

Nelson Harvey, 142 

Perley, 141 

Perley Dennison, 82 

Priscilla, 138, 640 

Rebecca, 141 

Richard A., 529 

Robert, 635 

Ruth, 82 

Ruth Ann, 156 

S., 209 

Sally, 306 

Samuel Cornwall, 423 

Sarah, 82, 149 

Sarah- Carpenter, 635 

Sarah-Burnham, 606 

Sarah -Clark, 605 

Solon B., 385 

Susan, 610 

Thomas, 43, 306 

Thomas Barker, 215 

Thomas Treadwell, 215 

Thomas WelHngton, 635 

Urania Pease, 454 

Ursula-Shepard, 373 

Walter S., 547 

William Edward, 635 

William Emile De Lisle, 
405 

William Francis, 215 

"WilHe," 580 

Winslow Ruggles, 405 
Smith Homestead, Geo., 2, 4 
Smithfield, Martyr, 43 
Smithson, Bessie, 391 

Henry, 391 

William Harrison, 391 
Smythe, Mary Emma, 585 

Matilda lCmma-Meen,585 

WilUam H., 585 
Snodgrass, Elizabeth 636 
Snow, , 277 

Etta, 226 
Snowflake Axle Grease Co., 

552 
Snowman, James, 4.53 
Snyder, Anna C, 531 

James, 442 

John Edward, 442 

Loran Perley, 442 

Nancy V.-Tate, 442 
Sobo, Ont., 428 
Society, (See also Fraternity, 
Order) 

Agricultural, 329 

Allawakee County Agri., 
234 

Amer. Peace, 495 

British Templars, 423 

Children's Aid, 390 

Colonial Wars, 565 

Cumberland County Agri. 
220, 416 

First Cong., Winthrop, 
149 

First Religious, 255 

First Universalist, 505 

for aged Females, 80 

Friends, 263, 264 

Ladies' Aid., 650 

Lynn Hist., 450 

Mass. Agri., 121 

Mass. Med., 618 



N. B., Hist , 397 

N. E. Hist. & Geneal., 

256, 257, 546 
of Friends, 647 
Orthodox Cong. George- 
town, 184, 168 
Orthodox Cong., Line- 
brook, 185, 186 
Pa. Soldiers' Relief, 572 
Pi Eta, 447 
Revolutionary, 565 
Second Universalist, 496 
State Horticultural, 235 
State Temperance, 511 
Sunbury Agri., 423 
Topsfield Hist., 540 
Total Abstinence, 423 
Universalist, 496 
Upper Can. Bible, 390 
Upper Can. Religious 

Tract & Book, 390 
Washington. 504 
■Winthrop Universalist, 
309 
Soden, Jane-Weaver, 608 
Justin R, 608 
Margaret Perley, 608 
William T, 608 
William Theodore, 608 
Soderhaum, Sweden, 368 
Soldier, Union, 612 
Soldiers' Home, Mass., 91 
Solon, 150, 151 
Somerby, Sarah, 506 
Somervilie Day Nursery 372 
Somerville, Mass., 90,142,316, 
335, 372, 373, 530, 549, 
609, 666 
Somes, Claflin, Allison &, 625 
Somes, Eliza Jane [-] Grotto, 
200 
James Roberts, 200 
John James, 200 
Sons of Revolution, 613 

of Veterans, 163 
Soper, Benjamin Everett, 648 
Sophocles' plays, 643 
Souhegan, 70 

Soule, Augustus Carrol, 303 
Edna Marion, 303 
Mary- Heal, 303 
Willis Pliny, 303 
South America, 208 
South Bend, Ind., 373-375,442 
South Bend Plough Co., 374 
South Bethlehem, Pa., 568 
South Boston, 202, 232, 272 

288, 400, 496, 595 
South Braintree, Mass., 277 
Southbridge, 496 
South Bridgton, Me., 219, 220 

252, 416, 439 
South Byfield, 151 
South Carolina, 207 
South China, Me., 266, 521 
South Dakota, 159 
South Danvers, 280, 307 

348, 465-467 
Souther, Mary Anna, 494 

Samuel, 142 
South Florida, 235 
South Gardner, 246, 247 
Southgate, Robert, 91, 97 
South Georgetown, 88, 175, 
180, 254, 294, 312, 350 
South Groveland, 154, 460 
South Hadley, Mass., 116,447, 

■ 609 
South Hampton, 26 
vSouth Hampton, Eng., xii 
South Hampton, L. I., 486 
South Lawrence, 248 
South Legrange, Me., 499 
South Lewiston, 365 
South Londonderry, Vt., 432 
South Manchester, Ct., 510 
South Mountain, 385, 576, 595 



South Newbury, O., 466 
South Reading, 246, 317 
South Royalston, Mass., 439 
South Royalton, Vt., 462 
South Sudbury, Mass., 86 
South, the, 517 
Southwick, Eliza-Hutchin- 
son, 614 

Emma, 614 

George, 41 

James, 614 

Sarah, 77 

WiUiam, 77 
Southworth, Senator, 518 
South Windham, Me., 380 
Spafford, Daniel, 110, 113 
Spain, 175. 277, 508 
Spanish Coast, 253 
Spanish Fleet, 163 
Spanish Language, 541 
Spanish milled dollars, 54, 121 
Sparhawk, Edward, 55 
Sparta, 96 
Spartan band, 655 
Spartan, brave, 147 
Sparta, Ont., 647 
Sparta, Tenn., 580 
Spalding, Phebe, 417 
Spaulding, Benjamin, 225 

Benjamin Franklin, 640 

Betsev, 640 

Charlotte. 640 

Emily, 487 

Harriet EHzabeth, 271 

Jeremiah, 128. 129, 640 

John Milton, 640 

Joseph, 291 

Mary, 225, 640 

Mehitable, 128 

Mr., 56 
Spearing, Susannah, 91 
Spcm, Reduxit, 425 
Spencer, Adolizer, 226 

Clarissa Stevens, 226 

Eliza Bumps, 226 

James Sampson, 226 

Mary Jane Bryant, 226 

Nancy Clark, 226 

Pamela Spaulding, 226 

Robert, 226 

Sarah. 450 
Spencer, Mass., 317 
Spear, Frances Perley, 405 

John, 405 

Joseph, 405 

Margaret-Hemphill, 405 

Stanley Mclntyre, 405 
Spcerville, N. B., 405 
Spillcr, Charles G., 526 

Frances Lillian, 548 

Hannah, 86, 333 

Lavinia Day, 560 

Mary Elizabeth-Wildes, 
163 

Mary Helen, 163 

Timothy Whitney, 163 
Splane, Bertha May, 666 

Edward J., 666 

Lizzie, 666 

Mary Josephine, 666 

Wilham, 666 
Spofford, Abel, 505 

Abigail, 70, 80 

Abigail-Perley, 24 

Apphia, 80 

Augustus M., 175 

Catherine S., 292, 314 

Charles Milton, 158 

Charlotte Eustis, 587 

Christine Swalm, 158 

Daniel, 80, 292, 505 

Dorcas- Hopkinson, 70 

Elizabeth, 89 

Elizabeth, Maria, 444 

Elizabeth Nelson, 158 

Ellen Wood, 158 

Eunice-Lincoln, 292 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



739 



Spofford, Fred, 516 

Gardner, 444, 516 

George Henry, 158 

George Hervey, 444 

George Milton, 158, 546 

Hannah-Hardy, 505 

Harriet Hood, 158, 546 

Helen Perley, 516 

Israel, 70 

Jeremiah, 80 

John, 23, 70 

Judith-Follansbee, 80, 
292 

I.eander, 292, 314 

"Lizzie M.," 445 

Lucy, 80 

Mary Elizabeth, 158 

Mary Mighill, 292 

Mary Mighill-Perley, 314 

Mary-Platts, 444, 516 

Melvin G., 516 

Melvin L., 516 

M. G., 294 

Mrs. George M., 158 

Olive, 70, 627 

Parker, 51, 52, 73 

Moody, 291 

Preston Gardner, 444 

Sarah, 52, 70, 292, 505, 
627 

Sarah Peabody-Hood,546 

Sarah Wheeler, 23 

Sewell, 158 

William, 25, 70, 292 
Spofford Homestead, 70, 546 
Spofford place, Abel, 505 
Spofford's Hill, 291, 629 
Spokane, Wash., 317, 636 
Spottsylvania, 90 
Spouting Horn, Nahant, 450 
Sprague, Celestia-Wilkins, 
454 

Clara A., 454 

Jefferson, 454 
Spring, Rev. Samuel, 290 
Springer, Mary Ann, 392 
Springfield, Mass. 293, 350, 
359, 459, 509, 511, 539, 
541, 598, 619, 621, 623 
Springfield, N. H., 269, 273, 
275-277, 281, 381, 463- 
465 
Springfield on the Credit, 390 
Springfield Union, 619, 620 
Springfield, Vt., 271, 525 
Springford. Ont., 390 
Spring Hill, la., 253, 441, 443 
Springwater, N. Y., 590 
Sprout, Lt.-Col., 657 
Spurr, Abigail-Wright, 364 

Enoch, 364 

Sophronia, 364 
Squadron. Gulf, 516 
Squire, Alna Jane, 525 

Joseph Austin, 525 

Lucinda-Craigue, 525 
St. Albans, Eng., xii, xiv, xvi, 

15, 
St. Albans, Me., 452 
St. Albans, Vt., 474, 480, 485, 

602 
St. Andrews Cross, xii 
St. Andrews Herald, 223 
St. Andrews, N. B., 222, 223 
St. Anthony Falls, 377 
St. Armand, Que., 605 
St. Charles, Mo., 508 
St. Claire, Mary, 253 
St. Croix County, 439 
St. Croix Falls, 252 
St. Croix Falls Bank, 440 
St. George, N. B., 198 
St John Daily Telegraph, 395 
St. John. N. B., 129, 196, 
214, 215, 217, 219, 239, 
241, 253, 261, 390-393, 
397, 399-401, 406-408, 



410-414, 441, 579, 580, 
583-586, 636-638 
St. John Evening Times, 239 
St. John Sun, 412 
St. Johnsbury, Vt., 471, 602, 

604-606 
St. Joseph County Council, 

374 
St. Joseph, Missouri, 377, 561 
St. Lawrence, Gulf of, 411 
St. Louis, Mo., 225, 294, 377, 
403, 508, 515, 518, 565, 
607 
St. Mary's, Indiana, 374 
St. Mary's, N. B., 237, 238, 

423 
St. Paul, Minn., 240, 312,368. 
424, 490, 492, 508. 523 
St. Stephen, N. B., 391, 409 
St. Thomas, N. B., 242 
St. Valentine's Day, 539 
Stacy, Mary, 231 

Mary Jane, 231 

Samuel, 231 
Stacy Place, John, 250 
Stafford County, N. H., 94 
Stafford, Ellen, 387 
Stahlberg, Ida Caroline, 492 

John, 492 
Staley Bridge, Eng., 441 
Stamford, Ct., 509, 511. 512 
Standard, xxii 
Standish, Miles, 202 
Standish, Me., 219, 221, 638 
Standley, Mary Elizabeth- 
Swancy, 202 

Robert Burns, 202 
Stanford, Leland, 651 
Stanley, Anson, 577 

Betsey, 474 

Diantha-Morey, 577 

George E.. 44.5 

Lena Maude, 577 
Stanley House, 94 
Stannard, Gen. G. J., 517 
Stanton, Adeline Eliza-Mor- 
gan, 651 

Egbert, 651 

Minnie Ellen, 651 
Staples, Eva, 557 
Stanstead, P. Q., 349, 610 
Star Chamber Court, xii 
Starbird, Mary Susan, 370 

Olive-Berry, 371 

William Simonton. 371 
Starkey, Anna Pierce, 247 

Byron Gilbert, 247 

Dexter P., 247 

Emma Tsadore, 247 

George Washington, 247 

Lilla Maria, 247 

Mary Mahala, 247 
Stark's History of Dunbarton 

460 
Starr, Abigail, 42 

Comfort, 41 , 42 

Ebenezer, 42 

Elizabeth, 42 

Ephraim, 42 

Frances. 42 

Isaac, 42 

Joseph, 42 

Judith, 42 

Martha. 42 

Mary. 42 

Mary-Stone, 41 

Parley, 42 

Sally. 42 

Sarah, 42 

Timothy, 42 
Starr, Heavy weight, 42 
Start, Polly, 69 

William, 69 
State Asylum for Insane, 32 
State House, Boston, 438 
State, Keystone, 572 
State Papers, 419 



Staten Island. N. Y.. 169. 421 
States, N. E., 413 
States, the, 600 
Steamer, Amerique, 374 

Denver, 377 

Desperate, 412 

Mary F. Perley, 378 
Steamship Enterprise, 621 
Stearns, Caroline Gage, 259 

George Leonard, 471 

George W. , 469 

Harriet Elizabeth-King, 
251 

Helen, 252 

Jennie Maud, 471 

John, 251 

John Adin, 251 

John Harry, 251 

Lewis, 259 

Maria-Shattuck, 469 

Mary Evelyn, 251 

Milo L., 469 

Rebecca-Gage, 260 
Steel Corporation, U. S., 355 
Steele, Selina, 395 
Steeves, Elias, 198 

Jane-Bazley, 198 

Maud, 198 
Stellarton, N. S., 428 
Stephason. Margaret. 219 
Sterling, Caroline-Tilley, 237 

Charles Henley, 237 

Etta Augusta, 525 

George Archibald, 237 

George Roy. 238 

Harry, 238 

Laura May, 238 

Lois Kennedy, 238 
Sterling, Mass., 55, 244, 249 
Sterling, N. Y., 283 
Stetson, Almira, 604 

Hannah Adams, 604 

Thomas G., 604 
Stetson, Me., 228 
Stetson Place, the, 15-3 
Steubenville, O., 212, 382. 384 
Stevans. Elmira, 487 
Stcvanson, Geo. Elliott, 375 
Stevens, Aaron, 297 

Abigail Searles-Kent. 
535 

Aseneth. 118 

Benjamin, 13, 226 

Betsy-Ticknor, 473 

Dorothv-Gove, 490 

Edward Payson. 297.298 

Elizabeth. 646 

Halsev R., 473 

Henry. 490 

Hepzibah. 219 

Isaac, 296 

Jacob, 627, 646 

James Francis, 297, 298 

John, 209 

Laura A., 296 

Lawrence, 456 

I,ois, .58 

Mabel Elvira Ticknor,473 

Margaret, 297. 298 

Mary, 526, 610 

Ruth, 603 

Ruth Ann Augusta, 490 

Ruth Putnam, 297 

Sally, 119 
Stevens Bros., 210 
Stewart, Annie. 427 
Stickney, Ancil, 73 

Anna. 1.36 

Betsey. 218 

Daniel. 43, 44 

David. 43. 148 

Elizabeth, 43, 44 

Eunice, 89 

Hannah, 44, 218 

Hannah-Brockbank, 43 

Isaac, 218 

Jedediah, 73 



740 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Stickney, John, 43, 44, 633 
Jonathan, 43 
Josiah, 44 
Lucy, 44 
Lydia, 43 
Mary, 633 
Mehitable, 218 
Moses, 24, 43, 44 
Mr., 56 

Peggy-Tyler, 73 
Rebecca, 149 
Samuel, 43 
vSarah, 43 
Solomon, 311 
Susannah, 148 
William, 43, 44 
William Wier, 44 
Stiger, A. S., 81 
Stiles, Claude Perley, 590 
Coulter Claire, 590 
Eliza-Cheesbro, 590 
Elton Ray, 590 
Henry Lincoln Roland, 

590 
Leo Bertrand, 590 
Roland, 590 
Stiles, Perley &, 414 
Stillwater, Me., 536 
Stillwater, Minn., 240, 241 
Stimpson, Abba L., 170 
Jonathan, 73, 627 
Joseph, 73 

Julia Viola Hill, 600 
Myrtie Estelle, 606 
Nathan Lewis, 606 
Stin.ion, Catherine-Carr, 593 
Jennie, 593 
William, 593 
Stockc.-, Dorothy, 238 
John E., 238 
Kathleen, 238 
Stockholm, Sweden, 369, 575 
Stockport, Cheshire, Eng., 87 
Stockton, Cal., 216, 358, 359, 

395 
Stoddard, Amos, 173 

H. II., 568 
Stoddard, N. H., 231, 280,433 
Stokes, Caroline, 609 

Olivia Phelps. 609 
Stoll, John, A., 631 

John Howard, 631 
Laura Augusta, 631 
Lena May, 631 
Lottie Pearl, 631 
NelHe Maud, 631 
Walter RolHn, 631 
Stone, Abigail Lee-Grisvva],479 
Ahnira, 160 
Burrill Foster, 580 
Carrie, 553 
Cyrus, 631 
Eliza, 289 
Ella Martha, 626 
Gertrude L., 631 
Hannah, 485 
James R., 485 
James Rufus, 482, 626 
Laura-Howe, 482. 626 
Laura Nettie, 482 
LilHan-Dolbear, 460 
Lizzie, 197 
Marion Belle, 460 
Mary, 41 
Melissa, 485 
Mitchell. 485 
Mrs., 68 
Patty, 190 
Polly-Hovey, 160 
Ralph, 631 
Ruth, 460 

Susan-Cameron, 580 
Susan Elvira, 479 
Walter Scott, 580 
Washington, 485 
Wilbur Fisk, 479 
WiUiam, 160 



William A., 571 
William Payson, 460 
Winnefred P., 631 
Stoneham, Mass., (Map 1,3) 

268,-270, 272, 524 
Stoneridge, N. Y., 491 
Stoney Creek, 388 
Storms of N. E., Historic, 546 
Story, Mary, 166 

Sally, 275 
Stoughtenberg, Mary E., 573 
Stoughton, Mass., 135, 658 
Stowe. Vt., 609 
Stowell Ann-Higgins, 537 

George, 537 

Joseph, 134 
Stowell & Co., A. S., 514 
Straits of Belle Isle, 412 
Strange, Bessie Allen. 430 

George Allen. 430 

grandmother. 387 

Jane Una-Lunt. 430 

Ruth, 213 
Stratham, H. N.. 174. 554 , 
Straton, Leicestershire, Eng. 

63, 
Straton, Nehemiah, 68 
Strickland. Agnes. 190 

Ann Maria, 191 

Augustus Henry, 192. 
368 

Charles Cushing, 192 

Charles L., 193 

Charles Lee. 192 

Clara Augusta, 192 

Ehzabeth, 191 

Frances Elizabeth, 192 

Frances FHliot, 191 

Frederic Hastings, 193 

George Byron, 191 

Hastings. 190-192 

Isaac. 191-193 

Jane C. 191 

John. 190. 191 

John Turner. 192 

Josephine, 191 

Lee, 191, 192 

Lillian March, 193 

Lottie Grant. 193 

Lucinda. 190 

Lyman S.. 191, 192 

Lysander, 191, 192 

Mary Thorndikc, 191 

Mortimer Chfford, 191 

Nellie Augusta, 193 

Patty-Stone, 190 

Philo Augustus, 192, 193 

Roger, 190 

Ruth Ann, 191 

Samuel, 192 

Samuel Franklin, 192 

Samuel Larrabee, 193 

Samuel Perley, 191, 369 

Sarah P., 191 

William, 190 

William Hastings, 192. 
193 

Wilham Lee, 193 
Strickland arms, 643 
Strikland, 190 
Strong, Emma. 456 

Mayor, 386 
Strong, Me.. 194, 453, 456 
Strother, Eliza Willoughby. 

468 
Strout, Mary, 116 

Nellie, 631 

AValtcr, 631 
Strykeland arms, 643 
Strykeland, Wilham, 190 
Stuart, Barbara Allen. .589 
Sturges, Frankhn Phinney, 
245 

Henry, 245 

Lewiza Sylvia, 245 

AValter Henry, 245 



Sturtevant, Caroline Cole, 597 
J. C, 597 
Josiah Fowle, 330 
Kate E., 597 
Lucetta-Dalton, 330 
Ward C. 330 
Sudbury, 401 
Sudbury, Mass., 40, 381 
Suffield, Ct., 14 
Suffolk County. Eng., 63 
Suffolk Bar, 544, 545 
Suffolk, Va., 576 
Sullivan, Anna, 275 
E. Mark, 363 
Gen., 136 
Summerset, la., 442 
Summit Mineral Spring, 189 
Summit, N. J., 512, 513 
Sumner, Daniel, 442 
Emma Selfina, 442 
Lucy Ann-Moody, 442 
Sumpter, Oregon. 638 
Sunapee, N. H., 273, 507 
Sunday fishing, 47 
Sunderland, King., 586 
Superintendent. R. R., 81 
Surry, Eng., 584 
Surry, N. H., 432 
Survey, Board of, 130 
Survey, the, xviii 
Surveyor, the, 118 
Sutherland, Aimie, A., 220 
Charles, 220 
Margaret-Cameron, 220 
Sutton, Hannah March-Aker- 
man, 528 
Emily Liscom, 528 
Enoch, 528 
vSutton, Mass., 30 
Sutton, N. H., 271, 277, 464 
Swain, Nancy, 389 
Swalm, Florence M., 158 
Swamp Fight, 655 
Swampscott, Mass., 77 
Swan, Caleb, 82 

Fannie Damon, 462 
Frank C, 462 
Jane-Osgood. 82 
Joseph F.. 82 
oHve E. -Damon. 462 
Swaney. Mary Elizabeth, 202 
Swan ton, Vt., 484 
Swanzey, N. H., 18, 251 
Swasey, Florence, 289 
Helen Louisa, 288 
Joseph, 288 

Joseph Wads worth, 289 
Josephine Fannie Maria, 

288 
Mary, 288 
Swazy, Benjamin, 282 
Benjamin K., 282 
John Perley, 282 
Sweat, Ira James, 603 
Ira Leon, 603 
Ivory, 603 
Lydia-Powell. 603 
Sweden. 368, 369, 557, 668 
Sweden. Me.. 134 
Sweet. Abel, 266 
Alfred G., 227 
Ebenezer, 266 
Desire Daggett, 266 
Naomi Daggett, 266 
Naomi-Daggett, 266 
Sarah Perlev, 266 
Sophia Eaton, 266 
Sweets^r, Hannah, 303 
Jme ■i-5 
John, 375 
Sally-Patrick, 380 
Samuel Hobart, 380 
Sylvanus, 380 
Swett, Abigail, 26 

Benjamin, 25, 26 
Eliphalet, 108 
Elizabeth, 26 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



741 



vSwett, Esther-Weare, 25 

Everett, 108 

Hannah, 25, 26 

Joseph, 25 

Lydia, 25 

Margaret, 20 

Mary, 107 

Moses, 26 

Nathan, 26 

Orlando, S. B.. 107 

Sarah, 26 

William, 107 
Swift, Dean, 63 
Swift Packing Co., 424 
Swift & Co., 378, 379, 443 
"Swimming Place," 74 
Swine butcher, 140 
Switzerland, 387, 422, 667 
Sydney, C. B., 392 
Sydney, Neb., 369 
Sykes, Fanny, 610 

Jerome, 568 
Syllas, 96 

Sylvester, Sarah, 347 
Symmes, Thomas, 43 
Syinond, Samuel, 8 
Symonds, Annie Jane, 202 

John, 58. 

Joseph, 132, 162 

Mary, 155 

Mehitable, 162 

Mette, 288 

Samuel, 48 

Sarah, 143, 513 

Susannah-Hale, 162 
Symonds' Estate, 144 
Sypher, William, 634 
Syracuse, N. Y., 344, 428,491 
Syria, 448 

Temperance Jane, 226 

Tabor, la., 482 
Tabusintac, N. B., 240 
Taggart, Hannah-Hawse, 520 

John, 520 

Lucy, 520 

Phebe Florilla, 520 

Sarah-T., 520 
Tailor, Lt.-Gov. William, 31 
Tailors, 658 
Tallahassee, 118 
Tamworth, Ont., 624 
Tandy, Eliakim, 490 
Tangerine, Fla., 236 
Tanner, Cora, 568 
Tapley, Huldah, 215 

Laura, 179 
Tapleyville, 514 
TapHn, Katy, 286 
Tappan, Hannah, 318 

Hannah Pearson, 318 

Sewell, 318 
Tarbox, I. N., 145 

Lucy, 627 

Lydia, 157 
Tarcora, Ga., 374 
Tarlton, Harriet Luretta, 197 
Tarr, Dorinda, 644 
Tate, Nancy V., 442 
Taunton, Mass., 289, 342,347. 

348, 381, 418, 639 
Taunton News, 342 
Tavern, Berry's, 184 
Taverner, Sophia, 107 
Tavistock, Eng., 611 
Taylor, Fletcher 280 

Albert Desbrisay, 218 

Artemesia-Tylor, 227 

Betsey M., 477 

Carlos, 227 

Charles Chase, 283 

Charles Coburn, 218 

Charles Marshall, 283 

Charlotte Gertrude, 218 

Danforth, 280 

Dearborn, 283 

Eathan, 227 



Eben E., 283 
Ede, 283 
Erastus, 447 
Eva Blanche, 284 
Eveana S., 283 
Everett, 87 
Frank, 280 
Frank Perley, 214 
George, 151 
George A., 150 
Hannah Perley, 283 
Hannah-Stickney, 218 
Harriet Tane, 227 
Helen Perley, 280 
Henchliffe, 536 
Isaac, 218 
Isabelle Wait, 447 
Ivan Marshall, 284 
Jefferson, 280 
Jonathan, 214 
J. (Rev.), 359 
JuHa Mary, 218 
Kirk, 283 
Laura Ella, 283 
Leland Hart, 280 
Lilhan Mary, 218 
Lucius, 227 
Mahala-Colby, 283 
Mahala E., 283 
Marion, 280 
Marjorie Dascom, 280 
Martha Perley, 218 
Mary Proctor, 280 
May, 536 

Mrs. Jefferson, 467 
Rachel-Hanson, 536 
Roswell Clemont, 280 
Sally, 477 
Samuel, 283 
Sarah-Burnett, 447 
Sarah E.-Jewett, 283 
Sarah Louise, 218 
Sarah M., 92 
Sarah Maria, 87 
Sylvester Proctor, 280 
Thomas, 283 
Thomas Perley, 218 
Trowbridge Curtis, 86 
Wilham, 214, 218 
William Egerton, 218 
Teague, John, 124 
Tea, non use of, 56 
Teaspoons, 613 
Teddie's Boat goes by. When, 

664, 665 
Temple, Me., 262, 267, 520, 

646 
Temple, N. H., 69 
Temple of Honor, Neptune, 

540 
Templeton, 244, 247, 249-251, 
432, 434, 437, 438, 524 
Tenafly, N. J., 378 
Tenants' Harbor, 537 
Tennessee, 212, 377 
Tenney, Adna, 305 
A. Maria, 80 
Amos Jewett, 80, 81 
Apphia N., 81 
Charles S., 81 
Charles Spofford, 80 
Daniel Ingalls, 80 
Daniel Spofford, 80 
David, 80 
David B., 628 
David Barnard, 80, 628 
Dea., 85 
Elizabeth, 80 
Elizabeth N., 81 
Emeline Matilda, 628 
Esther Louise, 76 
Eunice, 83 
EveUne Matilda, 80 
George Jewett, 80, 81 
Hannah, 462, 028 
Hannah-Whitaker, 44 
Harriet Braman, 80 



Harrison Edmund, 76 

John, 76, 305 

John H., 338 

John Harrison, 70 

Jonathan, 59 

Lucinda-Eaton, 305 

Lucy Harriet, 80 

Lucy Spofford, 81 

Mary S., 81 

Mehitable-Pearson, 79 

Milton, 80 

Milton G., 80 

Milton Grenville, 81 

Miriam, 76 

Moody 80 

Moses, 44, 310 

Nabby, 80 ' 

Orlando, 81 

Orlando Barnard, 80, 628 

Parmelia, 80 

Perlev, 80, 628 

Philip, 36 

Putnam Farnham, 80,628 

Richard, 79-81 

Rosamond L., 31.5 

Rosman Little, 80, 038 

Sally Lummus-Chap- 

man, 76 
Samuel, 69 
Sarah, 80 

Sarah-Boynton, 59 
Sarah C, 81 
Sarah Elizabeth, 80 
Sarah Perley. 80 
Susannah, 80 
Ward M., 628 
Wilham, 79, 80 
William Milton, 81 
Tennyson, 97 
Terre Haute, Ind., 295 
TerriU, Caleb, 332 

Mary Lucretia, 332 
Mary Stevens-Cheney, 

297 
Mrs., 641 
Newton A., 297 
Ralph Perley, 297 
Samantha-Wilmarth, 332 
William Herbert, 297 
Texas, 352, 371, 376 
Thackery, 314 
Thatcher, Susanna, 55 
Thayer, Christopher, 612 
Clara Augusta, 044 
Elihu, 012 
Ephraim, 612 
Loring, 349 
"The City," Topsfield, 75 
The Essex Antiquarian, 108 
"The Village," Ipswich, 75,77 

78 
Thief River Falls, 030 
Thomas, E;va Louise, 548 
Josiah B., 324 
Sarah, 242 
Sylvia, 640 
Thomaston, Me., 227, 304 
Thomson. Allen Perley, 582 
Arthur MacMillan, 582 
Edwin Ernest, 582 
Florence Maud, 582 
Harold Francis, 582 
John, 582 
Levi, 582 

Sarah-MacMillian, 582 
Thompson, Annie Maynard, 
510 
Charles, 479 
Clarissa, 141 
Gen., 135 
Lavinia, 252 
Laura, 141 
M., 567 

Mary Ann-Eaton, 510 
Mary E. -Burton, 590 
Nellie, 479 
Samuel, 510 



742 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Thompson, Ct., 42, 525 
Thor, god, xx 
Thorndike, Me., 421, 422 
Thorn, Elizabeth, 263 
Thome, Belle, 568 

Hannah, 392 
Thornton, Lydia, 4 
Thorpe. A. P., 192 
Throat distemper, 38 (See 

pages 45 and 58) 
Throgmorton arms, xvii 
Thuringia, 422 
Thurlow, Judeth Savory, 594 

Lydia, 294 
Thurman, la., 480 
Thurston, Almon Roscoe, 195 

Aroline, 462 

Arthur Rounds. 195 

Benjamin, 312 

Elizabeth, 132 

Tane, 312 

John. 132 

Martha B., 462 

Marv, 312 

Nathaniel. 122 

Nathaniel Bridges, 462 

Ruby Gage, 462 

William G., 462 
Thurston's Company, Capt. 

45 
Thwing, Charles Hall, 332 

Charles Harry, 332 
Thwing, & Co., 332 
Tibbetts, , 86 

Hester Amanda, 367 

James, 367 

Jane Fowler-Potter, 367 

Lucy, 226, 227 

Widow, 324 
Tickenor, Gov., 14 
Ticknor, Betsy, 473 
Ticonderoga. 118, 136 
Tidds, Luther P., 153 
Tierney, Catherine-Shannon, 
428 

James Edward, 428 

James Owen, 428 
Tiffin, O., 344 
Tileston, Burrill &, 290 
Tilley, Adelaide Holmes, 316 

Caroline, 237 

Lettie Louise. 316 

William John. 316 
Tillson, Mercy Winslow. 466 
Tilsonburg, Ont., 390, 391 
Tilton Abraham, 120 

Arthur V., 526 

Daniel, 354 

George Warren, 463 

John Haskell, 354 

John W., 283 

Newell Homer, 354 

Newton Perley, 354 

Roy Newell, 354 

Sarah. 40 

Susan D. -Sleeper, 354 
Tilton, N. H., 283, 284, 626, 

639 
Tingtown, 140 

Tingstown, Me., 140, 261, 267 
Tinney, Carrie L., 360 

Sophia, 197 
Tippecanoe, 570 
Tisdale, Alice, 390 

Clara, 390 

Ephraim, 213, 214 

Hannah, 213, 214, 389 

Joseph, 213, 388 

Joseph Cleoden, 390 

Lot, 389 

Lott. 214 

Margaret Helen, 390 

Margaret J., 214 

Matthew, 389 

Nancy-Swain, 389 

Philena, 214 

Rachel-Carpenter, 390 



Ruth-Strange, 213 

Submit- Newcombe, 214 

Walker, 213 
Titcomb, Alfred Francis, 371 

Alfred Noyes, 371 

Almira, 416 

Caleb, 310 

Herva Alice, 371 

Judith. 310 

Judith D. -Merchant, 371 

Marv Anne, 371 

Mary L., 310 

Matilda Evelyn, 371 

Nancy, 310 

Sarah EHzabeth, 93 

Seward, 371 
Titus, Alanson L., 481 

Fayette Perley, 481 
Toby, Florilla Marcia, 557 

Nancy C.-Holbrook, 557 

Samuel, 557 
Todd, Abigail, 77 

Ada Josephine, 44.3 

AHce A. -Trow, 464 

Anna F., 176 

Apphia, 10.5 

Asahel Huntington, 443 

Augustus Hayward, 443 

Benjamin, 77, 204 

Daniel. 104. 105, 204, 296 

Daniel Gage, 105 

Ednah Gage, 105 

Edward A., 464 

EUzabeth, 77 

Ezekiel, 105 

Rlzekiel Rogers, 105 

George, 122 

Gustie Mav, 404 

Hannah, 104 

Hannah-Bradstreet, 105 

Hannah M., 160 

James L., 577 

John, 27 

Le Roy, 287 

Louise Marietta-Hart- 
man, 577 

Lydia-Gould. 443 

Marion Huntington, 443 

Mary Jane, 635 

Mary Louisa, 577 

Rosaline Parasine, 270 

Samuel, 160 343 

Samuel Cheny, 443 
Toledo, O.. 344 
Tolman, Annie Maria, 201 

Edmund, 201 

Hannah-Daily, 201 
Tom, Betsey, 182 
TomUnson, Elvira Agnes, 563 
Toney, Abigail I'rescott, 639 
Tooke. William Home, xv 
Toombstone, Ariz., 604 
Toomey, Ellen J., 589 
Toothacher, Mary, 632 

Roger, 632 

Sarah, 632 
Tooth paralysis, 467 
Topeka, Kan., 607 
Topsfield, Mass., 2. 11, 13, 15- 
18, 20-23, 25-27, 29, 30 
32, 35, 36, 38, 44, 46-48 
56, 62, 64, 66, 76, 83, 
88-90, 92, 136, 138, 140 
141, 146, 152-156, 160, 
162. 166. 167, 170-172, 
175-178, 223-225, 255, 
260, 273, 293, 315, 325, 
327, 328, 343-351, 443- 
445. 448, 449, 530, 534, 
538. 543, 544, 546,548- 
550, 552-554, 556, 619, 
621, 640, 654 
Topsfield, [Read Ipswich in 
fourteenth line,] 17 

Topsfield Parish, 170 
Topsfield Townsman, 346 
Topsfield water, 75 



Toronto Globe, 647 
Toronto Militia, 584 
Toronto, Ont., 253. 389-391, 
401, 404, 442, 578, 586. 
654 
Toronto World. The. 583, 585 
Torpedo Boat, the, 384 
Torr, Anna-Robinson, 544 

Martha Helen, 544 

Vincent M., 544 
Torrey, Sarah, 192 
Tourtelotte, CordeUa, 241 
Towle, Elizabeth Reynolds- 
Barker, 90 

Harriet Elmer, 90 

James Madison, 90 
Town, Anna. 130 

Ebenezer. 328 

John, 130 

Lydia. 328 

Lydia Averill, 328 

Ruth, 255 

Sarah. 352 
Towne, Abigail, 20 

Charlotte Fletcher, 556 

Edmund, 20 

Elizabeth, 154, 274 

Elvira Lake, 255 

Hannah. 179 

Hannah I.. 344 

Hannah Perkins, 344 

Jacob. 179 

Joseph. 344 

Joseph H., 188 

Mary Ann-Severance, 255 

Miss, 643 

Nancy Adams, 556 

Samuel, 556 

Sarah. 542 

Sewall L., 255 

Susan P., 179 
Towne's Company. Capt., 68 
Townsend, Elizabeth-Welton 
558 

Emerson Engiles, 558 

Evelyn, 558 

Helen, 558 

John, 558 
Townsend, Mass., 69 
Townsend, Vt., 431 
Tozier, Albert Munroe, 553 

Allen Dudley, 553 

Charles Perley, 553 

Charles William, 553 

Clyde Munroe, 553 

George Harold, 553 

Helen Cymanthe-Seaver, 
5.53 

Walter Eugene, 553 

William Mahlon. 553 
Tracy Station. N. B., 651 
Travinac, Ann, 437 
Tradition, (.chart, xiii) xiv 
Trafton, Abigail, 25 

John, 25 
Train. A. S., 507 

Att.-Gen., 508 

Charles, 507 

Elizabeth - Harrington 
507 

Martha, 270 

Rev. Dr.. 614 
Transcript, The. 278 
Trappe, Md., 653 
Trarice, Mr., xii 
Trary, Isabel. 607 

Travis. , 392 

Treadwell, . 632 

Alfred Allen, 237 

Arthur Marshman, 237 

Catherine-Preaster, 237 

Ella Maria, 237 

Ephraim, 237 

George Allen, 237 

George Archibald, 237 

Harry Havelock, 237 

Jane-Jewett, 219 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



743 



Treadwell, Laura Jane, 237 

Lucy Elizabeth Rogers, 
259 

Sarah, 219 

Thomas, 219 
Treadwell farm, 159 
Treasurer, State, 44 
Treasury Dept., Wash., D. C, 

384 
Treaty, Ashburton, 413 

Reciprocity, 411 
Tree, the Perley Family, 395 
Treese, Jane, 429 
Trenton, Mo., 479, 480 
Trenton, N. J., 502, 504. 505 
Tribune, The, 382 
Trimble, Dr., 355 
Trion, Elizabeth, 195 
Trinidad, Col., 587 
Troops, Essex County, vii 
Trow, Alice A., 464 

Charles E., 042 
Trowbridge, Edmund, 112 
Troy, Bessie Caroline, 521 

Mary P. -Robinson, 521 
Troy, Me., 378, 454 
Troy, N. H., 247, 432, 433 
Troy, N. Y., 197, 247, 386, 

475, 613 
Troy, Vt., 480, 483 
True, Edward HolHs, 563 

Elvira Agnes-Tomlinson, 
563 

Hannah, 449 

HoUis, 563 

Isabel, 238 

John, 107 

Joshua, 368 

Lucy- Page, 368 

Naomi P., 368 
Truel, Hannah W.-McCoUom 
498 

Hiram Wilson, 498 
Trull, Louisa L., 654 
Trunibels, 103 
Trumble. Ellen, 14 

John, 14 

Ruth, 14 
Trumbull, Ehza Niles, 511 
Trumbulls, New England, 14 
Tucker, Abigail-Locke, 515 

Daniel, 168 

Isabella Lucinda Durgin, 
515 

John Elliott, 515 

NelHe, 515 
Tucson, Ariz., 440 
Tuftonboro, N. H., 84 
Tufts, Caroline Oilman, 451 

Deborah, 467 

John, 453 
Tuileries, 207 
Tune, Elizabeth-Hooper, 596 

EHzabeth M., 596 

John, 596 
Tupper, Brock, 405 

Charles Jacob, 445 

Ernest Howard, 455 

J. Rice, 405 

Larcy, 455 

Marjorie, 405 

Nellie, 405 

Sarah Emily King- Emer- 
son, 455 
Turkey, 668 

TurnbuUs of Scotland, 14 
Turner, Flora Adella, 528 

William, 568, 659 

Wyatt, 366 
Turner, Me., 190, 191, 193, 

368, 455 
Turnpike, 32, 245, 246, 513 
Turnpike, Newburyport, 183, 

323 
Turnpike toll gatherer, 85, 86 
Tutt & Watson, 519 



Tuttle, Charles, 611 

EHzabeth, 57 

Ida Leoti. 611 

Lousina Shaw, 553 

Mary-Wilson, 611 

Susannah, 35 
Twins, four pairs, 385 
Twisden, Samuel, 158 
Twitchell, Lois, 552 

May, 193 
Twombly, A. H., 511 

Alexander Hamilton, 511- 
513 

Alexander Stevenson, 
512 

CUfford G., 513 

Clifford Gray, 512 

Edward Lambert, 512 

Ellen Clark, 513 

Gray Huntington, 513 

Henry Bancroft, 512 

Howland, 512 

Mary Elizabeth, 512 

Mary Jane, 512 
Twombly, Lamson &, 511 
Tyler, , 261 

Abigail, 29 

Albert, 156 

Anna-Messenger, 29 

A. Williams, 559 

Betsev-Kimball, 293 

Col., 136 

Dudley, 293 

Ellen, 293 

Flint, 156 

Gideon, 113 

John, 29, 113, 122 

Jonathan, 113 

Lydia, 29 

Mary, 29 

Mehitable, 29, 113 

Melissa-Usher, 559 

Moses, 29 

Moses Kimball, 293 

Nathan, 658, 659 

Prudence, 112 

Prudence-Blake, 29 

Rev. Mr., 497 

Selden Williams, 559 

WiUiam, 162 
Tylor, Artemesia, 227 
Tyringham, Mass., 358 

Ulster County, N. Y., 403 
Umbrella, to carry an, 196 
Umpee, John, 16 
Uncle Johnny, 226 

Sam., 540 
Underbill, Amelia, 509 

Arthur Brown, 459 

Arthur P., 460 

Arthur Perlev, 459 

Flagg T., 459 

Mary-Brown, 459 

Ruth, 460 
Union Army, 385 
Union, Lynn Choral, 450 
Union, Mich., 243 
Union soldier, 612 
Union, the, x 
Uniontown, la., 488 
Unitarianism, 503 
United States, xiii, 95, 96, 169 
203, 236, 252, 387, 396, 
410, 411, 475, 593, 652, 
United States Army 193 

Consul, 212 

Government, 384, 571 

Navy, 163 
Unity, Me., 225-228, 417-419, 

421, 422 
Unity, N. H., 495 
University, (See College, 

School) 
Upham, AHce Adelia, 438 

Charles W., 438 

Joseph Emerson, 438 



Nathaniel Gookin, 647 

Susan Pemelia-Newton, 
438 
Upper Canada, 388 
Upper Gaspereaux, 636 
Upper Gilmantown, N. H., 

642 
Upper Jemseg, N. B., 392 
Upper Hainsville, 429 
Upper Maugerville, 392, 401, 
423, 424, 429, 430, 633 
Upper Montclair, N. J., 447 
Upper Woodstock, 451 
Uppingham, 648 
Upton, , 55 

Arthur Henry, 616 

Asa, 634 

Augusta Sophia, 393 

Cora M., 650 

Cora May, 393 

Effie M. -Hastings, 616 

Elva Sophia, 251 

George Samuel, 579, 650 

Hazel, 393 

James S., 580 

John Robert, 393, 579, 
650 

Letetia, 393, 579 

Lillie Gertrude, 393 

Mary Helen-Day, 579, 
650 

William S., 616 
Usher, Barnard, 135 

John D., 135 

Marshall, 135 

Melissa, 559 
Utah, 243, 377 
Utica, N. Y., 207 
Utrecht, Hoi., 486 
LTtterly, xv 
Valambrosa, 326 
Valley Forcre, 486 
Valparaiso, Chile, S. A., 208 
Valparaiso, Ind, . 471 
Van Buren, Mich., 630 
Van Buren, Pres. Martin. 169 
Van Dyke, AHce, 374 

Catherine Perley, 374 

EHzabeth-Desnoyer, 374 

George Francis, 374 

George W., 374 

Harold Perley, 374 

James A., 374 

Margaret, 374 

Marian Agnes, 374 

Maud E., 374 
Vancouver, B. C, 588 
Vanderbilt, frigate, 280 
Vanderblue, Adelaide-Wal- 
ters, 558 

Charles E., 558 

Frank Edward, 558 

Nicholas, 558 

Sherlock Perley, 558 
Vanderburg, Edward, 358 
Vandine, Fannie, 583 
Varney, Mary, 192 
Vassalboro, 149, 151 
Vassalboro, Me., 51. 303, 321, 

418, 520, 521 
Veazie, Emmeline, B, W., 

277 
Veazie, Me., 643 
Vergennes, Vt., 243 
Vermont, vi, 42, 155, 282,414. 
456, 485, 487, 539, 602 
Vermont Historical Magazine, 

286 
Vermont, northern, 470 
Vermont Branch Starr Fam., 

42 
Vermont Legislature, 626 
Vermontville, lU., 358 
Vernon, Ct., 337 
Verrill, Phebe Ellen, 501 
Versailles, O., 501 
"Vertute et Lahore," 628 



744 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Very, Sarah, 172 
Vessel, Ambrose, xii 

American, 204 

Arabella, xii 

British War, 203 

Charles, xii 

EHzabeth, 64 

Gift, xii 

Handmaid, xii 

Hopewell, xii 

Jewell, xii 

Lion, xii 

Mary and John, xii, 03 

May-flower, xii 

Planter, xii 

Success, xii 

Talbot, xii 

Tryal, xii 

Whale, xii 

Wni. and Francis, xii 
Vessels of 1030, xi 
Veteran Reserve Corps, 103 
Vetten, Abigail Lead, 307 
Vicksburg, Miss., j55 
Victor, Colo., 479 
Victoria, B. C, 215, 423, 424 
Vienna, 163, 331 
Vienna, N. Y., 131, 132, 242. 

243, 
Viking, Alberta, Can., 030 
Village, Parker river, 291 
Ville de Havre, the steamer, 

374 
Vincennes, Ind., 108, 066 
Vining, Betsey, 365 

David, 365 

Maria Conant, 365 
Vinton, Huldah Ahnira, 270 

Rev. Alex. H., 259 
Vinton, la., 232 
Virden, Charlotte, 610 

Jane Hunt, 610 

John riemming, 610 
Virgil. 301, 643 
Virginia, ix, 96, 281, 304, 385, 

565, 596, 649 
Virginia City, Mont., 400 
Virginia Dept., 385 
Vittoria, Ont., 213, 214, 388, 

389 
Volunteer, 594, 595 
Vose, Florence Perley, 478 
George Atherton, 478 
Joseph, 659 
Willard Atherton, 478 
Vose & Sons Piano Co., 478 
Votan, Claire, 243 

Clyde Weber, 243 

K. H., 243 

Mary Theresa, 243 

Wade, Charity Elizabeth, 460 

Col., 136 

Elizabeth A. -Grant, 78 

Francis H., 78 

Mary Foster, 78 

Nathaniel, 658, 659 
Wadleigh, Eleazer, 107 

John, 477 

Sallv-Taylor, 477 

Samuel, 468 

Sarah Ann, 477 
Wadsworth, Comm{)dore, 288 

Wagner, , 630 

Wainwright, Abigail, 18 

Francis, 10, 627 
Waite, Elizabeth, 345, 552 

EHzabeth-Wildes, 345, 
552 

Jerusha-Hosmer, 436 

Oilman, 436 

Mary Ella, 436 

William, 345, 552 

William Francis, 552 
Waitsfield, Vt., 525 
Wakefield, Frutilla, 287 



Wakefield, Mass., (Map 3), 

287, 317, 335, 347, 348, 
548, 549, 559, 619 
Wakefield Rattan Co., 524 
Wakelee, Lydia Ann, 486 
Walcutt, Gen. C. C, 354 
Waldo, 2 

Waldoboro, Me., 173, 228 
Waldringfield, Eng., 63 
Waldron, A. L., 277 

Martha Melcher, 509 
Martha Melcher, 509 
Samuel WalHs, 509 
Wales Corner. Me., 454, 
Wales, Eng., v, xi, xiii, xiv, 
XV, xvii, xviii, xix, 1, 
395-397 
Wales, Ephraim, 110 
Wales, Me., 454, 455, 
Walker, Abigail-Trafton, 25 
Augusta, 273 
Barbara Gordon- Wilson, 

637 
Barbara Hartley, 637 
Eliza, 421 

Evelyn Atherton, 637 
Fanny, 631 
Georgie Maud, 637 
Hans William, 637 
Huldah Scribner, 421, 

422 
John J., 637 
Margaret, 155 
Mary, 591 
William, 421 
Walker, Frink &, 356 
Wallace, Miss, 518 
WMa Walla. Wash., 652 
^\■allingfurd, Ct., 437 
Wallis, Sarah Wilds, 550 
Walls, xiv 

Walls, Albert Alexander, 241 
Alexander Fenton, 240 
Ann Gillis, 239 
Asa, 239, 241 
Asa Wilbur, 241 
Christina Fenton, 240 
Cordelia Tourtelotte, 241 
Dudley Perlev, 238, 239, 
Edgar Allen, 241 
Edna Blanche, 240 
Ehzabeth Chisholm, 240 
Ellen-Brown. 239 
Hannah B., 240 
Hannah Brown, 239 
Helen G., 240 
Helen Grace 239 
Hilda Isabella, 240 
Isabella. 240 
Isabella Hannah, 240 
James. 239. 240 
James A., 240 
James Alexander, 239, 

241 
James Elmer, 241 
James FVederick. 240, 

645 
John, 239 
John A., 239 
John Wilson, 240 
Lela Katie, 240 
Lillian Jane, 240 
Linda Clare, 240 
Mabel Ethel, 240 
Margaret Helen, 240 
Margaret Louise, 241 
Margaret P., 241 
Margaret Perley, 240 
Robert Alvan, 241 
Robert Bishop, 241 
Robert J., 240 
Robert John, 239 
Sarah Ethel, 241 
Wilham, 239, 240 
William Gladstone 240 
Wilham Stanley, 240 
Walstou, Russell L., 481 



Walters, Adelaide, 558 
Waltham, Mass., 91 162 287 

369, 481, 530. 621 
Walton, Isaac, 234 

Jane, 536 
Wanzer, Marcelene, 272 
War. Civil, 163, 175, 192, 193, 
199, 221, 251, 264, 271, 
302, 310. 317, 332, 337, 
351, 436. 454, 458, 468, 
502, 505, 557, 572, 625 
647, 652, 661, 666 
War Dept., U. S., 382, 383, 

565 
War, French, 32, 43, 70, 133, 

143, 656, 
War, Indian, vi, vii, 24, 32 

70, 133, 143, 655 
War, Mexican, 175, 669 
War of 1812, 191, 213, 214, 
253, 263, 264, 388, 389, 
487 
War, Rebellion, 196, 221, 330, 

336, 466. 567, 668 
War, Rebelhon of 1837, 213 
War Records, Bureau of, 661 
War, Revolutionary, viii, 195 
213, 253, 273. 285. 486, 
565, 646. 668, 669 
War, Spanish- Amer. ,348, 355, 
432. 479. 486. 565, 645, 
War Vessel, British, 203 
Ward, 133 
Ward, Asher 150 

(ieorgianna, 150 
Henry F'^essenden, 639 
Mary Ashman, 639 
Rachel, 55 
Timothy, 150 
Timothy C, 639 
William Fessenden, 639 
Ward & Co., S., 529 
Ward & Perley, 451 
Ward End, Eng., 64 
Warden, David, 554 

Margaret May, 554 
Mary Jane-O'Connell, 
554 
Ware. 246, 497 
Warehouse landing, Rowley. 

325 
Warner, Eliza Frances, 450 
Ehza-Newhall, 450 
John Gerry, 450 
Warner, N. H., 271, 273, 279, 

283 
Warren, Charlotte E., 647 
Dr., 341 
Flavilla, 227 
Jonas, 345 
Lucy Ellen, 226 
Lucy-Tibbetts, 226, 227 
Mary Crowninshield, 348 
Phineas, 226, 227 
Warren & Co., S. D., 512 
Warren County, la., 441 
Warren estate, 341 
Warren house, old, 162 
Warren, Mass., 246, 623 
Warren, N. H., 276 
Warrenton, Pa., 330 
AVarrentown, Wis., 630 
Wars, Colonial, 163 
Warsaw, N. Y., 439 
Warwick, Mass., 338 
Warwickshire, Eng., 64 
Washburn, Alonzo, 191 
Carrie, 501 

Deborah-Williams, 562 
Ganem, 191 
Sally, 592 
Wasbhurn, Wis., 423 
Washburne, George Washing- 
ton, 549 
Lena May, 549 
Stella Beulah-Adams,549 
Washington army, 660 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



745 



Washington, D. C, viii, 49,90, 
204, 221, 235, 289, 304, 
305, 382-384, 418, 447, 
604, 505, 512, 538, 567- 
569, 668 
Washington, (Gen. George,) 
96, 97, 112, 130, 161, 
486, 565, 659 
Washington Huzz.as, the, 326 
Washington, N. H., 275, 276, 

498 
Washington Press, 532 
Washington, State of, 394,429 
Washington Statue, 80 
Washington, Vt., 481 
Washingtonian movement, 

315 
AVashingtonville, N. Y., 386 
Wasioja, Minn., 475, 476 
Wasson, Charles W., 107 
Waterboro, Me., 84, 445 
Waterboro, N. B., 213 
Waterborough, N. B., 637 
Waterburv, McKenney 8c, 

528 
Waterburv, Vt., 481 
Waterford, Me., 82, 180, 221 
Waterloo, 212 
Waterman, Lydia, 150 
Watertown, 532, 660 
Watertown, Mass., 2, 62, 333- 

335 
Watertown, N. Y., 491 
Waterville, Me., 51, 52, 227, 
303. 351, 393, 419, 521, 
557, 649, 650, 653, 661 
Waterville, Minn., 492 
Waterville, N. B., 241 
Waterville, Vt., 286 
Watson, Jennie, 611 
Jessie Russell, 193 
Mary, 17, 35, 59 
Rose B., 477 
Sarah, 17 

Sarah-Crosskill, 193 
William, 17 
William Russell, 193 
Watson, Tutt &, 519 
Wattles, Augustus, 242 
Emma, 242 
Erastus, 242 
Howard, 242 
Mary Ann, 242 
Ruth, 242 
Sarah Grimke, 242 
Sarah-Thomas, 242 
Theodore, 242 
Waukesha, Wis., 72 
Waukon Grange, 235 
Waukon, la., 232, 234, 236 
Waverlv, N. Y., 569, 653 
Way, Abigail EveUne, 490 
Asbury Perley, 491 
Carol Frances, 493 
Charles William, 490 
Edmund Perley, 490 
Edwin Franklin, 490 
Eleanor Frances, 492 
Emily Maria, 490 
Eugene Gordon, 491 
Eugene Henry, 492 
Frances Eula, 492 
Frank Alden, 490 
Frank Alonzo, 492 
Genevieve, 492 
George, 490 
George A., 490, 492 
George Edwin, 491 
George H., 492 
George Henry, 491 
George Osborn, 490 
George William, 492 
Gordon, 490 
Gordon Alonzo, 490 
Harriet Avaline, 492 
Harry A., 492 
Harry Alonzo, 491 



Horace M., 492 

Horace McClure, 490 

Lillian, 492 

Louisa M., 490, 492 

Lucy A., 490, 491 

Margaiet Alice, 492 

Margaret Ha 492 

Margret Elizabeth, 492 

Mariaji Eva, 493 

Mary Eliza, 490 

Miriam Kate, 492 

Mureen Lucille, 492 

Orlo F., 491 

Orlo Fisk, 490 

Osman B., 491 

Osman Baker, 490 

Osmon F., 492 

Osmon Franklin, 491 

Osmon Gordon, 492 

Perley Willis, 492 

Sabina, 490 

Sarah-Douglass, 490 

Sarah Mabel, 491 

Sarah Perley, 490 

Sherman Ellsworth, 490 
Wayland, Martha, 449 
Wayne, Gen. Anthony, 253 
Wayne, Me., 174, 369, 589 
Weare. Esther, 25 

Mesheck, 94, 532 

Peter, 25 
Weare Mansion, 532 
Weare, N. H., 332 
Weares, the, 532 
Weathersfield, Vt., 490 
Weaver, Jane, 608 
Webb, Archie Forest, 431 

Charles Herbert, 431 

Cornelia P., 431 

Dorothy Louise, 474 

Edward C, 432 

Edward Clarence, 431 

Ephraim Elliott, 474 

Frederick, 431 

Herbert Lucius, 431 

Jotham, 41 

Lucius R., 431 

Maria, 246 

Marjorie Mabel, 474 

Minnie Blanche, 431 

Nat., 134 

Rachel Perley, 474 
Weber, Annie May, 243 

Benjamin Brainard, 243 

Benjamin LeMoyne, 243 

Elizabeth Rocelia, 243 

Harriet Adelaide, 243 

Jacob, 243 

Julia Lyravine, 243 

Theresa Rocelia, 243 
Webster, Anna-Poor, 307 

Carlton Given, 455 

Carrie Perley, 307 

Daniel, 80, 210. 257, 258, 
265, 413 

Dean Barbour, 455 

Edee, 265 

Elbridge G., 454 

Gilman, 307 

Henrietta Ardellia-Given 
454 

Horace Gilman, 307 

James, 307 

Lillian Sarah, 455 

Perley Mitchell. 455 

Rebecca, 482 

Sally, 646 

Stephen, 659, 660 

Walter Elbridge, 454 
Webster, N. D., 476 
Webster's Point, 209 
Wedge, Lydia Taylor, 609 
Weed, Abigail-Chapman, 84 
Weekly Argos, 569 
Weeks, Anna Carter, 554 

Aseneth-Barstow, 220 

Elijah, 220 



Elizabeth Narcissa-Cus- 
tin, 554 

Emeline-ElHott, 438 

Marion Vera, 4.38 

Martha A., 220 

Nathaniel Gilman, 554 

Sarah A., .547 

William Amos, 438 
Welch, Francis, 88 

Johannah, 240 

Lydia, 166 

Moses, 85 326 

Salome M., 449 

(See Welsh) 
Weld, Me., 265 
Weld, Susan C, 305 
Welder, Hannah, 89 
Wellfleet, Mass., 287 
Wellington, Cape Town, 415 
Wellington, Elizabeth S., 436 
Wells, xiv 
Wells, Abigail Kinsman, 294 

Allethea Huntington, 323 

Amasa, 476 

Betsey M.-Smith, 324 

Daniel, 323 

Eunice Perley-Lunt 641 

John F., 158 

Joseph, 209 

Mary, 243, 255 

Mary-Ayer, 470 

Moses, 641 

Nathaniel, 255 

Rhoda S., 492 

Ruth, 271 

Ruth-Town, 255 

Sally, 554 

Samuel, 107 

Sarah Elizabeth, 476 

T. S. 294 
Wells or Pollard, Charlotte 

Bacon, 107 

Lydia F., 107 

Mary Eustis, 107 

Nathaniel, 107 

Rebecca, 107 

Ruth Ann Currier, 107 

Sarah, 107 
Welmont, N. S., 348 
Welsh, xvi, xvii, xviii, 648 
Welsh descent, 601 
Welsh prefix, 397 . 
Welsh, Salome M., 161 

Samuel, 161 

(see Welch) 
Welton, Elizabeth, 558 
Wenham Depot, Mass., 76, 

654 
Wenham, Mass., 40, 157, 158 

310, 352, 356, 530 
Wentworth, Charles E., 471 

Freeman, 226 

John, 471 

Lizzie J., 471 

Wilson, 226 
Wescoat, Minnie Ellen-Stan- 
ton, 651 

Nelson, 651 
Wescott, Amy, 190 

Anna, 379 

Clarence M., 380 

Clarence Mortimer, 379 

Frank Perley, 379 

Mary Ann-Skillings, 379 

Minnie Evangeline, 406 

Reuben, 379 

Reuben Edgar, 380 
West, Adrianr>a, 614 

Anne, 176 

Charles Alfred, 176 

Edith, 176 
West Acton, 133 
West Amesl)ury, 158 
West Andover, N. H., 276, 

277 
West Berkshire, Vt., 603 
Westboro, Mass., 365, 649 



746 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



West B oxford, Mass., ix, xi, 
118, 126, 171, 356, 462, 
544, 592, 593, 595 
West Bovlston, Mass., 231. 

453 
West Brookfield, Mass., 68, 

246 
West brook, Me., 331, 332 
West Cambridge. Mass., 317 
West Chelmsford, 432 
West Colusa mine, 402 
West Derry, N. H., 433 
Westerly, R. I, 317 
Western, Mass., 31 
Westfield, 216 
Westford, Mass., 60, 133, 146 

147, 295 
West Halifax. Vt.. 42 
West Hampden, 227 
West Indian pine-apple, xvii 
West Indies, 32. 68, 253 

544 
Westminster, Mass.. 229. 246 
Westminster, N. H., 42 
Westminster. Vt.. 51 
Westmoreland. K. H.. 69 
West Newbury, Mass., 39, 49, 
50, 85, 91, 309,340,341, 
457, 535, 544, 625 
West Newton, Mass., 270 
West Peabody, 447 
West Point, 90, 273, 565, 646 
West Robinson, 298 
West SprinKfield, Mass., 623 
West Springfield, N. II., 275, 

464 
West St. John, 400, 408 
West, the, 241, 262, 281. 647, 

648 
Westinghousc, Church. Kerr 

& Co.. 513 
Weston, Bartlett H.. 161 

Bartlett Hardy. 93 

B. H., 92 

Caroline Matilda-Hardy, 
94 

Charles H., 366 

Eunice, 135 

Flint, 94 

Judge, 174 

Marion Dodge, 94 

Permilla Lee, 271 

Ruth Vernon, 94 

Samuel A., 271 

Stella P., 271 
Weston. Perley Bros. &, 366 
Weston. Mass., 31, 133 
Wetherbec, Hcpzibah, 132 

Israel. 131. 132 
Weymouth, Mass., 510, 645 
Wheatland. Mich.. 602 
Wheatley. Lura. 484 
Wheaton, 111., 428 
Wheeler. Asa, 466 

Charles Frederic. 477 

Charles Newton, 477 

EHzabeth, 633 

Emily P.. 466 

Francis Woodward, 466 

Frederick. 433 

Harriet Emmeline-Hatch. 
433 

Helen Elizabeth. 477 

Kate Louise. 433 

Louisa Robinson, 466 

Manly Asa, 466 

Richard Perley. 466 

Rose B.- Watson. 477 

Rufus. 70 

Sarah, 23 

Willard. 479 
WheeHng, West Va., 430 
Wheelock, Lucy, 332 
Wheelock, Vt.. 603, 604 
Whidden, Albert Henrv, 468 

Donald Strother, 468 

Henry Frothingham. 468 



Henrv L., 468 

Mary A. -Fellows, 468 

Mrs. Albert H., 467 
Whig paper, 382 

Principles, 383 
Whippey, Cordelia Hatch, 646 

Lucy Gillette-Bennett, 
646 

Reuben Luce, 646 
Whipple. Henry. 306 

Susanna. 627 

Thomas J., 3.30 
Whitaker, Hannah, 44 

Louisa Ann, 553 

Mary Ann, 553 

Robert, 553 
Whitby, Ont., 624 
Whitcher, George, 642 

Hannah, 642 

Mary- Fellows, 642 
Whitcf)mb, Andrew A., 616 

Angie B.. 232 

FHiza Jane. 133 

Fannie I.. 232 

Horace, 232 

John. 616 

JuUa Ann, 616 

Mary, 616 

S. C, 420 

Stella S., 232 
White, , 479, 6.32 

Aldcn I'erley. 359 

Amos Alden, 359 

Amt)S C, 359 

Barbara, 360 

Bessie Hazen, 237 

Betsey I.. 438 

Carter. 360 

Charles H., 238 

Charles Hazen. 237 

Frances Isabel. 238 

Hannah R.. 134 

Herbert Jewell, 359 

Homer. 605 

James Stewart. 237 

John, 59 

Lydia- Porter, 359 

Marion Augusta, 359 

Mary I., 238 

Mary Isabel, 237 

Mary-Morse, 237 

Nancy Perley, 360 

Peregrine, 350 

Phillips 26 

Sally, 349 

Susan. 634 

William, 237 
White, Perry &, 359 
Whitefield, Me., 280, 652 
Whitefield, N. H.. 282 
Whitchouse, Va., 512 
White Mountains, 161 
White Oak Swamp, 90 
White Pine County, Nev., 400 
White Plains, 68 
White Rock. Me., 379 
White Run Campaign, 90 
Whiting, Carrie, 303 

■ Mary. 119 
Whiteley. Sarah, 441 
Whiteman, Anna Nancy, 430 

Maggrert Jane-Hill, 430 

William Alexander, 430 
White' s Cove, N. B., 634, 636, 

638, 
Whiteside, Margaret, 583 
Whitmore. Amherst, 456 

Benjamin, 455 

Benjamin Perley, 456 

Cora, 243 

Hannah Rachel, 456 

John Clement, 456 

John Franklin, 456 

Joshua Perley, 456 

Martha, 262 

Martha Elizabeth, 456 



Nathaniel Chadbourne, 
456 

OHve-Cook, 455 
Whitney. . 632 

Achsah L. 251 

Betsey, 232 

Charles Henry, 596 

Charles Melville. 232 

Chloe. 434 

Chloe-Lincoln. 434 

Clara Sigourney. 232 

CordeHa E.. 119 

Cynthia. 232 

Dr.. 135 

Dudley. 232. 233 

Edgar D.. 232 

Georgianna Selina. 232 

Grover Schollay. 232 

G. S.. 233 

Hannah. 128, 229. 232 

Hannah E.-F-reeman, 596 

Hannaniah 229 

Isaiah. 596 

Jav P., 232 

Joseph. 128. 229 232 

Mary Mansfield. 231 

McLane McClure. 232 

Milton G.. 232 

Sarah Stone. 232 

Scba. 232 

Scth. 434 

Thomas. 232 

William, 121. 231. 232, 
2.50, 677 
Whiton, Israel. 225 
Whittakcr. Helen Marie, 554 

Jane, 585 
Wliittemore, John Murray, 
332 

Mr.. 176 

Thomas. 331. .332 
Whitten, Ann, 301 

Bina Esther, 422 

Hannah-Currier. 422 

Louville Weston, 422 

OHvcr, 422 

Weston, 422 
Wliiltier. Caroline Matilda, 
507 

Frederic Leonard, 508 

John G.,. 523 

Leonard, .507 

Leonard E., 508 

Leonard Edward, 507 

Mary Ann, 508 

Moses, 197 

Phebe Kimball, 520 

Rebecca-Bailey, 505, 507 

Rhoda. 197 

Sarah Jane, 197 

Sarah Perley, .507 

Sarah Willy, 505 

Thomas, 505, 507 
Whittingham, EHzabeth, 99 
Whitworth, Emma-Black- 
hurst. 552 

Margaret Blackhurst, 552 

Thomas, 552 
Whyte, James Barden. 302 
Wibaux, Mont., 561 

Wicks, , 669 

Widdifield, Mary Ann. 524 
A\'idow and two daughters. 42 
Widower and two sons. 42 
Wiggin, . 513 

Abbie, 638 

EHphalet Merrill, 471 

Mabel Perley, 471 

Sarah, 639 
Wiggins, Victory, 637 
Wigglesworth. Edward, 658 
Wight. Daniel O.. 119 

Hugh, 578 

Jennette, 578 

Marv Ann, 119 

Mary-Miller, 578 

Rebecca Howard, 119 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



747 



Wilbraham, Mass., 247, 496, 

623 
Wilbur, Hannah, 536 

Susan, 448 
Wilcox, Hester Malvinia, 503 

Luna-Jones, 503 

Oliver, 503 
Wilde, vSamuel S., 173 
Wilder, Abel, 658 

Caleb, 129 

Constance Perley, 639 

Elvah v., 249 

Herbert Augustus, 639 

Margaret Guild, 639 

Mary Clement, 639 
Wilderness, The, 90 
Wildes, Elizabeth, 345, 552 

E. P., 158 

Mary, 84 

Mary Elizabeth, 163- 

Moses, 315 
Wilds Mehitable, 76 
Wiley, , 337 

Annie Vera, 93 

Bessie Merton, 93 

Elmer H., 93 

Elmer Harvey, 91 

Emily L., 614 

Emily Louise, 615 

Hannah Goodwin, 366 

James Harvey, 91 

Jonathan, 91 

Joseph, 614 

Mary Jane-Todd, 635 

Olive Jeanette, 91 

Phebe, 91 

Robert, 635 

Rose Burton, 614 

Sarah, 635 
Wilkins, Ann, 222 

Benson Perley, 433 

Celestia, 454 

Charlotte, 473 

Daniel, 162 

Doris Fifield, 433 

E. R., 433 

Esther, 548 

Frederick, 444 

George A., 444 

Harriet Newell-Davis, 
433 

Herbert E., 433 

Herbert Emerson, 433 

Josiah, 69 

Louise, 69 

Malcolm Lamprey, 433 

Sarah-Fuller, 444 

Wesley Jerome, 433 
Wilkinson, Abbie, 437 

Charles, 500 

Ella Abbbie, 500 
Will, Allan Perley's, iv 

Hannah Perley's, 101 

John Perley's, 184 
Willets, Amelia-Underhill, 
509 

Ehzabeth, 509 

John Titus, 509 
Willey, Eliza- Dearborn, 500 

George Franklyn, 500 

Georgia, 150 

John, .500 
William, the Conqueror, xx, 

63, 190, 620, 508 
Williams, xv 
Williams, Abbie Kenney, 207 

Betsey, 245 

Carolyn Belle, 348 

Charles Albert, 207 

Charles George, 207 

Deborah, 562 

Ephraim, 245, 246 

Fannie Ailmatrien-Mur- 
ray, 348 [not Newton] 

Henrv Newton, 348 

John Hane, 524 

Louisa Maria, 524 



Marion Deland, 208 

Marion Susan, 272 

Mary Ann-VViddilield,524 

Mascol, 112 

Widow, 124 
Williamsburg, 90, 163 
Williamsburg, Mass., 500 
Williamson, xv 
Williamsport Furn. Co., 538 
WilUamsport, Pa., 537, 538 
Williamstown, 242 
Williamstown, (Mass.) 14 
Williamstown, Vt. 14, 91 
WilHmantic, Ct., 338 
WiUiston, Mary EHza, 625 

Rebecca P. -Powers, 625 

Samuel S., 625 

Seth, 173 
WilHston, N. D., 477 
Williston, Vt., 481 
Wilmarth, Samantha, 332 
Wilmington, 347 
Wilmington, Mass., 3 
Wilmot,Lemuel Allen, 650 
Wilmot, N. H., 275-277, 381, 

465 
Wilson, Barbara Gordon, 637 

Charles, 611 

Elizabeth Jane, 405 

Everett, 393 

Isabella, 240 

Jane G. -Henderson, 240 

John, 240 

Lowell C;., 175 

Mary, 696, 611 
Wilton, Me., 140, 261-267,369 
452, 453, 589-591, 646 
Wilton, N. H., 69 
Winchendon, Hist, of, 225 
Winchendon, Hyde's Hist, of, 

231 
Winchendon, Mass., 72, 73, 
120, 121, 127, 128, 131, 
133, 142, 228-233, 244, 
417, 432, 436, 438, 627, 
657 
Winchendon Road, 230 
Winchester, Mass., (Map 3), 

198, 272. 409 
Winchester, N. H., 439 
Winchester, Frances Marion, 
643 

Susannah, 255 
Windham Centre, 369 
Windham, Me., 365, 369, 370, 

643 
Windham, N. H., 348 
Windsor, Can., 597 
Windsor Hotel, Mont.,Can.,78 
Windsor, Mass., 438 
Windsor, Vt., 499 
Winfield, Ark., 480 
Wing, Aaron Allen, 193 

EUza-Chase, 193 

Frances Angelia, 193 
Winnipiseogee Lake Co., 168 
Winnipeg, Man., 401, 582 
Winona, 490 

Winslow, Donald Bradshaw, 
404 

Grace Elenora, 404 

Jane F., 40.5 

Jane Francis, 404 

Jane-Rainsford, 404 

John Francis Wentworth, 
404 

Thomas Bradshaw, 404 

Thomas Bruce, 404 
Winter Hill, 658 
Winterport, Me., 228, 354 
Winters, Harry, 430 

Robert, 430 

Winnifred Lillian, 430 
Winthrop, Elizabeth, 340 

Gov., xi, xviii, 346 

Mr., 9 

the elder, 494 



Winthrop, Me., 6, 7, 148-150, 
173, 298, 303, 309-311, 
520, 525, 520, 653 
Winthrope, Gov., 1, 2 

younger, 2 
Winthrope's farm, 4, 6 
Wisconsin, 119, 439, 475 
Wise, George Howard, 386 

Jessie Perley, 386 

John, 386 

Luther, 386 

Phebe-Wood, 386 

William, 107 
Witch, 71, 322 
Witchcraft, 16, 30, Hi 
Witchery, 19 
Witherbee, Israel, 132 
Witter, Eunice, 549 
Woburn, Mass., xix, (Map 1, 

3), 1, 6. 272, 465 
Wolfboro, N. H., 62, 297, 349 

471, 
Wollaston, Mass., 587 
Wolseley, N. W. T., 580-582 
Wolverton, Mary, 404 
Woman, first white, 490 
Wonder, The Country's, 206 
"Wonder Wording Provi- 
dence, "Johnson's.xiii 
Wood, Aaron, 61, 113 

Abbie, 150 

Abigail, 52, 264 

Abner, 51 

Adela Hills, 1.50 

Agnes Ritchie, 215 

Amos Perley, 150 

Benjamin. 305 

Betsey, 157, 158 

Celeste, , 150 

Charles Francis, 150 

Chessman H., 151 

Chessman Hovey, 150 

Daniel, 11 

David, 34, 51, 52, 59 

Dolly, 151 

Dr., 21, 34 

Eliphalet, 51 

Elizabeth, 151 

Elizabeth-Wood, 70, 151 

Ellen Lavinia, 151 

Elonar- , 150 

Emma, 151 

Enoch, 51, 52, 75 

George, 150 

George Henry, 150 

Hannah, 68, 70, 140, 157, 
254 

Harlow, 1.50 

Harlow Putnam, 150 

Harlow vStewart, 150 

Isaiah, 150 

Isaiah Winthrop, 150 

James Llewellyn, 150 

Jane, 582 

John, 31, 278 

John William, 278 

Jonathan, 51, 52, 00, 61. 
75, 133 

Julia, 150 

Juha- , 150 

Julia A.-Crane, 278 

Llewellyn. 150 

Louisa Perley, 150 

Lucy 51 

Luella, 150 

Lydia-Waterman, 150 

Marcia Louisa, 151 

Margaret, 45, 46 

Margaret- Perkins, 120, 
126 

Mary, 51 

May, 150 

Mehitable, 126 

Mehitable Peabody. 157 

Mchitable-Peabody, 157 

Moses, 150 

Nathan, 60, 70, 110, 151 



748 



THE PERLEY FAMILY 



Wood, Nelson P., 134 

Oliver, 157 

Phebe, 157, 386 

Phebe-Perley, 457 

Quincy Campbell, 151 

Quincy P., 151 

Quincy Pickering, 150 

Ruth Blackstone, 151 

Sally, 157, 457 

Sally C, 134 

Sally Perley, 150 

Sarah, 51, 56, 120 

Sarah Louisa, 1 50 

Sarah Redington, 52 

Sarah-Redington, 75 

Solomon, 60, 157, 254,457 

Thomas, 46, 120, 126 

Vida, 150 

Villa, 150 

Walter, 150 

Walter A., 470 

Walter Jewett, 150 

WilHam Hale, 52 

William Pearlcy, 150 
Wood fund, Hon. Aaron, 121 
Wood School Fund, Aaron, 

148 
Woodall, Louise, 578 
Woodbridge, Cal., xiii, 216, 

394, 395 
Woodbridge, Thomas March 

291 
Woodbury, A., 103 

Alberta, 460 

Alfred, 459 

Amos, 459, 593 

Daniel, 270 

Ella Frances. 550 

Harriet L., 221 

Hephsibah, 459 

Hephzibeth, 593 

Herbert A., 460 

Herbert Albert, 459 

Isaac, 291 

Leon Wesley, 460 

Marcv A.-Annis, 593 

Mary, 39 

Mary-Annis, 459 

Mary Messenger, 269 

Nehemiah, 229, 230 

Pearl Elsie, 460 

Rapscima-Messenger, 270 

Sarah Wildes-WalUs, 550 

Susannah, 116 

Tristram, 550 

William W., 221 
Woodbury Co., Druggist, 338 
Woodcock, Charles, 457 

Eliza Anna, 438 

Jenny, 457 
Woodfords, Me., 370 
Woodman, Adelaide, 294, 295 

Almira, 294 

D. P., 518 519 

Daniel Perlev, 294 

Edward, 294 

EHza, 283 

Joseph, 104 

Lydia Thurlow, 294 

Mary Emery, 268 

Mary Perley, 295 

Nelhe Knowlton, 295 

Sewell, 294, 516 

Sewell Augustus, 294 
Woodman, [Read Woodward] 
Lucy Elizabeth Rog- 
ers-Treadwell, 259 

Samuel, 259 
Woodruff, Ann EUzabeth, 334 

Bulah, 561 
Woods, Annie M., 568 

Enoch. 108 

Ephraim, 350 

Eunice- Wright, 350 



George 3.'^0. 376 

Hannah, 147, 

Pres., 379 
Wood's Holl, Mass., 609 
Woodstock, 202 
Woodstock, Ct., 415 
Woodstock, N. B., 214-216, 
391, 394, 403-405, 430, 
637 
Woodward, , 163 

Arthur Benton, 277 

Caleb, 277 

Charles Henry, 276 

Clark Burton, 276 

David, 271 

Elizabeth Fay, 295 

Ellen Maria, 277 

Everline, 277 

FrankUn Muzzy, 311 

Fred Perley, 277 

George Elliot, 276 

Hattie Prescott, 277 

John, 276 

John Frank, 276 

Lucy Elizabeth Rogers- 
Treadwell, [not Wood- 
man], 259 

Mary Ehzabeth, 277 

Mercy, 251. 436 

Nancie Muzzy, 311 

Prudentia Farwell-Mills, 
311 

Ruth Wells, 271 

Samuel [not Woodman], 
259 

Samuel Bayard, 259 

Sarah, 508 

Sarah A., 271 

Sarah Bunker, 277 

Sherman, 277 

Sumner, 277 
Woonsocket, 247 
■Worcester, Almira, 338 

Dr., 306 

John, 338 

Mae Etta, 338 

Samuel, 266 
Worcester, Mass., 89, 134,178, 
197, 247, 258, 259, 272, 
353, 468, 496, 497, 525, 
543, 602 
World Bureau, The, 569 
World, The. 569 
World's Fair, 402, 581 
Wormwood, Dorintha, 481 

Sarah Brock-Goodwin, 
481 

William Stone, 481 
Worth, Alexander Bunker,418 

George Edward, 418 

George Perley, 418 

Henry, 418 

Lizzie Abbie. 418 

Orrie Ermina, 419 

Persis-Bunker, 418 
Wortman, Ada, 459 

Clarence Perley, 459 

David, 459 

Elijah Estabrook, 459 

Etta Mary, 459 
Worthington, Fred Everett, 87 
A\'orthington, Minn., 599 
Wright, Abigail, 364. 521 

Almira J., 251 

Anna Eliza, 438 

Benjamin B., 386 

Benjamin Birdsal, 386 

Claude V., 387 

Claude Vincent, 386 

Edith F., 251 

Eliza Anna-Woodcock, 
438 

EHza Ann-Miller, 386 

Eraeline-Gates, 381 



Eunice, 350 

Florence G., 387 

Florence Grace, 386 

George S., 251 

Hannah K. -Richardson, 
251 

Ilapgood, 381 

Harry Perley, 386 

Henry, 438 

Lillia A., 387 

Lillia Ann, 386 

Mabel Josephine, 386 

Martha Jane, 251 

Mary Jane, 386 

Mary P., 454 

Phoebe A., 387 

Phoebe Ann, 386 

Robert Jefferson, 386 

Ruth Engels, 387 

Sarah Maria, 272 

Simeon B., 251 
Wunjeet, Sagamore, 411 
WycofI, Sarah, 389 
Wyman, Betsey-Stanley, 474 

Cynthia, 474 

Ebenezer, 474 

Elbridge, 647 

Emma lone, 647 

Fred L., 647 

Jacob, 59 

Lucind a- Webber, 647 

Perley Hammond, 647 

Rodney Elbridge, 647 
Wyoming, 377 
Wynn, Anne, xviii 

Elizabeth, x, viii 

Mr., xvii 

Richard, xv 
Wynans, Zade, 669 

Yankee sovereignty, xi 
Yarmouth, Eng., xii 
Yarmouth, Me., 372, 376, 512, 

513 
Yarmouth, N. S., 232, 634 
Yarmouthville, Me., 563 
Years old, 1 -hundred, 506 
Yeo, Benjamin, 578 

Ellen Ashton, 578 

Patty-Ashton, 578 
Yokohama, Japan, 271 
York County, Me., 191 
York, Me., 465, 629 
Yorkshire, Eng., 373 
Yorktown, 90, 96 
Yorkville, 243 
Young, Alex. Beverly, 393 

Benjamin, 289 

Brigham, 400 

Ehzabeth, 289 

Francis, 27 

John Colwell, 393 

Maj., 532 

Martha-Burns, 393 

Nancy, 443 

Nancy Jane, 231 

Olive Louise, 393 

Rebecca, 27 

Rev., 168 

Sarah M., 289 
Young Republican, the, 531 
Young's Hotel, 161 
Yurks, Mary, 198 

Zanesville Aurora, 360 
Zanesville, O., 354, 355, 360, 

649 
Zimbleman, Catherine-Leinin- 
ger, 489 

Flora May, 489 

Jacob, 489 
Zink, Maj., 518 
Zouaves, Ellsworth, 576 
Zouaves, Hawkins, 385, 576 



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